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A QUICK TRIP.
On leaving the telegraph office I asked the operator
to let me know when the first dispatch started from
Jacksonville, and while at supper he came in and told
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I handed my dispatch to the operator.
me that the Examiner had just started their dispatch over the wire, which was just one and three-quarter hours behind me in getting to the office. The next day
