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AA~1N&@sU O&e Read .he gcllowinx iron she Bosson couv- ser, signed Ps<Piag Ton. It is not bad. HsN eOsvssPonGeaes of fAc coHvisS. HrLL. April 22. lS47 Sir'--We have soi into ine stir sgAin l All he Huli politicians. great and small, arc gosng by the ears.--not about the Monspen- ser marriage, net the easeate cordiaFs, nor he airline rail road nor any such possasin fsieE. but upon the question. Is Skippar Tar box, candidate for Mayor: 1 Skipper Tarbox, you will reeollecs, wAs eu' Iitale known to the political world ull wiihin comparatively short period. He caught bss Holsters and said nothing about them, He never cIanered his own cham shells Tn the ears of his neignbors. Nobody thought of Aim for Mayor.
 l Bal the other day, the Skipper was lucky enough io harpoon strapping Opelousas catfish. and st7ightwAy II was discovered that Skipper Tarbox was ''availahle" le"-lhat's the word aow-a-days. No sooner sad than done-seyeral of OUT newspapers the Calf Island Roarer, the Skull Hill Dundershan- per, the Goose-pon Ohfuscsior. and other luminarSes of that sori, eaEG oast siep for the Skipper.
 Here is new kink in the hsWsef, 4 gshori iime since nobody was talked of bus Corporal Scrodd for Mayor bu, lhe Corpo- \ raj, unhappily, ehanced to scald the end ol his nose by diving into ..hasty p0tof chow der" and this demolished at ouce all his chance for the mayofality, Il being a stand- ing rule jn Hull politics, that nose-n,pped candidate can never be s.arailabIe" ! Skipper Tarbox, therefore. being al feast 8 whole cables length ahead of Corporal Scrodd on iAe score of availability. has cause has been enthusiastically taken uo by many of the choice spirits of this great community ] particularly by ''Yaung Hull" and the }>.Suckhg Grsmpus Club.n |, is confidently asserted Ina; the Skipper will be @our next Mayor
 But. on the other hand, the Skipper has not been regularly nominaled,n and there fore, according 10 some high authorities ID these matters, he cannot be candidate. What shall we do tn saea a ease2 Is Skipper Tar box candidap for the Mayosaliiv: ThS, is the question now sgiisled in al the news papers. Unhappliy this is not the only crock in the loi. If the Skipper IS candidate then comes up another porsenuous question Is he ihe candidate ior the Squid parry or the 1 Pickerel party'
 Nobody is hardly enough 10 answer ihis query, and both ihe Squids and the Pick erels flap very awkward fin about the mai ter when 1T Is brought home to them. The Pickerei says ihai tbe Skipper IS mol clam bank man. and therefore cannot be a Squld Conirariwise, the SquIds affirm that lhe skip per IS moi lobster smasher, and therefore cannot be a Pickeree, You may conceive Of the puzzle we are in, when We cannot de- eide whether Skipper Tarbox Is candidate for Mayor or noi.-nor whose candidate he Is likely 10 be
 Some of our ABewiag-oneS propose 8 general doghshm4;ical convention at Egg Rock, 10 nominate the Skipper 5y acclaula- tion Other cunning politicians Of inc me dio-taslissimarian class, propose that be shall take the hsid neither a Squld nof IS a i Pickerel, but only as plain Skipper Tafbex. They pledge their dives, for,anes. and sa- cred honorn to vote for .';he Skipper, ihe whole Skipper, and nothing but the Skip per"
 Here opens new proposal for election- eering II Skipper Tarbox comes n as ev- erybody's candidate. te must administer the government on ''regula, halibut principles clear deck and no ginuea-pigs. The loaves and fishes Nill be destrihuted siarboard and larboard. bv weather and by lee, like show CT Of mackefel bat, and he must pass he bill fo, giving everything 10 every body Bat some of inc nll salts teii ,1s .hfs jS hy,fdIg,r a castle on Cape Fiyawsy
 However. the newspapers have taken the matter in hand mos; btaveiv and II would do you good 10 see how periodically each one promises to scrse the nation on his own hook. No, poiiywog in the political pud- I de 5af perks up his nose and eXciaims, '-ooi- itsry and alone, sci that eel a sqirming.
 Meantime. what says Skipper Tarbox hlm- sell and how does he squini ef Sunday ppon the qpet;ion whether he IS a,oandisia,s for Mayor or not He stsads-n0, exactly like Tensrl5e or Atlas, anremoyed-hui rath- CT like Str Joshua, who .'shiiied his trumpet, and only took snufr" Whenever ihe ques- lion Is hin,ed. the Skipper will hitch up ,he waislhand of his ancient arpauliags, help himself to huge quid. give a rousing ihsmp on sis 'baccy-box, and ''wlsh you may get him r' Yours.
 LErrrR FROM FATHEs MaTaEw-We make the felsawlag exirzri from 3 letter of the Rt Rev. F Mathew, whlch Is published in the Albany Journal:
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