Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, IA [i.e. Ind.]) 1839-1854, 1849-10-24
EDITORIAL CoSveSrlos-.Printer's

Fare. "-pursuant to general arrangement
On the part Of a majority Of the editorial
fraternity ofthis County and Congresson-
al District; and assured tina, the Press at
Centreville would. with pleasure, accom-
modate its brethren with Printers fare on
the OCCASION we BACKED our shoes, i'm
proved the light Of our coun;enance by
running a very sharp razor (our friends
WILSON & FERGUSON gave US that hair
reaper, and a most excellent strop. and
we're gratified to be enabled to state that
they've got a few more Of the same sort
left cheap for CASH. over it, put a clean
shirt on. took 'hasty plate of potatoes and
cabbage, borrowed hard-trotting horse,
and. about ten minutes and tnree-quarters
past one o'clock, p. NJ. on the memo
rable Goth Of October, l349, found ourseli
Jogging towards the county seat, with
Duoyanr heart and trot; de,ermin d
Where Printers congregated-
ITO Fl a uniform rate of charges for all work +,
and TO cultivate a more intimate acquaintance
and good feeling" to be there in good tune,
ca!culated;-
and, by using portion of the bridlerein
for whip, and infcting sundry and d.
vcrs thumps, with our heels, on the region
Of the hay and oats receiver ofthe churn-
ing quadruped, we had the honor to strad-
die gratuitouslv, - had the satisfaction
to arrive, in comparative safety. at the
place where Charley Test used to say ali
the talent of Old Wayne had pitched its
tent! Knowing that Printers do not usu
ally own horses, and. Of course, have no
use for such thing a stable, (without,
perchanco, they happen 70 own cow
we rode into friend RowAN's large and
commodious wagon-yard, dismounted and
hitched the bearer of such an important
despatch ourselfup TO the trough be-
the promised "iare," we didn't notice
whether there was fodder or no fodder
in the rack. for the old horse to eat until
we got back) We can't help depressing a
little here, by remarking that friend Row
AN keeps the right kind Of a Hotel, and is
the right sort of a andlord-accommod
ting and obligng. and we promise him
our custom when not "out Of Sorts and
not on "Printer's fare" expedition.
Well, we took Decline up Main street.
and were perfectly astonished at the tran
guilty and dozy-like aspect of the cit-
zens-no hustle was apparent-the i'm
provements on and in the old court house,
Of which 50 much has been said and pub.
lished, in the jeff and F. T. Sentinel, were
progressing gradually to mpleton-our
friend NOBLE was at his post ready to dis
pose Of those few Marriage licenses
the only liquor seller in the place was en-
joying himself in Jail. and, in fact. every
body seemed to be attending to their own
business in their own way; not once
thinking, probably, of the great and
mighty gathering-together Of the editorial
fraternity, that acas TO come o-p-h in their
midst! Vending our way to the Wing
office, we were Hospitality received by the
-devil!-(prnter's devil Of course. y
learned from him that the master Of cere-
monies. Judge SrITr, had gone on the
circuit a-pre achin' law.-that Bro. Dor
MIRE, Of the Reveille, had been seen at
Centreville, but, not fdrely finding the
where abouts Of the convention had
gone to Richmond, with the intention. we
suppose, Of seeking it at Crane & Co.'S
Circus!-the balance Of the craft had
come up among the missing!
Got on the street once more, and turning
our face towards the east, we lifted up our
eyes and beheld Bro. VALE, a.far off, d
foot and alone, a-streaking it towards
Richmond with all-a.most railroad velo-
city, his coat-narratives a sticking out be-
hind about affect, We started back 10
friend RowAN's-jumped on the old horse
and tried to overtake Bro. VALE, but he
kept ahead and beat us home by 9 min
utes and sths Of second, by the Clock
at Salisbury.
To make long story short. we actually
got a portion of that which we went after
-"Prinfcr's fare''-and twas about as
hard as usual
We could have held meeting ourself
and carried out the proposed objects of
the convention (eScepting the ..fare'') with
an unanimity and harmony seldom if ever
surpassed but we RETAINED to fix uni
form rate of charges for fear that Jim
might again "dod-rdt" EN- and print
horse-blls tor g.! cents. and then expose
himself by publishing the FACT that he
knc,c all abou, that little aifair,-(of course
he don't KNOW any thing else: for if there
was horse-bill printed tor that sum, 'ttras
done az his owa establishment ltwould
have been a work of supererogation for
LIS To haze aftemnfen 10 cultivate, "a rlnre,