The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1859-11-16
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~ 1t is known to our readers that Miss
BARTLETT the beautiful, married Senior OvI.
EDO the rich. tt is also known that STEAD
MAN, a mischieyous wag Of New York, wrote
and published poem. entitled 'The Dia-
mond W edding,' in which the BARTIETTs
carried off all the rldiculc Of that hyfalutin
union. 1t may be farther known that
Lieut.. BARTLETT, the pere of the bride,
challenged SrEADMAS, that SrEADMAa ac-
cepted, and that BARTLETT then backed out
and commenced a suit at law against the
Poet. SO much for explanation.
The poetic article found below is the last
fire at the prudent Lieutenant:
vALOR'S FIZZLE!
BY sTEApYMAN.
(The Lieutenant Addresseth the Poet1
Mr.. Thornarple May
You will please at once say, sr,
Are you the same Thornapple May, sir who printed
That poem with the title.
ssThe Anthracite Bridal.''
Concluding with GLOW they all pggcd and squinted!"
My friend Major Kriss. I've
Dispatched with this missve
To whom you Will straightway deliver your answer:
He will act my friend
In this thing to the end,
lie. reply to my question rs quick you can, SIR
This note not the last is
Yours, truly,
(7he Poet Repiyth)
lieutenant Gomba tss--
Scratch +, o. fa,ta
can, to confess Pm The Thorn apple May
Who did into rhyme
That event our time
"The Anthracite Bridal which came off 80 pay
MY friend Captain Mann, sir,
Will bling YOU this answer.
And trust in hands he viii place straightway
Though this be not the end ont,
My gallant lieutenant,
remain, SIR as ever, your, truly,
1.-THE Lieutenant Wareh Wrcth, and Demanded
Satisfdchon)
Mr.. Thornapple May
Your note of to-day sir
Has reached me, IN which you acknowledge that libel
4 Which sings of cur bridal,
In rhymes base and idle.
So falsely therein you attempt to de cribe all,
Now, you rascaiiy poet
I'd have you to knowit
s lie you thus published in yesterdays "Shoot.r
It's a lie as there stated.
That my daughter mated
To Crosus be Goldman, because of his pe,cfer!
Pray tell me what right, Fir,
You had to indte, SIR,
satire like thst against those who don't know Won
l demand satisfact;op
So, sign a retracton.
Else straight thro' the gizzard I'll certainly blow YOU
ny "iUth very FdsE Is!
-....-. Yours, truly.
BoMBAsrEs
THE Pot SHuJbeth the Lieaenant)
Lieutenant Boubsstes--
Sir:
NV gizzarl arhast ia
At the terrible threatenings conaned in your letter
llaye you got 4 bad collie
Or been froc!
I hope this rejoinder will make you feel better.
In tire first place, l claim not
get. who says there's fame not p
Much poetry in the rude lines you would spurn all
Though rough be the sounds there.
The truth it abounds there,
First told by yourssb in each eossiprng journal.
If there's that which annoys you,
#@ And hampers your joys. you
Yourself have to thank for the facts having named FIRST
So Bully Bombastes.
What say to your last, il,
That--sign a retraction I'll just you DID first
Lieutenant. good day
Yours, truly,
I. MAY.
(7he Lieutenant Desperately Rosolreth)
What won't he retract? No lie says it's all true
What in thunder. gods, then, shall Bombastes do
Shall tell him there's coffee and pistols for two
At Weehawken, just over the waters blue!
All! what is the use to be iather-in-law
TO mighty, magnificent thrcc-taed Rashaw,"
If rhymesters like this permitted to rum
And show up In we're all a fellow has done,
And make him target for lyrical gun,
All shottcd with what the rapscallion calls fun
But I'll have my revenge! though I'll not call him out
For OF my own pluck i, myself. have some doubt
But I'll do something terrbiei What shall it be?
have it I'll teach him to thu, lampoon me.
Yes I'll have revenge that shall quickly undo him
IH--(hold me! I'm desperate angry)--Ill SUE him!