The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1859-11-23
NGwspApER ooI.LEcrloNs.
WRITTEN FOR A SOUTHERN PAPER. BUT SUITED
10 MOST MERiDIANs.

TO mast MFRiDIANs.
Ny DEAR SIR: / have Just returned from
tour throughout the State, and proceed 10
furnish you with an account OF my labors and
their success. | have been gone for three
months. aud assure you, in all sincerity, that
am fully satisfied. You furnished me with
a list Of one hundred and seventeen owing
subscribers, as YOU will recollect. have
called upon one hundred and four of them,
and have the honor Of paying over to your
order three dollars and twelve and half
cents, being the amount to which you are en-.
titled. return YOU the list numbered ! to
III, and now give the reply Of each.
No. lis a minister. He says, in the
first place, he never got one.hall OF the num-
bers, and in the next place your joker'a col
umn was too scurrlous. He can't think OF
aiding to sustain paper that advertises horse
races and gander pullings. Besides he knows
from the tone Of your editorials that youdrink,
and paying you would be the means Of your
ending your days IN the kennel lie won
,lers at yonr nnpudence in sending his bill
after publishing the account Of the great prize
fight.
No. o. Is in jail for debt. He has hot
seen half dollar for year. Says he would
pay with the utmost cheerfulness, il he only
had the money, but he had to borrow shirt
70 put on last SUNDAY. Admires your paper
wonderfully, and hopes you will continue
sending il 10 him. II You send him any
more papers he hopes YOU will see that the
passage is paid
/ No. SIS Young doctor. Says your pa.
q. he of flon
! W0uldat give a---for cart load of them.
SAYS you inserted an article rejecting upon
the profession. Cuss'd your bill, and says
you may collect it the best you can.
No. lis an old maid. Says you are al
ways making ding At single ladies Of an un-
certain age. Wuuldn't pay you il she was
rolling in wealth, and YOU hadn't as much
cash as would buy you crust OF bread. Sent
all the papers she had back a month ago, and
SAYS nuw that she has sent them back she
don't owe ynn anthing. Says she is even
with YOU aud intends to keep So ill the last
day Of her life.
No. SIS gambler sporting gentleman.
SAYS lie rot completely cleaned out last week
al the races. Couldn't accommodate his
grandmother with a half dime il she was
starving. Likes your paper tolerabiy-would
ike il better If you published more races,
and would occasionally give an account Of a
chicken fight. Likes the description of the
prize fight amazingly-it redeemed multi.
] tude Of your faults. lie is after rich ynnng
] green horn who arrived here last week. Will
paw your bill out Of the pluckings.
No. 6-Is an old drunkard. Hasn't any
i thing, and never expects 10 have. Gathered
up all the papers that he had and sold them
1 for hall. pint OF rum TO the doggery keeper
/ to wrap groceries in. Wished yon would
send him ple. Wtnked at me when | pre-
scented your bill, aud impaired i wasn't a
distant relation Of the man that butted the
bull Of the bridge.
No is magistrate. Swnre he never
owed you cent, and told me was low
/ rascal for trying to swinde him IN such bare.
i faced manner. Advised me to make tracks
+ in little less than no time, or he would get
out warrant against me as u common cheat
and have me seat TO prison. Took his adj
1 vice.
/ No. SIS politician. Meant TO have told
] sou year ago 70 stop his paper, but forgot
ii. Tell. 70 10 do % now, and thinks YOU
are getti,g vi very cheapiy IN not losing ans
more by him. Believes you 70 be a rascal
and is too honorable 70 have anything to dc
with you, as il might compromise him and
injure his prospects.
NJ. 9-Paid Up like man. The onl,
one likes your paper hrst.rate, and means
TO take it aud pay for il a. long as you pub
Ii,h itDr he lives. Asked me 70 dinner, aht
treated me like a slng. An oasis in the des
Ell
No. lois a nerchant. Expects 10 breal
shoftly-must save all III small change. 0f
lered me a small pair Of brefches and cot
ton handkerchief Tor the debt. Refuse,
him with .rorn. Threatened TO break N,
head.
Nos i 10 ll---lIad n money-wouldn'
pay--said they didn't owe.
have not succeeded ahit better viii
the pairun. ~ TIE other publications for whicl
an agent. have expended two hundret
and ten dollars travelling. and nv entire con,
mission. amount 10 eigbty.twn dollars am
twenty-fye cents. TIE business don't ex
seily suit me.
Please accept nv resignation from Won
J Iist II sgrnts. admire your paper YER
much myself, but il wnuld be a qgeer.luok
lng sort If q concern that would come 81
to the requirements IT everybody. On
want, Independence II m e,Iitur--annthe
don't want anything. One wants all slang
. another wouldn't tugca a iunfnsl that ron
=. tanned an irreyerent line win ten foot pole
One sentimental. laosadaIsicsl miss, in pan
talette.. wanted nothing but 1--we poetry
) another never read anything but the marri
sges.
All kinds Of ibuse have TO bear, too.
. wullln't mind il - much IL they only curse
soB and YOUR paper. but they curse me, too
] Svinhler. r.srl blOoI.sucker.- ar
/ spne u The hame. ihey think proper To be
. stow upln NE. ttiei fighting for awhle
and tlreshed seycaI patrons like blaLes. bu
, Occasionally gnt licked like thunder my
seii. Once I w. pat in jail lnf assault an
{ battery, aud only escaped BY breaking nut.
!. 4snJ ne receipt Tor three dollars an
! twelve aud half cents, anil believe me,