Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1860-03-31
OLD QUiLL IN GREEN CO.-COURT NEEH
IN MONROE --sOCIABELITIEs AND SOCIAL.
ENJOY AIENTs-R ELfGEO N--.METHO
CssM-POLITiCs- CRfCKET CLUB. ETC.

ENJOY NTs-RELIGEON--.
POLITICS CRICKET CLUB, ETC.
Mr.. EDITOR Here | am, Just dragged
out OF the bottom of the writing desk from
among a mass of scraps ia MS.-cuttings
from newspapers, and whole lot of non
descript odds and ends. Now, sharp
knife is applied to my sides, and a piece is
cut off from my nib. | am now little
shorter, and am fast becoming stump
Well, be it SO. | may still be Of some use.
| can stump it in cricket match during
the summer, and then stump ii in the next
Presidential campaign, as | did in the last.
This reminds me OF my age and services.
Many years ago, before left the could
country was the property Of the Lord
Chief Justice of the Court Of Queens
Be'rh, Doublin, Ireland. Altho' | doubt
&c &C the tima for the possession was SO
brief-I wassoSFll5 used in taking down
some notes from a brief, whether belong
ed to him or the National Government. /
know the Government used to send in to
the Court large bundles of us. His "lord-
ship" would take one Of us, write few
words and throw us aside, then take an
other until all were used once. He would
never stop to mend any one of us, no mat
ter how bad we were. AT the closing Of
the court, one Of the clerks would gather us
together, tie us up IN fresh bundles and
dispose Of us as his perquisites. | thus
became the property Of my present owner
He never liked steel pens; says they are not
SO light, p(iGnt and fast as am. He laid
IN great stock OF us, because, as perqui-
sites, we were cheap, and when he left
home, he said he was going to the Woad
of the free;' but | have heard him say
many time since, ''that 5 all Buncombn
| suppose he knows what that means for
he has power Of books, but never heard
that word in the could country lie has
just looked into Webster and SAYS ut isn't
there SO conclude il must be a word Of
very modern origea, like the phrase, popN-
Tar sopere5qpts3f- --and like =, that it means
ham5ug | am the last Of my race, j. e. Of
The bundle, and my master looks at me
sometimes quite alfectionately, and says 70
me with sigh, ''you are the last of the
Mohawks" think lie calls me a Mohawk
because he has generally used me when his
bump Of combatiyeness has been excited.
This reminds me Of my services. / have
fought in defense Of anti-slavery churches
in the columns Of the Li5crator; against
Popish priests, in the Family Visitor and
the Christian Times. | have had some
skifmishes in the Puritan Recorder. |
have ran some tits with demagagues and
bigots in the local presses Of Grant county;
such as the old Potosi Republican, Nine
raj Point 7riJene, but most Of all IN the
GRANT COUNTY HERALD-''the noblest Ro-
man Of them all" have thought to end
my days iii peaceful avocations like most of
my old companions, but my master tells
me that may have to take part in the
struggle for Italian independence, for Hum
garian nationality, against the temporal
sovereignty OF the Pope, and that | must
not forsake him during the Presidential
ainpaign-that he will want to use me
against the Charleston nominees especially
if it be Douglass, and the know-nothingism
of Democracy But he says may have a
little recreation in the mean time by scrib-
bling some tifies for the Herald
So here goes to begin. | heard the
"Boss''-I asked what that word, boss,
meant, when first heard it, and was told
that ii was a Dutch word which meant
master; that the Americans did not ike
the word, master, it sounded too much
like inequality, and they adopted boss, in
stead as it did not sound SO harsh, although
it meant the the same thing, and the term,
master, was incompatible with the Decldg-
alton Of Ladepcudeace. However, as the
Southrons and national Democracy repudi-
ate that instrument, expect the word, boss,
and the famous Declaration viii become OBJ
solete altogether. But | was going to say
that | heard 'sthe boss the other day read
ing something about his old friend, 10 MILLs
and his new teeth, and when he came to the
Latin, he laughed outright, and while he
was laughing, ! looked at the Latin and
knowing 10 to be lawyer Of sharp prac-
tee, | at once gave it literal trans lation.
Here it is, 0er6atiaa 81 literatsm.
"sSu,n cuck et 5item IL paces.n
Sue them quick and bite them in pieces.
I must send YOU the balance of this next
week, for there is q. lot Of ladies come to call
Oh the femenine gender, and have got to
go into my desk.
OH QuILL.