The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1860-06-20
For the North Iowa Times.
Newspaper Scribblers.


EDS. TINES :-Dou you suppose your
readers ever realize the enviable CD position
which the newspaper scribbler occupies p
Oh, tits perfectly delightful! I can hardly
find words to express the blissful feelings
which they enjoy as they listen to the COM
ments upon articles which appear in the diff
ferent public journals, which are in circula-
ton throughout the country, and which
some one, who is sure to know, to be the
production of our newspaper scribbler
If it is the logic Of crudite philosophers,
wrought with oriental lore, and beautiful
with classical language Of ancient writers.
it is sure to be ascribed to our newspaper:
scribb'er CIR il it be one of those stale, in
sipid articles which aciU sometimes find way
into the columns of nearly all the papers of
the day, some one is sure it is the produce
ton Of our newspaper scribbler. Or, still
farther, if it happen to be one of those low,
obscene, scandalous articles, which, if they
don't find their way into the par>S, are,
sometimes, am told, found upon the edit
or's table, none can tell the exquisite de-
light of our newspaper scribbler, especially
if it be lady, when she is informed that
friends CD have seen such an article and
they know it to be her production, lit is so
much like her.
For illustration will relate an incident
which happened in my own experience
You probably recollect that last winter,
party of ladies from this place visited Nc
Gregor, and furthermore Madam Rumor
has doubtless informed you that the "poor
deserted husbands of the ladies, after they
had left, invited the young ladies of this
place to ride as far as Garnavillo, which
was all well enough if they were agreed but
to the point in hand. A short time after
wards these same ladies invited their poor,
misused "t'other halves" to ride, and again
they visited your place; and when they re-
turned it was told me that very disgrace
full article relating to the former rides had
been sent to you for publication, but you
declined publishing it, but those that saw it
either claimed that you told that was the
author of it, or their own very worthy sus-
licions caused them to report such to be the
fact.
1t came to me at the time from such a
source that paid but very little regard to
it, supposing it to be mere idle talk but Of
late have been informed that the story is
current that am the author of the article
in question. And call upon yon as gen.
tleman to disclose the name of the author or
refute the accusation against myself
And l would say to my generous accusers
that | never sent an article Of any kind to
the Times Office for publication that was
refused, and hope have proper regard
enough for myself and sex never to write
one SO low and scandalous as the one in
question is reported to be.
Yours with respect,
LAURA STEWART.
Elkader, June 7th, 1860. f..
RENARKs.-We take pleasure in exoner-
ating Mrs. Stewart from the charge of wri-
ting the article referred to. We forget who
the writer was, nor are we quite sure that
any name accompanied the article, but it
was not Mrs. SIS penmanship We re-
member now to have said but little about it
except that enough had been told already
relative to that sleigh-ride. One thing is
certain rF- the article was not disgrace
ful'' in any sense; it was humorous and per-
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