Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1866-05-10
3 Good Deal Mixed.

The Cincinnati Enquirfr Cradical Demo-
craft having been burned out of-its troIner
establishment that paper 10 being printed
at the office Of the Ismes radical Repubii-
CAM. The Commercial of that city pleas
antly comments upon the Incidental per-
plexities Of the situation, as follows:
"The editorial corps of both papers oc-
cupy the same room We can imagine the
embarrassment that must occasionally re-
suits from such ningling Of political an
tipodes abolition editors on one side of the
table, and Democratic editors on the other,
peppering away at each other with the
deadly lead (pencil) and thrusting vicious
stabs at each other with flashing steel (pen)
to say nothing Of the clash OF resounding
scissors, which play no unimportant part
In the engagement. Just think nothing
but narrow table between such fiery bel
shgerents. One side trying to- haul ten
States into the Union by the collars of their
gray jackets, and the other sid O eendeavor-
log to keep them out by tugging at their
abbreviated coat-tails Between them the
States are having tough time of it. III
'sEnqusrer editor is Mortified to find him.
self writing an article in favor of the civil
rights bill, and discovers that he has got on
the wrong side of the table. Times editor,
making d similar mistake, catches himself
eulogizing Andy Johnson.
''The clippings get mixed up on the
way 10 the conpositors, and if it were not
tor great circumspection ON the part of the
respective foreman, each paper would copy
and endorse the most pernicious doctrines.
Suppose the pressman should print the En-
Quirer on one side and the Times On the
other, the mistake not being discovered I'M
til several packages had been sent off with
the early mails. Who can picture the con-
sternation which would seize the respective
proprietors? Boiling with rage, they rush
to the press-room together, and discharge
the unfortunate pressman with one voice.
The indignation of the Enquirer folks is
only equalled by the shame OF the Times
people. Both assert, with equal bitterness,
that they were never so humiliated before.
sit must be very confusing to visitors,
this singular fellowship. A Copperhead
from Holmes county rushes in. grasps Times
editor warmly by the hands, under The i'm
preston that he is the editor of the Enquirer
assuring him that Holmes county can't be
drafted He don't know the war is over.
Malignant radical mistakes Enquirer editor
for Times editor, and thinking o curry favor
with him, chuckles over the destruction of
the Enquirer establishment. lie is summar-
lily kicked down stairs by the combined edi-
tors of the two papers.
:" What scene election night must pre-
sent as the returns come in, oach side Of the
table trying to figure out a victory, and each
side of course, claiming it. A frantic
struggle between the Times man and the En-
qusre. man, as each tries to thrust his flag
out of the same wndow-comprom at
last by hanging them from different stories,
which is quite appropriate, from the fact
that they tell different stories about the cleo
ton. A brass band is play ed in front of
the office. The serenade is claimed alike
by the Times editor and the Enquirer editor.
rhey appear at different windows and re-
turn their thanks, both speaking &c gether,
which confuses the band 10 such ar extent
that they march off in several directions,
each man playing d different tune. 1t is o
terrible mix, take it altogether"