The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1867-03-21

The village all declared how much ne knew.
Twas certain he could write, and cipher too:
Lands be could measure. times and tides p-e<are.
And zen the story Has that &c could gauge!
ln%arguing too. the PlrSon owned his skill.
FOR eeo H. Tfay 9isbed ~ c0uLy rFque sEH,
While words OF learned length ana thun6eTinr sound
Amazed the gazing rustics ranged around:
And still they gaxed. and still the wonder crew,
That one small head could carry all he knew
Now, Mr.. Editor, I am neither a poet nor
the son of a poet. Poetry is not my best
holt / leave that for my poetical friend
Mercury, who enligbtens the bcnighted un-
derstandinr of the readers of the Republican
and who occasionally contributes an orig
inal poem" to that and other papers. He
wrote a poem about Two Years Ago that
attracted the attention of the literary world,
and won for him the euphoneoUs sobriquet
of "the poetical Doctor" lie bore bis non
ors with comimendablc humility, and had ii
not been that an cold Scrap Book told the
same tale some "ten years ago with slight
alterations, the readers of those papers and
the rest Of mankind would have remained in
blissful Ignorance Of the factthat Two Years
Ago" was simply a plagiarism, to bcguile the
weak and frivolous into the belief that we
had a Bourbon amongst us" who was a real,
genuine Poick.
And still We gazed. and stiil the wonder grew
That one small head could carry all he knew"
1t would be uninterestinr to vour readers
to follow DIR. Mercury II. D., Poet laureate to
the Republican, through the l~abyrinthian ar
gument contained in his last production.
For cen though vanquished, he can argue still.
1t was Bob Tea, | believe that SO complete
ly vanquished Mercury when he wrote over
the nom de plume" of "6aturn'-a star OF
the third magnitude and plainly visible to the
naked eye-that he was forced to droI Sat
urn and adopt Mercury, which, under favor
able circumstances, is visible to the naked
eye. IL is said that during n few days in
March and April, and August and September
he may be seen for several minutes in the
morning or evening twilight. II was then
that Mercury took occasion to elbow his own
horn" by putting and defending himself over
the signature Of Mercury. He informed the
public that he was a graduate of a medical
school and had been dubbed an VI. d., &c
And it was about that time that the peopl,
began to think that it would not take Il very
large head to carry all he knew.
But fearing That ] shall weary the patienci
of your readers | drop the subject for thu
present, simply remarking for the benefit o
Mercury that if he will attend to his business
half as well as | attend to mine he will br
better off n year hence than he was Tive
Years Ago"
The Spiritualists Of this place, of whom
there are a considerable number, had tn
pleasure Of listening to an address by Mrs
Talmadge, on Sunday evening last.
Dur lady friends are becoming somewha
alarmed i'm consequence of the recent di.
covery that every one of them who wears
"chignon" on the back of her head, carrie
with her no less han three billions two hunC
red and eighty-two millions nine hundre
and thirty-six thousand four hundred an
eighty spioza, These gregarincs have bee
known to walk away with a "chienon, mai
ing IL appear like a thing of fife