The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1867-10-10
INDIANAPOLIS LETTER.
Sundries ApOIogetieaIIy Served Up.
INDIANAPOLIS, Oct. 8, 1867.

For nearly a month your CORES
pondent has been silent, except as he
has spoken to the JOURNALS readers
through a hundred and eighty miles
of the most vexatiously unreliable
wire ever strung ON poles-wire that
is =" down" when most wanted up,
that mangles proper names beyond
the possibility of recognition by their
owners, that cuts columns of figures
into hash or mince meat. and provok
ingly manages to keep the temper of
the undersigned-though too amiable
to yield to the less annoying " slings
and arrows of outrageous fortune -
constantly on wiry edge. What
sort of a battery propels the electric
fluid from pole to pole" along that
slender iron track? Is it made up of
''cups, or of TASKS? And are they
filed with the usual acid, or
stronger, more villainous fluid de-
cocted from corn or rye?, Please sub
NIT these questions to your devil as
suggesting suitable topic for his
saturnine lucubrations. g.,f
For one to whom letter writing is
delightful recreation, months 81
lencel is sufficiently unusual and ex-
ceptional to demand word of ex-
PLANTATION. 1t were in vain to say that
nothing worth : writing up has hap
pened; for, even In this slow and sol
l. L
ment is laying Church corner stones
on a Sunday with a brass band play
ing Comm thro' the rye and where
picnics are held at the graveyard, for
the benefit of cheerful associa lions;
where preachers of the Jeremiah
type are diurnally and nocturnally
lifting up their wailing voices on
street corners and on public squares
to promote good digestion and gastric
sanity on the part of the jovial popu-
lace; where imported preachers of
the muscular Christianity school
tickle the public auricular with such
a medley OF prayer and anecdote. that
the terminal point of the supplica-
ton and the initial word of the Istory
are as hard to put your finger on as
The spot near the pickerel's pee oral fin.
Where the ihorax leaves Off and the VEN
tiers Begin"
Even here. amid the staid and stern
decorum of burgh run on the single
animal arrangement, there is always
something turning up" to provoke
dlarrhetic flow Of ink from the pen
of an ambitious slingist of the worlds
Illuminating fluid -r
Let then the truth be told and his
Satanic majesty be shamed. S9nger-
testic dissipation-so wildly portray
ed by the semi-inspired hand of
LARGO NETHLIZ, the veracious (and
not Uovacious) reporter of the Cincin-
natl Con,naercidNlaid its democrat
izing spell upon brain unused to
doing homage at the shrine Of the |
Rosy God. Convalescence, long de-
ferred, has been slow in progress, and |
a 1.-THE of the causes of the original |
disease would bring on fatal relapse.
1t is too late to lament the follies of |
that bewildering week, else would one
vocal organ be elevated with all the |
seductive melody of tavern gong in |
denunciation of fluid stimulants and |
in praise of that inelegant but invie- |
Grating solid, homely Bologna, sweet
ly distended entrail of departed bo- /
vine, that swelled the rotund form /
and lifted the aspiring soul of LARGO !
NETHLIZ. hH i
soa Is there any reader of the JOURNAL /
who has never seen the :. Black |
Crook? 1t is feared there may be /
many whose vision has not thus been +
blessed. Unhappy mortals, objects of !
profound commiseratlon, they have |
missed the most gorgeously, beautiful /
spectacle that ever Art prepared for |
the delectation of her votaries. What |
ever else they may have seen in the |
line of spectacular drama, until they
shall have seen = the Crook .Yqthey
may consider themselves, Electrically
speaking, blind They gfope in "a
"Total eclipse-no sum- no moon,
.AH dark amid the blaze of noon"
Z 1t has been the writer's fortune to
witness all the principal stage shows
produced in the leading theaters of
this country for the last twenty years.
including : The Midsummer Nights
Dream |" and Tempest, "las brought
out at the Boston Theater, the most |
elegant playhouse on this continent.
but nothing that he has previously
seen approaches the Crook" as pre-
sented at our Metropolitan by Man
ager Mech. of Buffalo, more nearly
than a common street lamp approach
es the splendor of the sun. To at
tempt description of its dong sue
cession of splendidly magnificent
scenes, each Of which, Units minut.
est detail, is triumph unprecedent-
ed of scenic art, and in its tout en-
se1nble a constellation which no vo-
.cabulary. however rich, furnishes