The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1867-03-28
81. II. G." and s.senex. .

I uSCllnou W duIulI lutO MS cOluulno
the rejoinder of 81. II. G." to Ger.
tain structures Of "Senex" publish
ed in that paper in relation to the
report Of tho proceedings OF the
Bloom Township Teachers Insti
tute, we here give it place, as
matter of jastice to the author OF
the report:
EDITOR OHIO EAGLE,
Dear SH;--In your publication
of March 14th, l notice an article
having the signature "SENEx," and
devoted to one called by said Sc
nex-"J. 81. g." whom BIO asserts
to have had an article published in
your paper, containing a few er-
rors, and relating to Bloom Tp.,
Teachers Institute. Whatever may
have been the .improprieties of the
production referred to, it is mani
fest that the assault of Mr.. "Senex"
was made with malicious intent
He opens his battery thus:--"Im
prints; Why does ]. III. G. select
tho Eagle TO publish his communi.
cationy Astonishing that soldier
would think of "casling his pearls
before swine. AS 10 tho first in
quiry; why should he not publish
in the Eagle2 The good news of
tho spread Of knowledge should be
heralded every uhere. II the gen,
tlcman will trouble himself to ex-
anime the Gazette of March 14th,
be will find the article thero also.
"Casting pearls before swine." l
hope, Mr.. Editor, you do not con.
slider your readers as belonging to
that genus, do you? We place a
much higher estimate upon them.
AS to "Senex," however, we do not
wish to deny him the privilege he
assumes of calling himself a "swine;"
I the Classification is a good one.--
One might even suppose be has at
some time in tho past pastured on
the shore of the sea of Galilee. We
plead guilty to the "pearls" he ac-
cuses us of scattering so prodigal.
ly about. The pearls OF progress
cannot be scattered too widely.
"Scnex" next takes it upon him
self to grow classical and sublime,
and loads his littlo gun with the
following :--"Juplter Tonans-.all
ye othor sons of thunder, open
your ears, bend down your heads
and learn some.". Hc then pro.
coeds to give a lesson in regard to
the words "iteratc" and "reitcrate. "
What lesson! 1t certainly con-
tanned moro thunder than sense;
but very little Of cithcr. He IN
forms us that "iterate" means to
repeat rciterato" 10 re.repeat.
Who does not know that? AS the
good people of Lithopolis general.
ly keep themselves out Of tho way
of Mr., Scnex, he is probably not
posted; and for his own special ben.
oft We will inform him that Mr..
Reinmund's lecture wds "iterated"
and reiterated" and that the def
nitions which he has so carefully
searched out, express erdctly the
meaning intended in the article re-
! ferred to, and thetruth Of the case;
. and 1t makes no difference whether
parallel has occurred since the
i. day of Pentecost or not. We now
come to that enormous word Of his,
"Sopperloot," with quotation marks.
: If the gentleman examines his
lexicon carefully he will doubtless
d. find il to mean, too full Of whisky,
or hard.up. lie next proceeds 10
define tho word "grodn," II he
had asked some OF the little school
: girls of Lithopolis they could have
. saved him the trouble Of consulting
the "Tcpical" of DR.. Williams
Would he deprive the English Ian :
guago of all its figures of speech ?
Then away with our poets. If
"Soncx' thinks the church did not
groan, lot him 60 and hear for him
self next time. We would advise
him TO got n thimble to store his
brains in, lest they oozc through
that Uranium Of his and stray off.
He next breaks forth thus eloquent.
ly: "Shades Of departed Web.
ster, rise In spectral shape and tell
us what docs "ucrifc" or "schol,
artistic address mcanP" In tho
original manuscript TO which he
refers, the term characteristic
was used; which by some oversight
was rendered "scholaristic" in the
publication, If Mr.. Sencx will
search his dictionary carefully he
will find tho word ''lucrilic' to
mean prontaDle; Whlch was the
meaning intended in tho article in
which il was used. As 10 it being
tho object Of tho institution TO in.
, form tho pooplo that they had bet
! ter endorse The bill before tho Leg.
islature on County suporintcndoncei
such q thing was not thought Of
) ntil after tho commencement OF
the. session, A series Of resolutions
was adopted, however, requesting
tho passage Of said bill, and-wc
arc happy to inform said Scnex-
tho resolutions wero endorsed by
fifty Of the people of Iithopolis
; and vicinity. II Mr.. "Sonex" Is
really what his namo indicates, he
has certainly grown old to little
purpose, and we would advise him
to resume his juvenile pursuits and
next time make an effort TO grow
,gise as ho grows old.
QU1D PRO QUO.
LlTHopons, March 10th. 1867.