Tama County Republican. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1867-1872, 1867-04-12

EDITOR HErrBLrcaS.--As one travelling cor
respondent Of the Tapa County Intop, a
promising , youth Of twenty-five, n young
man of fine hair, and famous for style. has
seen fiji 10 publish me, l ask space in your col
umns TO reply, My first acquaintance with
this distinguished correspondent was ahout the
last of December 1866. The name OF this Young
sprig is n. Jasper Jones, we enjoyed ourselves
hugely during the latter part Of the winter with
the exception of our political views, these
were radically different lie being of the south
ern tinge II, CLASSES me with the same class
that you place all tie people of Tama county,
that is ] suppose the stingpites Although we
did enjoy ourselves during the winter while
his school las,ei, yet his school, like eveiy
thing else, had an end he went away and
came back again, | welcomed him. We had
some Of a sing, invited him to take tea, h.
and his horse Jared we'll, Mr.. C, furnished
him with bed and breakfast, he then started
for Toledo nd Tama City as All supposed vel
satisfied. Mr. G is friend of his as he re,
marked, our lovely \ j. j., came back again
and Mr.. g.. entertained him free OF expense,
but as Mr.. G., had no hay he, n j., had the
impudence to obtain hay as he said from Jim
He helped himEelf 10 all his horse could eat
and lie on at night: in the morning he go
more hay and that too mdlom ny peynission-
II he had asked me for the hay would have
cheerfully given him what he could decent,
use. As to charging him dollar for the ha,
1t is base fabrication, a peculiar habit til,
chap has. He asked me how much the ha,
was worth, told him hay could not be hough,
NO where in this vicinity. That | had bu;
little hay and needed all tina. had. Mr.. 6
and myself were a the time feeding straw to
save my hay. Mr.. J., having been appointed
travelling correspondent for the Tnioh, lac also
attempts to put on style and appear as gem
item IN, accordingly Of course his first stel
was to pretend that he never had fed or at.
tempted to feed his own horse, 50 he went to
work at my small pile Of hay and began carry.
ing it as though he had never seeu horse fe.l
in his life. He no, only piled it before, bu,
behind, around and under the horse, and al
most covered him un. The next morning ]
asked him if if he should not pay something
for the waste hay, he handed me one dollar and
asked me if that would be satisfactory. | said
it would, 'h,t did not intend to charge 70,
hay which the Eorse should have eaten, tina,
part was free, but that the one dollar was 10
teach him to throw aside his Aoggshness in fu
future.
II Mr. j. makes as good hand at
writing for the Union as he did at my hay he
will soon require such enlargement of that
paper, until Tama CRY cannot afford paperto
contain his correspondence, not speaking, OF
course, Of his adventures while peddling tomb
stones, would like, however, that Mr. j.
would devote at least one column O. his next
mastery production in telling how he wen,
At one time across the Iowa River pedding
tomb siones-how he attempted to sell one to
. certain old gentleman who had lost grand
child, Also how he was received on that oc-
casion, it is al no doubt, fresh in his memory.
Mr.. Jones is informed also that his friends
in what he is pleased to style "Whisky Bot
tom,' think be has the "hig head and think
that hopping might be beneficial. He might
have heard Mr.. r. say SO while j was stand
ing under the ewes.
This same Jones processes 10 have some
medical knowledge, undertook case of
"chicken-pox,' but his medical skill failed 10
aid the sufferer. By way Of refreshing his
memory, he will just think of Mr.. Ricards.