The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1869-05-06
Grace Greenwood,

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sSpicy Letter from that Ddme-Hcr
g Husband notan Ofice,holder
Grace Greenwood publishes the
following racy and characteristic lot.
term the Philadelphia Star:
EDITOR OF THE STAR-Sir: l find
in your Issue of yesterday the follow
ing paragraph:
"Dr. Iippincott (the husband Of
trace Greenwood), tourth-class
CLERK in the Post Office Department,
!. was an applicant for the position OF
SGenerai superintendent in the Post
@@oalco Department, but failed to got
the appointment"
During tho visit of Mr.. Macready
tothis country, as he was travelling
Lon Il Western steamboat, he was
pointed out by waggish clerk, to a
rough hael>woodsman, as Ole Bull,
i who was then giving concerts in the
West, The great tragedian sat apart
ION the deck, wrapped in poetic con-
temptation and nsular dignity; but
the tail Missourian strobe Immediate
" up to him, and with a startling
slap on the shoulder, thus addressed
him: "l!cllo, old hoss Old Bull
gwhar's your fiddler"
The stately actor turned upon him,
and with a whitening look" and in
the most tragic tone, renlicd, "Sir,
am rot Il horse, neither am a bull,
neither have l fiddle"
In like manner, | have to reply
that Mr.. Lippincott, of Philadelphia,
S the husband of Grace Greenwood"
Y IS nota doctor; ncitheris he a sfourth-
d .l,ss clerk in the Post Office Depart.
',ncrl" neither has he been "an appli.
cant tor the position Of General Su
perintendent of the Post Office De
D. l,atmcht;' neither has he failed to
, get the appointment.
df{ AS for the excellent DR.. Lippincott
it isnot enough that he should miss
the appointment of the office t.
VI which he aspired, that you must di
a rypree him from his lawful wife, {
ID" most estimablc lady, and bestow hin
upon a strangcr?"
-r-1 l@Asl,for us, belonging to another
of the Lippincott tree, ",
have applied for no office at Wash
s ington, though we have, will con
. ttss, held ourselves open to the prot
fer Of . first-class foreign mission
With slight solicitation we woul,
consent to be "a looker.on in Vienna,
though, perhaps, Madrid would be
better point, as our worldly posses
sions principally consist of certain di
lapidated "Castlcs in Spain" Tha
we missed Of Paris was not. we fee
assured, because our honorcd Pres
.n deEt loved Philadelphia less, but Ga
lena more. A. Curtin has fallen upo
our hopes of st. Petersburg, and
iwc mourn, it will not to Russian Sa
'4bles. As for the Court of St. James
it seems your Motley is the onl,
, wear"
L think / have some reason TO CON
plain of you editors for apparently
CHASING me among the "bigamisti
writers of the day" in assigning
me so many amiable consorts.
you would only vary the name occ.
slonally there would be some relic
IN tho variety; but toyours Lippir
colt.
.ru4R The same disclaimer l now pu
forth for the benefit of DIR. Lippir
7'@ colt must apply to Mr.. J. b. Lippir
colt, the great publisher, and to Ger
lt,ppincoot, lato Doorkeeper Of til
Senate.
81 They arc call honorable men,
'. doubtless, but they are not my hui
bands; and l hereby warn all pei
1'au sons against trusting me on their a.
"' count. GRACE GREENWOOD.
70 a,s Washington, April Fl, 1869.