The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1870-01-04
THE CARRIERS ADDRESS,
To THE PATRONS OF
TIMES

Il field Times:
The Carrier Boy, with inartistic rhymes,
In unpretcnding verse, brings you his cheer,
And kindest wishes for the glad new year
And though the measure and the rhyme
be bad,
Suggestive, too, of poetry gone mad"
Yet the sentiments expressed, he hopes
will find
A willing welcome in the liberal mind;
To the illiberal he need only say -
''Tis his first Effort that he brings to-day
Minerva bounded into life, tits said,
Full grown and armed from great Jove's
regal head;
And Venus, as wo find in classic tome,
Came to the light full formed from oceans
foam;
But neither gods nor men, nor great nor
small,
Are born, to-day, as men or gods at all,
And Topsy hit it, and expressed the mode
OF all existence when she said she 'gr0tood.'
And thus, dear critic, look for Mlton's page
Among the poets of like skill and age.
AS for your calrier-his fondest dream
Aspires not to the language nor the theme
OF those beyond his years he hopes he
may
Please you much better in some future day.
The Times he brought you, each recurring
week,
And of the Times he now, desires to speak.
81 rtoH a c q n11tal,I,liSn Nuith fonr
That at the closing of the current year
The balance sheet would show loss 80
great,
As to determine speedily its fate =
Without the patronage and party aid
To party papers literally paid =
A literary iOurnal with but few
Advertisements atfording revenue;
The first year passed, its patrons still in
creased,
Nor left its success doubtful in the least:
And still, like Topsy it more vigorous grew,
AS it approached the end of volume t,oo
And volume four will be enlarged i'll size
To prove the permanence of the enterprise
So in the coming years-as i'll the last,
I'll bring you week by week q rich repast
Gathered from far and near, and all de-
signed
To entertain and educate the mind
hio hcio Ill phSSlIS, L lSli
That job pOrk can be executed well
AT the Office of the Times SO well indeed
That-to be very brief-I only need
Call your attention to the we'll known fact
That, "to keep up oiM the TINES" is now
the act
Most striven form truth, is the condition.
Which fully satisfies most mems ambition.
But now few words of the times at large,
And here | feel that but need take charge
OF only few quite recent things SO well
Did every issue of our paper tell,
What i'll the world at large had then trans
pired,
And furnished all the news could be re-
quired
(And some of you, you know right well,
have boosted
No other paper kept you 80 well posted,)
That It's only what has happened since my
round,
Which in its weekly columns can't be
found.
And first-the saddest thing ever said
The great war secretary-StantOn's dead
The man to whom this nation doubtless
owes
Much more than history will eer disclose
He who conceived, and organized, and
planned
The means and men, which under Grants
command,
Brought victory and peace, and saved our
land.
Stanton immortal name while time en-
dures
A rescued nations gratitude is yours!
The next event, which I need merely men,
ton,
Is the Papist's Ecumenical convention,
Called to meet at Rome and there decree
Periaps-the Popes infallibility
But what they've done, or what they yet
may do,
l know not to communicate to you.
But there's council now much nearer
horne,
Than the Ecumenical which sits at Rome
A literary council called and met
Within our Court House, and in session
yet
Our Superintendent, and his Cabinet.
Their object, to improve our commOn-schools
And furnish teachers with a set of Rules
How best to educate the youthful mind
How much and 0aany may be well COM
bined,