Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1871-05-05
New Hartford CORRESPONDENCE.

DEAk GALEIIE. -SpDlG time mas
elapsed since last wrote you, but
you must excuse my remissness, rs
have been as busy as a bee" ever
since my return from the east. Bust
ness is about as lively as usual
Bourquin is in his new and spacious
store, running the mercantile bust
ness with full head of steam. -
Minor & Congdon also have large
supplies of new spring goods
"Strick" our bachelor merchant is
more than piling up the mon ey, an
will soon be able to marry, providing
! the right "Dorksina" "shoots across
his path" and leaGs him 10 Hymen's
altar. Maxwell & Son are extensive
ly engaged in the hardware "Imple>
ment" trade. McElwain runs the
drug business, and is to run the
high school this summer. Doctors
| Spooner and Guthrie do the "phy-
SSH" business. Our town was
thrown into a state of terrible excite
ment last week as indicated by Re-
porter's letter in the last GAZETTE,
by one of the biggest fights we have
had for several years except it may be
one dog fight and ttoo tom cat fights,
which occurred year or two ago, -
What gives great importance to the
last fight, is the fact, that one Of the
combatants is candidate for City
Marshal, and the other for Mayor, on
the "Double Calamity Hin.e-g gang"
ticket. From the evidence develops
ed before Chief Justice McElwain,
in the case, it appears that Currler in
tended to give Jamison sound curry
ing, and would perhaps have carried
out his intentions, had it not. been
for Ezekiel's boy, who came to the
old mans assistance apd gave "Oc"
"sockdologer' with club, that sent
him reeling "to grass" This was the
only blow struck during the fray"
that caused marked effect" And
it is lucky, perhaps, that the hoy
was not "finenest' both or he
might have whipped them both, for
it can't be denied that he drew the
only "bloodn of the occasion that
caused weakness. But the end is
not yet, as the old man Currier,
whose age measures up near so, de-
clares if his son don't whip Jamison,
lie will. 1t is an i'll wind that blows
nobody good. BY thisunfortunate and
seriously tragical affair one fact was
developed that might have remained
hidden for thousands Of years.! In
the absence of Judge Converse, the
trial was conducted by two of our
young and enterprising merchants,
viz: Mr.. G.. w. Maxwell and Mr..
Congdon. Called from behind the
counter to the Hall of Justice" UNI
expectedly and without moments
notice, the one to prosecute and the
other to defend one of our citizens
charged with high crime, they took
hold of the difficult questions Of
criminal law, expounding them in
the most lucid manner, proving
themselves the worthy successors of
Blackstone, Cowan, Marshall, and
Story. 1t is useless.tO say that their
closing arguments in summing up
the case, were utterly territlc-in fact,
the greatest forensic efforts of their
eventful lives. WesLould have been
glad If stenographer could have
taken them down as delivered, they
would have compared with the eff
forts of the best advocates of this
age. Before closing this already too
long letter allow me to say that many
have been the queries as to what
"Pedro's" real name is. Some have
and do think he was born in little
town in one of the southwestern
counties of n. Y, at or near the
town Of Bath. Others are equally
certain that he is clerk behind one
Of the counters in this town. Some
think he may be a she and living
within the city limits, and still 9TH
ers think it may be somebody living
in Grundy county and hint strongly
of a certain farmer, ex-editOr, &c
Some of the MethOdists were terri
bly, maddened at my allusiOn in my
last letter to their festival. Now
Sirs, am prepared to prove that ev-
cry word was true and while we gem
erously acquit the ex-editor, eXsu-
perintendent of the authorship of
these letters, we do sag and are pre-
pared to pToUe that he did, as presi-
dent of the Board of Trustees, de-
mand (after they had our money a
cessation of the amusements indulg-
ed in by our young folks, and con-
sidered entirely innocent by so many
church members. And while the
Methodists, some ofthem, were so in
dignant at the contents OF that letter
some of the "outsiders" threatened
PEDRO" with a whipping. My
youthfulness, if they knew me,
would protect me on that score, and
If that didn't certainly my diminu-
tive body would; but if all these
should fail, my legs would take care
of me--they are built for running
So give yourselves no trouble about
my personal safety. am bound to
chronicle passing events.
PEDRO.
May !, 1871.
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