Connecticut western news., 1872-12-20
Sharens

thought so, in fact 1 knew it, that some
 star would shortly rise in this heaven which
 would completely eclipse and cause to pale
 the rising glory of ''The Visitor" You
 must remember told you, that Sharon had
 loads of buried talent, and only wanted
 something to bring it to the surface-it has had that stimulating something, and the giant Nobody feels within himself mo- nopolizing spirit, and intends to have the field of literature to himself, and float to fame npon the tide of newspaper notoriety.
 He mistakes the character of 'The Visitor if he imagines such senseless articles as his can frighten him from the columns of the CONNECTICUT WEsTERN-absurd to dream
 of it for a moment-I most politely inform him he cannot do it, and if Nobody de- sires free fight, he can be accommodated at sight, by the old one who can resume the quill whenever opportunity offers, and who will fight "with harness on his back,
 until the crack of doom." Nobody says that am weak in frame,-I cannot help it T even admit it, for the sake of argu- ment but do deny emphatically, that my mind is, or has been overtaxed, Git is so small that it is exempt from taxation) and l fur ther deny that my labors inyour paper were too severe, to run through the entire season although they did run nearly up to cold weather; but Nobody will ffnda to his great grief that shall last for many sea- sons. provided my physician allows it, and Rowley & Gilbert continue to tempt me with matchless beef, and juicy steaks.
 Nobody says that my temperament is me- teoric, Ga wholesome term surely) and that I am easily turned about, that is, write for money. on any side; this deny, and call for immediate proof. shall push him to the wall if he ever makes a similar state 1 ment. True it is, that my attention has been directed to Theology. but it was only Summer reading; and if did SO, is there any provision in the statute agalnst it;-lf Nobody would turn his attention to works of like character, it would liberaliZe his brain, and do him a power of good. He further says wagglsh friend of miEe (his friends are all wags) that The Visitor is
 doing the funny for Hostetter's almanac this statement is untrue, and not believed by anyone, unless by Justice Kingston. who is of morbid turn and ready to be- lieve all that be hears derogatory to poor
 human nature, and with this exception the idea is secuted by every intelligent person
 in the district. If Nobody would gener- ously incline to Hostetters bitters, and say less ofsthe almanac, it would have ten dency to tighten his chronics, and in time he would make an acceptable correspond ent providing he holds close to truth. The next statement in order, and which has somewhat hinged upon my nerve, and nearly sickened me is: that since my cleo ton to one of the houses in the county l have come to grief, consequent upon the fact of having read so much statute law, that my brain has become softened, and that am considered by all the ex-Justices useless to fill the position,' this touches me professionally under the rib, and pro- nounce it un- Christian, anti-Yankee like and full of malice afore thought and I shall apply at once to the courts for redress and if can get Democratic jury shall wiring from 'Nobody's' coffers some of his hoard ed gold and may then be modified, and softened-that is in feeling; Imust, how ever, as fair man, admit that too extensive application to one particular subject, will produce nervousness, audin some instances, neuralgia of the head, (the language of Materia Medical, and l must further admit