The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1873-07-07
The Elk Run Gazette-A Specimen of


its Jokes.
Our little editorial Of last week on the fa-
nous editor of the Elk Rim Gazette has in
duced that worthy to invest cent in postal
card and fill it with a note to us, of which
| the following is a part
Compliments Editor En- Run gazette, who you
say ought to he hung"
Here come in two jokes, which, fortu-
nately for us, we are well enough posted to
! omit. He then goes on:
Love and tender regard TO F. r. If send You q
| yarn will you publish IL without COMMENT
mot much" What would our readers
| think of the staid Dispatch if it should give
| to them, without word of comment, such
a story as nobody but the editor Of the Elk
Run Gazette can INVENT And then to pub.
| lsh an original 'yarn - spun by a man who
deserves to be hung: excuse us, if you
please.
That our readers may see for themselves
that we are not too hard upon this hosts hat
MANI generis, we reproduce for their perusal
the last "yarn spun by our editorial brother
Of bad repute. This yarn has been copied
into papers all over the Union, and has called
forth the most bitter denunciations of the
unrepentant Virginia rebels from many SUI
perseryiceable loyalpa both in the North
and in the South. Read it, and say what
ought to be done with the man who thus
libcls the honest people of the very gar
den-spot of Virginia, where crime is nearly
unknown, and where simple manners,
all the virtues, and the highest de-
gree of refinement, prevail almost univer-
sally, recollecting meanwhile that he does
all this through a paper which no mortal
eye has ever seen-that is to say, the Ell
Run Gazette. The following is the yarn US
1t appears in one of the best papers pub.
lished in New England, the Springfield
Daily Repu6hcan-a paper which would
not willingly misrepresent Virginia nor any
other State, nor any person whatever The
yarn was first published in the Alexandria
Sentinel abouta month ago but the version
of it that we present appeared in the Repub-
hcan only few days ago. 1t will be show.
ing itself to us in our exchanges for the next
two months, for it will be recopied here
after into some papers which have already
published it, but which, when it returns to
them, will have forgotten that fact.
Here is The yarn as it appears in the Re
publican:
" A band of eight outlaws have established them
selves on spur OF the Blue Ridge mountains five
miles from Culpeper, whence they make forays
upon the valley below and carry off whatever they
want Tor their commissary department.. Some
times the leader OF the gang merely addresses note
to farmer, making requlsttiOn for fat lamb, or
few pounds Of butter, or f-bushel of SALT and
the error-Sticken rustic forthwith sends the article
demanded. Two or three days since 1t occurred to
them that the society Of woman in their camp
would vary The moEotony of their cainp-lite, SO
they came down to the town Of Culpepcr captured
young colorei girl, and were making OFF with her,
when her father came 10 her rescue, They cut tht
old mans throat from ear to car, and then maze
their escape. The father died from his wounds on
Friday last. The mayor OF Culpeper organized q
party OF ten men and placing Captain Fultz, one OF
MOsbys scouts, in command, sent them against the
Modoes Before they reached the camp they were
surprised aud fired gu. The party then -retrea!ed'
and the 'ModocS' have not since been Holestea'
The name of the commander Is Jameson, aesPea
rate character. who to be stranger III tliose
parts One of his associates Is named Williams, an
lrishman, well known In Culpeper, VINO was SOL o.,
,lier IN the Confederate army, anu was "o'h"e" 1t