The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1874-10-26
LIE Nard
WRITES TO. THE EDITOR WITH SEVEN
YEARS EXPERIENCE,
An Open Letter to the Rock Island Union.

An Open Letter to the Rock Island Union.
Mr.. EDITOR: Tn your issue of We ster-
day you facetiously style my weil-founded
complaint against the Post Office Much
Ado About Nothing Well, allow me
to remind you of the wel-known fable
where, what was fun for the boys, was
death to the frogs. That which is moth
ing" to you, was trouble and disappoint-
ment to me.
Still, as all that is past now, | should
have said nothing more about it, did l not
have constitutional dislike to anything
like error and in your statement ] notice
two nice full grown ones, of the genius pre-
meditated. In the first place my brother
SPELLS his name with X, thus; Kahn
and as write pronounced fsEt," as
the Irishman said, the hands which would
place it into the & box, must be connected
with pair of eyes devoid Of an intimate
acquaintance with the alphabet.
But the second error-ah! Mr.. Editor
1t grieves me to the heart to say it; the
more 80. as had supposed that beautiful
Young being at the window to be good
innocent boy, who had gone to Sunday
School, and learned his little lessons as a
well regulated good boy should Ay, |
had even had a wild hope that he might
have been one of those rare and beau
tiful instances of early piety who
cant tell lie" but alas, for human
hopes | really fear that the ''cxplana-
tion" he made to you is an offspring Of the
Heather Chinee," belonging to ways
that are dark, and tricks that are vain. a"
Yes, in the words of the redoubtable Roao-
len: st might be so but, it isn't;" and
Fortunately for me, being pilgrim and
stranger only, there is the brother of
Miss Maggie Hepine, who will make aft
dayit that he was, during that week, four
times at the post office, (the last time on
the Saturday previous to my arrival, that
he went there purposely to inquire tor let
ters for his sister, and was told that none
was there.
Moreover, and I'm sorry to own it
that same Miss Maggie had with malice
prepense, used corruption and bribery in
this case, inasmuch as she had promised
that brother of hers ten cents in u, Sour
rency, legal tender, portrait of the late MIR.
Meredith. ex- secretary Of the Y. 5. treas
ury &C., for each letter brought her; and
as you, Mr.. Editor, have probably been a
healthy, twelve year old boy with a pas.
sion for dimes, yourself. ask you in all
confidence whether it is at all likely that
| that young business man should have de-
clined, with thanks to earn said scurrency
No, | could weep over that misguided
young being at the window but facts are
facts" you see and although cant say
like the mule, Il III all ear" nor am at
ficted with disordered organization t.
the extent of ''clairvoyance, yet I'm IL
possession of my senses, and can reaC
unless it happens to be words of more
than one syllable they get me,) and
have heard enough of the carelessness will
which mail matter is distributed and re
tained 10 convince me that a change o
clerks might be an improvement.
And now, Mr.. Editor, as life rather
nv visit here's too short to be spent in
useless, wordy war, and, las the clerk seem
willing to impugn the veracity of m
friends to shield himself, while maintai
my right to be served property by m!
Uncle Sam 5 servants, | shall leave thu
last word to you, preterring to carry tn
, matter before the 2. NJ. General, upon IN
return to Washington, who will, throug
sworn testimony, determine whether III
complaint was an unfounded one or not.
With profound regard for you person
> ally, am yours, etc, LIE NARD.
y October 26
2 The following is the story of the be
who called for the letter, as written dow
by one of the editors of The ARGUS,
presence of witnesses:
, My name is Joseph Repine. am brother
Maggie Repine, one of out city school teachers
am II wears old. am in the habit of going pref
regularly to the post Office for folks mail mt
ter went to the general delivery on Tuesday eN
ming oct 49, and asked for letters or papers Il
Maggie Repine or Mary j. Rcpiuc, the lafIer bell
my mother. The clerk took down n package. sii
ped off three four and said mo- and left
went again on Wednesday evening, The llth' al
asked the same questions aud received the same a
swer. Invent again on saturday IN 'lnlng, the II I
and asked the same questions aud received I
same answer Ia h tim it seemed 10 me that {
clerk did not look over all the lctess he had i'll
; hand--but cannot be sure about this. Every TN
/. IL was the same clerk thin faced, light compile
iJned young man, having light hair
In confederation another boy says:
My name is Charles Baumann. am II years oil
was with Joe Repinc, on saturday, AT the pose
statement.
There's the testimony straight as
: string. IL the letter was in the K tier
! boxes why was il not delivered when I'll
|. Rcpines called for their mail ? And if
l. was in the X tier of boxes why was it n
delivered when Augustus Kahn called f,
lit? Somebody is at fault, -and that iau
caused good deal of trouble 1t shou
n not have occurred. 1t is the duty OF tho,
5 in charge to see that persons who comm
= such errors have nc chance to repeat then
T. The proprietors of LIE ARGUS have
i friendly personal feeling towards every il
e dividual connected with the post office, an
. would not, knowingly, do any of them il
|, iustice-but that fact cannot change tn
i duties of the paper to the interests Of th
+ public service,
Fall and winter suits and overc9ats
speciality at Loeo's, the One Price Cloth
. Ter.
General Henderson has put himself 0
record, both by letter and olt-repeqtei We
. bal declaration, that he is not Il caniidat
: for congress aud that he neither lasirt
r nor intend. to have anything to 10 wit
\ this canvass We have too much respet
for Gen. Henderson integrity to Suppos
that he will falsiiy that record.-Rg 4 Is
and Union dug. IL.
The Union then, after telling peopl
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