Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1876-07-08
ORPHEUS EXHAUSTS sMANDAMUS'
BECOMES ATROClOUSLY PO-
ETC AND QUITS on A SUDDEN
RAMPAGE.


--BECOMES ATROClOUSLY PO-
ETC AND QUITS on A SUDDEN
RAMPAGE.
Mr.. CHRONICLE II can't be expec-
ted to answer all the squibs left at
your Office, in reply TO my last. Ny
respondents call me many names,
though l must do them the justice to
say, that, they do not call for the use
of my proper name, before the APP
preaching County Convention. They
take the trouble to inform me, that.
our corporation and railroad taxes can
not be repudiated, that the courts have
a stinger, though that is not the word
they use, that rolls out money in the
shape of taxes, like wheat from
separator. Now your readers will
never guess what that word is. / viii
try to break it to themgently, and first,
in the shape of an enigma. Thus:
My5, 4, 2, s, was the first repudiator of
law.
Mys,2 2. 4. is what am caused to be, by
my whole.
My 4, 2, 4, is what am, whenever hear
my whole mentioned.
My 6, z. 4. is what my whole sticks repu-
diation into.
My4, 5, !, 3, s, are scattered around free
~ wherever my whole is named, but es-
pecially in our chief commercial city,
where 1t is working just now, in a very
lively manner. You give it up? Well,
then, take it as charade:
/ am word of three syllables.
My first. when young, is the horror
of all boarding school Misses.
Ny second (lacking final letter you
hear when an orange peel slides under
the heal of male party, and occasion
ally from the pulpit.
A colored authority of Poverty Row,
who has picked up much law latin and
classic English, whilst ministering to
the aesthetic taste of the gentlemen of
the inner temple, through daily baskets
of flowers, Carefully screened from the
SUM informs ne, that, my i0hoLe is
Git up and git"
Let no profane man turn up farther,
an incredulous pug, at those flower
baskets As a man of taste-"of
whom / am which, have made a
point of following basket after basket,
around the inns of court, and know
exactly what / am talking about.
But to return to our mutton: The
reader has by this time perceived, that,
the cure applied by the courts to repu-
dating taxpayers, is something with
a dam in the middle, with man to work
it at one end on all of as. poor honest
fellows at the other
This word; mdad0nOus, has a very
unpleasant favor. Coming from the
grave of language long dead, we
snuff up the accumulated effluvia of a
thousand centuries ! And the effect
that's Plutonian Just look at it?
No escape from railroad and city taxes.
County levy must be paid, or no coun-
ty government. Officers of State,
judges, and chancellors must be paid.
or no State government. The insane,
blind, deaf and dumb must be sup
ported, or-barbarism: School tax
must be met, or no schools; and the
legislature must be paid, or the use of
my name, before the County Conven-
ton, can't be had! There's a state of
things
What little is left to repudiate to
each taxpayer, averages so much low
er than petty larceny, that man of
my exalted views on Wholesale steal
ing, can have nothing to do with it :!
1t is true that we have an exemption
from taxation Of thousand dollars in
value, of personal property. but 1,
with the vast majority of voters, hay'-
ent the thousand dollars to be exempt
ed make no bid for the nomination
at the coming convention; but it does
seem to me, that if a State exempts a
thousand dollars, it ought to furnish
the money One more last word to
the convention. Now don't consider
what follows as a threat, but if not
nominated, shall leave the hot pre-
cincts of this cheerful taxpaying coun-
ty, for some honest country. Is there
no country, Oh my CHRONICLE, where
a man can escape paying dollar or
two on his head? Is there notsome smil-
ing island, sheltered valley, town, or
highland o, no matter where the drum
mer never drummeth, and the hummer
never bummeth, and the dunner never
dunneth, and the sheriff never cometh,
that you know of? At good salary,
l would be willing to head an emigra-
ton society to such an inviting locali-
ty. Know you the land, where we never
hear of taxes, debts squeezed out by
legal practice, where man gets all he
axes? If you do, why, then the
fact is, you will hear to your advantage.
by addressing me note at the market
house You must excuse this unwont-
ed jingle of mine. have had recent
attack Of one of Mark Twain's poetic
Nightmares, caused by INDUCING with
the stag poets of the CHRONICLE, COM
bined with Dick Swiveller, and both
together, have been rather too many
for me. But I'm away from my NUT