The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1876-02-17
AN OUTRAGE ON OUR PEOPLE.
And A Damage to the Business Inter-
ests Of our City.

Some Harold Skimrole, thrown by
his lucky star into the U. s. postal SER
vice, has brilliantly succeeded in de-
frauding the citizens of the towns of
Newtonburg, Meme and our city out of
what mail accommodations they have
heretofore enjoyed, and substituted a
tri-weekly snail conacegne which keeps
us in healthy communication with one
another via Sheboygan, Stockbridge,
ButtertiIbs Corners, and few other
points ofsimilarly important. Anyonean-
xious to communicate from here with
some friend res iding either in Newton
OF Meme by letter, and furthermore
anxious to get his said letter to its place
of destination inside of a calender month
had better hire an oX-team and whack it
through himself, or it may not be heard
from before the expiration of this, our
centennial year.
In order to economize labor, (time, of
course, isn't money when it takes
month to get letter to its address) and
expense to the government, the Post
Master General called in the valuable
services of Harold Skimpole or the Will
kes Micawber entrusted with the man.
agement of this branch Of circumlocu-
ton postal conveyance, and he, in one of
his happiest moods, astonished our ma
tives with a route-shedule such as we
are now enjoying. Wonter Van Twiller,
the renowned dunderhead Governor of
the New Netherlands, couldn't have ac-
complished this feat to the better safac-
ton Of our noble Government than did
this genius. We'd give our last years
straw hat to find out his illustrious name
and embalm it in sweet tinkling rhymes
to gladden. the hearts of coming genera
tions without charging him cent for
our trouble. We are informed by
letter from the Second Assistant P. NJ.
General that the Government paysS468.-
20 for the boon Of keeping up living
link between the business men of this
city and the neighboring towns via Salt
Spring City Stockbridge and some other
foreign ports of Calumet County. In
view of this climax of all the tomfoolery
We have ever heard of, we take off our
hat, and with all drue respect for tie
Government of our great and glorious
Republic, humbly beg to suggest, that
we can put our finger upon 20 contrac-
tors, who, for the same compensation,
will undertake to carry q dolly mail be-
tween Centreville and the two excommu
nlcated towns, quarrel for the privilege
and keep us in communication with our
neighbors. We are not as yet sufficient
~ posted to put the blame of this out
rage where it belongs, but when we do
learn the name of its author, we can as
sure our readers that he will be prompt
ly "gone for" regardless of party, ties,
color, or previous condition. We don't
care tinker's-cent whether he be a
Republican OF Mohamedan; he will hear
piece of our mind Aside from all the
grievance and annoyance to which this
unique arrangement has subjected the
people of Newtonburg and Meme, no.
thing is more self-evident than that the
perpetrator of this fraud has inflicted
serious damage to the business interests
of our city !; alternating, rs it were, our
trade with those towns and turning the
same into channels running southwark.
The Journal has repeatedly called the
attention of our business men to this
state of affairs, and we now do likewise
in the Tribune. Let our business men
take the matter in hand, sift it down to
its proper level, and when the guilty
party is unearthed, show him or them
that there is God in Israel.