Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-02-17
FROM OAK GROVE, KY.


EDITORS CHRONICLE; don't think 4
any ordinary consideration could have
induced me to write another commu-
nioation as a newspaper correspondent
after you failed to admit my last to |
she columns of your interesting paper.
Perhaps you didn't receive it, and if
you did no doubt the personals"
doomed It to the waste basket Now,
1, for one, never intended, nor ever
will, any mischief by little personal,
and "a lash like mine no honest man
shall dread"
OF all abOminable denominations l
think these things we call sensitive
plants as applied to man or woman
in a certain sense of the word, are the
most abominably inconvenient. Who
knows Except myselfD how much
wholesome food that milk beast, the
dear public" as s. NJ. A. G. most ele-
gantly terms it, has lost in the nonap-
pearance of my last and most brilliant
production, which, perhaps, might
have been published but for these
same sensitive plants - I'm going to
follow that time -honored precept and
try again, though my blood is boil
ing with Indignation. [ come humbly
as Uriah Heep to offer my simple con-
tribution. | think the spirit of Wiki
ms Micawber must be flying at random
over this benighted world of ours.
resting here and there Unfortunately;
else why this "cacoethes scribendi, /"
or something of that sort, which SC
many seem to be afflicted with. As
New Providence is a spirited place,
Micawber must have rested there some
time-hence the numerous letters sent
from that place. The n. 2. C., like
the immortal Wilkins will write let
ters to your hearts content; but IN
like him they do not wait for some
thing TO turn up, but pel-mel, hurley
hurley, pOw-wow, quarria-raa, poop
poop-poop-enarty :! and have sue
ceeded in raising quite a literary
storm(0 | have reference to your is
sue of Jan. 9th, wherein S. NJ. A. c.
hurls a considerable battery of heaps
OF huge words uphoarded hideously"
atthe New Providence correspondents
I'm not one of the N. P. c., nor is it
my blissful lot to reside there; but
since a recent visit to New Providence
my entire sympathies are with the in
habitants thereof. Without more d.
Tectly referring to any latent ability
that may, and no doubt does exist,
Judging from the tremendous clatter
he, she or it made on the subject of
politics and otherwise in his, her or
it's last letter on the part of s. NJ. A.
G. of welding the thunderbolt, or d.
recting the devouring and avenging
fame in any quarter, allow me to OBJ
serve in passing that the above alluded
to missive was emphatically sumner.
Happily I'm not encountered with
that inordinate amount of vanity to
set myself up for critic, and no doubt
Smac would compassiOnately denomi-
nate me a sucking dove" We don t
hesitate to believe that Smac has long
since been weaned, aud don't remem-
her that sucking doves can't chew,
else she wouldn't poke her "slsquipe-
dalia Uerba" at US without the least
cOmpunction whatever. Please, dear
iSmac. chew en- uD next time We
might get chOked, you know, and then
such another squallingl whoopee
Don't reckon you will have that bril-
liant fash Of SILENCE" you so long for
soon. am very DESTROYS to know
whether Smae has ever received a cor
rect answer to that ponderous interro-
cation at the beginning of her commu-
nieation. | once thought myself good
at'guessing conundrums, but give it
up. IT you remember it was the seem
ingly simple question, Well p; but
like all that followed, twas desp-too
deep for my comprehensive faculties
60 dive into. Hope Smac won't think
this intended to raise her ire it is only
in behalfof the sucking dove, serb
bling crew, ofwhom l m one, but not
the only one. | don't think we will
zee 10 the next CHRONICLE criticism
from the able pen of our friend he OF
she will consider our tender ears
(years) and not assault our ocular or.
gans and auricular appendices with q
voliey of adiectives and other parts Of
speech that might accidentally cause
= confusion of our delicate "tinpan,
ums." If such does happen Won
Hilda, from whose pen the words tioE
smoothly, making music sweet and
thrilling as the brooklet's murmuring
raise our bruised head and heal the
wounds
4 frisnG asked me to write up
my recent visit to New Providence.
fain would tell all enjoyed, butwords
are inadequate. And as ! close this
letter, subduing my desire to iinger
vet, not one of the faces | met while
there is forgotten; but one face shin
ing like a heavenly light by which |
see all other objects,
Excuse haste and bad pen, as the
zig said when he ran off from his sty
Feb. 9TH, 1877. l. ID. A.