Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-01-27


New Providence correspondence,
which lady lately adjudged in my
hearing, "the only thing fit to read in /
the Chronicle-all the rest is Tilden
and Hendricks. you know Per con-
ira, another one-notably amiable too
wants to know which are the big
gest fools. the Providence correspon-
dents of the Chronicle and Tobacco
Leaf, or the editors who let such stuff
be putinto PRINT" the which heteroclite
opinion seems to break out in a fresh
place, to wit, the saturnine wall of the
sunset side" HAL Glen which
adorns Cd your last issue. Now, albeit
this is none of my funeral, and I've a
marvellous admiration for the outside
dog in fight" I wish to remark to
whom it may concern, and it notably
concerns the whole scribbling crew,
who, for some six weeks of every
month, persistently, wilfully and with
malice prepense break the laws OF
God and man and-metre, and "set
all the nine sorts Of speech at def
ance" in the columns of our county
papers that the public, patient and
long suffering though it be, is some
what cloyed with the same similar
ness" that afflieteth their communities
tons, and would be delighted with ;
brilliant fash of silence to the
, middle of next century. And hereo
: speak with authority, being mysel
. an old offender; reformed drunkards
' you know, make the best Temperance
4 lecturers. If write you must and will
o here's more than golden rule upon
I whose observance | insist-that Is
v Have something to say, say it, the
! STOP" The last clause is most essen
Q tial. and if in addition you7frun you
3 pen through every other word ate
# you've done, why, your style will gai
|, in strenqthiness all it loses in length
n ness, a consummation most devoutly
be wished. And that reminds me tia
70 | want to know why you always begl
70 YOUR illusions with a six-line quot;
"a ton. Is it to show your quality, an
S. quantity, of learning, or do you thin
q. as the old Scotch woman did of sweal
g. ing, Il ken it is wrang, but then
ID sets off the conversation so muckle ]
IN My memory is bad. but | seem to r
70 call that they are generally marked
IN happy inappropriateness-or wouI
be, only subjects are usually more hai
: than the Presidential outlook. ]
=, return to our mutton-which take
= be veal-the abovesaid II. u. t
writes himself Methusaleh redlvlvu
Henry, my son, come down out
.ot that, it's quite too thin. Fruit me
- lowing to decay does not retain SUI
10 tartness.
IN "Thy speech bewrayeth thee"
en- Such adiectives and adulation dol
If. flourish beyond the Rubicon." a.
= roar as tremendously as you may, t
- milk on your breath proclaims t
- sucking dove, wherefore, good yout
-, calm yourself; let dogs delight
III bark aud bite, your little pens we
~ never made to tear each others ey
-ov AS to your cause of complaint, t
:. personals and personalities, they q
80 certainly no end of bad form, /
\ then they are very much more Pro
10 denotes; besides, your own commu
- cation Ieans-maybe it's just straitn'
overdone-so much that way that
are clearly not entitled to the scorne
seat. Having said my say in behalf
- public peace-I hope henceforth y
we will have it'll only add the init
III :, of my front names.
Il S. NJ. A. &
i Content Jan. 20 1877.