Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1881-02-18
COMMUNICATED.
Editor of the Times.


We noticed in your last Issue short piece
headed 'stolel,' in which the writer seems to
be very much distressed at losing his ''gQod
name" as he terms it, while at the same time
he accuses two persons, Honest john and
st Daniel of having stolen it. :
He seems to be certain that the last named
individual is the guilty party, and claims that
he possesses evidence sufficient to convict this
person whom he terms Literary thief"
Now, Mr.. Editor for some time past we
have noticed in every issue of the TINES aud In
dependent hat We suppose might be called
series Of communications, or what purport to
be communications from several OF our county
villages. We do not know anything about
those from other parts Of the county, but we
DO know of this Newport series which We have
read with infinite disgust, and in saying 1--WE"
We do not mean the writer OF this alone, hut
several others Of your readers in this vicinity
If any body has had the bad taste TO steal
''Stolens" good name and we doubt exceed
ngly that ybody did steal il, We heartily
congratulate him upon his less, and hope the
thief will take Now and Then entirely out
of the civilized world or at least, do MS the ia
vor Of taking it out of the county and leaving
it for good and all. We have never sspired 10
be literary character, but If We had, We
should have failed utterly and miserably if We
had begun with such ''commu nica,ioas'' as
those ever the signature when il had a sigma
ture At all) Of Now and Then" This per-
| son CLAIMS to be distressed at The loss of his
good name what then mus, be the feelings
Of his neie hbors whom he vili6es and falsely
and malciously accuses Of things which onl,
exist in the very vivid Imagination Of Now
and Then Then he pretends to quote Shak-
sPeare Now, sir, il man cannot even cor
rec,ly copy what he had or might have had
right before his eyes, and what every school
boy Of twelve years ought to know by heart
how in the name OF goodness, We ask, can
such person write . communication His
must be q mighty intellect that man should
wish to steal his ron de plane over which be
might write and make public the secrets Of his
| neg bbsrs in order TO be thought distin-
guished writer.
We cannot say We feel ourselves "ssrely ds-
sriered' ~ the stealing OF oar good name nor
At being accused by such of being literary
thief. - Notwithstanding his strong evidence
which. by the way, We should like to see, be-
cause in the hr.t place if We had stolen the
name and the communication too, surely no
one of our intelligent fellow citizens would
had the bad taste to call US ''hi,rary thief, -
but rather q v sste paper thief, and in the sec
ond place we hatter ourselves that We are Two
we'll kaoWn in the nsig hborhood. aud our aver
sion TO meddling with our neighhors' private
Affairs aud making public their family matters
IS too well known to seed remark here. To
our own knowledge this ''sorely aggrieved
Now and Thens' writings have caused All.
mostly 10 exist among some OF the neghbor
TOW ards one another, and in one case they Tell
little short Of causing blows, and This oa Sun
la, and in the Church yard. And yet. this
psrson complains Of losing bis good sa~,
Perhaps he links by means o. his writings
| to stir up the good people Of osr qaie, neigh
horhood and gain Tor Newport The ,ar,tbis
same Of Fighienvilis again. II ibis is 50 -.
are glad 10 ssy ne know Of no one else ho is
thus AmtitioGsly inclined And rhi. is What
ws are to know as the ''isiiiai k,sfesy' ~ OF
our neishborhood We. as Aarria ndrr- as
a Charles oouniian. are fr Nd Of the recer,i Of
our forrhihets hut If ae are to br gin again,
and Ais Il inistisl history. then
longer wish TO be eunsidCrei = Charles eouu-
tan, nor even a MARI lander. We hl-me
YOU Mr.. Editor. for punlI.hlng those Newport
items" yoa d.uhiIess though, ,ou SER doing
US = service b, siT n. Us the nr~,. hut in all
ksdness ~e would cay TO You, that you
would be doing us and YOUR re.dcts generally
a service-srd Stolen Now aud Then.
or ~ whstever oIher rAmr The .uihor q
| Newport Items 10 knosn-s psriirs!ar farc'
| By declining TO publish anymore such nuisance
! as 10 sent YOU under this bead news w
are Satisfied TO LED the secrets Of cor mel ghhor
res, in the oo.oms Of ihsir fsmlses, and -
hope ws have more praniahle, and al ib-
| came time, more congeu;Sl rmnlo, me ,
than th.t Of hunting up such sews for pun!ies
,ioa, or ihsn ibs, OF HrsI,ay -sylL,~y. -'r.,I o.
ali our ue : bbors good Bsne.
ST. nASnt.