Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1882-04-19
ALPENA WEEKLY ARGUS.
"Wednesday, April 10, 1882.
Communication.

The Editor Of Weekly Argus.
SIR.--Although, as you are well
aware, am isw, and always have been,
politically opposed to you and your pa
per, and, in the future am likely TO re-
main so, still ! believe you to be q mag
unanimous gentleman of liberal and for
giving spirit towards your opponents,
and when an important occasion arises,
calling for II prompt and graceful ack-
nowledgement Of most remarkable
circumstance in the career Of one of
your contemporaries, you will, | feel
sure, place at my disposal sufficient
quantity of your valuable space, where
in to express my heartfelt sentiments,
and thereby relieve myself of the bur-
den of gratitude now expressing me.
refer, sir, to the high class and
original magazine known as the Alpe-
ma County Pioneer, and the short ar
ticle in its last issue, in which the editor
of that magnificent sheet has so hap
PLY mingled my name with that of
the Hon. j. d. Turnbull, and the cir
cumstance Of the organization of the
county of Montmorency.
Sir, for the first time in the history
of that ably conducted and public
spirited journal, its genial, gentlemanly
and able management has been the
first to hit upon and disclose a great
truth. That whole transaction, in its
true inwardness, was just as that con-
else item described it, and describes it
so geographically, that one can picture
to himself the disappointed cats new
ing and wauling after the sweet, lost
chestnuts, the savory chestnuts, the
legal chestnuts, the printing chestnuts
vanished, all vanished!
How keen the discovery. How clear
ly depicted by him, so that !. carries
conviction to the mind of every reader.
showing my verdant simplicity in get
ting around the legal astuteness of the
Hon. j. ID. T., till in guileless trust he
claws the chestnuts out to see me de-
your them, while he is blowing his badly
scorched Legislative fingers.
The courteous gentleman expressed
the idea that Mr.. Cathro Ooh, / should
say Cathro,) would get his back up
when he found all this opt, now, for the
first time. But bless his tender heart,
that CatIiro knew all about it all the
time, only his native modesty would
not allow him to arrogate to himself SO
much credit as to make it public would
involve. | never felt so tickled in my
life, as when he so kindly took the mat
ter in hand. Why, sir, in short time
people will give me credit for an amount
Of smartness more than my due. Even
some Of his friends may, in time, sup
pose | could manage little crooked
business as sharply as certain patron
Of his, whom we all know.
You may say, sir, / should have
waited till the end of the week, and
expressed my need Of praise in his own
eiIevt, uuU twas Impossible. OF, I
could not for so long contain my feel
ings Of respect and admiration for the
remarkable literary phenomenon pre-
siding over the half editorial sanctum
in Water street. Let it wave, that
great intellect; lot it prosper, that hugh
wit, worthy compeer of Twain, Bill
lings and Ward, and extinguish all
lesser lights-that *PdrUo IN MuIt,tna.
I would fain embrace thee, Pioneer,
if it were not for reason you wot of,
and which resembles the odor eman-
ating from the festive, little skunk.
Farewell great D
Please excuse me, Mr.. ARGUS, for
this trouble have given, and believe
me, yours truly,
J. j. CATHRo.
Oh, | mean (Cathro)
FThat may be instructed but don't believe so.