Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1885-04-13
Mrsfellanenns.
Newspaper Correction.

1t is with sorrow that we attempt cor
rection of an article which appeared in
the columns of the Tri-Weekly Croweater
recently. We wrote faftering biography
of our Scandinavian fellowcitizen. MIR.
Git Giithar lately elected Treasurer, hich
the devil, upon arriving at the Office.
promptly swept into the gutter opposite
Pete Ringle's emporium of paints and oils.
Thus bad began; but worse had prom
inent place in the procession. The COM
positor. falling to bis demoniac work, set
up the statement that Mr.. Gitthar came
ship only two years ago. For this unhap-
py error, please read that Mr.. Gitthar was
born in this State. and broke the first sod
that was ever turned on Mongoquinong
prairie. Through still more painful
typographical displacement, ii was O.
marked parent ,eticaily that MIR. Gitthar,
while township trustee, some years ago.
stole the whole poll-tax, and went into
business with the towns ledgers and day
books" For this obscure and seemingly
meaningless phrase. please read that ..ihe
many trusts which his grateful fellow
townsmen have put upon Mr.. Gitthar's
unwilling shoulders have always been
kept with fidelity astonishing in this age
of arson and embezzlement." A mix in
the makeup suffixed the concluding por-
ton OF recital of the career of Jesse
James upon the many complimentary ex-
pressions which we had indited after the
reelection of Treasurer Gitthar. By
means of this entirely fortuitous iuxta-
position, this Journal was apparently made
to say that our esteemed Treasurer had
for years been the terror eff the Southwest.
had served three terms in the Missouri
Penitentiary, and had been whipped in
Delaware for beating. his wife and bunko-
ing his grandmother. Other ambiguous
words and sentences. equally far
from the editorial idea which in
spired and colored the now celebrated
article. interspersed The two-column pane
gyric with which we commemorated the
success OF our late opponent at the polls.
For liar" please read "eminent juriscon-
suit" for ''log-roller." read public spir
tied representative; for "hypocrite,
read "pillar of the church." The SEN
tence saving that Mr.. 6 itthar had devot-
ed wife living in Perry township, should
have instead conveyed the statement that
Mr.. Gitlhar had founded a college at Pop
lar Grove. The paragraph detailing his
indictment by Il grand jury during the in
vestigation of the second batch of whiskey
d-tilerS, should have made palmer the IN
formation that he wears a medal struck in
his honor by the Life-SAving Service 1t may
seem impossible for our readers to con-
ceive that so many glaring and purely me-
chanical mistakes could have been made
in one article, and we confess that our re-
greet has seemed the more profound as we
ourselves contemplated the whole con-
catenation. But we moved promptly
We have taken measures of future pre-
vention. We have peremptorly dis
charged one of our two boys at the office
His claim that we. owe him for nine
months wages will be holly contested at
term of court which begins in three
months. We pronounce the declaration
that we were tarred and feathered last
Sunday night to be the invention of a
cowardly and INSCRIPTIONS editorial
wretch across the way. who is unworthy
OF place in contemporary journalism
Neither have private invitations been is
sued tor a reception in our honor on the
town common next Thursday night. This
is upon the authority of our admirable
treasurer himself On Wednesday. how
ever. we shall go East to buy new press.
and we promise our readers paper which
shall BE- at all times fearless exponent of
local politics. and formidable enemy
of ring rule.-Monyoquinong Tri-Weekly
CrOUedter.