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mt♦uc m oxVOL. 1.SHELBYVILLE, INDIANA, SATURDAY, APRIL 16, 1881WE AFOLOGI5SE*To Our Old Friend Thomas Goodrich for !Not Publishing an Article as Written by Himself for This Paper.line of veteran soldiers on dress parade.We flattered ourselves that we hadhe never kild a deer i cant se how heFREEPORT FLAXES.cold help it for i have saw as high as j #pecial Correspondence of the Democrat.! made for Mr. Goodrich a name as a writer second only to that of IrvingTwo weeks ago Mr. Thomas Goodrich, an old and honored citizen of this county, called at the Democrat office and requested us to publish a ‘•ommmiieation which he broughtwith him, and which we vcrv kindlv• •consented to do. On examination of the manuscript wc found it to he miserably written, badly spelled, in fact uttcrlv unintelligible. The editors* wwhose every moment was occupied, gave their valuable time in a fruitless effort to decipher it. It was finally handed in to the compositors, thinking that they might be able to extractsomething intelligible from .it, but they soon wilted and handed it back into the editorial room as beyond their powers of comprehension. Having promised Mr. Goodrich that the article should be published, we bad 110 other alternative than to return his manuscript with the request that it be re-written and put into some kind of decent shape for the compositors, in which event we would gladly publish it. This request on our part was promptly complied with, and 111 a few days Mr. Goodrich again made his appearance 111 this office with what purported to he a corrected and revised lt;*opy of the original manuscript. Thisecond edition was hung on1 he hook, and the editors thought that tliev had finally struck an interesting article for our readers. Investigation proved, however, that the second edition was, to say the least, little improvement on the first. Piece again we were confronted in theand Sir Walter Scott. But alas! thereturning mail brought us the sorrowful intelligence that Mr. Goodrich cared not to have his name inscribedon the walls whereon' glittered the\* *names of the great writers of the past, as will be seen by the letter subjoined. The article was made to appear in both Daily and Weekly, and was f given editorial position in both papers.In order to do this we were compelled*to crowd out valuable editorial and..paid matter in order to please our friend.All of this labor 011 our part, andour earnest desire to please the writerseems to have been of no avail. Butthis is the way of the world, the morekindness von show some men, the♦ .more you do for them, the more ungrateful they become, and here we have an illustration of the sentiment expressed above. Last evening we received a letter from Mr. Goodrich, in which he states that he is vcrv an-Vgrv with us for the manner in which we have treated him, as detailed above. He requests that his last letter be published, which request wc very cheerfully comply with. He also complains of us for not publishing hisfirst communication exactly as written. Being still desirous of pleasing the old gentlemen and setting him right before the public, we cheerfully give space below to both of his communications, and we feel confident that our readers will acquit us of all blame, and Mr. Goodrich himself will17 all in gunshot and dident kill non for we coldent have any bodily to give them two but a few vears later if he had bin trailed to shotting a rifle gon like my self he cold have told a dif-fernt tale for i have kild 4 large dowsFreeport. April 14.1881.—Rev. Gall a ban was taken sick just in the middle of his meeting and had to go home. The outlook when he left was favorable.. —Mr. and Mrs. Frank Millerin less than two mits that didentlye launched theft* bark out in the world40 feet a part as fat as mutton and for themselves last Friday. May theyhave kild 4 prong bocks at one shot live a long* and happy live together.tha was 20 long steps a part i did contract all that i coed kill for one month to old doctor smith at 20 cents, a pare for horns and sadle and he goit the first weake i took 12 pare to him anddident hunt half the time have kild.4 turkys at one shot this deer killing is like cvry thing else monmust no his biiisncss i willI till my nimrods how this is done ifyou will carry musk a deer will neversmell you no differns how the windsblows I have thought the deer didntlive that I couldnt kill in a snow firsttake a red cap and ride first one sideand then cross over and dont ride twoclose the trale and if there wont letyou git in gun shot poot one a redflanelshurt aud it you underd standvour bus ness all will be rite in a short—James A. Wadiev, salesmen, for a Cincinnati house, was here last Saturday and sold Alex. Mcllis a large amount of dry goods and notions.—Dr. Garter is moving his tilingsa vT*to his farm as rapidly as possible and lie will probably have finished before this is published. It is to he hopedthat he will return occasionally to see us.—Alex. Mellis and George Justus went to Indianapolis last Thursday, where the former purchased a new wheat burr for his mill and a large stock of groceries, among which were five barrels of sugar.—A drummer from McKee Branham’s. wholesale dealers in boots ands.shoes, of Indianapolis, was here oneWasliudclphIn tof theurine and st marb! fringetime but vou musnt croud two close 'day bast week and drove entire!}two soon and watch far the ledcr and take him first and make yoor shots tell I have kill all and neve inooved out of my tracks and hav thought the deer didnt live tha I coldent. kill this way took rather strange to some thes days now fur cornmensing hous keep-iue tha old womon had to strip the children after knight and put them tobed to wash thare cloaths when i look►back one the old times and think of. .the friend ship and all likk somencyrowfuorbs, s*are falt;much floatin blue tfor an aubur youth, cr in f the slitsimple its sim folded She hfsonal 1dentlycombalargeWasliiimpea*when ’ate gfChasequeen.pie vements..Iwas 111suit, a*convc\orv,exonerate us after reading the letters ! brothers if a man had any tfiing to catneighbor had a shear of it%gueritcin question. The following is a copymidst of editorial labor with a speci- | verbatim et literatim of the first common ofpenrnanship as hard to decipher j munication sent in, and also a copy ofas the hieroglyphics on a tca-box. The writer having 110 regard whatever for periods or pauses, but 011 the other hand being entirely oblivious to stops, and having a heroic admiration forbad grammar, indefinite ideas, disjointed sentences and an orthography that was fearful and wondrful.This alleged copy was also turned over to the compositors in the hope that they could interpret it, but after' struggling with it for a while, the foreman made bis appearance in the editorial room and remarked that if that manuscript had to be published it would prevent that issue of the paper coming out until late that night, as the time necessary to decipher it would cause the delay above stated. But wc bad promised to publish his article and we felt inclined to abide by our agreement and to undergo any reasonable hardship to please him.his letter complaining of the non-publication of the same according tocopy:to the editor of the Democrat wold like to bother yoor patients i come to Shelby County in 1821 hove kild the deer bar woolf and the catamount and chopt the wood to burn the brick for the first coortliouse at 20 cents per cord and ralph Colscott paid me for the same i am the chap that carrved Tlios ray for ant Tabv Ray his mother from the forks of the 2 blew risers to the farm of Samlel montgomery now licvcs 50 years a gow recollect well of the barbacue the 4th of July 1S22 all a bout, the big snake that Jeff Wilson rote a bout that his hide held half bushel of corn this old lady that whet the knives by using one to whet thelt; cc commons with 1 skillet 1 oven 1 teecitle 1 bed stid maid out of 3 walnut rails no safe no burau 110 eubbord 1 sow 1 cow 1 horse that cost 20 dollars and when wc went to gran paps 2 of us and 2 childern had to ride one 1 hers sometimes staid at home for 0 weeks thiswas 45 a gow have had 10 children.raised 0—6 bys and 3 girls never had a hand bv the month out side of the family and blit vcrry litle girl liicr and have to brag of my neeghhourslarge cthe leathe tn rested guishc had e where The w ancc wcd heishe w When papers the Sei Senatohave all was had good ones neverother was mv gran mother she wasa sister to the whetzds fatnlv martinwlewis and Jacob she cold use the riflewanted help but got all that ncdd have alhvaws tried to dew rite and mind my one busncss and have never $ook the advantage of any one if any man will sav troothfnllv that I ronged him out of a dollar I will give him two Thomas Goodrich.the galWe knew that the subject concerning gun cqal to any man the first year in which he wrote, was of little interest j 1819 wc lie veil 011 wliit water sheto but'few of our readers, while it would prove a bore to a majority ofj those who read the Democrat, but we were anxious, yes, overly anxious to please Mr. Goodrich by the publication of his matter, but the limited time at our disposal made it impossible to publish it as it was written. One of the editors was detailed for special duty and instructed to decipher the manuscript in question, and if necessary call to his aid all the experts in the city. The editor entered upon his laborious task, and after two solid hours of hard and incessant toil accomplished what he thought a miraculous undertaking. After sweating, worrying and fretting for the timeabove mentioned, he finally succeded in bringing order out of chaos and reducing the mess into some sort of readable shape. Wc congratulatedourselves that we were about to please►our many readers and our esteemed friend, TJncle Tom. An elegant head, entitled Personal Reminiscences, was placed over the article, periods were made to figure in their properplaces, commas and semi-colons fellkild 3 turkv one evning and sad coldAprile 14th 1881w s Ray please save my papers for me till i come to town for i want them f\,r i dont intend that you shall make sport of in that stile and if you will do me Justis you will publish this note say-have kild inoar but coldent carrv them that you tnii cpted env thing thatI will writr of bur at another timeTthat is if you can read my riting as I never rote a line at school in my life this is iny 011c learning now it useless for me to gow over the habits of dress and cut money flesh pulling and a bout the fccmalc making clothing andhow good there helth was after wanes, « » * . •for my old friend Dr robbing has told vou before but his rnemrv is vdrrv♦ »•*,:. t . - • *short in som pcrticklcrs for he said there is as maney coons now a6 then in the year 29 wee lieyed one the gait-wood farm my father and my self went to wharc the James macarty farm now is and caught 11 coons out of 3 trees but gcss far you couldnt tell what tree tha ware in for the tracks was so thick sollomn gcorgc and lewis hendrix caught 18 ot of 3 trees 7 in each of the 2 first and 4 in• - - - • .1 . .3 I have lay in the field and shot 10 in the and the same f way , with sqiiirls I have kild 10021 squirls in one day have kild that nomber twise in my time have carrved 450 scalps to shelbyi rote and that i take it as insult if you liadent publish it why didcut yousay so it wonldent maid any differns my paper is paid for till the IS day of octtober 1881 you can ether publish this or take my name of your book.Thomas Goodrich.all knightmormnginto line and the article stood out like a I in one weckcs hunt the. Dr says thatIt is now' definitely known that a day or two before the inauguration Governor Porter received a dispatch from a intimate friend at Washington, asking if he would accept position if it were tendered him and saying, alsothat a prominent Republican Senatorwho was on intimate terms with- . •President Garfield, had authorized him to ask the question. To thisGovernor Porter responded that he» • * * • .had been elected by a majority of thej. ► • * 1people of Indiana to his present office,and he did not care to resign it even%for a Cabinet pos ition, and must, therefore, decline the offer. It is alsosaid that Senator Ben Harrison rcceiv-• /* *ed a similar offer, arid he, too, declined for the same reason.—IndianapolistrornalLthrough the town before he found the store, then lie had to inquire of Mr.George Miller before he eoukl find it.—The exhibition at East Centre last Saturday night was a grand success in number of audience, as it was*a free thing. The performers, I understand, had to be prompted quite often, and this of course would mar the proceedings very materially. Altogether thcv had a good time.—According to the new election laws will all property on hands on the 1st of April be listed or will it be taken from the 15th, the time when assessors begin their w ork ? Bv an- 1 swering the above you will confer a j lasting favor on the readers of the Democrat here. [1st of April. Eds.Dem. ]—Elbert Tvncrwas circulating among—-us last Saturday. He looked as well as ever and may thank the powers that be that he lias such an accomplished lady as Sigourneyto cheer his pathway. Bv the wav. some smallI ir * * *shot over at Morristown says “Sigourney has gone into the creamery business. This is nothing new to me, as I have known for a long time that she gathers the cream of the news«rand literature at Morristown and leaves the skim milk for the short horns.—The citizens of this place met last Sunday and organized a Sunday-school, with Charles A. Robinson as superintendent; Z. Jones, assistant! Spragu superintendent; Win. Hill, secretary;! justice Horace Pattison, treasurer: Arthur Kinsley and Win. B. Davis, leaders of singing. The time selected for hold-D oing Sunday-school next Sunday was9:30 a. m.Away o’er the father of waters Front the land that 1 love so much;The home of proud sons and fair daughters.Come the beautiful letters from “Hutch.”While low on her bed of deep sorrow . Lies another so learned and fair;Still wishing each day for to-morrow,The lovely, accomplished “Say Gair.”And Just as our hearts were repining,When wo thought we had suffered a loss.Comes a letter so bright and so shining,From invincible, unconquerable “Rosa.”From Waldron, St. Paul, Cynthiana,Manilla, Ray’s Crossing and Femvs,From Fairland and other points many,We hear from onr numerous friends.All hhil fellow slingers of ‘/Plumbum,”Battle on as you have for the right;Help the Bachelor Editor tnmble’im,And your friend he will be in the light.VAnd ivhile you sit around your home Don’t ever think who wrote this “poera.”Brutus.a page after vaccom]gallery deeply out the depart! rum. withou Riston who hn ions nSenatoi heaven cision c have dlt;not wahaughtthrone,whenilatterefSarah C. Sumpter to-day filed acomplaint asking to be divorced fromher husband, Charles W. Sumpter, alleging in her complaint that Charles was convicted at the last term of the« 4Decatur Circuit Court of burglar},and is now serving a term in ther ’ »State’s prison at Jeffersonville.Herald.Ill no more sivcrsal I a year,milliom cu rati vlt; remedy the peo; Pacificand the the pap* ncy-Wo all disci bowels.The IS schoonc it?s the { to clink beer. D make sc currenci
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Shelbyville Daily Evening Democrat
Shelbyville, Indiana, US
Sat, Apr 16, 1881
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