Judge — January 16, 1886 — page 5: what you’re looking at

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A FAMOUS CONTROVERSY. Mr. Jones and His Relations with the Un- contaminated Press. The facts in the case appear to have been these. The Morning Post pr The ott «d this iten Jones, w estibon Cayuga Lake, he fell over: wenta long distiunce under the water before iteccurred to him tht it might be well When he reached the sur ing, as is his wont, he boat-hook, 1 im to return patting: and was hauled tou is well known that the Deacon isa ter nec man. We have room merely tosuggest in this awe that the next time Deacon Jones yoes to he hadn't better mix the liquids thereunto appertaining less wit, as wit goes; bul the De <I to such things and was very “TM cowhide the fellow that wrote hes rrily Then he thought a while and sad, ri Ti him with a letter of porary aer him that the just s ny old, or wrote to the miserable eor Tt never oce the street reed to Morning Post was anx he the outraged feel that matter any new, attention has been eal said, in this note to the Morning Argus. 1 scurril ous prt raph in the Past, in whieh Lam rep resented w fallen inte Cayuga Lake, | dl to the kind of hu in by that paper, and feel keenly the inf the accident am not u wc ind enee that E was i ted at the explain, | and in walking the deck of my hands folded at tay back the Ame 1. Linadvertently walked overboard But E did net go below the surface the water I righted myself with celerity moment I discovercd the nature of the tien, and grasping the Wt attached to the Amelie ito her wi very slight exe to the littl hat, sir, is all there is the Morn tion point between that it was not ae arently shown a certain jt turn, “that Deacon fulness of the report in this paper that noinvoluntary bath in Cy much as he must he then righted himself a » the it is w Imit he needs one nerely struck the surfa the w drew himself with We celerity in small boat this for wha and no mer elerity has about him, He and he n get whiskey walks with his 1 old porpe is as help ss in the asa le never touches wate It m that he behind his buck w y be nin a meditative mood 1 prevalent impression that he doesn't know his ee wk a fivedol habits to wh week. We > regarding the habitual habits of this aesthetic old hypo- crite, but he will find that charity lias its lim. its. The Morning Post is never mistaken, and because of the convivial xt delicately erved silen anes that « dists previous to his retu 1 to the nearest shore ailingly, it here and now ¢ not only went * but th he swa una’ ‘on Jones water,’ * Amelia’ and tried, ther to steal some roots | luded last | therefrom, the of of ofc That, of course bees i Mor unreliable pit the that th he em hort We man wink hide same being clearly the property This stin i thers iness has Lo! puition been atopic ony none his mei, and his ¢ is almost as unbounde iner vel: editors of the ed in for the purpose of Morning Argus ing that the but tated, and the pul ning Post was wet only. seurillous Society w had more or less to say about it Morning Post pat in and clinche 1 exel: ly its wre n ve We und unquestionable evidence Jones on the hipat last on th nof his inveluntary dip in Lake— Hehe has repeatedly alluded was not on the Lake at all, but was aged in swapping horses with a man named four miles from the Lake on the h side. at has Liar Jones to sty now 7 may add that the swap was, on Jones's the most disreputable eheat that ev 1 claiming to be a decent citizen was en din, Jones, Heated for a young, clean-limbed, and in every in brief, swapped an old spavi worth its animal, not REMINISCENCES OF 5 way p« ast, and got four dollars and two pigs to boot! What does the public think of that? What thinks the church ? How Je shall this walking falsehood who disgraces the respectable name Jones be permitted to exhibit his unwhi reass to th wise pure and resp It was lavusted. of our honored town ¢ Jones was apparently ex He felt that Morning Post The more he ore he was sorry He had nothing to say he could not compete with the in that kind controvesy nd how, Morning Post Ist There was no asked a correspondent of the does your last compare with we origin y mente” er, but the Morning the following week contained this para- reet ans “We have s misersthl 100 1 ier and hypocrite g shown up his pretensions and laid bare the hypocrisy whieh has enabled him asa leading citizen him to his unre ach, rsomany years, we leave. ations and to the ent public. Henee ‘ pply the whip, his la "and he will long remain whieh the Do sf so mien NEW YEAR The fellow who never knows when he (hic) Miss Flourish ain't re ay—(hie) sues PI beaw eivin my comicbooks.com