Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 April 1885 — Noah Brashears. [ARTICLE]

Noah Brashears.

Noah Brashears, a schoolmaster at Washington during the John Quincy Adams administration, created a deal of sport ode winter by contributing a series of papers to a flash paper known as the True Blue. They purported to be from “Jo Splitlog, of Washington, to Bill Bumpkin, away down in Chickamuxen,” giving an amusing account, in the style of a later day of Doepticks and the late Artemus Ward, of the gossip and scan, mag- of the metropolis at that date. These letters purported to be written at the “Goose Tavern,” a well-known hostlery, formerly known as the “Swan,” at the corner of Seventh and E streets, kept for a number of years by Mr. Hendey, a popular Soniface of the time. He also published a small volume of poems, in which he facetiously lampooned a number of wellknown characters of the day.— Ben : Perley Poore, in the Boston Budget. There is said to be no profanity in Japan. This makes it clear that old John Robinson’s circus has not yet struck that empire.