Rensselaer Union, Volume 3, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 March 1871 — A Government Official Attacked with a Bad Spell [ARTICLE]

A Government Official Attacked with a Bad Spell

Tho readers of the Union will pcrhnps remember that we had.occasion, in onr issue of Fohrunry Oth, to notice tho negligence and inefficiency of the Postmaster at San Pierre, Starke county, in a courteous and friendly manner. Well this person, (who is represented to us as a chuckle-headed, Monsy-fac-j ed, blustering, sandy-complciioned • individual w ho keep* a dicker shop in connection with the postoffice, pettifog* before justice* of the peace, makes prnyers if religions revivals remarkable for their length and loudnea,", and nt times exhorts in mectin' viry much to the amusement of the young and mirthful portion ol the congregation), seems to have got angry at our neighborly suggestions and gives vent to his wrath in a profane, obscene, Easily tieal lcttir, which looks ns if it had been written with a section of a haz’.e sprout whittled down to a point and dipped in a homo made dye of soft maple bark. We introduce a copy of the letter, verbatim et literatim and as nearly sac simile as types can produce it. The oigiual u e shall preserve lor the inspection of all w ho inay be curious to see this unique specimen of chirography. Here is the letter: Hannierr Ind lYbuary 17 71 To the r.ditor of tjic renselear Union you in signiflleant god dis Jjoneing hell deserving mean I.olil't ruskel wliy do you dure to pub lish bueli out ragious lyes I want you to take Peek those infcrncl lyes if ever thare won one of your lousy sheets reiuai hd in the ofik-e two weeks it wo# becatss the person did not think atiuuf of it. to take out I Enclose tho lye & want _ yon to swnlow ~~it if It Pukes you if i See euy more I will god.iwn to renselear A. draw tho dog water out of you your filthy .Sheet is not worthy of room In eny ottlce you speak of a liter laying oniuy offlee for six nionthes I have to say tliut.s a ly & 1 licleivo you made It now dry your insult- . J Mulvain w~ T~M

At the risk of throw big our irrascible neighbor into another *‘Jbftd spell,” we shall suggest to lam that he is a servant, not master, of the public and is appointed by the Government to deliver postal matter to those for whom it was intended without detaining it to ascertain if it is “worthy of room in eny office.” 2d. One of our patrons wrote to us a letter (which we have on tile), stating that he had failed to recicve the Uniox for tlirce consecutive ■weeks, although Ira had sent, or called in person, for it at the San Pierre office. We know hi* name was p'.aiuly written on bis paper; that it was placed in a package with others, plainly directed to Sail Pierre and each time saw the package put into the mail bag in the Rensselaer postoffice.

3d. A few days after receiving complaint by letter, another of our patrons who receives his mail through the same office made a similar complaint, and in addition said that a letter written and postmarked at Indianapolis in May, 1870, was not recieved until the last of January, 1871. 4th. Other parties have reported that ‘\J. Mul vain, P. M.,” neglects Lis postoffice in a very repre'neiisiolc manner, and permits his children and perhaps Giber unauthorized persons to rummage the mails, to the annoyance of individuals and the detriment of the public good. sth. There are two of us, between the ages of 29 and 33 years able-bodied aud active men, weighing jointly 365 pounds, and we advise him not to “godorvn to rensdear” aud attempt his hydrostatic experiment, because he will return home on a feather-bed, done up in a greased rag, with a sensation. of having been run through a steam threshing machine with a can of nitro-glycerine, for we are “on it” as sure as he isn't fit to keep a post office. Delphi enjoyed a sjil 7,000 fire on the night of the 21st. Newton county has trippled in population in ten years. Winamac husbands choke their wives for a regular “innoeent amusement:” *" Mr. Kent has donated six acres of land adjoining Kentland for cemetery purposes. The Roman Catholics attend church better than any other r.eligous people at Plymouth. The Winamac Democrat thinks “people who own stock and fail to provide proper shelter for them in winter ought to be indicted for ( cruelty to snunais.”