HAMILTON.—June 17.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume III, Issue 172, 21 June 1872, Page 8

HAMILTON.—June 17.

(To the Editor of the Mount Ida Chronicle.) Sir,—ln looking over your issue of last week, I noticed a letter signed " Trophonius." Having never heard the word beforej and not knowing what it meant, I had recourse to the letter itself, when I soon found it was only another term for the three Tooleystreet tailors, Who were just as much the people of England as our " three" are the people of Hamilton. 1 wonder if they feel proud of their representatives. I hope they do. They (" Trophonius ") seem to feel very sore at the remarks 1 made about the dog poisoning. Still, the thing was done, and the people of Hamilton—"the three tailors*' excepted—have already endorsed all I said. But mind, I never said - they poisoned the dog— tio, I did not even think so until I read their letter. Of course they do not confers it right out, though they say enough to divert suspicion from others, which is very generous of them—a quality they have riot previously had- much credit for here. I can well believe them when they say the dog was not killed through any malice they bore Mrs: Barber, but that they had a down on him. Ttie reason of this was that he haa persisted in not biting them, thereby depriving them of the smiles of his owner, which was their only chance of ever proving its curative properties. Indeed, it has just, been whispered to me that more than one of them would have suffered himself to behalf worried to have enjoyed that favor. This partly accounts for their assertion that it was done through friendship. Friendship certainly exhibits itself in curious ways sometimes. I have heard of one Irishman knocking down another for friendship, but never knew it to take the form of dog poisoning before—but they cannot even plead being Irishmen, for surely the coantry r thisft"w6iijfld' : not' give "a home to the serpent and toad could never produce creatures more venomous than the one and more loathesome than the other.

Queer people we inustbe on Ilaimlton—that is, as rep reseated by the " three " —going into fits at my censuring a cowardly dog-poisoner, and, at the same time, holding Mrs. Barber in aueh high esteem, knowing that she mad# the Hospital a cloak to h#r own private interests. Not a very bright picture of us that; is it, Mr. Editor?

When they see her battling so energetically for the position she occupies, it is a pity they conld not leave her to fight, her own lonely battle, and refrained from making that cowardly assertion. " Trophonius " gave a pretty Yankee quotation com paring the talents of the musicians to a lamb's tail, <fce. T once saw it quoted before to .ridicule'its writer* I wonder they never noticed that- before. There is surely a ' smatch" of jealousy about it ? You may as well be informed that there are more musicians than one on Hamilton. How Mr. Baile? will smile

when be rea^l how, my little = notice qf Jus abilities! lias roused tlieir I do not ktiow a Bar in music from a ball of wax. Onlj a few riigtits a<>o I was in the street, and heard 'what I thought was another dog suffering from the effects of poison, but which I was told was only one of our " three " practising for the benefit on a large scale which they speak of. Of course I went: up to satisfy myself, and there they were sure enough, one tormenting the old machine as usual, and the other two sitting like mutes rat an old maid's funeral, wrapt in admiration, I did not see anything to admire much ; indeed I began to feel twangs of tooth-\ ache, and left, and wasn't fool enough to go back. ' I have since been told Mr. Brem tier ; was forced to break up his large pig-feeding establishment, which was in the neighborhood, as he well knew that no pigs could live, much less fatten. So you will that, what- with their praise, and their blame, and their noise, the people here have much to bear. They are a long-sufferiug people, in all conscience ; still they will hardly stand the " three " as representatives. They will certainly riot do for your humble servaint.—l am, &c., HAMILTONTAI*.