Maumee City express. [volume] (Maumee City, Ohio) 1838-184?, 1839-11-23
MAUMEE CITY EXPRESS.
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER, 2, 1889.


OUR COUNTY AUDiToR.--We hasten to
redeema promise, made previously to the
late election, of attending a little to the
concerns of our County Auditor; and lest
that gentleman or his friends may be dispo :
sed to complain of the length of time which
he has been neglected, we will render as
our excuse, severe fit of sickness from
which we are now recovering. It would
have been gratifying, on many accounts, to
have discussed his merits previous to the
election, but as the delay has developed
some new and strong points in his adminis-
tration, perhaps, on the whole, it has been
fortunate.
1t is well known, that at the commence
ment ofthe present financial year, this coun-
ty was in debt thousand dollars. This
debt, in the form of county orders, was dis
tributed in small sums throughout the coun-
ty--it occasioned no distress, because none
but spectators were holders of large sums
and being receivable for taxes, and gen.
orally taken by the merchants, for goods, at
small discount, nobody suffered, no one
was dissatisfied. Inone or two years thou
sands of acres ofland in the county would
have become taxable, and this debt could
have been gradually paid and never felt, by
the people. Such would have been the
course of good financier and an honest
man, and such was the mode pointed out
by the opinions ofnlne tenths of the people
ofthe county. But this is not according to
hesystem of Mr.. Lounsbury. The coun-
ty debt must be paid, and the orders called
in, and to effect this tax oftwo dollars and
fifty cents upon every hundred dollars worth
of taxable property in the county IS laid-a
tax as unprecedented IN Its amount, as 1t is
oppressive in its collection and dishonest
in its origin. Is our County Auditor spe-
culator in county orders? We know not
if we except the evidence of HIS acts, and
his declaration in our hearing, that he was
the holder of a large amount of those Insu-
RANGES. Let him answer for himself; but
in the mean time, let the Indignation of an
abused, and insulted, deceived people lie
thick and heavy on his head.
But this is not all. The law regulating
the transfers ofdeeds is perfect dead let
ter under the admistration Of our Auditor.
The taxes of land whose titles have passed
years agone are still, year after year char.
ged to the original proprietors, and were
we to Judge from the results, we should be
led to suppose that the books of the Audi
tors office were perfect mass of confusion,
from beginning to end. Not that the Au-
ditor does rot charge enough for the trans
fer of deeds for he has been in the habit of
charging double the price allowed by law.
These, however are small matters. Look
at the Delinquent List of this year, as pub
lished in the Toledo Blade, and see Chaos
lot loose. Disorder reigns peerless and
alone over its pages, and errors, palpable as
the sun stare at each other and wonder at
their own discrepancy. Instances are COM
mon where pieces of property Waived in the
assessment at the same,are taxed widely diff
tI,a to,, of bo
largest, sometimes that of 1889. Errors Of
computation occur, on every side, and a
general outrage of all the rules of arithme-
tic, is the strongest characteristic ofthis do
cument.
People ofLucas county! Such is the man
you have chosen for your County Auditor.
Faithful to his trust he has sacrificed you to
his own interest: incompetent: to discharge
the duties of his office, he has involved your
records in doubt and error-you are hum
bugged, decidedly humbugged.
TRRRIBLE.-Passing up along the line Of
the canal few days since, we encountered
sight, that for the time, awakened all our
feelings of horror, and caused each particu.
lar hair of our whiskers to stand on end, as
five he'd been using beeswax and mutton
tallow on them for month. A poor IRISH
man, who lind undoubtedly seen higher
times, was lying PROSTATE on the gronnd,
having, in fit of desperation, true to his
Milesian blood, run himself through with
a pint of ofwhiskey, with the effect of which
he was dead--drunk! Poor fellow! His
eyes looked dull as the eye of Cleopatra s
needle--no more speculation in them than
there is in the year one thousand eight hun
dred and thirty-nine; and from certain
signs about his mouth, we haveano doubt,
the verdict would be spe,O-aside.'*
The Picayune offers reward to any one
who will find rhyme for silver Several
Of Our contemporaries have tried, and SO we
will:
The Pic, to make his spicy page,
From country sheets does piLer;
And thus, while we, poor Devils! starve,
He pockets all the silver.
ndnow, please forward on the dust;
We cannot take a bin, for
The banks have stop'd, their vaults are locku,