The Trinity times., 1855-09-01
} Excessively Conscientious officer
and Highly Honorable Gentleman.

Excessively COnsclenLlOuS UuceT
and Highly Honorable Gentleman.
Our remarks in regard TO the Board Of
Supervisors have had the effect to call out
a rcply-no, not reply, but TRADE Of per
sonal abuse upon the assistant editor Of the
Trinity T,mes-from an individual by
honor Of belonging TO that very intelligent
Board.
lie does not attempt TO make any excuse |
for the misconduct Of the Supervisors, but
merely states certain falsehoods which he |
has concoctcd out Of his own brain, assisted
probably by the fertile imagination Of rome
individual having an equal regard for the
truth with himself, which he asserts as the
reasons for our censure Of the proceedings
Of the Board. He says: Between him
(the cdtor Of the Times) and the Board Of
Supervisors the difference il in the matter
Of dollars and csnts-whether or no the
aforesaid ID tor should feast upon Treasury
pap without value received therefor. This
il the point. and he dare not deny my allie
cations" Now, the aforesaid editor" not
only denies these allegations" but ven
that they were false at the time he made
thcm.
As regards his item number one'--thc
refusal of the Board to allow q bill for
printing ordered by the County Auditor
we would say that we told this same fellow
Best, that we did not expect that the Board
would allow il. and that il was a matter Of
narl.ct Indifference to us whether they did
70 or not. We found no fault with thom for
not allowing il. nor have We thought Of the
matter since, until brought to our notice by
this fellows published letter.
Asregards " item number two"-the as
sertion that we were angry because the
Board did not appoint the assistant editor of
the Times County Physician" which
would allow him to pocket 5000 or $500
per month Of the public funds, without due
services rendered we would say that this
fellow Best must haze knOWa that he was
publishing falsehood when he made such
Supervisors assisted in fixing the amount
Of the Indigent Sick Tax for this county at
the very liberal amount Of fire cents on the
Luitl,ed doiiays, which amounts according
to the Assessor books to the enormous
sum of three hundrcd and fee doHars and
Mirty.Seren cents PER YEAR. Out Of this
is to he paid all the expenses of the indi-
gent sick of Trinity County for the next
ycar-how can County Physician, under
ruch circumstances, have an opportunity to
"pocket $500 or $500 PER MONTH of the
ssr,r-.,s---s iivs practising ply
sicianin Trinity County thas does not give
away to the INDECENT sick in actual money
exclusive OF services and medicinc-more,
every year than the whole INDECENT sick
fund amounts to.
us
that We are indignant because " the Super
visors transferred their advertising business
to the Democrat, which would do it at
cheaper and iairer rates to the county. -
This IL williul aud deliberate falschood
for We repeatedly told the Board, and this
fellow Best Individually that we would do
the county printing for nothing if they
would give il to us.
This is his " last item" and then the ar
ticlc winds up with a string of personal
abuse upon the editor of this paper, who has
extended more favors, as an editor TO this
same Best than to any other man in Trinity
County. But we have wasted too much
space upon 80 contemplate an object We
should have taken no notice of the fellow
if he had not signed his name to his (?)
published letter us Zone of the Board OF
Supervisors"