M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1857-12-10

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the first to respond to our call.
Five Hundred Dollars Reward!
We are authorized to offer reward
ofFive Hundred Dollars, and to say
thatgood security will be given for
the payment ofthe same, if required
to any one WIN will prove the charges
and insinuations made in the Nc
Arthur Journal of Dec. Sd, 1857,
over the signature of B. F. Johnson,
against Judge Hewitt to be true in fact.
The testimony in relation to said char
ges to be taken in Macarthur, and at
least ten days notice to be given
ofthe time and place of taking said
testimony, and also the name or
names Of the witnesses to be examin-
cd. The truth Of each separate and
distinct charge to be proven by the
testimony of at least two witnesses
whose character for truth and veraci-
ty cannot be impeached by at least
three credible witnesses, and in all
cases where the nature of the charge
is such that record evidence would
be the best and be required by a
Court of Record, that kind of evidence
tobe required.
We are also authorized to say that
it is not true as charged in said COM
munication that Judge Hewitt as Ad-
ministrator of his brother-in- laws es-
tate has been guilty of any fraud or
mis-management by which the heirs
or creditors lost single dollar. The
Inventory of said estate, the report of
the Master Commissioner and records
Of the Court of Common Pleas of
Athens county, together with receipts
and vouchers in his possession, will
show that he sustained an individual
loss in the settlement of said estate,
by being bound rs security and by
paying creditors more than their dis
tributiVe shares, of over one thousand
dollars. 1t is not true that he changed
his politics on or near the time of his
removal to Hooking county. 1t is
we'll known IN Athens county that he
canvassed that county for James X.
Polk in 1914, and that he has never
acted with the Wing party since 1910.
1t is not true that he LETT Hooking
county for the West in any other tha
an honorable and public manner, first
having settled with and paid every
man with whom he had any dealings
in the county.
1t is not true that Judge Hewitt ev-
or paid a debt that he owed to a far
lner, mechanic or laborer of any kind
at q discount, or for less than dollar
for dollar. 1t is also untrue that he
ever paid debt to any one at dis
count or for less than the amount, ex,
cept such as grew out of or were con-
nected with partnership transaction
in which Others were jointly liable
with him.
1t is not true that Judge Hewitt ev-
er directly or indirectly purchased of
IS sister her dover estate or made to
her any promises which have not been
literally fulfilled, as she herself will
testify, and no record OF a deed, lease,
or contract verbal or written can be
produced or proven.
1t is useless to spend time to emu.
merate or specify. The whole matter
contained in the article is base and
malicious libel, was concocted and
gotten up by the grand council in a
Know Nothing Lodge and by men who
onght to be ashamed to interfere and
attempt to stab man in the dark.
The power behind Ben johnson is
greater than Ben johnson himself,
who is simply supple tool in their
hands-a sort of cover, from behind
which they may safely blacken the
character of good citizon and a
prominent Democrat. We think that
Johnson, after having been proven to
be q liar, is expecting a little too much
from the credulity of the people, when
be asks them to believe anything fur