Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1866-03-07

Teorge Kline Dem was charged
goo toll, and Harry Stackpolc rep
olo9- / have since learned that | was
IN error in part, inasmuch as hat Kline
was charged 500 without the mail
and Stackpole S185 with the mail |
am glad that | am able to say this much
IN behalf of our erring brethren in
thus repenting in part for past sins in
/ this bridge iniquity, and only wish
they would give me a chance to say
ten times as much tor them in this con.
nection. | would gladly proclaim to
the country that they had come to
their proper senses. But why still
charge Stackpole rep } $50 more than
Kline (Dem.) Does the weight Of the
mail bag take $50 worth of wear and
tear out of the bridge?
McFeytown, March 1st. JUsT1cE
Chor5rs Br"toa, Esq, ami others, Dircc-
tors o/ tic N:ta~aaa Bridye Company.
GENTLEMEN In reply to your artl-
Gle iii last weeks Gazette, calling on
the editors for the name of the author
Of The several communications which
appeared III that paper signed Justice,
l thus publicly avow myself to be the
author of the articles referred to.
| have charged the Dulls and the
Rosses with having themselves elected
bridge directors year after year in reg
ular succession. | have charged y0u
in your official capacity with making
unjust Determinations in favor of dem
Ocrats and against republicans in the
assessment Of tolls; with refusing to
give the bridge by contract to Stack
pole for Il fraction of the year, assign
ing as Il reason that ihe directors had
resolved not to give il t. any person
by contract for the balance Ofthe year
when no such resolutions had been
passed by the board; whereas, about
the same time, or short time before.
you did contract with Isaac Walls
for himself and family, giving them
privilege Of crossing The bridge the
balance of the year at 90 cents |
charged you with closing the toll gate
on Stackpole and compelling him to
either carry the mail through the
bridge on foot, or through the river on
horseback. as the only alternative to
escape paying 10 cents toll every round
trip, when at the same time you sui
tered Kline (Dem.) to pass over the
bridge with his two-horsp bus at ) ~tS.
u trip. | have charged YOU with sue
ing Stackpoie for toll at 10 cents trip
| called on you time and again 10 come
out like men and deny these CHARGES if
not true. At length You appear and
demand the name If the Author, and
in summary manner dispose OF every
charge by saying that the ''whoIe is Il
tissue Of talschOods," without Offering
q scrap OF evidence to prove them un-
Il ur; but hear what Stackpole says.
Very respectfully.
a. ROTHROCK.
McE eytown, March lst, 1866
| certify that when | commenced carving
the mail in October | <naQe app!icatI II tn tie
Directors # the Bridge company nf tins place
IN get the bridge hv the year as others bad gat
it, and was told by Gen Russ that could / OF
get it for The balance of the year, Sa1if. Ih,.v
had passed resolution not to do; 80 that /
must ray hy the trip then paid by the
trip for several days, when | saw Charles
Bratton. President of tle company. an.
piled T. him for redress He gave directions
10 tie toll sathfFrr TO let me pass the lridge
for - cents q day until the next meeting of
the directors. On the evening before the
meeting uf the directors, the toll catherer
came - me and told me that Casper Duil and
Daniel Dull tod Der 10 collect full toll II me
They tthe drecturr) held a mrelirg III ] dec
ded ihat | must pav 40 cents Il tIip the t,.i
ance # the gear | refused TO do tits: pass
Ing through the gate few days after the
bridge meeting vas held when the gate was
locked on me then paid toll for my as<s /
ant who carried the mail t. the depot uu foot ,
aud | returned with my team.
After that | carried the mail through the /
river on horseback sometimes, and again on
foot through the bridge
At the beginning Of the present year ap
piled again for the bridge by the year and |
was told that my toll for carrying the mail /
and passengers was assessed at SlS5. Inow /
carry the mail over the bridge on foot and /
pay hy the "Trip | GO. Abour the tim the |
gate was closed on ne was sued for the toll |.
as can be seen by my appeal from the Judge /
ment, and now on file in county docket at
Lewist"wn. f. II. II STACkPOLE
sworn and subscribed this "a day of March, /
a. d. 1866, before me. c. BECK, j. P. /
CANCER CAN BE CURED