Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1866-04-18

and it took all the proceeds of the office
to keep his family and that he had no
money left. By our article the halt OF
the profits for that time we're mine. tie
brought his books to my Office and fur
pished the following statement Of the bu-
siness for one year and nine months:
Cash receipts for lS64.........sl2S9,O5
year lS65...... l202.53
Amount on books....-......... 1313.0O
3804,4S
Expenses for 1868 1SG5..... 1855
Nett profits. 2OG5.53
Each lU0Z,!
This was his own statement, which |
know did not include all the actual ro.
eelpts Of the Office. 1t, however, shows
Mr.. Guss had received s2+91,4 IS, leaving
a balance of cash in his pocket of $751;
So when we settled, one,half of which
(s376,26) was mine. Does he tell this
in his sworn statement? Does he say he
paid me the half of the cash and the half
on the books? He never mentions it
A witness p e%sjers himselfif he don'ttell
the whole truth. BY the same statement
he acknowledged to have collected slG2,-
SO in advance of the time when he last
sold TO me. l bought him out By article
of agreement, and the following was our
settlement, as the papers show:
The price fixed was.................S75o,O 90
lie owed me borrowed money Sept
Money advanced by me and which
he agreed TO pay-.".-.-----."o.op
Rental for my interest ! 7 year--.9I,50
Ca.a paid hia. as per article Oct.
Ii, 1860. $4,000
-75C,0 90
In addition l released to him my inter-
est in the money in his pocket and IN the
books or in other words, | gave Mr..
Guss my share of the profits, which were
S1032,76, AMI | only charged him for the
use of my money and the loss in the value
of the material for that time S97 80, very
little more tban simple interest. Any
Ierson knows the wear and tear of the
materia! in a newspaper Office is not less
than 90 per cent. every year, paid him
what he paid at first fof the office, and |
gave him all the profits. In addition |
agreed Id the article to give him three
months to pay NE back the sl62,36 cash
then in his pocket, collected in advance
Ev him. aud | claim he owes me much
mole than which he has collected in ad
vance. | did This at his urgent request,
as he said he must have the SGU0, 90 TO
make up his payment on the CasSville
property, aud that if | you'd let him
have this money three moaths it would
help him very much and be a great favor.
He dare not deny it. as the article and
our settlement show this fact, and yet he
swears he only got S600,00 for his half
Had kept back Gas had right to do)
the slG2 &c he would not have got s600,00
but S437,Gi. When | leased to Captain
Wilson. | paid him this money and waited
on Guss. wanted to help Guss, and let
him have the use OF this mouey for three
months, and when they expired he cody
refused to pay me aud | sued him, and
that matter is now before the court.
| submit this statement of the whole
transaction to the public, and challenge
Mr.. GIss to deny it, Get are these facts
not widely different from his oath The
public must judge of the truth of the
oath he makes. Do partners in business
often deal as literally in dividing profits,
as | did with Mr.. Guss? and why
should he complain l never tried to
%iujure him, but was trying to keep him
from ipjuring himself, and if his oath
does not effect his conscience, | must cou-
graduate him. Mr.. Guss complains OF
my interference in the paper. Well, |
have had more experience in newspapers
than Mr.. Guss, and as | was an equal
partner, | considered | lad a right to
oue.half the control, and the only mis-.
take | made was in yielding as often
to Mr.. Guss as | did for the sake of peace,
| often demonstrated against his constant
abuse Of persons aud his impruaeut course
in conducting the paper, which always
displeased him. He is in his dealings
and intercourse very much Ike the twelfth
~juryman, who said the other eleven we're
the ~confrariest set of fools he ever saw
lie would often insist that, notwithstand'
ing he only owned the half, he must con-
troll i. all, and as l generally try to man
aye my own business, we could not agree