The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1869-02-15


Always caicalate8 GA ground -hog's
aay As ? certain gu de- 10 60 BY. At
any rate. / am pushing MY Spring
works. fast rs possible. expecting 10
open ,he garden So thrEe weeks.
TEaRG HAUIE B0FTnR. = Tdey
must have stylish kind Of 5utteE
makers in the Y.oinil eff Terre EIaule.
One OF the edieegs of that city thus
tentl2tos his buttar womaB
4 The women WOO made the butter
which VIC boua h last week is re-
specttnlE Zee rested 90 exercise more
Judgment 81 prJaortlonIsg the 1ngre-
dents. The issE eaten 3 Id 700 much
hair ia for butter, and not quite
enough foE L waterfall There "a no
sense in making yourself 0sl1 headed
Il butter IS 80 cents q pound.
MEETrgG 10 1fEMoRIALIzE.-The
heavy rain on Saturday, evening" de-
tered manz f.om ohding ths maat-
ing at the Court House. which had
beoa called ostepsibly to take steps 10
memoTia,izs the egislat Uge to reduce
the salaries ana fees Of tsia county
oiIicsrs, and is aas near eight O'clock
before q respectable number was press
ent ana tic meeting vss- called 0
order. After q eoBsuttat on between
Major a. j. s3.ns3a anJs39an 4.
Hancg. Ito is.ter EeHtlemap moved
that john s Elop ans. ESQ & ks the
chair, which mction prevailed Nr.
Hopkins, Oh tbiag tho clsir, fudad
to- the object q Che meetiae, which,
he said. wa probably better kB7Ea to
al present than o h.mselr, IS he had
NOS designed Q take aoy part i IL.
he understood t4e obj o5 70 BE to
petition the Lsei .aturs 70 eq1alize
the salaries eli oolnty vlisers, some
being deemed toe high and some too
low. After tie Appointment Of The
reporters of the papsr present as
Secretaries, Major R3b:uson Was
called out, and proceeded ia l0ug
and manifastiy carefully prepared.
and carefully worded speech, raialy
detail ng certain abuses which be
all has crspt into The drs;es Of
appcopriatias he funds Of the County
Treasury. lI8 quoted figures % show
tie aAo4 IF fees and extra
ai oEaacs tha let3 oalay Clerk,
ii j5r llynes, former Treasurer.
Col. J5hl haiaeiaader, ard the pres
eat AU1iol Victor Bisoh. t@d T5-
eeive3 1a.i9g sheir terra O. ofice. 81
juripg the las dfeyears. His speech
vas yery mach ia the style Of pros
eeasin5 al oraey, Or iced attorney,
stating his c1ae before jury, ard
many parts 81 81 were received with
warm applause ~ cersain por,jo Us Of
the audience, Whioa. il not very large
I'D FIRST, WIS eu'aenely select We
have nos tine OF spase 70 give tho
speeches "a full.
Rhinelander had. during his TO
years Of Office, received aboUt %a 80,
Of which -, 234 we're. extras.
Hynes' gal4r salary as Couaty
Clerk has bs48.aboas $4,000, and he
had received so ezsra for copy
Ing Oh recess u py o. Nllch are
not worth the saae q your finger.
Victor Bl-c4 da..ng the last Eve
years, ne said. had l4reived from the
peoples moaoy oyer II ,020. aerhaps
s45. 900, a lasgs aalouu beius extra.
4he Mayor isU as.uaca 70 B.sch IS
management 81 the Soldiers Re
lief Fund ana the 6eanty fund.
His peculiar style OF putting rllDss
conveyed more meaaiDg, perAsps,
than his words.
at the close os the Mayors peeeh,
Major Hynes arose 10 reply, bat
had not proceeded far before ne was
interrupted ty q p epo5iion to ap-
poiat d committee % draft resolu-
tons.
This gave rise to.a discussion that
BECAME pretty sharp, ana was parsici-
pated il by Col Bu terfeld, Col Ba-
ohanan, Robert A Hill, Hlran L.
Read aud Capt. IL. G Gaodlng. all ce
whom seemed to sgeae thag vas
novel me bod d ryiag ca to ia
sist that II 10y aeula retire, after
hearing ehs a oqrts statement of the
prosecute attorney. and before any
evidences lad bsen submitted f.r 5he
defense. 4 aumber OK distin-
guished" citizens Insisted that the
eomnlttee should be appo-nted 81
once Ate lengthy aad animated