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The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1873-06-19

We took charge of the Republican in
June, 1870, and intended to refer in all
that we have said in this matter directly
of ourselves.-Portsmo Republican.
We stated very distinctly that what
Mr.. Wilson told us, was on the Sd day of
September, 1868. Then how in the world
could you apply that to yourself, when
you had nothing to do with the Repubh-
can until nearly two years afterwards.
This is only a dodge, because the pre-
vious week you said:
Every Republican paper in the district
denies that it ever received any such
funds
You intended to make us the Ear,. ia a
question of Veracity between US and Mr..
Wilson, but you got caught yourself. If
you bad desired to be fair and honest, all
you need to have said was, that. you did
not have control of the Republican in
1868, and did not have the books of the
Office, and consequently knew nothing
about the matter.
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1873-06-19

1t will remembered that we mentioned
last winter that there was a case pend
ing in the Supreme Court of Ohio be-
tween certain furnace companies and the
Marietta 81 Cincinnati Railroad, where a
large sum was involved, claimed by the
furnace companies as over charges. On
last Tuesday the case was decided, and
remanded back to the District Court.
1t appears that the decision was against
the Railroad Company. The following is
the syllabus of the decision:
No. %. John Campbell ct al v The
Marietta and Cincinnati Railroad com
pany et al. Appeal Reserved in the
District Court of Scioto county.
McIlvaine, j. Held:
l. A grant of power to railroad COM
pany to locate and construct branches to
its main road, does not include authority
to purchase the railroad of another com
pany constructed under a different char
ter
2 Where the railroad of one company
is purchased by another railroad oompa-
ny, in pursuance Of statute authorizing g
the purchase, in the absence of any pro-
vision of law to the contrary, the road
passes to the purchasing company sub
iect the same restrictions and limitations
as to rates chargeable for transportation
as attached to it in the hands of the ven
dor.
3. Where a railroad company is author
lied to demand and receive compensation
for transportation of property mot ex-
ceeding FIVE cents per ton per mile, when
the same is transported distance of thir-
ty miles or more, and in case the same is
transported for less distance than thirty
miles, such reasonable rate as may be
from time to time fixed by the company .
it is unreasonable, as matter of law
that the company should fix greater
sum for less distance than thirty miles
than the maximum allowed for full thir
| ty miles.
Demurrer to reply overruled and cause
remanded to District Court for further
| DrOceedinrs
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The Supreme Court of Ohio made
decision last week which is of much in
terest to Justices of the Peace and others,
and we give the points decided:
No 81 E. F. Gaylor ct al VS.. David
Hunt ct al. Error to the District Court
of Cuyahoga county.
White, G. J. Held:
l. The neglect of'a Justice of the
Peace to issue an execution when requir-
ed by law, is the breach OF a ministerial
| duty for which an action may be main
| tanned by the judgment creditor on his
! official bonds. The measure of damages
in such case is not necessarily the amount
for which the execution should have is
sued, but the loss suffered by the creditor
from the neglect.
2 The neglect of Justice Of the Peace
to enter on his docket an undertaking
/ for the stay OF execution, is not Il breach
of duty for which the Judgment creditor
| may maintain an action against the us
tiee Until an undertaking is so entered
the right OF the creditor to an execution
! is not suspended; nor is the Justice jus
tilted in Withholding it.
3 Where under the revenue law III
force April %, 1S65,an instrument is re
quired TO be stamped, the omission Of
the stamp, where there is no intent tc
eYacle the law, viii not vitiate the instru
ment.
! Judgment of the District Court. anc
that Of the Common Pleas reversed, ant
fcause remanded.
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The Constitutional Convention has now
been in session more than month.
When it first met it was said that sixty
days would be sufficient time to complete
its work We think that four months
will be consumed, and then perhaps no
better instrument win be produced than
the present constitution. There is no
hope of the radical measures being
adopted which would indicate the prog
ress of the age. Why not say that every
man and woman, actual residents of a
township, shall vote at all elections in
said township. Prohibit the Legislature
from ever passing any law regulating the
interest on money, or any law to enforce
the collection of debts. Let the Court of
Common Pleas consist of one judge in
each county, who shall have power to fix
the terms of his Court, setting all civil
business for one period, and all criminal
business for different time. And so on.
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A WORD TO EXCHANGES.

We do not desire to force our paper on
any one We consider it as good rs any
other paper. After July lst, postage will
have TO be paid on exchanges. We are
already cutting off useless exchanges.
All our exchanges that receive the paper
this week, with this article marked, will
please mark the next paper they send US
with an X. We will take that as an in
dication that they think the STANDARD
worth twenty cents year, in addition to
their paper. All papers that do not so
indicate a desire to exchange, will be
promptly cut off after next week.
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The Wilson-Mackley controversy is re.
duced down to two fine points:
Point Mr.. Wilson says he gave
Mackley money to gain his goodwill, and
Mackley says 1T was given to pay for
printing. In this Wilson admits himsel1
briber, but Mackley denies being
bribed.
Point II-IIackley says Wilson told
him that all the Republican papers in
the District had received money from
him in the same way, and Wilson denies
| telling him any such thing.
| We have a civil question to PROFOUND
! to Mr. MaclIley:
/ If Mr.. Wilson paid you money for ex
ira printing, and he and you both under
stood it to be for extra printing, why was
it necessary for Mr.. Wilson to say thai
all the Republican papers in the District
had received money from him in The
! same way? ? What called forth that re
mark
If that question can be answered
satisfactorily, the question of veracity be
tween you and Mr.. Wilson will stand de
cidedly in your favor. We have nothing
to say in favor of man who proclaim
that he ,bribed or attempted to bribe al
editor hontoH Journal.
Mr.. Wilson gave us money, and W.
handed it over to the Central Committee
The next time we saw him was on tn
cars, when we were going to Jefferson
and Madison townships, to work for hi
election. He asked US why we had no
kept the money. We replied that if
became known, it might be charged tha
we were influenced by money to suppor
him, and that he knew very well tina
our paper had always advocated what W
thought to be right, without regard t
consequences. 1t was then that he spok
of extra papers, and campaign papers
and various other ways in which editor
could aid him, without any sacrifice c
principle, and utterly denied any inter
ton of using money for any illegitimat
purpose, and said it could be kept secre
but that there was nothing wrong in i
and that all the other papers had take
money in this way. That is just ''wha
called forth that remark" Is there any
thing strange about it?
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1873-06-19

We have not received the official re-
port OF the proceedings of the Editorial
Convention at Circleville last week, but
from the reports in the daily papers we
learn that the President, Walter c. Hood
was not at the convention, but the Vice
President, VIM. Milliken, of the Fayette
County Herald, presided. Mr.. Milhken
was elected President for the ensuing
year, and Z. r. Alderman, of the Mariet-
ia Register, was elected President,
and Mr.. Drinkle, ofthe Lancaster Gazette
was elected Secretary. The next annual
meeting will be held at Chillicothe.
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sALARIEs OF oFFrcERs.

Corruption Will continue to increase IN
this country until the people resolve to
to cut off all official pay, salaries and ex-
tras. Let the President of the United
States, and members OF Congress serve
for the honor alone, and then they viii
pursue an honorable course. A better
class of men will aspire to these high Of
fees when no money consideration is
offered. 1t is now only question Of
dollars with the great majority Of men
who aspire to official position, especially
Congressional aspirants. And the worst
of it is, that these men appear TO have
lost all senseof shame in their greed for
money 1t is alarming to think that any
man who was ever able to secure a seat
in Congress, could have the audaeity to
attempt to justify the late plundering of
the public treasury, But there are just
such men.
The pay now allowed to nearly all OIL
GERS is entirely too high. Take the coun-
ty offices in this State, and look at the
amount of fees now paid. Men who are
not able to earn six hundred dollars per
year at any other legitimate business,
will get two, three and four times that
amount if they can secure certain county
offices. Hence the great scramble for of
fee, and the free use of doubtful means
to secure q nomination and an election
| Why not have board of examiners, who
shall examine applicants for office, and
grant certificates of qualification, aud
then sell out the offices to the lowest
bidders holding such certificates Then
there would be more competent officers
and it would cost the people less thar
half what they now have to pay incom
petent men, in many instances.
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The explanations are coming. Raper,
of the Vinton Record, ''rises to explain"
as follows:
ave are not afraid of our motives be-
ing misunderstood i'll any money which
ever passed between Capt. Wilson and
ourselves He has paid us for every ything
he got of us in the regular course of bust
ness just as other people have, but has
never rendered, nor did we expect money
for editorial support.
The Record is certainly prompt, and it
may be explicit enough, provided Will
sons idea of what the money was paid
for comedies with that of the Record edi-
tor, but if Wilson did tell Mackley what
he says he did, and sticks to it, how
then p HiddiepoIt Meas.
Now let Raper say that he never re-
ceived any money from Wilson if he
wants to be honest in the matter. How
is ii, Raper, yea or nay 2? What did he
pay you for in the regular way of busi
ness, and how much Do you remember
any checks passing between you two?
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1873-06-19

Jones, of the Waverly WatoAman has
been attending circus. Jones had poor
training in his youth, and consequently
he is desperately wicked. He had some
experience while at the circus, and thus
blows on himself:
Young men who attend oircuses should
not let the well-padded limbs of the fe-
male performers work upon their feelings
to such an extent that they cannot re-
frain from taking undue liberties with
the ankles of the ladies sitting on the
seat above them. Such performance is
not calculated to add to the dignity Of
a strictly moral circus.
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1873-06-19

We spoke last week of unfairness
towards us on the part of the Portsmouth
Tribune. It called on Smith, a former
editor, to say if he ever received money
from Wilson Smith did not deny get
ting money, but said if he did it was not
much, &c. Then the Tribune asserted
that he denied ever getting any. Last
week we published from the Tribune
what purported to be Smiths letter,
but it now appears the Tribune in its
meanness garbled the letter, and the
Times compels it to confess to the act, as
follows;
On our first page will be found Mr. II .
R. w Smiths letter as he wrote it, and
not as it was published in the Tribune
Times.
There was no change made in Smith s
letter affecting the sense or force of the
composition. In two or three sentences
we thought the language was unneces-
sarily rough, especially when we sur
missed that Mr.. Wilson was innocent of
the language imputed to him And we
| slightly modified the expressions in two
or three places, supposing that Mr..
Smith, after he had cooled off would APP
prove our judgment As it proved, we
were correct Mr.. Wilson disclaims ever
having said that all the Republican ed
itors in this district had accepted money
| from him for editorial services in 1868.
/ I-ITiJune.
You will notice that the Tribune always
sticks in the words "for editorial ser
vices
From the course pursued by the Tri6-
ane, we think it is meet and proper that
it should become the. defender of the
Treasury Plunderers.
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1873-06-19

We notice that some member, who
probably has his eye upon Office in the
future, wants to raise salaries by consti-
tutional provision. But you must re-
member, gentlemen, that the constitu-
tion you propose to make must be ratified
by the people before it will become bind
ing. and that if there is any one thing
more than another against which the
people now are sure to vote, it will be
high salaries
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How much. did the Manchester Gazette
get from John T. Wilson 1t stands by
him to the last, and denies nothing
Portsmouth, Times
Holderness said last Fall that Wilson
had promised him ten dollars, but that
he had not yet received it.-West Union
Scion.
And Wilson ought not to pay the ten
dollars. No court in the United States
would hold him liable. He could plead
a total failure of consideration. This
man Holderness is very small creature.
If he were little dog, with a brass collar
around his neck, labeled "John I. Will
son, his dog" and led around by Wilson
with tow string, he would not occupy a
more humiliating position than he does
now.
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1873-06-19

There are political as well as whisky
shop and other sort of dead beats, in this
country. It seems that John T. Wilson,
Congressman from the old l1th District,
crept into Office, by aid and influence,
greatly, of the Republican papers of his
District, without contributing a dollar to
any of them for their services Yet,
when he got a chance to steal, legally,
though, five thousand dollars from the
public treasury, he was not 10th to do it,
but did it with greed. That, however, is
the very sort of a man you will always
find who refuses to remunerate friends
for their kind services in their behalf
John L. Wilson was the Republican can
didate last fall for Congress in this Dis
trict and we have never heard of his aid
ing any Republican editor to fight his
battles for him.
The West Union Defender makes the
following remarks concerning this Radi-
cal Dead Beat.
Here follows an article from the De
fender, which we published last week
Now the West Union Scion is a poor
paper in this worlds goods, yet friend
Burwell worked earnestly for Wilson, ex-
pending his time and money for him and
this honest debt Wilson repudiated ac-
cording to the Defender. Wilson is very
wealthy man, anu was 0locD6Q TO q lat,
paying office-worth over So, 900 per year
then, and the impecunious Scion editor
worked for him, printed his tickets, post
ers, and did much other work for him,
for which the High Tariff Nabob refused
to pay. If that is not double-distilled
| meanness we know not what is. Now
| since Wilson has profted by the five
thousand dollar steal one would think he
would, for very shame, pay Mr.. Burwell
and other editors who worked faithfully
for him, fifteen cents, at least. But he
won't.
1t is about time that editors should as
sert their rights, and, before they turn
a wheel for any candidate for h, gh-pay-
! ing Office, require sufficient cash paid
/ down to repunerate them for their serv-
ices and cash outlays for such candidates
/ during the campaign. This is no more
than just and right. 1t. is just as other
people in other avocations of life do bust
ness. We know it is generally believed
that printer should work for candidates
for nothing, because they are candidates
of and for the party But we never knew
how printer could buy bread and pay
hands and paper and ink bills by doing
so. And, when man gets to Congress
and franks his printer copy of the Pres
ident's message or something of equal
value, he thinks he has done an enor.
nous act of generosity, an act which
should forever lay such printer under
everlasting gratitude to him. We know
by sad experience how this thing is.
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Arithmetical.

SUGAR GROVE, SoIoTo Co, O., June IA
To tie Editor of the Standard:
Please publish my answer to the fol-
lowing question, proposed by Mr.. Miller
"a man is piowing around a square
piece containing one acre; how far from
either side must he plow to get half
done2 2"
II 649f; 1868 g divided Ii by by 2 is G. .8S45; ;
the square root of so is S.944-+; 8944
divided by 2 is 4.472; 6. .3245 minus 4.472
is 1885. Ans. 1.8525 rd. -s
T. G. VAUGHTERs
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We have often heard of persons getting
rich by minding their own business. We
suppose that some of our contemporaries
have almost come to the conclusion that
the same would be a good motto for
newspaper men also.
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1873-06-19

Ang. waddle, of ChilIicothe, has been
writing the biography of Armstrong, of
the Register The first chapter has been
printed, and bears evidence of close dis
eernment and rare descriptive powers
in it's author.
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TALKING SENSE.

About the only editor who has talked
common sense about the Wilson squabble
is L. B. Leeds, of the Brown County
Ne,0s Mr. Leeds was State Senator in
the last Ohio Legislature from his Dis
trict. He takes sensible view of the
relation between editors ard candidates,
and he is not afraid to say what he
thinks. In the last number of the Nea0s
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1873-06-19

There was State Sunday school con-
vention held at Akron last week Among
the officers appointed was one Vice
President for each congressional district
A. w. Long of Jackson was appointed
for the llth district.
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Friend Raper, of the Vinton Record,
says he never asked OF. received any pay
from Mr. Wilson for editorial services
Portsmouth Tribune.
If he did, and the amount was more
than twelve and half cents, Wilson was
badly cheated.
Will Raper say he never received
money from Wilson for something else,
besides editorial worlx2 We hardly
think he will
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A coal miner in Steubenville, named
George Edmonds. bought a twenty-five
pound can of powder and put it in his
cupboard, and while absent his children
set FIRE to it, and three of them were
killed at once, and fourth was so badly
injured that it cannot live.
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The Journal is not aware of having
made any proclamation Of its virtue" or
that there had arisen any occasion for it,
And Mr.. Mackley knows exceedingly
well that the present editors of the
Journal had no more to do with its course
in 1871 than Davis Mackley himself
That little fling of his is altogether
gratuitous.- -Ironton Journal
Then why are you making yourself so
officious and meddlesome about matters
which occurred in 1868, and about which
you know nothing2
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IF Cooper, of the Portsmouth Times,
will come out from behind his nose and
talk like a man, we will take his little
pleasantries in good part. But we deny
the right of any man to hide himself be-
hind a lager beer sign and throw mud at
an unoffending neighbor.
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1873-06-19

Francis Campbell of Chillicothe is dead.
He was 81 years of age, was one of the
oldest merchants in the place, and had
accumulated property to the amount of
half million dollars.
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1873-06-19

The persecution of the Chinese in Cali
fornia has broken out in fresh place.
There is badly needed in that State
squad Of United States soldiers, with a
musket in one hand, and the Civil Rights
law in the other, or full force of mission
aries, with the New Testament in one
hand, and the Sword of the Spirit in the
other
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1873-06-19

The Ironton journal is our favorite ex-
change. We were always an advocate of
Woman's Rights, and the journal is part
ly edited by an inoffensive old lady who
formerly taught school for living
Adams, we believe, is her name, although
we neTer see it outside of the Journal
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There was an accident on the Ironton
railroad last week. A passenger car had
become detached from the train without
the knowledge of the engineer, and a
freight train coming around curve in
the rear, ran against the passenger car,
badly injuring several persons.
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1873-06-19

Cooper wants to know how we felt
when asking Wilson for that $500" Had
we done so, we should probably have felt
much the same as Cooper felt when Andy
O'Neil had him by the throat.