The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1873-07-31

enabled his minor daughter to obtain
license to marry by making affidavit
that she was of lawful age. Weinti.
mated thatvengeance was in store for
that young man, and last Friday 1t fell
in the shape Of summons by Sheriff
Shearer to appear before Justice Tuthill
upon charge of perjury. The prelim-
mary trial of the case occupied several
hours. Judge Yates appeared for the
State and H. c. Carr for defendant.
The runaway couple, Mr.. and Mrs.
Tuman, were present as witnesses for
the defence; the lady's father, Mr..
Wilson, was prosecuting witness and
her mother and others were summon
ed on the part of the State. Mrs. Tu-
man, nee Wilson, testified that she
told defendant that she was eighteen
years of age although she was only
seventeen last spring; she did SO "be-
cause she though it was nobody's
business how old she was" She was
a gritty damsel, and deserved good
husband whether she was eighteen or
not. She was just as decided as her
father, the persecutor--a reg ular chip
of the old block, in fact, and some
times the fire flew.
The, Justice finally decided to hold
the accused, Mr.. Gardner, Ia appear
before the Grand Jury, and fixed his
bail at $500. VIM. Baker became his
surety, and there the matter ended for
the present-the several parties going
away with divers emotions-that of
young Mrs. Tuman evidently being a
sort of defiant exultation that, what
ever they should do, they couldn't un-
do the little ceremony which fastened
her for life to the man of her choice.
We hope she may always feel the
same.
THE POST" SPECTATOR" AND
Mr.. BRINK.-We wish our contem-
porary would little more frequently
remember his maxim about Getting
justice be DONE" dc. In his usual
crooked and crab like manner, he as
sumes that Mr.. Brink wrote the arti-
Gle in last weeks ADVERTISER signed
Spectator" and comments severely
upon this baseless assumption of his
own. Now we assert, with the ready
proof at hand, that Auditor Brink not
only did not write the article in ques-
ton, but also that he had no knowl-
edge whatever concerning it previous
to its going into type in our columns.
The Post further beats the air consid.
cradle in the attempt to impress the
fact that Mr.. Brink is not responsible
for good financial management of
county affairs. We say "beats the
air" because trying to demonstrate, en-
force and impress fact self evident to
every man can be nothing else. The
Post could hardly have supposed one
of it's readers green enough to be i'm
posed upon by pretense, come from
where it might, that the county
Auditor was to be personally or ofiici
ally praised or censured either for
reduction or increase in county taxes,
or either good or bad use of them when
collected. Then why the wind it ex-
ponds? Because, on its anxious seat
upon the ring tripod, it thought it
again saw an opportunity to "pitch
into" some one not in the charmed
circle and perhaps do them little in
jury.
We can not believe that the evident
object of Spectators" article has been
generally understood as the Post, af-
fects to understand it. 1t has been
asserted by the ] party champions
through the columns of the Post and
still more publicly in the late small
meeting which they called Conven-
ton. that the county tax was enor-
NOUS and steadily increasing-made SO
by dishonest officials. "Spectator" fur
nishes the figures to refute this, and,
we suppose, mentioned the Auditor
incidentally as the officer through
whose hands assessments first run
and from whose records his informa-
ton was derived. No doubt Mr..
Brink has, as Spectator" says. been
faithful" To have been anything
else would have been criminal and
Mr.. Brink, or any other county
officer, should not. and, we hope, do
not, claim any particular consideration
from the citizens of this county for
doing faithfully the duty for which
they were elected.