The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1873-06-27
RUBENISTlC.
THE CLERK OF THE CIRCUIT
LENG rhILY EXPLAINS.

+ lend OBERLY-rhls being Q season
-. episenics, ~ snVuid noI ~ Cause for
great aslVn,sulispI that / have bssu AZ
fi.tsd by that vsrribly contagious disease
known ~ crushing into print" / had
Supposed that BY ksspiny cooi, and read
Ing lHs bULLETts every morning, l Get
- MY would escape, but, alas the psrsn-
",si spring vi youth from which l thought
1 drank hssltn hSs proven delusivS, Knd
.nis morning when i went " quSnch my
thiIst l found . poisoned wafer, aud 1
WAS pictured upon lis surface y hidsous
monster, . county official VINO had Or
ders1 several hundred dollars worth Of
blanks from Chicago at an oxhorbitAn
price, and you, whO, had hoped, was one
Of my bosOmest friends are Il hvps the IN
nocsnt) source OF my WIS, and ! lobg I, r
the time, which know will be snvit,
when We shall again DO rsconciled; In
fact, II must be short, for did not yoa
hurry into the arms Of Myers and Neliis
aud did not you display = very sympa-
ustic, loving and melting to to .rs d,spc-
. i'm in parting with Austin2 Therefore Q,
! Know whom l tell you that I have been
misreprsssntsd 70 you, that We will soon
.ssk In sa,h others smiles.
Now the truth Of the matter 10, I did
order Of Culver, Page and Hoyns about
my quirss Of legal blanks, and one and .
half quires Of extra legal cap, for which
they charged the couaIy So rs, or At the
rate Of 81 per quirs for single sheet (two
and three forms on shsst), and 81 6Vper
quirs for double sheet blanks, some Of
which had printed matter on four pager.
Our county court having received tns IN
formation from some source that Culver,
Page and Hoyns had offered and sold
blanks ~ other counties ~ 60 and IS csh,s
per quirs, tells they were jusuhsd In trin :
ming she bill down to $50 90. AZ soon
~ was informed Of their action, wrote
Messrs. Culver, Page and Hoyne that l
understood they had discriminate against
our county, and l wanted to know why.
n view OF the fact that wo paid cash, they
charged our county 81 and 81 go per
quirs for b,Hnks that they furnished
other counties ~ 90 and IS cents per
quire, to which they replied very emphat.
'cally that they had never sold, to any
county In this state, blanks ct q lower hv-
ure than the price charged US, and th y
could not accept the amount allowed b,
our court, and hoped il would reconsid E
its action, - they would feel compelled, u
necsssary,to bring suit for the full amount
If $67 rs.
A. TO the charge of following . bad
precedent, plead guilty 70 thu soft i'm.
prsschmsnt.. follow II though with an
eye single to the welfare Of the county,
snd not because such Q precedent bad
been established. I needed . great vari-
ETY. of blanks but few Of each kind, and
before ordering from Chicago. consult
cd the printing establishments Of Cairo, to
md what they could oe printed for and
they, including they Bulletin Printing
House, offered 10 set up the form and
strike off the first 100 blanks Of from % 30
o Is. per blank (nos shset), according
~ size. which would have amounted 10
the aggregate 10 not less than 5000. for
the same variety, and but fsv mora In
number of blanks thst y. P d Il. chsrg-
cd e67 rs for they can woll afford 10
undsrsell any house that does not mako
this business cfprnting legal blanks, %
they do, . speciality, for they strike o n
ard keep On hand for sale. large quantities
of the various legal forms used IN this
state, and the forms ara reliable and al
most invariably ".tick,' since they are
carefully prepared under tho Supervision
OF . competent lawyer.
admit ice mortifying TO have the
county court cut down bills you run up In
good faith; but, oonfound you, did not
our eagle eyed Judge cut your last bill
down from 500 IS TO S76' whereas he
cut @ P aud H. from $87 as 70 $50 81,
which looks - II eagle eye had smellcd .
nouss In Cairo - wsll ~ Chicago.
am In favor Of patronixine homo In.
stltutions and think have always shown
q disposition 10 do %. and just 80 sooh as
need printing done intend to distribute
nv orders In Cairo. II y" printers will
work for thu ssma prices charged Ia csr~r
cities. and m willing 10 submit yonr bills
70 the sc-utinixing gaze NJ our sagls-eyed
Judge. There, now Oberly, come to my
arms. YocuM.