The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-05-22
original of which can be seen by calling
at the Herald office:
HOWARD ASSOCIATION,
No. -233 Second Street,

No. 1913 Second Street,
MEMPHIS, Tenn, May IL. 1874. J
- -, Columbia, Tenn, Dea
Strive are in receipt of your communi
cation of the 18th inst, and note same
In reply we would inform you that Shell
by County, through its County Court, ap
priated to the Howard Association, fol
he relief of the sick and destitute of oul
city, the sum of Five Thousand Dollar;
| ($5,000.00.) Yours respectfully,
| G. w. GORDON Pres'dt.
| J. H. SMITH, Sec'ty.
| Go to Shelby county Fanx. and call the
| Justices of that county Boss Tweeds, but
don't charge your neighbors and friends
with being thieves. Because the Pharisee
| proclaimed himself better than his neigh
Dor it did not follow that such were the
facts; neither did the charges of the wolf
that the lamb had muddied the spring,
leave one in doubt that the wolf had told
an untruth.
A teacher or one who sets himself up
as censor, should have qualifications
other than that of good talker, or good
writer, and like Caesars wife, should be
above suspicion" Faux 10 the first
accuser and threw the first stone at the
Justices. Is he blameless, is his garments
unstainsd? Has foul-mouth Islander never
Kissed its forked tongue, and struck its
venomed fangs into his fair name, for
any of his official acts? The records OF
our courts are cited to by the Justices
as a vindication of their official acts. Can
Fanx as triumphantly appeal to the same
tribunal for vindication of his official
acts? Let him answer
To make the county court to appear as
0dIouS roSsihla ba Tho
$500 charity appropriation was made it
was moved by some one that $40 be given
an old poor widow of Maury county (about
20 years old, her husband having been in
the battle of New Orleans,) to take care
of her lunatic daughter. What do you
suppose the magistrates did with the mo-
ton? Refused to give it upon the ground
that this lunatic could go to the poor
house, and that there was no law for max
ing such allowances in the county, If
any person who wishes to be satisfied as
to the truth of the above, will refer to |
the Chairman'S ALLEN book, they will |
see that Warrant, No. 1898, WAS issued |
to the widow woman, and at the same |
court that the $500 was appropriated to |
Memphis. leave the reader to draw his |
own conclusions.
The President had DO more delegated au-
thority to send the thousands of rations
and clothing to Memphis than the Justices |
had in sending the $500, yet who is so
bold to assert that he did wrong, that he |
was robbing the taxpayers, that he is a
Boss Tweed, &c2 Fanx is not only like the |
priest and Levite, but goes further and |
condiments the Samaritan who did have |
and gave pence to him who
had been stripped of his raiment and |
left wounded. Mercy is twice blessed,
it blesseth him that gives and him that |
+ 4ceives."
Fanx has been notified that he can get |
his prorata of the $780, why don't he call
for it, and leave his receipt?
As this is the last time shall claim the
attention of the public in noticing my
friend Fanx, permit me to say, that ! can
not account for his rushing into print to
bring reproach and contumely upon his
aeighbors and friends, unless it be an am
o'tion to do something great, whereby his
name may forever be "linked with fame.
How consoling would it not be, that latter
life ftful fever is o'er' q grateful people
should refer to him as, "Fanx, the tax
payers friend, flank, the orphans
friend, '-"Fanx, the silencer of fraud,
etc Like Eratostratus, he wishes to eter-
1ize his name by some great action. But,
if he is to be the Hercules or
he O'Conor, to save this people from the
Iillainies and righteousness of that Au
yean stable, the county court, we'll might
he people exclaim
Great God on what slender thread
Do we poor mortals hang
Fanx quotes what Justice says of the
,ther justices, and with much modesty
orbears any comment Not to be out
lone by friend Fanx, we will not even
Print one line derogatory to him, al
hough could furnish sevaral squares in
lonparre1, II l were SO disposed. of what
he people say of him; neither do pro-
,ose to consult the records of our courts
# equity for notification. AJP