Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1875-04-29
JOHN B. LoNGLEY in the last Squirt

JOHN B. LoNGLEY in the last Squirt
gun, says:
OfTodds letter to the Chronicle of thi.
week, it is the universal opinion he has writ
ten himself an ass.
All right; but 1 have not been brand
ed publicly again and again as thief
and pocketed the charge. See last st
Clairsville Gazette.
Again the Squirt-gun goes off
IftJ. NJ. Todd would devote to the practic,
of his profession a small part of the time h,
gives to scribbling for the newspapers anC
dabbling in politics it would rebound some
what to his credit, and, doubtless, to the com
fort of his family.
Perhaps 50. We are aware our 'scrib
bling don't please you nor our dab
bling in politics either-we didn't anC
don't intend they shall. In regard to
my famiiy's comfort, we will say, we
have never yet lain like leper in thu
public ways, lazy nd proud, shunneC
and despised by all, with not enough
credit in the town of St. Clairsvllle, Il
get mOrsel of food, asking and re
ceiving aims, while my family wa:
suppurted by the contributions of {
piteous public.
.
When j. NJ. Todd eases himself of all tn,
slang he can call to mind, will he please an
swer these few plain questions:
1st-How much did you receive in consid
Grafton ofyour espousal of the cause of jaime:
Irwin and the Treasury robbers?
2d-How much did you receive for bum
ming around st. Cairsvile during the irwin
trial.
3d-If they paid you anything whatever
don't you think they were pretty badly
cheated?
To the first we answer, not one cent
and nothing but a rascal would ask
such question. AS to espousing the
cause of Treasury robber' you know
we were never either yO,r friend ol
apolOgist.
2d-Nothing but the itch, of which
we are now well, contracted from pass.
ing by your seven years bumming
haunts in the Jail yard. To the third
We answer-Judging from the amount
of squealing you have done about US
being up thee, one would think our
presence had some significance. We,
however, didn't think it had, and
Therefore didn't regard anybody badly
cheated except the lawyers for the
trial of the case, and you succeeded in
eliciting from them a unanimous opin-
ion that you were a fool and they
concluded to get rid of him (yOu)
as quick as possible, and did so. They
esteemed themselves badly cheated
yea, egregiously sold. If our presence
had been Il bad investment, and we
had been under pay, as witness or
otherwise, and we had stolen 5000 or
more from the Treasury-as is squarely
charged on an eX-AuditOr-we would
have reimbursed our lawyers for their
indignant notification. But Jack
Sheppard we believe, never returned
to Il conscience fund. We
hope the Commissioners will compel
80 ne modern Jacks to do il.
We PROFOUND the following inqui-
ries to John Besmear L0ngley:
First-You blubber good deal about
'plunderers' and Treasury robbers
Who, beside yourself, is 'plunderer
and Treasury robber?-give us the
names. We don't like you to peach
on your pards, but the public would
like to know, you know.
Second-If you were Auditor, and
you had virtually stolen $1,000 or more
from the county, don't you think the
people would be badly cheated if you
were not made pay it back?
Third-If you have the amount of IL
legal fees you are charged with having,
don't you think, to be consistent, you
ought to manifest little effort to pay
it back-and don't sou think the Co.
Commissioners ought to make you dis
gorge? More anon. j. NJ. TODD.