, 1877-10-28
PARSIbIONIOUS L1EB.

| HIS NlGID DOMESTIC ECONOMY.
Ten. Lieb's claim that he has managed tn
affairs OF the County Clerks Office with econo
my has been looked on generally with grea
| distrust 1t is true that he has made the asscr
ton day in and day out; but the figures, twis
them how you will, did not seem to bear ou
! his assertion. An examination into Licb'
private affairs, however, goes to show that, as
far as he himself is concerned, lie knows wha
economy is and practices it. So it is possible
after all, that there is something in his clair
tllat he is running his Office economically, ant
that it is only the stupidity of the rest of man
kind which prevents their seeing it.
Licb turned up here along in 1867, a shabhily
dressed, long-legged soldier Of fortune
He started all evening German paper,
known as the dteAd Zeitung. It is believed
to have been startcd upon credit, and was pub
lishcd as long As that article was to pe found
When his stock OF that rau out, the newspaper
stopped also. During the 1860 campaign III
made speeches On behalf OF the Citizens ticket,
and the shabby old cloak, and the rusty old
hat, and the dilapidated old shoes, arc yividly
remembered by the frcaucntcrs OF the ward
club meetings Of that year. Though he had
worked for the successful ticket he got nothing
By it, aud soon after left the city for the pur-
POSE Of heading German colony which was to
settle near Memphis. Tie colony was Il taure,
and Lieb returned with the same old cloak,
hat, and shoes, a little rustier and little
shabbier. but still the same. &c started an
other evening paper, but lis stock Of credit was
so slight that it soon died. Subsequently,
WITH MONEY BORROWED FROM VARIOUS M
Div1puALs,
he bought into the Union, the German Demo-
cratic paper In 1873 he joined the Irish. Dem
ocratic coalition, contributing Ills paper his ora
torical power, and some pretended influence
over the Germans. He was nominated and
elected County Clerk by the Peoples party in
the fall Of 1873, and went into the office in Dc
cember OF that year. At that timo hc had moth
ms but debts and old clothes. He owed from
tlemen Who had be{riended him in his hour OF
need, who had stood by him when he was ragged
and forlorn, and whom he surely never would de-
sert after he came to be fat and saucy. Gen Licb
is, Of course, an honorable man. We have his
word for it, and that Of all the clerks in bis
employ. Those debts, therefore, have unqucs-
tiouahly been paid. lie has not gone into bank
ruptcy, for the Democracy would put no bank
rul,t upon their ticket. The Worlsingmcn would
nominate nobody but an honest, ha1d-workIpg
fellow, with horny hands and swcaty face, who
had paid off all his honest debts to the utter
most dollar. BIZ December Of this year he viii
have received the last Of his nay for 1871. He
gets 5000 year. That makes ST.. GOO which
he has received since he went into Office.
NOW, TO LOOK IT THAT ECONOMY
which makes Lieb model for imitation by
young nleu.-that economy which should re-
place Poor Richard By Hermann Lieb.
Honest debts paid S6,000 to $4,000. >.
Lot on Fremont street, costing $4,000. III
paid, and release gwen March, 1876.
One hundred feet IN Lasal1e streat mr.