The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1879-05-29

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last week the Cleveland papers an
znOunced that Archibald and William
1GcGregor of the Stark County Demo-
EMAr, had been sued in the q, s. Circuit
Court for $4,000 damaees BY R. G. Dun
& Co., Of New York The petition
charges that we libelled them in an arti'
clio in the DRMt Graf Of Anfch Goth.
We thought last week twas probably
IN mistake, but on Monday Of this week
n deputy U. S. Marshal served us with a
summons, readipg as follows:
The UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,
NORTHERN DISTRICT ToF OHIo, Sc.
The President of The United States of Amer.
ica 10 the Marshal of The Northern District
of Ohio Greeting
You are hereby commanded to notify
Archibald McGreQor and William Nc
Gregor, that they have been sued by
Robert 6. Dun. Charles Barlow, Matthias
B. Smith and Z. Wiman, partners doing
business by and under the firm name
and style Of r. g. Dun & Co., In the Cir.
cult Court of the United States, within
and for the said District; and that unless
they answer by the 2lst of June, A. D..
1879, the petition of the said plaintiff
Rgainst them fled in the Clerks office Of
Baid court at Cleveland, in said district,
such petition will be taken as true, and
judgment will be rendered accordingly,
You will make due return of this sum-
mons on the I'd day of June, A. D., 1879
WIrNEss-The Honorable Morrison K.
Waite, Chief Justice of the United States,
this 18th day Of May, A. d., 1879, and in
the 1881 year OF the independence Of the
United States Of America.
A. ]. RIcKs, Clerk.
By E W. Page, Deputy Clerk.
Northern District of Ohio, S. s.:
thereby certify that this is true copy
Of an original writ delivered to me for
service. N R. PRENTICE,
U. S. Marshal.
BY John 0dell, Deputy Marshal.
On the back of the summons R. P.
Cathrall Acknowledged himself seCur-
lily for all costs for which the plaintiff
may be liable" Mr.. Cathrall, we un-
derstand, is the general agent at Cleve-
land for the Dun & Co., Commercial
Agency.
OF course Dun & Co., know nothing
about us, and probably care less. And
no doubt this whole thing is the work Of
J. J. Clark, of this place, informer for the
Dan Commercial Agency. In this way,
then, Clark hopes to ride the Dun horse
over us.
If Dun & Co., are represented in To-
eality by a heartless fellow, who is ever
ready to use local journal to SANDER
others; who is notorious as grasping,
prVing, sneaking busybody, despised of
all respectable men in and out of the
profession in the community Of which
he forms contemplate part We say, if
the Dun agency have such specimen of
the Quirk, Cannon and Snap order to
represent them, they must expect to suf.
fer, as q natural consequence. Compa-
nies, to be held in respectable regard,
should be represented by men of re.
BpeCtability and character, men who will |
attend to their own business. and com
mand the esteem, generally, Of decent
people. With an agent whose character
iStics are mainly mean malice and hard |
Bel6shness-who is ever ready to stab in
the dark, those who never injured him.
bat whom, in the plenitude of his alb
Borbing hate, be undertakes to ride down
with detrsction and blast with falsehood
in such circumstances, we say, Dun &
Co., may expect passing reference.