Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-02-13
CARRIERS NHOATS
SIX FROM TEN LEAVE FOUR

TWO PIGS, EACH WITH A ELACN SPOT.
The Peculiar Far Msrk-Nsar tho Pigs Tail
Which Deceived Mr.. kaufman.
In its issue Of Saturday, under ths head
of "a Shameless Libel" the Examiner
contained the following editorial
"The INTELLIoESCER of Thursday even
ing published statement containing
charges against Mr.. Calvin Carter, a mem
Der of the board Of prison inspectors,
seriously damaging to his character as an
officer and man. The charges impressed
us as being false when they first came
under our notice, bat VIC concluded to say
nothing before investigating them. Hav
ing done this we are now prepared to say
that the statements impugning Mr.. Car
ter's integrity are maliciously and shame
lessly false, evidently the product
Of partisan rccklcssness and personal
hatred. In substance they amounted
to this {: That Mr.. Carter being au-
thorized to purchase some shoats for the
use OF the prison. forwarded six, for which
seven dollars each was charged, though he
had been instructed not to give more than
five dollars apiece. That four OF these
were part of 4 lot lie owned, ten in num-
Der, the other six being. sold about the
same time to I farmer near the Gap by
the name of Christian Kaufman TO: four
dollars each. The four remaining shoats
Of the lot, recruited by two others,
which must have cost him less than four
dollars each, We're sold to the county ut
seven dollars apiece. Here it will be
observed that the stern guardian of prison
discipline made IN aggregate profit on
tho shoats of upward of eighteen dollars,
twelve of which he made ut the expense
of the county,
"This is the substance oil the charges.
Now the facts are as follows Ny. Carter
had a lot Of ten shOats. Six of these he
sold to Mr. Kaufman at four dollars apiece.
The remaining four he owns yet; never
sold them and never thought OF selling
them, as he needs them for his own use.
He purchased for the use Of the prison,
from David q. Steacy, of Bart, six siloats
at seven dollars each, which we're duly
forwarded, and for which Mr.. Steacy has
not yet been paid, although the prison
treasurer, Mr.. Miller, is ready to do so
when called upon. AS to his being iI-
structed to pay but tive dollars each for
these, the fact is that one of the inspectors
said to him, they ought to be got for
five dollars apiece, but he thought those
worth the money asked, and is able to
prove that I farmer in the vicinity wanted
to take them afterward ut the same price.
Mr.. Carter had no interest in this pur
chase save to buy the shoats at I fair
price, nor has he ever sold a shOat to the
prison, directly or indirectly.
"NOw We ask every fair-min,lei man III
<I,n ti,tc
the most shameless and inexcusablc
malice go further? What man in the
ious attacks on his character if such con
is to be tolerated? To what is the boosted
men of irreproachable character are thus
ton a failure, or is the newspaper to be-
come curse instead Of blessing to
society?
"The cheerful promptness with " hich
the Ne,U Era copied this malicious libel,
without expressing doubt of it's correct
ness, is very suggestive. Was it 4 set-up
job on the part of our esteemed contcm-
poraries, or was the Eros prompt publ
cation of the article only natural result
Of its fOndness for def:.mati0n:"
And in the local columns of the Ec,.mtA T.,
Oh the same day appeared th. following
article headed Libel Suit
"Calvin Carter this afternoon brought
suit against tte 1NrEIIsGENCEE for libel.
The Facts OF the Case.
The above statements refer, no doubt,
t" an article published in the local columns
OF the INrEIIIGENCER on Thursday even
ing, which was prefacei with these
words
" The following communication is from
reliable gentleman in this city and the
facts he vOuches FOX are common talk in
political circles.'
Up to the time Of the present writing no
served at this office or on any body connect
ed with it to justify the impression that Mr..
Carter OF anybody else had sued t:ie Il
TELLIGENCER for libel
In accordance with the invari:,blc policy
of the INTELLTGESCER to print the truth,
to do justice to everybody of whom it has
any occasion to speak, and to repair any
wrong which it may unwittingly have
done any person, we print IN explanation
of the facts upon which the publication
which the Examiner alleges to have been
a libcl-"malteiously and shameessly false"
was made.
On Jan. II, according to the minutes of
the board of prison inspectors, Calvin
Carter was authorized to buy six shoats at
a price not exceeding five dollars each
Some time after that, in the latter part
of January, two men brought six shoats to
tho prison which they said had been order
ed by Calvin Carter, a member of the
board of inspectors. The clerk and
prison employee who received and unload
ed them, observed that they would weigh
about 40 or 80 pounds apiece and estimated
"a as the outside price for them. Some
time last week bill for them in the name
Of D. G. Steacy was sent to the prison
by MIR. Carter, the pigs being charged
for at 81 apiece. 1t was freely mentioned
around town that Mr.. Carter, having been
to buy pigs at s. apiece for the
prison, paid 81 for them.
On last Monday morning Mr.. Christian
farmer living near the
Gap, quite as truthful as the Err
1m!ner, and quite as irreproach-
able " as Mr.. Carter, Oh hii way to this
city to serve as juryman, icll in with
Mr.. Carter, who took occasion to express
MS disapprobation of Prison Keeper Burk-
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