Year: 1865




II is remarkable how the smallest bit
of brief authority will elevate some men.
We have one of the sort in our mind
now. Through his own connivance. be
was appointed to investigate some imsg
mary frauds upon the County. and forth
with bis self-importance was boundless.
He appeared to imagine that as he walk
ed the street, the little children pointed
their fingers st him, and said. There's
the big man that's going to make the
world come to an end - and that as his
awful presence appeared in the County
Offices. the guilty occupants would trsm-
bic. crouch, and humbly say. please
condescend TO spit on me !" But he
wouldn't do it-he would disdain to so
pollute his sacred saliva cum nicotium
(That's Latin. and means tobacco spit.
The morning following his elevation to
this dignity. as he was starting on his
rounds to make the town tremble, the
rising sun sbone on his back; and return
ing to his home at evening, the said 10.
minary. setting. again shone on his back
from which singular coincidence he was
seized with the idea that there was where
the sun rose and set-s vsgary which
was not dispelled until the morning of
the 9th of November.


This individual undertook to count the
words in the County records. to ascertain
whsther the officers had charged for too
many folios; and, assuming it as fact
that he would discover tremendous frauds.
and the near approach of election day not
allowing him time to count all the words.
be went through the County bowling
about the immense swindles which he
doubted not be would discover. but which
at that time existed only in his imsgins-
ton. A. to the records. if they were not
right, he conceived it to be bis business
to make them right, and he did not
shrink from the duty. If. in examining
the Treasurer's books. be discovered q
valuable piece of real estate that was for
feited for non payment of taxes. be felt it
to be duty be owed to himself, as one
of the people, to note on the book. OF
cause it to be done by zone of the fami-
ly," that it had been sold to himself. II
client desired q mortgage released.
his right to handle thu records enabled
him to enter the Recorders Office, and
release the mortgage by q short method
Of his own-that is, with his own hand
make the necessary record. thus saving q
good deal of bothersome formality which
many persons suppose the law requires
But he's quit that, now. He got some
sort Of hint, last Wednesday morning,
that made him mad, and he intends to
let the people investigate their OWL
| frauds.


Seriously, the last Grand Jury mus
have been an easy set. to permit the WOO
to be drawn over their eyes in that man
ner. Yes. on looking over the names. W,
find quite a large proportion of then
Convention men; and there We discover
one name in particular. which settles th'
question as to the origin of the scheme
and how the unsuspecting Jury came t.
suspect the great frauds. That name hat
a P in it, and an s, and another s. Bu
If an appointment to investigate fraud
gives q man a right to mutilste or slte
the public records. we may next expec!
some poor devil. who is sadly in need o
green backs, to obtain from the Crane
Jury authority to investigate whether th
money in the Treasury is all genuine. ant
on the strength of it, gain access to th
Treasurer's safe, and help himself t.
what spending money he needs. s.
much for ths farce Of investigating frauds
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