Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 February 1883 — COUNTY AUDITORS—EXTRA SERVICES. [ARTICLE]

COUNTY AUDITORS—EXTRA SERVICES.

19,261. Ezra Nowels vs. Jasper County. Jaspei C. C. Best, C.- This was a claim by appellant as County Auditor to recover for services rendered in apportion ing certaiu allowances, made by the County to former Treasurers, properly among the various funds of the County. The services were rendered after the fee and salary act of 18 9 was in force. They must be deemed a part of tne services for which the salary is allowed, aod +hat sum must compensate tbe appellant. Judgment affirmed.

The question of the preservation of the forests aill be suggested io ■ onnection with the unprecedented floods of 1883. The Commercial Gazette in relation to the matter says: The truth destruction of the woods means water courses to run extiaordinarily low aid high, accord ing to the season. * * * * * Disastrous as the flood is to day—unprecedented as it is— intelligent people must he aware that slight changes in the atmospheric phenomena of the last fortnight would have given us a still mere formidable river, The rise that is so wonderful comes from three rain 3torms—extending over a week—und the sudden frost after the second rain prevented the advance of the waters from being much more rapid' than it has been, Europe is suffering, more from fl< ods than in former generations. They, are the clearly traced result of the destruction of forests, and made more disastrous by a system of levees that are equally false and futile. The * experience, of Hungary and Northern Italy is especially instructive. - Of cours we do not expect to restore all the wood lands, but the pre servation of mountains from destruction—that is from being utterly barren— a desolution of rocic —is a duty that public safety demands.