Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 December 1874 — Economy. [ARTICLE]

Economy.

Borton vm again visited by the fire fiend on the 15th instant, which destroyed property to the anoant of 5600,000. Mr. Farwell, of Chicago, introduced a bill in the lower house of Congress, last Monday, providing for free banking and the resanption of specie payments. A committee of five have been appotnted by Congress to visit Vicksburg, Miss., and investigate the recent troubles in that city. It is hoped the prosecutors of that horrible massacre, in which nearly a hundred negroes were murdered in cold blood, will all be brought to trial and receive a just punishment for such cruelty. Hon. Schuyler Colfax is delivering lectures in different parts of the United States this winter. He recently delivered his lecture entitled “Abraham Lincoln” to a large and appreciative audience in Cleveland, Ohio, and the papers of that city compliment him very highly upon his success and manner of handling the subject.

The citizens of Jasper will remember how, during the last political campaign, the Union assailed our Board of Commissioners, as worthy men as any in our county, in most unmeasured terms for “their want of economy," charging them with, being “profligate” and “corrupt - ’ and how also the Union has denounced officers generally, as a set of leeches sapping the substance from the commonwealth m the form of excessive salaries which they did not earn, but which were only so much stolen from the people, and how it has been up to the present time demanding that all official fees and salaries be recfacecL It will also be remembered that the Board so roundly abused by the Union received from the Treasury of the County Four Dollars per day fi>r their services, voluntarily relinquishing any claim to a greater compensation, while by reference to the proceedings of last week’s session of the new Board, darted on the 'Union's ticket and platfi>rm, it will be seen that they issued to themselves orders to the amount of Five Dollars per day, which will make a difference of over One Hundred Dollars per year against the county. Please don’t be too severe on them, Horace.