Rensselaer Union, Volume 6, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 September 1874 — A TRIFLE. [ARTICLE]

A TRIFLE.

Jetliro Ananias Judkins did not vote for the bill increasing the pay of Members of the Legislature, Winter before last, after being elected upon a platform making solemn promises of retrenchment; but Jethro Ananias Judkins did take and pocket his share of the grab with the gracious airs of a ~lal t yi‘ j ,res,ifined to suffer- for principle’s sake, when his presiding officer forced upon him a warrant for it; and, like an innocent lamb for the slaughter, he had n’t a word of protest. Simeon CyrenjML Scroggs did n’t steal a horse, but he was present w hen his friendsi led it from the stable, and, accept- I ing a share of the money for which i it was sold, made no complaint : against the thieves. Simeon Cy- i renus Scroggs wasn’t a horsethief,! but a barbarous jury sentenced him to the penitentiary for a year.