Terre Haute Weekly Gazette, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 22 December 1881 — Page 4

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TUB WEEKLY GAZETTE. The attention of all persons into whose hands the Weekly GAZETTE lulls is called to itB many valuable features as a newspaper. It prints from its daily edition the dispatches of the Western Associated I'resH, which are the same as those that appear in the best of the metropolitan papers. Its market reports are received daily by telegraph frcm Baltimore, New York, Cincinnati, Chicago and Toledo. It prints each week the Indianapolis live stock market and the local Terre liaute market. Its court house and local news of Terre Haute and Vigo county is lull .and compltte. It contains all the features of any of its competitors, in better form and more fully than any oi them, and besides has a number of features which most of them do not attempt and cannot have viz: the telegraphic news and market reports. AN inspection of the •GAZETTE and a comparison of its with any other paper published anywhere is •earnestly invited. The GAZETTE is essentially a newspaper. For a resident ol

Vigo or any sun onnding county it is the ibcst paper attainable, having the local news which outside papers do not have and the telegraphic news which the other papers here, with the single exception of •the Express, do not and cannot have. The price of the Weekly GAZETTE is only $1 ..*0 per year, which is leas than 3 cents per copy, delivered postage free. It can be obtained by sending .the money through the mail to the GAZETTE, Terre Haute, Ind., or by calling at the publication ollice. Nofs. 23 and 25 south Fifth street.

IT is one of the easiest things in tiie world to deposit money jo Mr. Shannon's Wall street bank. But it is not easy to get it out again, as both Mr. Bunting and r. Rogers can testily.

WE do not observe that Sir. Shannon is pushing the suit he broughl against Mr. Eppinghousen for irreparable damage to his character. A long suffering public would be glad to know jut^t the status ol that case.

PATRICK SHANNON still holds that $2,000 of county money. County Treasurer Kay holds the check but Mr. Sannon refuses to pay it over as obstinately and with as little purpose, the sequel will show, ae he held the money of Mr. Bun. -ting.

IN spite of all the Stalwart exertions to humiliate Mr. Hiscock and prevent his being made chairman of the Appropriations Committee, Speaker Keifer has had the good sense to do as he pleases in the matter, and will place him foremost in the place, where the unwritten law of the House has assigned him.

A CARD from a cilizsn will be found in this issue of the GAZETTE. He. writes concerning the refusal of Mr. .Shannon to pay the check of Mr. Rogers for $2,500 of county money on deposit in his bank. He says several tilings of great pertinence and we commend his communication to the attention of the readers of the GAZETTE.

THERE will be interesting developments, and that shortly, in the suit brought against Mr. Shannon by a vigilance committee of fifteen citizen^ organized for the purpose af compelling him to disgorge a large amount ot public money he wrongfully became possessed of by the purchase of the securities of the E. & TH. railroad, owned by Vigo County.

MR. BUNTING deposited $2,500 in Mr Shannon's bank and payment on his -check was refused. It required the bring., ing of a law suit to get that money out of the bank. Now a check of Mr. Newton

Rogers for $2,000 is refused, although Mr. Rogers has $2,503 of county money there. AVill it require a law suit to get that money Depositing money in Mr. Shannon's Wall street bank would seem to be a perilous pastime

REDIC CHERRY, one of the colored Carolina exouusters, started for Catawba, North Carolina, yesterday afternoon, with 'bis family, having had enough of this •country—[Express.

He returns to North Carolina where, we were told, oppression was so rank that the negro could scarcely live, aod hence the exodus.

The paragraph is eloquent in eonfirmation of what Senator Voorhees assigned I .as the real cause of the exodus.

A CITIZEN writes to the GAZETTE to inquire if the delay in the trial of Mr. Patrick.. Shannon's suit for slander against Mr. Eppinghousen is due to the -defendant. Our understanding is that it is not. Our understanding is that Mr. Eppinghousen is ready and eager lor the

trial. We shall be glad to print any information on this subject that mav be forthcoming from any parties possessed of accurate information.

EX-COUNTY TREASURER KOOERS is BE* hind in his account. HE makes no denial of that sorrowful tact in the manly card he published in the GAZETTE on Monday. But he would be $2,000 less behind than he is and the county would be $2,000 bettor off at once if Patrick Shannon would pay over the money of the county, deposited by Mr. Rogers in his bank. Mr. Ray, the present Treasurer holds a check for $2,500 drawn by Mr. Rogers on Mr. Shannon's bank. The money is there. It belongs to the county it ought' to be and is not paid.

A VERY full and complete report will be found in the GAZETTE of the meeting of the Terre Haute Branch of the Land League at Oriental Hall last night. The principal speech of the evening was de livered by Col. Thomas M. Healey, a member of the British Parliament from Ireland. He is an able and eloquent man albeit he is young in years, and he is thoroughly informed on all the questions now agitating Ireland, having been at the forefront of the discussion himself. What he said last evening is to the point and deserves and should rcceive the widest possible reading.

THE sale of property for delinquent taxes occurs early in the next year. At public sale will be exposed the property of many poor people, who were unable.Jby raking and scraping together all their little savings, to raise enough money to pay their taxes. Mr. Patrick Shannon has often been an attendant at those sales, it is his usual custom to buy up property told on those occasions. He will prohably be there the next time. He will, unless compelled to disgorge before that time, have in his possession $2,000 belonging to the tax-payers of Vigo county according to his own showing. He can use that money of,tax-payers to buy up the property of those who could not pay their taxes, and|make a pretty handsome thing out of the sufferings and tribulations ot hia fellow citizens when they come to redeem it. He can make enough out of a transaction of that kind to maintainja personal organ to sound his praises and heap vile abuse upon every person who objects to his retention of County money, and then, in order to get his cards before the public, print them as advertisements In some paper not under the blight of his influence.

WE print in another place a card from Mr Patrick Shaunon. It concerns a little family light in which the Mail takes no part The card appears here only because the writer desires the greatest publicity his side of the case.— [Saturday Evening Mail.

The Mail, which does not often make mistakes, is mistaken in the above when it says: "It concerns a little family fight in which the Mail takes no part." It is not a family fight, and it is a matter in which every tax payer in Vigo county should take an interest. A retiring County Treasurer is short in his accounts. Patrick Shannon, a banker and broker in tliis city, wrongfully retains in his possession $2,000 belonging to Vigo «ounty. It was-money Mr. Rogers deposited in his bank. He has given Mr. Ray a check for it. That is now held by the present Treasurer. Mr. Shannon refuses to pay over, that money. That money represents the property of every tax-payer in Vigo county. No family indorses or upholds or is responsible for this conduct on the part of Mr. Shannon. It is an outrage perpetrated on the whole com. munity by one man and for hi3 own benefit alone. The Mail must see, as eveiybodv must see, that it does not make county money his for Mr. Shannon to ex plain that he got possession of it expecting to perpetrate a fraud on his fellow bondsmen to that extent. Suppose he had obtained ten thousand dollars in the way he got this two'thousand dollars and for the same purpose, viz: to make money corruptly off of his fellow bondsmen. Would that money be his? Suppose It was forty thousand dollars, or say a hundred thousand dollars. Would it still be a little family affair in the opinion of the Mail That Mr. Shannon has claimed to be a Democrat and that he has tried to ride the Democratic party to death does not make his wrongful retention of county money a party affair. The Democratic party does not indorse nor encourage nor ^defend his keeping that money. It rep ^resents money that they as well as people of all other political faiths have paid into the county treasury, and they are more anxious than' any others, to be taxed ia the holy name'ot Shannon car fertile J)e|cf\iofthat individual. For a political paper the GAZETTE knows the temptation is strong to take advantage of thedccasiou and hold half of this community responsible for thus person's mis deeds. But the Mail occupies a strbag independent position and caft afford to discriminate between the wrongful retention of public money by one individual and the hopes and purposes of a great party.

The GAZETTE hopes to see its esteemed contemporafy draw this distinction in its nfext issue. We can not close this article without thanking the Mail for expurgating the card of Mr. Shannon before publishing

it in its advertising columns. It is meet and proper that Mr. Shannon's personal organ should be the only paper in Terre Hante to print his effusions in their pristine purity, and that.'they should there appear side by side with the business notices of those who are anxious to afiord material aid in that way to a man who is now keeping $2,000 of their money out ol the county treasury, who speculated to their loss in the railroad securities of the county, and who is now engaged in a law suit trying to prove that he #as not cor. ruptly engaged in trying to make money out of the building of a Court House which was to have cost the tax payers much hard earned money. m:

ROGERS VS. SHAlsNOX. A card from ex-County Treasurer Rogers will be found in this issue of the GAZETTE. In it he replies to a card from Patrick Shannon published in the vertising columns of the Mail on Saturday. The card was also printed in the Ledger which is Mr. Shannon's personal organ* and the obsequious defender of his court house and other projects. When Mr. Shannon cannot make money out of the people by buying E. & T. H. railroad securities from the County, or by securing fees from architects fot influence( f) in building court houses, he invites a gullible public to contribute to his subsistence by patronizing his paper, which lives only to laud his virtues and denounce his enemies—who are for the most part tax payers that object to paying such heavy fees for his obtrusion into public affairs.

Wanting the people to see his card, he was compelled to print it in some other paper then his organ—a point of which the business public should make a note

The controversy between Rogers and Shannon is one in which the GAZETTE has the interest of a tax payer. Rogers' account is unsettled. He is lehind now about $19,000, Last week Rogers drew his check on Shannon's bank for $2500 to be applied on his indebtedness. Shannon has the E&oney. He refuses to pay it. That $2,500 belongs to the people of Vigo County. It is not the GAZETTSC alone that wants him to pay over that money, but the whole people of Vigo County. If it is not paid a public meeting must be called and another Committee of Fifteen organized, as one was in 1873, to compel him if possible to disgorge. Shannon knows what it is to have a general uprising of citizen's after him. He has occupied that position before.

Taxes are high and are hard to pay. Hundreds of hard-working, honest people in Vigo County have a severo struggle each year to rais*. the monej' to keep their property from being bought in at a delinquent tax sale by Shannon. It is indeed hard to have Shannon at both ends of the line—in December keeping the money of those that have paid their taxes, to be used in January to buy in at the delinquent tax sale the property of those who cannot pay.

Mr. Shannon's card is intended to be severe on Mr. Rogers, and there is in it an indicental display of unmannerliness in the language he uses in reference to the senior editor of the GAZETTE. This latter is of no consequence and enly illustrates that a man is often as fortunate in his enemies as in his friends.

If Mr. Shannon had the instincts of a gentleman he wquld not have permitted the publication of the card, which, the community has no doubt, some false friend of his wrote for him. In it he had the effrontery to claim as a justification of his keeping $2,000 of this $2,502 which belonged to Ihe county, that it was secured by him as a result of a corrupt understanding between him and Mr. Rogers by which his fellow bondsmen should be losers to that extent. A man must indeed be hard pressed and bereft of reason when he proves that he tried to enter into a conspiracy to get an undue advantage $2,000 in money belonging to nineteen of his fellow bondsmen, in order to construct ft fraudulent and therefore foid plea in justification of M^ig keeping $2,000, which he will be compelled to disgorge. Of course he will not be able to keep that money. Unless he has lost his reason he ought to know that. Ia any event he is probably the only man in Vigo County who would be willing to publicly parade as a defense of his character an exposition of his purpose to wrongfully appropriate to his own use $2,000 belonging to nineteen of his fellow citizens. It is left to him to make a useless parade of so unworthy a purpose.

FOOD THAT IS POISONED

by unclean teeth brpeds dyspepsia. Such, at least, is the declared opinion of medical men. Remedy the eyil with purifying, aromatic SOZODONT, which clears away corrosive particles which lodge in the teeth and produce an acid ferment, that in time destroys their enamel and ruins them. It prevents the unspeakable annoyance caused by defective teeth, if it is used while they can yet be saved from the destructive effects of tartar and other impurities.

Mr. Goschen, ex-Minister to Turkey, is called the dark house of British politics

It is said that Grant's eyesight is failing. ,-.v

It's a wonder the whole jury isnt sick.j

l^jMoody and Sankey are going to Paris

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To the Editorot the GAZETTE: In the Saturday Evening Mail for last Saturday is a card from Patrick Shannon in which he replies to an article in the GAZETTE of Thursday, that gave facts based on an interview with him, about his refusal to honor a check of mire for $2,500 drawn on his bank. He makes a showing of denying the statement that he had not paid me interest on money de posited in his bank. When I first went into office I loaned him on his note $10, 00Q for two years, with interest at 5% per cent, per annum. That money was not subject to check. It was a favor to him, ana a great favor, for he could loan the money out at anywhere from eight to .ten per cent. When was re-elected he was not content with wnat he was making off of me. He wanted more. By a mock pretense of friendship,by claiming that he bad secured my election and that 1 was under lasting and peculiar obligations to him, as if he was my only bondsman, he secured that money for two years more at four per cent. At the end of the first year, and within a year of the expiration of my term of office, he wanted to cancel the note. There was so little of my term of office remaining that I declined to do it. On that money he did, as he says, pay me $1,000. But that is not the money I referred to in what I said to the GAZETTE reporter. During the four years while I was in office he not only had that $10,000 loaned him on his "note—a favor out of which he probably made over $2,000, 6tnce he paid me only about half what the money was worth—but he also had a dt posit subject to cneck the same as other basks and as great as anyof them. On that money he never paid me a cent. This was the statement I made to a GAZETTE reporter and Shannon cannot and dare not deny it. He made hundreds of dollars out of it I not one cent. All the favors have been frjm me to him. The only favor he did for me was to go on my bond. He has coined that favor into cash and now, because I ought to protect myself as well as other bondsmen by paying over $2,500 I have in his bank, he not only refuses to pay the money but empties a torrent of vile abuse on me.

He claims to have befriended and protected me whereas if he had paid me interest, as other bankers did on the deposits I had in his bank, I would need little if any assistance in any quarter. If my dealings bad been with men of honor, ana had been less subject to his greed for the profits of my office, it would have been better for me. As long as he could make hundreds of dollars per year out of mo by the fact of. his name being on my bond it was all well enough but now that I am out of office, and it will be necessary for me to have temporarily the aid of my bondsmen he turns upon me with his vile abuse bccause I will not consent that he shall have $2,0Ci0 and over, of my money to especially protect him at the expense of my better and more disinter, ested friends, for whom I have never done a tenth part ^s much as I have for him.

He says, as if it was a tremendous act of friendship, that he raised $10,000 to apply on my shortage. For that $10,000, raised in another bank, he and three others who' are on the note have a deed, subject to my option of re-purchase, for property that is easily worth fifteen thousand dollars, perhaps twenty. The risk he runs there, it I do not redeem it, but I certainly shall redeem it and use the sur plus to pay off all my obligations—is that he will make from one to two thousand more dollars off of me.

All my accounts are in the hands of Mr. E. S. Erney for collectionHe has eiveu bond. Mr. Shannon is on that bond. It is no favor to me in any way.

He says that last summer, finding that I would be unable to square up my accounts immediately on going out of office, he sought me. He says in his card: "I demanded that he secure me against probable loss." This is -true. Thinking I would be able to collect up my ac, counts and tbat there was no likelihood of trouble, 1 did give him my check for $2,000. To make him a fav?red bondsman, securing him against all loss, at the expense of the other bondsmen, especially after all the favors I had done him, was a thing he had no right to ask and I had no right to do. As soon as I found that every cent I could gain anywhere would be needed I to!d my bondsmen of that money. They asked, as they had a right to do. that it be applied on the account- One of the other bondsmen mentioned that $2,000 to Shannon in speaking of my affairs. He came to me aud asked me if I had told him. I said I bad. He wanted to know why I had done so? I told him that it was my duty to do so. He then said that when he WHS asked' about it be evaded the qnes'ion, but that now he would have to iuimit it. fie 'ays further (hat when I gave him that check for $2,000 I was sole security on paper past due in his bank which I would have to pay. That is true. I was security on two notes—one for about $900 and the other fo »bout $200. He demanded immediate settlement from nie. He would not even wait tb see if it cduld be collected from the principals of the" not^s. Both of thpje notes I paid and paid to him. He has the money atfd he dare not. deny it: In addition to this he also holds a judgment against tiie principal of one of these paid notes. He has purposely juggled with tbiflthiBg in his car4 to deceive the people. These notes are p4id and he now h4s nothing whatever against the $250£ I have in his bank. He nolds it against all la, and jusnee, with the purpose, if there is any loss, that he, who made monev d'aily out of me for four years, should be the only one to come out ahead. It is an act not only calculated to make me a defaulter, and thus keep the county out of money properly due it, but also to defraud his fellow bondsmen.

An arrangement had been fixed

upon by my bondsmen whereby my account with the county should be squared and I given time to collect up all outstanding money and satisfy them. This was talked about and agreed to bv Shannon, as I am told by others. The only thing that now stands in the way of that settlement is that Shannon, fed fat on favors during four years, now demands that he shall be favored above all the other bondsmen and be enabled to keep $2,006 of money until the end, to insure him against all possibility of loss. My check is now in the hands of Mr. Ray for that amount. It belongs to the county. Shannon is keeping it. As between Shannon and myself while I was Treasurer, the favors have all been from mc to him. If my dealings had been with a gentleman instead of with Shannon, the hand tbat has been so often extended to me for favors would not now be raised against me.

I have in this card tried to explain matters to my friends. Every cent I have in the world will be devoted to settlingjmy debts.

NEWTON ROGERS.

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By Associated Press to GAZETTK. E. H. Tapped died in the ehair of I)r. S. J. Sovereign, dentist, yesterday, at New "iork. He-had taken ehlorform while having teeth pul led. ,"r jt

Judge Blatcbford, of New York, to-day continued the injunction restraining Samuel J. Tilden from selling certain stocks in which Wetmore claims an interest.

Policeman Fitzpatrick. wlio Trilled officer Norton, at New York a few days, surrendered himself this morning.

H. C. Goodrich, sewing machine dealer, Chieago, assigned to-day. Liabilities about $50,000. Will probably pay fifty cents on the dollar.

Kitty Mulcahey and Wm. Seharlon have been arrested at St. Louis on suspicion of killing Fred Tompkins Sunday night.

The trial of McFarland, the Molly Maguire implicated with Dolan in the murder of Healy, is proceeding to-day Many of the witnesses examined in the trial of Dolan are being examined again 'j "it

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Prof.Ludwig Kraff, the African missionary and explorer is dead. Mrs. Henry Georee, an Atneaican, occupied the chair at a meeting of the ladies' league, Dublin, yesterday. A male porter, on leaving the premises with a bag of lit ters, was arrested and sent to Kilmainham jftill—

Bills of R. Schloesaar & Co., Manchester paper manufacturers, have been returned unpaid

The Italian Senate has passed the bill allowing all persons who can read and write io vote

Ht The High School Review The first number of the High School Revieic, published by Messrs E. Lawrence and Will Felver, is at hand. It is to be a monthly publication devoted to,lKtrfw humanitas et literatum" and advertising. It is a very neat, eight paged paper, beautifully printed and while it is deficient in punctuation and proof-reading (in which a monthly paper should be perfect) these defects will doubtless be corrected by the yoting journalists after a tittle experience The salutatory says: "We have a double purpose in offering this sheet to the public that of gratifying our own vanity and of giving vent to our pent-up desire to talk about our neighbors."

While these may not be the highest objects of journalism", still, if they prove successful in the former and safe in the latter, they may thank their stars for their good luck. The peroration of the salutatory is an effervescent ebullition, a very climax of gallantry, to the young ladies of the school. "And now, to our girl schoolmates. May heaven never count the blessings for you, the life of the school. How often has the thought flashed across our minds of what great importance you are to the existence of the human family add the Terre Haute High School. Surely your substitute is hard to find. Your majorities cause us to court your favors, your beauty causes us to court your persons. You too, bny a paper and when you have reached the zenith of your ambitions— caught a man—fasten again your gratified optics on these columns and learn how we boosted you and, should you fail in your high aim, and become a man-for-saken old maid, turn again to these pases and renew your coquetlsh smiles which once had the power to draw dimes from the boys' pockets to invest in peanuts and chewiugwax."

The paper is from the Banner press, and its typographic appearance is very creditable.

FASHION NOTEM.—Fur collars are little worn by ladies this season, and this will give rise to many severe coughs and colds. Dr. Bull's Cough Byrup is a certain and safe cure in every c&e. Price 2 5 •*,

The 777th Crank.

fcL, ii!_ Washington Special. The inmates of the house where Mr Scoville boards were thrown into a state of great alarm last night by a "crank,' who came there and insisted on remaining there to protect Mr. Scoville, and assist him in the examination of experts. Mrs. Scoville, who is very cautions aod suspicious, ascribed to him some more sinister purpose, and had the police take charge of him. He was released today. as it appeared, on the representation of his friends, that he was harmless.

THE seeds of diseases are sown widely by carelessness, and the opportunity for a vast deal ot severe suffering is created by neglect to attend the premonitory symptoms of rheumatism and banish the cause by using St. Jacobs Oil,the greatpreventime remedy of the times ana the standby of the people. -f

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