Terre Haute Weekly Gazette, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 29 December 1881 — Page 4

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Dally, 15 cento per week, 6 cent* per month, f7J» per yean Weekly, $!,80 ft year.

THURSDAY. DECEMBER. 29, 1881.

OF INTEREST TO TAX PAYERS. This issue of the Weekly GAZETTE is sent to many persons not regular aulv scribers. We do this that all the people of this county may be informed of the at. tempt now being made by Mr. Patrick Shannon to keep from the County Treasury $2,000 of money which he should pay over. Considerable space is devoted to ». the subject. We hope every person who gets the paper will read it and then hand it to his neighbor who may have been overlooked in the distribution. We shal^ be glad to hear from our friends in the ... country atxmt this matter, and if tbey will write us giving their views «n the .v .matter wc shall be glad to give them pub- .. licity.

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this oase tbrojgh all its phases We interd to see that that money is paid back into the Treasury where it was Originally paid by the hard-working tax ...puyers of this county. ,Wc shall also during this period re. /view in full the record of Mr. Shannon's purchase nt 1873 of the stock 4f the county in theE.&C. railroad lor $11 per share when an offer of $15 per share had been made to one of the Commissioners for it. A suit was instituted against Mr.

Shannon for that stock. It is now. worth in the neighborhood of one hundfed and fifty thousand dollars. If h« may be-com. pelled to restore that stock which he got possession of by one of the most high handed outrages on rigfct ever perpetratcd, it will be worth to the County $150,. 000 atvl cne semi-annual payment of taxes may be abolished. The full particulars of that case we shall publish within the next three months and all the people ought tq.b( posted about it.

In this period also we shall pub Icaih lull ^particulars-. of Mr. Shannon's actirity in trying to get a court house built,-of this vs ectivity in selecting an archit-ect and of how, according to Mr. EppioghouKen, he got $2,500. fat Mr. Bunting and wanted

Jo get $2,500,from Mr. Eppinghousen. These are afll matters in which taK-pay-firs should beposted. „W«e will bs able to distribute papers gratis. 'We therefore hope that persons not te|k'ng the GAZETTK wfao get this copy wML read carefully its news columns, the reliable telegraphic reports of the Asgpciateifhl'resfJ, the market reports, and ftill local news, the court reports.and well seftccted miscellany and the edit«rals whicfc always advocate-nlhai is believed bv its ,.jb itor to be for the material ^nd moral «uprovemeut of this

County. .^Observe fcbc general tone of the ipaper—U# tit is cleat—that it is pure— that you ccn take it into your families .and so let &em Itave «the news without .any filth.

The papas luring tb* next three or four jtiionths will .(.be partie^Cnrly interesting iHyl ior four-wonths wiK be sent to ar.y address for 50c18 or for *^year for$1.50.

/THE r.Y^GjC.ZETTE. Oic at tent ion »of all persnans into whose liaods the Weekly GAZETT^i'tlls is called to

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many valuable featuroe as a newspaper. It prints from its tik'.ily edition the dispatches of (the Westers Associated Press, which are Uyv same as dhose that appeal du the best ,0f the metropolitan papers Its market ^reports arc received daily by .telegraph frotfiBaliimflre, New York, Cincinnati, Chicago and Toledo. It printMach week the Jndianapalis live stock market and the local Terre »liaute market. It£ oourt house.-and loc^l jews of Terre H$Rte and Vigo county is tull and complete. It contains all ,the features of any of its competittw, .in ttftter form and mote iully than aqjr of thesn, and besides has a number tff featuses which most of,them do not atteavpt and cannot have viz Hie telegraphic AC.WS and market reports. An inspection of the GAZETTE and a.comparison of Us with any other paper published anywhere is earnestly invited. The GAZETTE essentially a newspaper. For a resident ol

Vigo or anv sunounifcng county it is the best paper attainable, .having the local news which outside pap&rs do not have and the telegraphic news which the other papers here, with the singte exception of tbe Express^ denot and cannot have The price of the Weekly GAZETTE only $1.50 per year, which is less than 8 cents per copy, delivered postage free It can be obtained by sending the money through the mail to the GAZETTE, Teste Haute, Ind., or by calling at tbe publi cation,'olllce. Nos. 28 and 25 south Fifth street.

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IT IS believed that the closing .argix ment in the Guiteau case will begin this -week. The assassin has prepared anojher address to the public, which he wishes to sell to some newspapers for teC*"

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$100. A prominent officer of the courf thinksthat tfcejury wtt! give rVWTOT'&T guilty inside of twenty mi not*.

SOCIETY in Washington is exercised overtbe social position of the new British Minister. It qspetrs that tb» Hon. Lion, ei Sackville Sackvil|e Westis importing a job lot of shjldrwi into the country with him as who* origin the air Is filled with harrowing doubts, Now that it turns out that there -was a Mrs. Lionel Sackville Sackville West after all and that Lionel is merely a widower it is reasonable to suppose that although he will sink many 'degrees in the public ea. timation, he will at the same time he rehabilitated socially.

"THE scienee of'interviewing' hae been brought to a very fine point in New York CJHy,''' says the St. Louis Evening PostDi«patch. Oee of the evening papers there thcother lay published sme views •boot foreign coaches and coachincalleged have been communicated to one of its reporters by a gentleman whose lamented death abroad was chronicled a month ago. His remains arrived by steamer on the day that the alleged interview took. place. Tbe reporter evidently noticed tbe arrhwi'l of the gentleman, but neglected to ipform himself as to his peculiar condition.

THE pudges of the Supreme Ocurt are opposed to a plan of a sub-division of that court, and the American Bar Association, at its meeting in ^TewYork in February, will probably take action toward tbe establishment -of another court to consist fifteen judges. They probably will iFucommend -Congress the passage of an act providing for the cr£a-" tion of 'another court, which shall hear and fitwe jurisdiction -over most ot the cases thatmow go to tbe Supreme Court. All higher and more important cases, •such as involve construction of lhe: Constitution, will be reserved fortheSupreme Court.

THE band of'of semi-nude .Zulus, says' an exchang, which shoobed the modesty: of the Philaddphians the other day,para-' •ded in Washington last week and it is in-, itimated that some of the firet families, along the line of march, instead Of pulling down their blinds, actually stood •upi at the windows and rubbed tthe du6t off. their opera glosses. This evidence of social depravity is attributed to the fact that the inhabitants of Washington have, long been aecustemed to- .gazing upon, Congressmen passing through the -streets! bareheaded and barefooted, aud a peace I ful .Zulu chieftain, attired in a string of beads and a hotel napkin, is not .necessa,rilyiKgarded as amoral nuanster.

AHL PROPOSEJJ VICTIMS. We print herewith the nuroes ©f the gentlecnen who are on the two .bonds of ex-County Treasurer Newtosi Rogers. The first bond was given when he was first elected Treasurer. The second bo$d is the ©ne he gave when he was re-elected! It is thought that »both sets will be held tdr the shortage in -his present accounts.. These are the gentlemen who svill 'be compelled jiot only W make up my deficiency'in the accounts of Mr. Roger?, but, if they cannot compel Air. Paiticik Shannon to disgorge, $2,000 of mcney besides, which belonged to Mr. Rogers, and is now, since he J&as given a cheek for it to hia successor, tbe money of Yigo couuty. If it is not jiaid tbey ^ill be compelled to institute suit to recover k. Their names are as follows:

FIRST BONDL-—HemsleySimmons,John N. Miller, Joiin Fuller, Jacob Ortb, HC. Robinson, W. W. Watkins, John S. Beach, Ebeuezec Paddock, John M. Watson, Isaac Cottrell, T. A. Clearwater, Henry Miller, F. F. Kietii, Get. D. Wood, Hugh JiL Brown, Win. Bell. Mavtin Hollinger, W- R. Mercer, W. E. McLean, Patrick Shannon, Eilett Harnies, E. C. Edmunds, Ransom Rogers, Peter Lyons and George A. Paine.

SECO5D BON®:—-George D. Wood, John S. Beach, W. W. Watkins, Isaac Cottrel^ Martin Hollinger, Patrick Shannon, Richard Dunnigan, Noyes Andrews, James Butler, Philip1' Sehloss, John Fuller, Peter Lyons, Eilert Harms, Joseph Watson, T. A. Clearwater, W.- H. Mefcer, Dennis Barrett, John A. Peters, F. F. Keith apd Isaiah Donbam.

These are the geutlemen at whose expense Mr. Patrick Shannon, according tto his own card, "Demanded that he (Rogers) secure me against probable loss." The others could lose. That was all rignt But Mr. Shannon must not lose. No •that would not do at all. He had made any where from tv^o to ten thousand! dol lars off of Rogers' money during four am, aud he must be secured at all hazards and at the expense of the others. That i|his own unblushing statement"

"-A QAJKD from. ex-County Treasurer N ewton Rogers appears in this issue. It relates to aa allegation on Mr. Shannon's prtrt that the Editor of the GAZETTE is indebted to Mf. Rogers in the sum of $690 on a note. It is his answer to the undisputed tact that he has in his possesion and refuses to give Up $2,000 be, longing to Vigo Couuty^ The card of Mr. Rogers is short and explicit, and is endorsed by his deputy, Mr. H.Simmons as being correct. This is explicit and sufficient.

It is proper to say, in addition to the above, that this $20.12 can be collected OD sight by any properly authorized ptr

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MR. PATRICK SHANNON ought, to regard Jefferson Davis with feelings akin to awe and reverence. The story that Mr. Davis made way with ten or fifteen wagon-loads-of gold and silver in the presence ot thousands of hungry men would naturally have a tendency to excite an individual who is experiencing .great difficulty in getting away unobserved with $2 ,000 belonging to Vigo County. v,

In the case of Mr. Davis, however, the, proof was quickly forthcoming that he' did not take the money. Mr. Shannon writes, or rather.had written for him by •some treacherous friend, a caul in which he admits that he took the $2,000, bti pleads that it is his because he had arranged, as he thought, to victimize his fellow bondsmen to that extent. .These are hard times for Mr. Shannon when the people do no: rush forward in eager competition to pay taxes in his holy name and for his exclusive benefit^

"WILL BRING SUIT."* The bondsmen of /Newton Rogers, exTreasbrer, (Mr. Patrick-Shannon was not present. Ed.Uaz.) met at tbe office of Col. W.'S. McIteafk^ThnrSday afternoon, to take action on the existing deficiency in thei former's accounts. -A resolution was adopts ed ordering that sciti be* brought immediately in the Circuit court, to settle the. difficulty! 'Another resolution was adopted ordering Col. MOLean to bring suit against Patrick Shannon, on the check held by {Treasurer Ray, a*id -which the former refuses to hon or.

Roger's bondsmen 'for both terms of his afllce will be made defendants in this suit, .such being the order adopted, and as thirteen of tliem appear on both bonds, they are rutlier liable to get '-'stuc]£." And the end in not yet.—I&xpres3.

No, the end is not yet. Mr. Patrick Shiunon will be compelled to give up that $2,000 of County mossy which he wrongfully retains in his bank. iFor four years he sucked the life blood out of- Newton Rogers. No vampire over fid. his work more remotselessly. •.

He will not lie peranitted now to finish bis work-of ruin in tfoe way he proposgf. He '.holds $2,000 of money which is not his. Tkere is a very bard word descrip&ve oftbat offense

That$£,000 belonged to Mr. Rogers. Ijt belongs now to Vigo County A reversionary interest in it belongs t© nineteen gtntlesnan of Vigo Coftuty who went oa the boo't Of Newton Rogers wilk PatIri^k Shannon.

The loss which will fail upon hese nineteen bon«tsmen by tlj.e shortage in Mr. Rogers' account they wiSl pay. They took that risk. It is the taw. Tkcy are law abiding citizens. But they will not sit idly by snd see one of their auoi ber make way lirith the money of tbe man whose buudjnnen they are.

They think Mr. Shannon has already made enough money off of Newtoa Rog-, era and off of them. He was no more of a bondsman than any one of them. His actions indicate that he wants to be very much less than a boodsman, for he is endeavoring, while they lose, to make money out of their losses. The bondsmen think that this is an outrage, aud an especial outrage on the part of a man who, because he was op tbe bond, bad the use of $10,000 for two years at per cent, of $10,000 for two years at 4 per cent and of a deposit, averaging over rather than under $15,000, for four years for nothing.

If Newton Rogers now had half tbe money which his friend Shannon made during four years off of that large deposit for which he paid no interest, though other banks did pay interest on the' deposits they bad, and had this $2,000 balance wbich his friend Shannon ntiw refuses to pay on bis check, there would be no talk of defalcation. These nineteen bondsmen would not in that^casq have a lawsuit on their bands among, the other misfortunes incident to being associated oa a bond with a man wb.«e idea of honor and eood faith is -, first to bleed to death the victim on whose bond^he is and then finifth his feast with the blood of his fellow bonds men,

Mca. trick Shannon has tried and will continue his efforts to distract public attention from the fact that he is walking Dffwith $2,COO of money belonging to Vigo county by heaping personal abuse on various persons.

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Bon, and that too without any reference to a small bill on our books against ingratitude he has turned upon the man' tad a large portion of the congregation* the integrity of Mr. Rogers.

off of whom eadhryear for four long years

Tofr3wed from TtTm we paid 'W^per Ibe has made a comfortable living—more

We had no $10,008 for t«& years at per cent or $10,000 for two additional years at 4 per cent and a deposit averaging in the neighborhood of $15,000 for four years foT nothing. But, though we dii nrtt enjoy the privileges Mr. Shannon did, 0r make much or any money off of Mr. Rogers In any way, whereas ho made more-off ef him each year than ibe wages of any one of hundreds of hard working men we are not disposed now that he is in trouble to demand instant settlement of our claim. We will pay the little amount due him on his books and wait until it is convenient for him to pay up what is due from him to us* feeling confident that, having been relieved of tire burden of supporting Mr. Shannon,.he will now be able in time to liquidate ail his debts of every kind. We know he can make Mr. Shannon disgorge this $2,000. We hope he may be able to collect frc:a his editorial appendage a bill of $38 iiul-some cents owing him according t© the-same books that show an indebtedness on our part of $2012.

than hundreds of hard working men etfrn. He is equally malicious and abusive of the editor 91 the GAZETTE, to whose discredit it can net be said that he was ever so false to the community in which lie lived that he would defend his schemes for public plunder, and who first incurred his enmity by denouncing as it deserved his iniquitous speculation in the railroad securities of the county eight years ago.

Mr Shannon has clapped his hands and there will be barking in the only quarter from which such sounds issue when he tries to raise false issues under cover of which he may make way with his booty. It is for the business community and the general public to say how long they will continue to afford a support to his personal organ, the Ledger, which exists to further his schemes for appropriating to his own use the money of the county. He ought to be left alone to support the only paper which supports him as against the people.

But he will disturb the equanimity of nc one now. Public business demands his attention. He must pay over to Treasurer Ray that $2,000 of money belonging to Vigo County, which he wrongfully and fraudulently retains in his bank. He must then settle his suit with MrT Eppinghousen. The people are anxious to know all about how they were "to build a court house and enrich him at •the same time. Besides this he will hear something to interest him from the Supreme Court concerning his purchase Oj the E. &> T. H. railroad securities of Vigo county. if it-

The day of reckoning is coming for Mr. Shannon. The next world is not to pass tbe first judgement on him, though that will corfie in time

The number nineteen used above refers to the persons on the second bond other than Mr. Shannon himself. The number of different persons on the two bonds, counting only once those persons whose names are on both bonds and omitting Mr.. Shannon, is thirty-two.

A SAD DAYufF0R THE CONGREG AT TONAf. OHURCU. What was anticipated as a glad and joyous occasion at the Congregational church Sunday was suddenly changed to a most .«olemn and impressive scene. The people were assembled for worship on Sunday morning, anticipating tbe approaching services with much delight, When it was suddenly annou need that Mr. Lucius Ryce, familiarly known as Deacon Ryce, sitting in his old .family pew, was taken suddenly and fatally ill. The circumstances were so startling to those present that it may be of interest to bis many friends to know how he passed 4vfty- „..i

The morning was bright and cheerful to bira and in the best of spirits he left his homq to take his accustomed place in the church to wftich he had been ardently attached for many years. Passing down tbe streets and into the church-he seemed to those .who met him in a most happy condition-of mind, exchanging Christmas greetings with one and another ol his old friends.

Deacon Ryce was especially happy in fog church relations, was interested in everything that had any bearing upon the moral and religious condition of the city. He bad witnessed the growing interest in hjs mvn church with a great deal of satisfaction, during the past two weeks, and while the church lias been undergoing repairs, had been deeply interested, contibuting largely of his means and giving whatever support he could. The pastors of the church also found in him a wise and tender counsellor.

The previous Sabbath had been one of great joy to him. The old church was re-opened with new lile and vigor and its bright and attractive appearance greatly cheered aud comforted him. He took special delight in and was a strong advocate of a high order of church muBic, and was anticipating with pleasurable thougnt the Christmas^, songs and ^nthems.

He was setting in his old family pew and had just exchanged the compliments of the Christmas season, when the organist began playing "I know that my Redeemer liveth" which was Mr. Ryce's favorite. As he looked up his calm face seemed to respond to the notes of the organ and lighted up as the strains moved on,—indeed his spirit was borne aloft by them. He seemed to have caught some of the pure immortality of the Wight spirit beyond the golden gates of death. The pastor of the church sat watching him and Be changes of his countenaace but could not realize anything so startling. He died without a struggle, so perfectly motionless that those sitting almost by his side did not notice what was takgpg place. *5' .iD/tila*-

So ended a truly good life. A impressive scene to the large congregation present. No other sermon was needed for that day. 8trong men bowed down in tears before such an appeal and all hearts were crushed aa in the presence of death's conqueror. The whole congregation sat in awe and amazement before such a power. The Rev. Mr. Crofts led tbe audience in a brief prayer befittibg the solemn moment and then dismissed them.

It was solemn indeed to see his old friends carrying him back to his home

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following, eager to show all possible respect to him whom they had loved for many yeXrs aiil whosip feltow&ip had beenplea|ftn$|f

The s^rvid* suddenly arretted,, the church emptied, and that solemn procession will not soon be forgotten by the many present-

Mrs. Ryce will have the prayers of many hearts in this ber darkest hour. May the Good Hand lead her through these deepening shadovfs..

Mr. Ryce was widely known in business and social cisctea, and all who came in contact with him felt the strength of his uncompromising manhood,

But how beautiful the end! OnXhristmas morning, in the church he had loved, in his own family pew and listening to the strains of his favorite hymn. So beautiful! So peaceful! The whole scene seems now like a visit to the spirit world—the hushed audience, the tearful eyes—how strange it all is.

There is no death. What seems so is transition.

THAT $2,000 OF COUNTY MONEY, SITIT has been brought by C. F. McNut* against the bondsmen of ex-Countv Treas urer Newton Rogers for the amount due from him to the County. It is the purpose of the bondsmen, other than Mr. Shannon, when that suit comes up in court, to file across bill to make him pay over that $2,000 of monay he has in his bank which should be applied to the account of Mr. Rogers

The only answer Mr. Shannon has thus far vouchsafed in this matter was in biscard published in the Saturday Mail on the 17th of December- That answer is in effect that he seeured the money with a view to escaping all responsibility as a bondsmen by throwihg the whole burden on the,other persons who .were on that instrument with hilti.

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The answer is not a good one in lawHe can not keep that money, for it is not his. But his own explanation of the affair is a dishonoring one. What his fel low bonusmen think of it is shown by their action in arranging to bring suit against him for its recovery,

Mr. Shannon is only one of thirty thrpp bondsmen. The sboitage on Mr Rogers' account now is in round numbers $19,000.

Mr. Shannon thought he had made secret and corrupt understanding with Mr. Rogers whereby this $2,000 should be kept by him. Then Mr. Rogers has given over for $10,000 property worth more rather than less than $15,000. Out of that can be realized at least $5,000 which will be applied to this $19,000 and reduce it to $14,000. There are book ac counts to the amount of $12,000 in round numbers which have been turned over to tbe bondsmen. If all of these could be collected it would reduce the shortage to $2,000.

That' amount, or say twice as much, would, when divided among 31$ bondsmen, make the share of each only a little over $100. Mr. Shan non would pay his share with a parade of maintaining the credit of the county. In his safe all this time would be $2,000. of money not his. Let us fancy for moment that Mr. Rogers had really entered into such an arrangement with Mr. Shannon, secretly and .with a view to his having that money until after The other bondsmen had sfettled, and that nothing was to be said to anybody about it. Let us ancy, we repeat, that such arrangement had seen entered into by Mr. Rogers.

Mr. Shannon thought he had fixed it in that way, Of that there can be no doubt. His unfortunate card means that and nothing less. fyp,/

Let us fancy then that a year from now after the bondsmen bad -paid off everything, Mr. Rogers should have gone to Mr. Shannon and asked for the $1,900 of mohey in his bank over and above what be had to pay as a bondsman. Can any one doubt what the answer would be of this man who is shameless enough to avow in a card over his own signature that ne had fixed up, or tried to fix up a scheme whereby he shbtild be indemnified to the extent of $2,000 for a m* possible loss of« hundred or so, and that this magnificent personal and special indemnification should come out of the pockets of thirtytwo gentleman so unfortunate as to be on a bond with him.

Mr. Rogers would, in all .likelihood, have been told to appeal kv the law to secure that money, reeking all over with fraud as It would be, and the result would have probably begfc that Mr Shannon would have been $1,900 richer by reason of the failure of. the friend who bad loaned him $10,000 for two years at 5% per qeiit., and $10,000 for two years at 4 per cent, and had given

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He would have been $1,900 richer by reason of this failure, while the friend who had done so mucb for him would be penniless, and 'the other bondsmen would be out of pocket .just: the $1,900 Mr. Shannon would be in pocket, beside tbe other hundred a piece paid on the bond. Mr Shannon thought/he had arranged this thing. He Says so in that uofortuhate card of bis.

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gentleman gave him a check when he* thought he "would be able to pay without help from his bondsmen. As soon as he fottnd: that he could not, he told his bondsmen of it, and the result is that Mr. Shan, yi be compelled to disgorge that $2,000.

A day of reckoning is coming. It hasbeen long delayed, but retrihution isnear at hand.

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Mr. Patrick Shannon still has his gripon that $2,000 of county money. He will be compelled to give it up. That is only a matter of time. The money is not his and his refusal to give it up subjects tbe other bondsmen to the expense unit! trouble of a suit.

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Now $2,000 is a great deal of money. Ninety-nine hundredths of the people of Vigo county do not make that .much after a year of steady toil. Three fourths of the people of Vigo county do not make halt that much by, a year of constant and) unremitting labor. Hundreds of themen and women of Vigo county would be supremely happy if they thought they could make that much money in a year.

What service has Patrick Shannon rendercd that he should have that money which was paid into the County Treasury out of the hard earnings of the pub* lie? His card explains. *1

One great service he did was to borrow $10,000 of County money for two years at" per cent., when other people were-1 paying from 8 to 10 per cent. Another' great service he did the County was* to borrow $10,000 of the County money for two years at 4 per cent., when the taxpayers whoso money lie was using were paying from 7 to 0 per cent. A aother «reat service ho did, though he* does not explain this in his card, it being one of the things he wanted to keep in

His own card says that this^* $2,000 of money is his because he had secured it to indemnity himself on the bond. "Icdemnifj" is a misleading word. It means in this?* case that he thought he had made a secret and corrupt bargain with Mr. Rogers, whereby be (Shanuon) should make in the neighborhood of^ $2,000 off oj1 tfce losses of his fellow^' bondsmen. *'Mr. Rogers explains this matter in his manly straightforward card Ha explains how he gave the check, t*' thinking there was no likelihood of his having to call on his bondsmen for help how he never intended toswindle any of', his bondsmen by prefering one over an-* other how he told ot this sum of money, as a matter of course, whenbe found that he would be short howone of the bondsmen asked Mr. Shannonabout it how that gentleman at once saw Mr. Rogers, told him one of the bondsmen had spoken of that $2,000, said he had evaded the question and wanted to know if he (Rogers) had "given it away" howr Mr. Rogers said he had told of it of course, and how Mr. Shannon said he then knew what be would do.

Mr. Shannon reckoned without his host. He thought Mr. Rogers was a dishonest man and would enter into a scheme with him for helping him out of the pockets of the Other bondsmen. This. Mr.. Rogers would not do.-

Ht is short in his accounts. He is sorry for it. But he has not evaded his responsibilities. He has not run away. He has made way with nothing. He has given up all bis property. The (County will lose nothing. He will do all in his power to see that bis bondsmen do not suffer, and he especially does not propose tkat this man, whom be helped aliove all others for. four years, shall make money out of his misfortunes and those of his felIow bondsmen.

Mr Rogers has been unfortunate, but he hai not been dishonest, and his honesty is best proved by his repudiation of a scheme proposed to him by Mr. Shannon, as explained in the unfortunate card of that gentleman, for perpe trating a grietous wrong on the other boadsmen. That this is so is evinced by the fd?t that all the bondsmen are. sorry for and stand by Mr. Rogers, while we are yet to hear of tbe first one of them who does not feel that Pstrick Shannon attempted to perpetrate an infamous outrage on them.

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the dark, was to have lor four years a de~ posit in his bank of county money which' ranged lrom five to over thirty thousand1 dollars and averaged over rather than under $15,000. This money he bait for nothing, not paying a cent for it, while other banks did. That money was the' bridge bond sinking Innd money,and the bridge bonds bear 7 per cent., so that the taxpayers of Vigo county were paying jf per cent, on borrowed money and giving' Patrick Shannon tbe use of a. largeamount of monex for nothing. Those are some ot the various*reasofti why Mr.,• Patrick Shannon should wind up his* U'r feast on the possessions of tbe people with. $2,000 of their money.

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