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Troy Township Peer. Ma. Borroz: In last week,a Reporter appears a long article, signed L. Hargus, M. D., having charges against some of our township officers in it. As there is that one in the township, and he keeps a record of all his official actions, has the Doctor ever examined that record? Did he find anything wrong there? If he has, let him say it. The Trustee had nothing to do with the poor-house ques tion. The committee of one is responsi ble for all what has been done about that transaction, and there is nothing in that for the Doctor to get in such wrath about it. And just to please the Doctor and to keep him from using coercion, the com mittee of one would here state the whole affair just as it stands now, to show him that he knew nothing about it when he wrote that article. The committee of one went to the Aud itor’s office on the 1st of January to ex amine the different proposals from the physicians of Cannelton. ‘There was one from L. Hargus, M. D., Homeopathist, of Cannelton, offering medicine and med ical attendance to the poor in the asylum for 380 a year. ‘The committee of one was not aware, at that time, that the theory of Homeopathy would draw a tooth or set a broken leg. As far as medicine was concerned, the committee of one can send to Cincinnati and get a whole box full of it for 85, with direction how to use it, and to pay 880 for that would be spending the tax-payers’ money to no purpose. After examining all other proposals, the committee found that they were given in at random, no physician knowing its real value. These were all rejected, and a separate proposal of P. R. Gest for 50 cents a visit, medicine in cluded, accepted. The Trustee was then instructed to employ a German physician at the same price, if any of the poor wanted one. As to the other charges, the Doctor is all wrong there. I am happy to inform the Doctor that the committee of one is really in favor of the theory of Homeop athy, and read with great pleasure the fact that one half of Troy township uses it. But the committee of one can assure the Doctor that all the poor of the town ship must belong to the other half, from the fact that no Homeopathic bill has ever been presented to the Commissioners. No, sir, they are all too large for that— there is too much calomel and fallop in them. But, to keep the Doctor in good hiumor, and to save some money to Perry county, the committee of one has re quested the ‘Trustee to assist the Doctor in persuading the other half of the town ship in favor of Homeopathy. If they are successful, the committee will use all its influence with the Commissioners to let him have the benefit of it. I hope the committee of one has an swered all questions asked by the Doctor to his satisfaction. If not, the committee prediges itself to do so in future. But, at the same time, the Doctor ought not to make such sweeping charges before he is certain about them. M. DUSH, Commissioner. —_~ iFor the Reporter.] Mr. Burron: You probably recollect that Messrs. Huckeby, Mason and Dew eese, during the summer of 1860, were appointed a committee to examine cer tain county offices and see what money had been paid, illegally or otherwise, to certain officers of Perry county, and that those gentilemen discharged their duty and made a certain report, which was pub lished in your paper, and which is now on file in the Auditor's office. I desire to call your attention, as also the atten tion of the tax-payers of Perry county, to this, at the Common Pleas Court in Vanderburg county, held at Evansville, and now just closed, John Pitcher, judge, the same kind of allowances,claimed by the Clerk and Sheriff as the Perry county committee reported as illegal, were pre sented to Judge Pitcher, and by him were, promptly rejected ! M. Camelton, Feb. 2, 1801. LE “Norwester,”’ the New York cor respondent of the Boston Post, gives pub licity to the following personal items: “The castigation administered by an outraged husband to a couple of his wife's paramours has been the talk of the town for the past few days. Lamoureux, the chief sinner, is still under the care of phy sicians, his punishment being severe and ‘somewhat jerrifying. The other master of beowhide is, or was, a salesman in our heaviest Inco houses, and is said to have worked upon the lady's fears by threaten ing to tell of the other intrigue, thus ac complishing his purpose as though by force. The injured husband is an under sized man, but come off conquer over the two larger lovers in capital style.— “Thrice is he armed who hath his quarrel just.” Sugg le In the Indiana Senate, the other lay, Senator Ray said the Democrats of tthe North would stand between the South and the Black Republicans, should the latter, with Lincoln at their heal, at tempt to coerce a sovereign State. There upon Senator VaaGxen denounced Mr. Ray and all each as “traitors.’* £ 2 Last Thursday there were 388 prisoners in the Jeffersonville State Prison.
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Cannelton Reporter
Cannelton, Indiana, US
Thu, Feb 07, 1861
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