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A COSBUBOY SWINDLE.^ _ V «*4i1tcc(VItS8Si-te\iI0*flt;In these days of hard limes and sharp practice, while tho citizens of so mo of our neighboring counties arc complaining of the grievances of railroads and) railroad swindles, our town and country are the victims of an additional bore in^ the so-called “Logansport and Rochester Plank Road,” which is doubtless the poorest specimen of work in the shape of a highway known to the civilized world.The company which built this great institution was chartered i .i tho year of grace 1816. and said charter was link-D “cred at by each of the legislatures of'jc 1847-49, and ’50, whereby the whole thing was reduced, as far as Fulton County is concerned, to a value far lessj appreciable than that of a single row of pins. Ever since operations were j % commenced'upon this road, our citizens j ^ whom neeessit}r compelled to travel it, have paid toll upon the portion that was partially finished, up to the present time, and it does seem to us that the good nature of our people should no longer be imposed upon.It was understood when subscriptions. „1 Owere being made to this enterprise, that j n the lull amount subscribed in Fulton iIcount}^ should bo expended in making the road, (as Sec. 18, oi the charter expresses it) ‘‘from the south bank of Mill Creek, at Rochester, south,” but *y certain jerrymandering a repeal of this section was obtained from the legislature of 1849, and instead of our money being laid out for tho improvement and growth of our county seat, the small portion of planked road in Fulton county is situate at a distance of five miles from Rochester; the effect of which has always operated against Rochester to the benefit of Logansport, and more especially of John Wright’s town of Fulton.The shameless duplicity by which our country people were ‘ diddled7’ out of their subscriptions, is more than equaled in meanness by the wretched and%miserable manner in which the road has over been kept in repair, or rather out of repair; the planked portion from here to Lpgansport being, for one half of the year, much worse than that part on which the company have not attempted to do anything.We do not know in whoso hands the institution is at present, but, judging from the appearance of it7 we should suppose it belongs to. the orphan of a very poor widow, whose husband was the victim of a financial “smash” at least forty years before his demise.Now, we earnestly protest against paying any more toll upon this plankrroad, at least until it shall bemado passable, and if the proprietors have no/ . *money to make it good, let them taketheir broken boards and decayed string-• • ■ •era out of our way, and we will do ourtravelling in the old style, and have the road repaired by the supervisors; we want no mor.e promises that tho road• * ' k • ' ■, ’ * r' . #’will* be made good, we have been cajoled With that trash for a dozen years, and: ’’ / i ' . '* • ) sV •}. y ■ • 1 • ;■ T, 'arebecomeisickotit. •t’t!ditsiIdtiSibiiirftdsifiliEtili1Eat;tiaEblt;febult;•• + ♦* ' % * *r , ■ r* ^ ^ * * * • I ¥ r ' .In con elusion, we r ecom meMlio our citizens naving/A occasion xto? visit; Lo-gansporfc, to avoid the practice of stop-* \ lt;• . .. A , j -to pay aSIVlt;alticiDi*mrediinla*•».Iare
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Rochester Sentinel
Rochester, Indiana, US
Sat, Jun 11, 1859
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