During the recent campaign thecharge was made to my detriment in Bristol township that I had tried to collect $2.50 from Jobn Hockrciter, of Ravenna, for cancel* ijng a real estate mortgage against him that had already been discharged. t toid Mr. Murtz, the mortgagee that the statement was false anil offered to pay him $25.00for any letter written by me on the subject. Mr. Mortz kindly procured the letter and it is given below in full:Loup City Nebraska Aug* 8, 190.1. John tlocbreiter K?q.Ravenna, Neb.Dear sir: [find that the mortgageto rater Moritz covering land In 2t5*l8 and 16 lias not been released, ir you wish and will ‘send me $2 50I will prepare a proper release, m*ui1 itto Deter Moritz for hi* execution, andon niuiring it back from bim will have it properly recorded and then send it 10 you.Yours trulyII. M. Mathew.In justice to Mr. Mathew I would say that tiie release of the mortgage referred to was a marginal release, therefore does not appear on the numerical index only in the twowords '‘marginal release,” which is w ritten in the column for “remarks’' just after the description of the land and Mr. Mathew overlooked it whenlooking the matter up for Mr. Hockrciter. Geo. 11. Giuson,