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sleep in my quarters my food being cooked in a building under the control of this Bureau & brought to me on a boys head a quarter of a mile. But this has not saved me from the most violent abuse & the most shameful slanders in the village news paper. A column & a half of this stuff, however, contained a note of mine to one of our lawyers stating there would be no election this fall; which notice, together with the want of counter irritation, & perhaps aided by political intelligence from the north has, at last, apparently, squelched this terrible excitement among men educated to the use of the revolver. Yet I am entirely isolated in this community being the only white man, as far as I know, who as not signed the roll of the Democratic club.

There are no school reports this month

One county in my district, [[strikethrough]] has [[/strikethrough]] Hale, has at last procured a Sheriff, but this is balanced by the Sheriff