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and robbery run riot in Sumter Co.
In this county (Marengo) affairs are a little better seeing to my personal efforts to have the cases respected, but to have them administered is beyond my expectations. Last Summer the Governor appointed Senator Jones to be mayor of this small village incorporated as a city. Mr. Jones is a man apparently of unusual mind: and under bonds on a charge of murder, who one day making a brilliant speech in favor of Grant in front of my office and shortly thereafter making one equally so of an opposite character after slumping the District and then writing a letter that came into my hands declaring that he voted for Seymour to save his life.
On the recommendations of this Mayor Jones the Governor has appointed Notary Publics with powers of J.P. that are an impediment to the administration of justice, and the law on the collection of laborers wages is substantially a dead letter in Marengo County, except so far as administered by an interoperate Probate Judge
There has been a decided improvement in the newspapers of the Sub Dist since the legislature transformed the right to select official newspapers from the Governor to the Probate Judges of