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Johnson coaafg, Dec. 20Al, 1888
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Johnson county, Dec. 20M, 1888.

 lsir. GDifoR--isis5ii ii5iii ii yoti bo so good as to inform the public why the laws, ,aakia 2 near eofestieS, have not been published by the Public Prnter-Wm. X. Woodruff? The people in Scott and Johnson counties are at q total loss to know when their elections conc on for county odieers Etis now the 20th of December, and tie laws making said counties have not been published in the Gazette. What excuse can the Public Printer offer! He can offer none. He should have published the most impolfa,at laws in his paper, immediately after receiy- ing copy of them from the Executive which he has had ia his possession, if am rightly informed, for six or eight weeks. = I anxiously examined the Gazette of llth December, confidently expecting to find the law dividing Pope county-.judge my sur prise, when ] found the paper to contain sundry diporce and relief laws, to the ercl,- sson of the important laws have mentioned. well recolect, that two years ago, this fellow set up piteous howl against Ber- tfand fer not publishing the laws in sea- sonable time--even beforc the laws had been placed in his hands by the Executive, for publication. What has the people gain ed by hi8 election He is more iardy in the discharge of his duties than Bertrand was. Bertrand excused himself by telling the public that has paper had ,ros short, in consequence of the neglect of his agent But Woodruff can offer no eccu8e-for, if recolIeet aright, he tocsted of his abttity to complete inc public prin ting in a less tsras than any other printer in Arkansas. Bfag is very good dog-but Holdfast, it is said, Is a better one.

 The people up this way are very anxious to saeap back again-they say they would rather risk BERTRAND, if even half that is said of him be true, than half dozen such little c!oclE-pedding Yankees as Woodruff Now, l do not mean, by this expression, to denounce the Yankees coliectively--Garfrom it. On the contrary, much admire them as a people. But, Woodruff, you know, is of the 6iae Jelly sort -the worst kind of Yankee.