A BIG TREASURY THEFT.
Ati Elaborate and Successful
I|| ;; Scheme.
How a Paokage of 2,000 Ten-Dol
lar Notes Disappeared.
Referring to the completion of a
I new silver vault at the -United States
treasury department, a Washington
correspondent teils this 9tory : The
system of guarding the enromous
sums of money which are daily han
dled by the department is so thorough
and complete that only once in the
last fifty years have the repeated ef
forts of cracksmen and confidence men
been successful in defeating it. The
particular incident referred to occur
red in 1870, when Spinner was treas
urer. The amount stolen was a pack
age ot 2,000 ten-dollar notes. The
objectivt point of tbe thieves (two in
number) was the division issue, the
bureau to which the freshly-engraved
notes are delivered, to be counted and
turned into the treasury.
Subsequent inquiry revealed the fact
that the scheme for the robbery had
been planned and matured several
months previous, waiting meanwhile
with tbe most commendable patience
for a favorable opportunity to accom
plish it One day the wife of a prom
inent resident of Washington, in com-
pany with an other-lady and her hus
band, were passing the upper door of
the room where the money packages
were piled on a table to be counted.
The first-named lady and the chief of
division were well Yicquainted. As
she came to the open door they recog
nized and saluted each other.she with
her friends advancing into the room.
While in the act of doing so one of
the thieves forced himself between the
lady and her frineds. He immediately
entered into conversation with Mr.
Root,the chief of the division, making
inquiry as to the manufacture, receipt
and counting of the notes. Root sup
posed him to belong to his friend's
party, and was thus thrown entirely
off his guard. The lady, in turn,sup
posed-him to be an acquaintance of
Root's.
A moment later the two ladies, with
their gentleman escort, sauntered care
lessly to the further extremity of the
room. The principal thief whose ob
servations were elever and pertinent,
soon absorbed Root's whole attention.
His conversation showed him to be a
man of fine mind and cultivated man
ners. While chatting thus his accom
plice hastily entered and approaching
the messenger whose duty it was to
watch the money packages,made some
casual inquiries about a clerk who had
long since been dead. The woman
turned about to answer his inquiries.
At this juncture thief Xo. 1 suddenly
exclaimed :
"Ah! I see my friends are leaving.
I must join them."
Root looked in the direction indicat
ed. Sure enough, the party were
moving towards the door. His eyes
were taken off the stranger for only an
instant, but in that time he had man
aged to secret the package within the
crown of his wide Panama hat, which
he negligently swung in his left hand.
The amazing coolnesss and audaci
ty of the man was then shown by his
polite invitation to Root to go out
and "have something.'' The latter,
however, declined with thanks,and the
thief made his exit on the pretense of
rejoining his friends. The money was
missed within the hour that it was
taken,but there was no suspicion that
it had been stolen. On the supposi
tion that it had notjbeen received from
the Bureau of Engraving and Print
ing,twenty-four hours were allowed to
I ~elaps3. When the fact of the theft
wat, fully established, the aid of the
telegraph and Secret Service detect
ives was freely employed. The effort
was futile. The thieves escaped with
their booty, andj have never to this
day been apprehended. The most
singular feature of the affair is that
the stolen package was the only one
of probable a score which contained
notes of that denomination. The con
tents of the others were mainly SSO
and SIOO bills.
How Clay Took Defeat.
The following interesting incident
was related many years ago by Mrs.
Robert Todd, of Kentucky, tiie step
mother of Mrs. Abraham Lincoln, and
has never before been printed, accord
lug to the St. Louis Globe-Democrat:
The Todds and Clays were always on
intimate terms, and in 1844 weie living
near each other in Lexington,Ky. Hen
ry Clay and James K. Polk were then
rival candidates for the Presidency, the
chances, as were generally supposed,
being strongly in favor of the great
Whig leader. As it turned out, how
ever. the contest was much closer than
had been anticipated, and finally advic
tes from other states showed that the
result hinged upon the vote of New
York. There was no telegraph in those
days t aud news had to come by the slow
course of mails. The New York mail
waa due in Lexington about 10 o'clock
in the evening of a certain day, antf it
was known that it would tell the story
of a victory or a defeat. As it happen
ed, a young lady relative of Mr. Clay
was to be married on the same evening,
and insisted upon his presence, though
under the circumstances he would
much rather have remained at home.
Mr. and Mrs. Todd attended this me
morable wedding partj, which was not
large, and composed almost exclusively
of the family connections and intimate
friends—all ardent Whigs,and of course
deeply interested in the pending politi
cal event.
As the hour for the arrival of the
mail approached, Mrs. Todd saw two
or three gentlemen quietly leave the
room, and knowing their errand watch
ed eagerly for theirreturn. When they
came in she knew by the expression of
each countenance that New York had
gone Democratic. The hearers of the
bad tidings consulted together a mo
ment in a corner, and then one of them
advanced to Mv. Clay, who was stand
ing in the centre of a group, and hand
ed linn a paper. Mrs. Todd aware of
what it contained, fastened her eyes
upon him. lie opened the paper, and
as he read the paragraph which sound
ed the death knell of his political hopes
and lifelong ambition, she saw a dis
tinct blue shade begin at the roots of
his hair, pass slowly over his face like a
cloud, and then disappear. Without
saying a word upon the subject which
must have monopolized all his thoughts,
he laid down the paper, and turning
to a table, tilled a glass with wine, and,
raising it to his lips with a pleasant
smile, said : "I drink to the health and
happiness of all assembled here." Set
ting down the glass, ho resumed the
conversation as if nothing had occurred
and was, as usual, the life and light of
the company. But Mrs.Todd said that
as soon as the contents of the paper
were known "a wet blanket fell upon
everybody," and in half an hour all the
guests hid departe<l with heavy hearts
—feeling tliit gill i i 4 flrry of the
West" had fought the I tsi ihvsid nti 11
battle and lost t he prize forever.
PICKim
It is asserted that about a third of
the banking done in the world is done
in the British Empire.
The feat of transmitting two tele
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time was first accomplished by l)r.
Gintl, an Austrian, in 1853.
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late London freak. Only the skin about
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The largest dam in the world has
been projected by a French engineer in
Brazil. It will be 910 feet long and 58
feet high. It will back tbe water over
1500 acres, and irrigate 2000 acres of
bottom land.
Among the things which the Mexi
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fights is setting life-size pith images
loaded with lead before the animal. As
fast as these figures are knocked down
they spring erect, and infuriate the
animal almost to madness.
A clock made of hardened bread is on
exhibition in Milan. It is the work of
a Peruvian, who, being too poor to buy
any material for the work, saved his
bread, eating the crust and using the
soft part, which he hardened in a min
eral solution for his clock.
The first use of a locomotive in this
country was in 1829. The first Union
flag was unfurled on Jan. 1 1776, over
the camp at Cambridge, Mass. It had
thirteen stripes of white and blue and
retained the English cross in the corner.
The first daily newspaper appeared in
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Lewisburg 7.25 10 05 2.20
Fair Ground 730 10.13 2.25
Bielll 7.40 10.27 2.35
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P. M.
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