WAGNER'S 2,000 VICTIMS. In Frederick county, Mil:, about 2,000 of the suite instituted by Dr. Harrison Wagner, the professional lit igant, against citizens of the county, were settled, the defendants being com pelled to pay various sums, ranging from 850 to 875 iu each case. The operations of Wagner are without a • parallel in the United States. About two years ago he was geuerally con sidered to be harmlessly insane. Ilis actions were calculated to confirm this theory, ami his eccentricities were re garded with indifference by every one who knew him. In the fall of 1870 Wagner caused much amusement by going before an obscure country mag istrate, and entering several hundrid suits for damages against leading citi zens, chosen at random in all parts of the county, who hud never seen or hud auy dealings with him. The amount of damages sued for in each for in each case was between 890 and 8100, the limit for which suits cau he brought before magistrates in this Stale. No attentiou was paid to the supposed lunatic's suits, and the cases were soon forgotten, but were several times recalled to memory by notices of hundreds of other suits beiug brought by Wagner, who frequently entered as high as one hundred claims against one person. Early in 1879 Wagner disappeared from public notice, but in the fall of that year the entire community was thrown into a furor of excitment when it was learned that Wagner had com menced proceedings to enforce judg ments in 1,800 of the suits. It was then learned for the first time that the Krsons sued, having failed to appear fore the magistrate to answer, judg ments had been entered in each case for the amount named iu the com lilaint. Wagner made no effort to col ect the judgments until a year had expired, when by law the power of appeal had lapsed. In November last, therefore, he was possessed of 1,800 judgments, averaging 875.00, against about three hundred county residents and corporations. Each judgment was endorsed, "by default and "no appeal taken," and of course they amounted to a lien on any property owned by the defendants. During Wagner's absence several persons against whom he bad obtained judgmeuts died, aud his first move was to file the judgments in the orphans' court as claims against the estate. Martin Shank, one of his victims, had died and left an estate valued at $8,500 to bis wife and three sruali children. Wagner filed judgments against the estate amounting to 80,200 and the orphans' court was compelled to postpone the hearing of the claims several times in order to avoid the necessity of admitting their validity. At length several citizens employed counsel for Mrs. Shank, who filed an application for an arrest of judgment on the ground of fraud. The same policy was pursued by all the other victims, and since that time the cases f have beeu dragged along in the court*, the indications poiutiug to Wagner be ing eventually successful in enforcing all of them. The courts ruled that the failure of the victims to contest the suits was in law a virtual acknowl edgment of the justice of the claims, while the further failure to take an appeal from the magistrate withiu the period prescribed by law placed them beyond remedy. 'After be had begun to enforce the judgments Wagner found the county hi) hot to hold him, and went to New York city, where he now is. The pro ceedings against his victims have been carried on by counsel there, and the settlement made in nearly all the cases, it is thought, will net him nearly $lO,- 000. He does not pretend that he had any legal claim for damages in any of the cases, yet be has succeeded id obtaining considerable portions of the estates of several deceased resi dents of the county, besides mulcting hundreds of farmers of hard-earned money. LUMBER made of straw is a recent invention. An exchange, describing it sa j* : "The new material appears to be capable of beiug worked under the plane and other tools of the carpen ters, and has the special advantage of being free from knots and not liable to shrinkage, swelling, warping and splitting. The material, judged from the sample, resembles hard wood in appearance, being about as dark as oak, but more dense in texture, and with a specific gravity one-fifth great er than thoroughly seasoned black walnut. Its tensible strength is r*- ported to be about double that of of the same thickness. TOM is the sound practical advice that is given bv a misanthrope . 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