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STRQUDSBURG, MONROE"' COUNTY; PA., FEBRUARY 3, 1876.
NO. 35.
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GLAZIER AND PAINTER,
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oi'p kS ""w 'li"y f'epitfd to do all kiiuie
'' ai" t li iagi.o.. (j 'a zing an I Painting.
mid at short notice, nnd Unit he
p'l )kp'l co.i-liintly on hmd a fin lock id
'-t Uuiioi.-.w of all descrip'ious and at
lnc..-e. Tiie piiru.ia. .fth public
Wli'--?-y oJif.f,.d. " May 1 ft, 1872.
TOCK,
GREAT BANK ROBBERY.
SKILLED CRACKSMEN GET G70,000.
Tilt; STORY OF THE UAH) AT NOHTAMl'TON",
M VSNS.YCIirSETTS A FAMILY OP SEVEN
JAGUED AN!) OL AUULl) KOU I'lVE HOURS
THE ESCAPE.
From the Springfield IUpuUican of Jan. 27.
North;mi(nn woke up, yesterday forc
noon, to learn of the ni.hst nu'Jacious, deli
berato aiul startling bank robbcrv tliat
wotorn Massachusetts, if n)t the whole
country, has over known. A b;;nJ of seven
inon, v!m had boon hanirlntr about the town
for at least a month, it would seem, entered
the house of Cashier Whittlesey," of the
Northampton National Bank, and bound,
jrajred and guarded fur hours .seven eoj;lc.
They eoinpelled lain to ive them the com-
oiuations on tne safe vault, waited until
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j iney kiicw uie lai.i watciunan iiat u;oue
j ill-mo, :-nJ tlivn, getting- into the vault and
I safe with only one of the four keys needed,
i stiolc a lar'i amount of securities, locked
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toe auiL unci tneui, ana ueUiieti on lue
! early morning .Si-riniiueld train ; and
j whence thoy came and whither they went,
i up to dute, is a riddle. An expert had to
be summoned yum New York and the lock,
was not opened umil v.n early hour ton j
morning loe re.su, t is Mn.KientJy appal- ,
bu- ihe tab.e ..tthe seeuri . ta:cen j
shows a total ot bo,0;()w(). (A -aij
m ieii Oi this is n -t noii io.e, s tint H is
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to estimate
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table ot the funds taken shows iSI:.- '
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VT '-1:';UI. ! Church in the directors' room of the Damp- ! secreted iu a place not fit for a human be
l''l;H Mi:,u" l:oi'ie. o...,.),.::i0 ! shire County LJ.oik,TuesJavevenin- which ig to live in. Thelihtofthe sun has
t?loo.:.to-. roistered su-e.,s ana t-ai .s ot j aJ,uut y o'clock, when the clerk, in not shown on him for six months, and if
; 1 ntvd M..tes an vaiious c-.rpv.rat ions, j , ui.i::z j0-vn the curtain, saw four men ran i anv of vour detectives discover the j.le uf
-..(-eXUt.reen.neks ana mue-inl !,a,.i ;.i!is. j frulu rCtir 0fthe building. j his coneeahnent. that will be the signal for
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: The band ;;e
i the bouse oi' M 1
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have entered !
att.es -v. on Lim street, j
about half a mile from tiie bank, through i laughing at the plight of Cashier Whittle
a seeou 1-st- ry wia-1 w. lie and bis wife 1 sey's ioi!:s. Ti.e bank uilieers were confi-
'v.-re aroused about I A. M., and r-rdercd
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to oress. J nc. other j
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the house. T. B
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(J-li .i!f j li'it.-r, and his Wife. M-s.s M.ittie j
C. ;aU'. of uliaihs-p-.rt, P.t.. Maria ;
iento!i. an invalid b-.ard-r, aid the servant
;iil. had been .-imilariv a.v.ik.-ned. and wen
ibed into t!ie Wiiitties
bed room.
were botavl and gagge-l, the burglars ron-
rang short of rope and dispatching the j
servant, fbr clothes due. The m.-n were ;
rather a jolly set', inclined to pay some at- j
tenti - u to the ceuaoit ot thetr victims ; j
they advised the wotm-n to put on three j
pairs of stockings so that the binding ropes j
.'odd not cut til
m. One oi them ca?:ia.!y
j reniai ke-i tiiat ue i.a-i notieeu .-ir. uu- j
j ties-y's hue watch tit Watch Hill, B. I., j
two yens ago, and tri.-d to claim ae-jU.iiu- j
; tance wit Si him from that time. This wat.h j
! they took, but Mrs. Whittlesey slyly j-itobed !
1 hers under the bureau alio! 5o saved il ; they J
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i picked her hoe cloak out of the bureau, and
j she sai l, "Give me that old thing ; I'm
! col l," and gained that. One of the ladies
said she was siek and needed medicine.
whereupon an attentive burglar ofleied her
a s; -oonJ'ul of brandy. Conversation was
carried on, more or less brk!y, but always
! pleasantly, up to -1 A. 31. The burglars.
! who wore kid erlovcs. were well disguised
p.v niasks made from the legs of satinet
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(jj - jers, with places cut lor the eyes, long
jilifeil im., blue overalls. They took.
b - si.le, the watch, Ufteon dollars from Mr.
blttlescy s pocKet.
Mr. Whittlesey, when asked to give the
three combinations to the vault, fbr the
cuter, inner and chest doors, gave them
wrong twice and thrice, but the4 burglars
wrote them down and made hfm repeat.
Of course they caught him, and a pistol
compelled the truth, though he told them
that ibur keys were necessary to open the
latent lock, three of which were at the
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bank ohicers. At i
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j .ill. WiaHl'Jsey m I .. iv-jii ioaiu-
srairs bed room, the whole family gagged,
and four of the burglars withdrew to opf-rate
on the bank. - Three hours after Mrs.
Whiitlesev succeeded in freeing herself and
giving the alarm from a window. The
whole party were speedily liberated, and
the cashier, still wearing the handcuffs,
went to the bank. A clever workman soon
fitted a key, and all the handcuffed were
.soon ic'eas.-d. Examination at the bank
showed that the cracksmen had unlocked
the outer door, but were apparently balked
by the safe lock, lacking three of the
requisite four keys. They tried the metal
of the door with bars, and wrenched oil
two dials, which serve as an index for work
ing the combination, la-ping mi to tamper
with the lock. They were entirely unmolest
ed, the watch having gone home, 'lhere
is every indication that six, and perhaps all,
of them left on Conductor Adams' b o'clock
Southern train. Live of tbem had tickets
previously bought and one paid his fare.
It is surmised that one of tbtm may have
got left, for a man was intjuiiir.g, soon after,
for a cboneo to folk the regular trait) by
freight, and a team, driven furiously toward
II ilyoko, was heard by the family of Sheriff
W'riuht passing on Maple .street, where, also,
a linen duster was picked up. The lock
up n the vault was a supposed especially
s-i'e affair. . It was Dexter' s double-dial
combination, with Herring's atent for
dkscounectiu the tumblers from the spindle,
was patented by (.War Yale last April, and
put on ihe bank only last October, l'or
safety it was accounted fully e'pial to, if ti: t
better than, the chronometer look. But
the gan knew ..!! the ins an I outs of locks,
for when Mr. Whittlesey told them that
they could not enter with but one of the
four keys reouin-d, they had responded,
"We know more about bank locks than you
do.'' Of course they did, for, when the
new lock was but in, a conspicuous notice
was posted up warning burglars that it
would be idle for them to wrestle with this
four-keyed combination. Tills notice was
probably sadly taken down, early this nwrn
hi, when the desecrated inner sanctuary
of the institution was readied by the skilled
workman.
There are many indieatious that the
burglars have been plamiinir their work lbr
at Last a month. hme four weeks ae;o a
suspicious character lin gered in the bank so
lo;)r, on various pretense, that the eSicers
IU;1ed hhn ibr a hnr A SIU..1
bag Was 1;ic!ccj up uear the primary school j
,,UUSi. OI1 jdye Ml.eot, December 28, con- i
tahliwJ, a liair lt.uow h.j, like tiKlbC j
use-1 at ir. Whialesev-s.a numberof rin-
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tap!e, Halts, Cte.
Only Tuesday afternoon
a boy fbun 1 in the attic ol' that same school !
in -use another bag, iu which were several
.. bit-stock :.nd a wbiskv-fl.isk. the dis
C!;Vorv (f vlil.h .,.,lko tl0 Svhvu fr t!ie
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and brougb-t Sheriffs Vlight and
i i'ottor to m.ike a closer examination. They
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turuad restaurant,
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XcW Y(irk Xt ;f ' December , and a
,,uir of tiuet drawers, n.inus one h-. which
was fbund in Mr. Whittlesey's house
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:. committee rneotitig relative to the Kd wards I
Northampton was !
rather iiicdoed
to
merry owr the id I
access of so
l-o.uv contrived a scheme, and 1
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vn.s moo
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bu-iv during the day in
.iciit that their ..tent lock bad withstood
tue tittacK. and the special depositors gave
oVL'i 1:1011 ;iiixut v I. r t; 1111113. erv
maiiy peojile Waited fbr the opening of the
valt. however, this mornim'. The full!
extent of the. loss did not roach the ll-pu'o- j
ilc.it h until three o'clock, when the bank
officials had had time to fully examine their
affairs. The savings bank people, on the
flour above, wish it understood that their
securities can be in no way affected, as their
valt is entirely separated from that of the
national bank. Upon the depositors in
Northampton and the whole region, who
iJ;iJ trusted that sale above all others, the
h.-ss will be crushiiiL' What with bad
tohaeeo years and the Iiard times, the
calamity ranks almost with the heaviest of
0ur disasters of fire and fiood.
At the latest advices no word had been
received I'mm the robbers, who have proved
their iiosition in the business above cavil.
fiieeial Policeman Kiugsley, v.dio was on
duty at our depot, saw three men get oil
from the early northern train and hastily
embark to Boston, whom he now thinks
were "suspicious." Of course dispatches
were sent to all the cities yesterday, giving
particulars of the all'air, and a sspiad of the
.State detectives have been summoned. The
big reward will draw the best detective
skill of the country to Northampton. It
was notable that there were few plausible
theories as to who the robbers might be.
One suggestion made editor Wiuslow the
leader of the baud, and on one of his bor
rowing trips that he attempted so unsuc
cessfully by correspondence with several of
our local banking institutions.
Tii3 Search for Charley Ross.
A correspondedt of the Boston GloLe
gives an interesting account of a recent visit
to the Boss family, in Germanlown, and
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with this distressed family is almost world
wide, the particulars given are of general
interest. The letter says :
The writer would siy that he passed a
couple of days with Mr. Boss, at bis home
iu Ger ma n tow n, a short time since, and would
like to inform the reading public that every
night ami morning from that Christian family
fervent ami earnest prayers are offered for
the return of the "little lost boy." The days
are spent by the father in every effort that
promises the slightest degree of success iu
finding Charley. Letters arrive by the
dozen, some of sympathy, some making in
(piiries and soifie simply ridiculous. A let
ter arrived (which the writer of this arti
cle saw, wi it ten in German, from an ap
parently liitedigcut man
Stating tuat
if
Mr. Boss would take a young hen that
had never had laid an egg, and cut it in
four pieces with a knife that was new ; lay
the four pieces of chicken on a newly planed
board, at midnight ; walk threo times around
the board, repeating the wolds enclosed
threo times, 1j would have Charley re-
txirncl to bioi the next ay. . Ls Mr-itf
the most courteous of men, these let
ters are all answered. Letters of sympathy
fn-m Enjil.iud, Germany, and in fact from
all over the world, have been received.
.Soon after the disappearance of Charley, a
letter would he received from, say Wiscon
sin ;'Cme on at once, Mr. Uross, we have
found Charley. There is no mistake." etc.
Mr. Itoss would start by the next train.
Upon bis arrival he would find a boy with
red hair, blue eyes, or perhaps he would
have an unmistakably Cellie cast of coun
tenance. The writer saw photographs of
over twenty different boys who had been
looked up in this manner. Mr. Boss is now
obliged to do the indentiiication business
by telegraph, and decides the matter by a
few questions. At the tea table the writer
met little Walter, an exceedingly bright
and knowing boy, who was taken with
Charley and left on the road, ei-jjht miles
from home. Poor little Charley was a quiet,
sensitive little fellow, who was the txoo 1 boy
of the fami'13, full of affection andkind.iess.
How he must have grived bis poor little
life away amomr the brutal men with which
he was surrounded ! The mother informs
me that she feels that he is alive, and that
Cod will not faii to answer the many pray
ers that have been offered f-r his safe re
turn. Little Walter has always persisted
in savin.; that the horse used bv the abdue
tors would turn around and lau-h at them,
Repeated reprimands would not cause him
() Va jlis st;(tc-1101n. About a vear af
ter the ahduetion, a horse wandered into
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Newark, N. J., covered with burrs, cmacia-
ted and woe-beerone : lie was taken to a '
stable an-1 Mr. Boss notilied. Upon the i
arrival of Mr. Boss the horse was harnessed
to the same kind of bu-rsrv used in stealing
the children, and little Waller invited to
ride. Upon bei:i'' touched by the whin
the animal turned around to bis driver,
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I or lip and showed his teeth, while Walter
clapped his hands and slmut.ed, "There,
papa, didn't I tell you he laughed ?" The
best dective talent in this country has been
engaged for six months, without success,
in tracing that horse and l;uiv from Ger-
! mautown to Newark. The v.iiter saw the
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father when lie reads, "Charley has been
his instant death. We have it so arrantred
that bis body will dis linear.
anl nothing j
r. Boss is a
be lelt to eliminate us. .Mr. Boss is a
.'entleman of hirh social standing in Phil-
adeh.hia. was never a "fast man," has no
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enemies, has a noble Christian woman for a separate use," either real or personal pro
wile, and as iutcrtsting and well-be diaved perty may be so settled that she shall rc
familv of children as the writer ever mot, ! eeive the income, but neither she nor her
and the public may re.-t assured
jd that
Charley was stolen, and stolen for the sole
purpose 0: extorting a ransom ot u,uoti.
Mr. Boss has made and is now making
every effort to recover his stolen boy. Fear
iug I have trespassed too much upon youi
columns, I will close by saying that then
our
columns, I will close by saying
that there
is a faint clue now being run out in a South
ern city that promises to elucidate the mys
tery of the fate of poor Charley Boss.
Meetings of Creditors.
One t-f the most amusing places to visit
in these times of business depression is "a
meeting of the creditors" of one of the first
that have suspended paymmt. If you are
one of the creditors, you have the honor
to receive an invitation to attend the meet
in It is generally neatly printed, and in
it they requst the pleasure of your company
at such a day and hour, at their own or
their lawyer's office. Perhaps you swear a
little when you read it, which is naught.
If too good to do that, you swear mentally
(but I have heard some swear openly and
call the firm bad names), and at last you
decide to accept the invitation.
On arriving at the meeting you find a
mixed assemblage, alut half smoking, and
most of them in the best humor ; but there
are a few sour creditors, who have old fogy
notions of right and wrong. One of the
creditors, perhaps only on paper, jumps up
and says, "I nominate Mr. Jones as chair
man." If it is a ' crooked'' failure it is
generally a friend of the firm's. The mo
tion is seconded and carried. Secretary
iiotuinatad, motion seconded and carried.
Everything is carried at a meeting. A
moti .n is never negatived. Meeting organiz
ed, hats come off.
Some one moves that a statement of the
liabilities and assets be read. Motion sec
onded and carried. Statement generally
reads something like this : Liabilities about
SS;,0:i; stock on hand about $12,000 pre
sent value about $;,0:)() ; bills receivable
and open accounts, SJ.'J.OdO ; bills bad, $'.),
Odd. Pirm offers thirty cents at six, twelve
and eighteen months. Up jumps one of
the old fogy creditors and wishes to ask
Mr. Smith, one of the linn, what he meant
by staling to him a month ago that ho ha.
Sod.OOd stock, and only owed S 5 ),0;)d.
Mr. Smith replies iu a bland voice that
"The gentleman who last spoke must have
misunderstood the tenor of his remarks at
the time he mentions."
Irate old creditor says he "rather thinks
he did not, and is ready to go on the stand
and swear to it."
Up jumps another old fogy and wants to
know how las books stood ou December
ill.
Mr. Smith replies that "his books were
not balanced."
01-1 fogy "wants to know why they were
not balanced
Mr. Smith replies "because wo cou:d cot
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make the a bal&noa. Lar.ghiarJ
Then Youn America jumps up and says
'be does -not see that talkinr will mend
matters ; time is more valuable, and he can
not afford to lose any more of it at "this
meeting, as he has several mire to attend
to-day. Laughter." The firm' no doubt
needed more capital to conduct their busi
ness properly, and took this mans to ob
tain it. L lighter. No doubt if they set
tle with them on these terms the firm could
take a larger store in a better location
laubter," and most of the creditors could
S'll them more irools tlnn they did before
MauirhterV and et worse 'bit next time.
Laughter. Therefore I move the offer
be accepted."
The chairman states that the motion is
before the meeting. Motion carried.
Youni American. I move we adjourn.
Carried. .
Youn-r America. And I move an amend
ment '"to the nearest restaurant" to drink
everybody's health, the firm's included.
Laughter. Xeio York Sun.
Th3 Legal Status of Married Women in
Pennsylvania.
In the Prim 3Lnitnfg for last mouth is a
clear and able article on this vcr-interesting
and we may say important subject the
ejist of which is in the following summing
up: "A married woman is entitled to
maintenance by her husband during las
laeiime ; a rinr wnu-u sue may eniorce ui 1
he nejrlect or refuse to provide for herself
and her children ) by making contracts for
necessaries, for which be is liable. Upon
his death, she is entitled to common law
dower in real estate, after the payment of
his debts. If he dies intestate, she may
have statutory dower, viz: One-third of
the real estate, of which he died seized, for
life, and one-third of the personal estate
absolutely, in eas? be leave children, if not,
one-half of the personal estate, or in case
he has left a will, she may elect bet weeti ! correspondent, Gregory Dillon occupied a
taking the legacy therein contained or the ! prominent place among the successful merch
rights given le-r under the statute and in j ants of New York. He had laidbva coin-
addition $:)!)') of his estate for the support 1
of herself and her children is exempted
from sale for the pajment of his debts. In
her own property she is entitled to free use
and enjoyment along with her husband, and
holds it free from all liability for his debts;
she is also entitled to her separate earings
when her intention to claim them is filed
on record. Her property may be liable
for judgment recovered against him for her
torts, or on a judgment against both on a
contract for necessaries entered into by her
self alone, if the husband has nothing on
which an execution may be had, and it is
which an execution may
always liable for contracts entered into by
her before m -image, by a trust
lor "her
husband can have any control of the ostste,
nor shall it be liable fbr any of her debts
or engagements. But such a trust must
be made during covet urc or in immediate
contemplation of marriage, and and cannot
survive a disc-overture. We also lind that
the contracts of a married woman and any
agreement to bind her separate estate with
out her husband's consent, are absolutely
void except in certain cases. Those are,
contracts' for the repair or improvements of
her real estate, transfers of stock of rail
road companies or corporations created un
der the laws of this State, checks and re
ceipts to banks for money on deposit with
them, and contracts for the purchase of
sewing machines. In case of her husban 1
neglecting or refusing to provide for her,
she may become a feme sole trader, and
thereby contract as though she were un
married." A Wonderful Wheat Country.
From (he Portland Orcyottian
Wo have been in the habit of supposing
that the Wallamet Valley was the greatest
wheat growing country on the habitable
globe, and have felt like indulging in an,
indefinite amount of vainglorious boasting
over the record of fields producing fifty
bushels or more to the acre, and whole
farms averaging thirty-five or forty bush
els. But our beautiful valley and our
farmers must look to their laurels hence
forth. Prom a gentleman of undoubted
veracity, carefulness and accuracy, we re
ceive some information concerning wheat
raising in Eastern Washington Territory
which surpasses the best showing we re
member to have seen in this part of the
country.
C. Maicr, living near the base of the Blue
Mountains, in Walla Walla Valley, in 1S7",
raised on a sixty-acre field 4,020 bushels of
wheat, an average of l'7 bushels to the acre ;
and in 187a from a sixty-acre tract, 3,-120
bushels, or 57 bushels to the acre.
Mr. Masterson, residing four miles south
of Walla Walla, raised on ten acres 850
bushels 85 bushels to the acre.
Mr. Kennedy, whose fain is on Dry
creek, six miles from Walla Walla, har
vested 5,252 bushels fi fun 150 acres 35
bushels average ; and this was a volunteer
crop that is, the second crop from one
sowing.
These crop?", says our informant, were
prduced on ordinary wheat land ; land
that is considered good, "but no better
than hundreds of thousands of acres now
lying vacant in Walla Walla and Whitman
counties, especially north of Snake river,
where there is a country vast enough to
produce more than 25,000,000 bushels per
nnr.uui, and where a unuro ol crops Has
. . a.
i&cvee tnjwn.
Circumstaneft? Alter Cases.
The other day, while a Vicksburjrer waA
riding toward Jackson, iu bis h-o.y, hesaw
a lon-haired yonn man sitting mi a road
side fence. There was such an air of utter
desolation about the countryman that Uve
Vicksburjrer drew rein and inquired:
"For God's sake ! what nils you, young
man
"Nothing, for God's
sake !" was the-
lacek rojily.
"IJut is any one dead ?"
uIIuin't lieard of anybody, but old Mat
thews, and he went off' two months ago'
"Are you sick ?"
"I feel kinder bad."
'Well, you look bad. In fact, you arc
the worst looking younjr. man I've seen
since the close of the war."
"I was all riirlit till a month airo," said
the ynunjr man, looking still more solemn.
"What happened then ?"'
"Woman went back on me?"
"Did, eh ! Were you eujrajred ?"
"I'd hunjr around there for a year or srT
and We'd hujed and loved and hooked
Mnrrs. If that isn't being cnajjed, then
I don't know."
"And she backed out?"
"Yes.
"Well, I've been through the mill myself.
I had a woman jro back on me in that way
three months ago, and didn't lose a bit of
s:een over it.
"You didn't?"
"No, sir."
"But, then," sighed the young man, as
he hitched along on the rail, "the woman
you love didn't own sixteen mules, and have
a clean hundred bales of cotton to sell 1"
Vichs-nirj Ihrahl.
Essult of Idleness.
A generation ago, says a New York
fortable fortune, and was president of the
Immigrant Industrial Savings bnak, one of
the strongest institutions of the kind in
the country. Had Gregory Dillon been a
man of small means it is not probable that
his son, Boniaine Dillon, would now be
awaiting trial fbr murder. The father iefv.
a large estate, a considerable part of which
went to Bomaine. The son then fell into
the ways of idleness, living at. hotels, and
lounging about town instead of earning his
own living. Having means to supply all
his needs he become arrogant in manner,
assumed an air of superiority, and made
himself extremely disagreeable to his
former friends. He then grew irritable
and eccentric, taking offense at the merest
trifles, and finally shot an estimable gentle
man dead iu the Westminster Hotel for
walking in a way he did not like. Of
course the plea of insanity is set up, and it
is pretty certain to save, Bomaine Dillon
from the gallows. But it will probably
take him to a luantie asylum, where all
men of his sort ought to be. The Dillon
family is one of the most respectable in
New York, and it receives much sympathy
in the disgrace brought upon it by the act
of an unworthy member. Gregory Dillon
was a man of the highest character. One
of his sons, John B. Dillon, a lawyer of
some prominence, died in Ireland a few
vears age.
rtcspectable Swindlers4.
To the respectable swindler, says tin
New York WttrM, there is no more at
tractive mode of robbing his neighbor than
by a fraudulent failure. Of course he is
not always found out. In one-half of the
cases of fraudulent failures and compromises
the debtor who has been overtaken by
misfortune offers to settle on a basis of sav
from twenty-live to fifty per cent., he really
cannot give more, and if forced info bank
ruptcy he very much doubts what with
lawsuits, losses, delays and lawyers' fees, if
oven half that amount will be eventually
realized. After a few meetings the credi
tors come to the conclusion to make the
best of a bad bargain they sign a paper
for compromise or. a basis of fifty per cent.,
express groat sompathy for the unfortunate
debtor, and wish him every success in tho
future. In this case the "unfortunate
debtor" has been eiuhfently successful. He
lives handsomely on the spoils of his
victims, enjoys their sympathy, holds his
head as high -as ever, and takes the darkest
possible view of the immediate future. He
sees no signs-of better times, business care
only be transacted at a loss, and everything
is going behindhand. These gentry have
done incalculable injury in the way of
retarding the permanent re-establish i.-venc
of conliednce ; they are the scum and
outgrowth of illegitimate speculation and
feverish activity.
Treatment of Soro Throat.
In cases of ordinary sore throat, the sim
plest and best treatment is the wot pack,
using a linen cloth wrung from cold water,
and over this a knit or chrochcted band,
four feet long and four inches wide. Ap
ply two or three nights iu succession, un
less it is a very serious case, when the pack
should be kept on during the day. If tak
en oft' in the morning wash the throat iiv
very cold water, and rub dry with a coarse
towel and wiih the hand. This will pre
vent taking more cold. The more friction
used the better ; let it be a sort of squeez
ing of the parts, so as to aftect tho deep-
seated tissues, bore throats in a 3' be pre-
vented by tl;o?o oaoaus, irou txvomiu
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