Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 March 1879 — The Way They Rob in Russia. [ARTICLE]

The Way They Rob in Russia.

Russian baggage cars do not carry baggagemen. The car is sealed when it leaves, and the seal broken when anything has to be taken out or put in. At least, that is the explanation of some very ingenious stealing which went on flourishing month after month on the Kursk, Charkov and Azov railroad, until last December, when it was detected. There were several accomplices, who used a great trunk or chest. One of them was put in this and shipped in the baggage car. As soon as th<! car was sealed he crept out, broke open the best-looking trunks of the other passengers, selected the most valuable articles and put them in his own chest until there was only room enough left for himself, when he shut himself in. At the next station oooomplicM received the chest, and xt upacked the thief and his booty.

An intellectual mcmb er of the Arkansas Legislature has ini reduced a bill abbreviating the season of Lent from forty to twenty days. He explains that everything else has come down 50 per cent, since the war, and th ere should be no discrimination in favor of Lent.