Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 March 1882 — A Royalty Fight [ARTICLE]

A Royalty Fight

St. Paul Minn., March 23.—The visit of Mr. Charles CalahaD. of Chi .tago, to this city and Minneapolis to« day, was it is understood,,for the par* pose of demanding of the“Minnef.«* polis Harvester Works in the name of C. H. McCormick, of Chicago, Norn man C. Thompson, and Helen A. Gorham, of Rockford 111., a royalty of $lO upou each twinebinding harvester that said Company has made or will make. This claim is based upon the patents which, after several years of controversy in the patent office, were ia 1880 granted to Marquis L. Gorham, of Rockford, and It Is claimed by the paitics who demand the roy* ulty that they own and control all the patents relating to the automatic bind ing of (he bundles of grain. The Minneapolis Harvester Works, the Wlllium Deering Comimny, of Chloa* go; the Cuumplon Reaper Company, of Springfield 0.; the Easterly Har* venter Company, of Whitewater, and ulljothers that are luting twinefblnders made under the Appleby patents aro to be proceeded against by the par* ties coutrollng the Gorham patent. The uttorueys who hure been engsg* ed by the McCormick faction are Geo. Harding, of Philadelphia; E. N. Dickerson, of New York; M. D. Leggett, of ( levelaud, 0., »nd Parkinson & Par* kiusou, of Cincinnati. There axe some eight or ten com* panies manufacturing under tho Appleby patients, and this hf perhaps the beginning of the biggest patent suit on record. Several companies will no doubt, with the close of this season, abandon the manufacturers of the Appleby, which will work great hardships to those who have their machines and will not be able in a ew years to procure repairs foi them It is evident from the array of legal talent employed by the MeCormicks that they are fully prepared to estab lish their olaims.

"What good deed have you done to-: day Johnny?" said a benevolent father to his heir. “I gave a poor boy a cent, papa,” was the good child’s answer. “Ah! that was right. And why, ray son, did you give him the *entr “I gave it to him, dear papa, for a good three-cent stamp tat he thought was only u piece ot green paper.” Delphi Times:—One of the strangest contradictions in nature which has come under our observation in a long while, is the adoption in her f imily by a mother-cat, in the Third Ward, of two young rats. Together with her brood of young kittens she nurses and fondles the stranger with as much tenderness and effection as is shown toward her own offspring. The result of the adoption is looked forward to with interest

The Court austerely: ‘Prisoner’ how did you have the audacity to break into this man’s house at mid*: night and rob him?” Prisoner (pitously:) “But, your Honor, last time I was before you you wanted to know how I could have} the audacity to rob a man on the highway athighw noon. When do you want me to get in my work?” We knew that confounded treaty was abend of us, but we shut our eyes and wouldn’t see it. We hoped some*, how that it would dispppear as we wen* forward. But it won’t. There it is bigger than ever, a great wall in the way, and on the top of it a Chinaman, /shouting, “SpoeeJMelican man kicket me out. me kickee Melican man out alle same. John.”—Graphic. Germany makes an exception to the decorous polioy of foreign government in receiving the cast-off and worn-out material too frequently sent them as representatives of this country. The Berlin press protests against Sargent as the successor of such men as Bancroft, Bavard Taylor and Andrew D. White.