Daily Wabash Express, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 9 December 1883 — Page 4

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LIFE AND SOCIETY.

Women, Marriage and Luxury.

NO, IN DEED, SHE WOULDN'T.

roulil 1 have lier genlim," said bewitching Jennie lJosl, rakiuKr one whose uameupon the roll of fame stands high, who c-anuot—tspeak softly—ol the slightest, beauty boast (t( either fuce or form, "I'd give—'" '•What would you give?" asked I •'i our wavy hair, that's brown in shade and golden in the sun? ', .mi- eyes, the color, so Jack says, of soiue cerulean gem? Y.uirsweet mouth, every ready with its smiles atglrllsh fun?

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The dimple in your thin?" "Oh, 110 I'd part with none of them." "Well, then, your'rosy cheek? your hand so slender and so small our lovely-rounded throat, as while as fleece of new-born lalub? Tin fool that wears a No. 2?" "I'ray slop, for after all, 1 (1 rather she'd be Just what she is, and just what I am."

Mistress and Maid.

I It IS EVERLASTING 8ERVANT-GIKI. ITIOBLKM. Our servants, whether as individuals or as a class, are to most of us as Grange as if they came of an alien ace and spoke a foreign tongue. Catehise the first mistress you meet, and you will discover how little she knows of the life and customs of the class from which her servants are drawn, and what a Bmall part of that little is learnt in daily intercourse with those who have been her daily companions for so many years. Many mistresses talk to their servants? Exactly so Njey do talk to them. They impart »caps W family or local news, in which a, proper interest is manifested, or #ve {information or advice that is intended to be received'with gratitude. But to talk with them, or to listen while they talk, requires tact and sympathy far deeper than they possess. The girls' hopes and fears, struggles and ambitions, are alike unsuspected and unknown. The counterfeit might be interesting and poetical* if a fashionable novelist set it forth in his pages the real thing is vulgar prose.

We are not arguing that a woman should whisper family secrets to the household, or a man make a boon companion of the groom in fact, we dare to affirm that such secrets should not form the baBis of intercourse between any two women, whatever their social status, and that it is an insult to suppose intimacy necessarily implies suoh questionable confidence. If a woman has any earnest purpose, any inspiring belief, a single noble or elevating thought, every other woman, whether she be mistress or servant, will be the better for sharing it, nor will such intercourse pave the way to unreasonable familiarity. Still less is it likely in this caBe to drift into bosom friendship difference of past training, widely divergent futures, customs and conventionality all make chasms too wide to bridge o'Ver though we may from opposite sides hold much pleasant converse.

Girls coming from poor and undisciplined homes, beginning work low down in the scale of drudgery, grow to women through circumstances, scenes, and sights from which we would guard our own children. These are girls grown into women, from whom we expect far more virtue than our friends, infinitely more than from ourselves. We should find it highly disagreeable to live under the same roof with most of the very good friends on our visiting list, and we fancy we should often find them devoid of the patience, assiduity, and courtesy we expect of our servants. Think of one of your own daughters in the same position. Is it not then that you watch her most carefuliy, guard her most anxionsly from undesirable companions, make daily allowances for the whims and vagaries ofahalf-formed character? Yet, if our boasted antecedents are worth half what we praise them at, your daughter is far more able to «uide herself than yew servant. ,,

When we think of the folly and presumption, the want of sense of fitness, not to speak ol the silly school-girl tricks that stand in the record of our own teens, we should surely lay our mouths in the dwst before we speak so harshly of these uncared-for children. Treat vour servants as you would wish your daughter to be. treated by the woman under whose caro she was placed, and do not think that we should any longer bandy our domestic rules to and fro. Do your daughters divide their thoughts between fine clothes and future husbauds? Then it is equally desirable for your servants. Do you think going to church on Sunday- lends to make you a better woman? If so, how very ludicrous to try and strike a balance between church for the servants and a trifle like hot kidneys for Sunday breakfast?

There is nothing in this world so difficult, requiring more tact and patienco, more often futile in the end, than the endeavor to inspire confidence in one who has repeatedly been deceived, or who has grown up with his hand against every man and every man's hand against him but it is ntne the less worth doing because of that. Only to obtain confidence it must be merited and to lead others to the unselfish performance of duty it is obligatory to walk a long way ahead. —[American Queen.

A Case In Point.

The strength of political influence in government offices at Washington was very well shown one day in the case of a woman who had constitution, ally shirked and dodged every piece of work given her lor six months.* Finally one day this woman waB reported to her chief as having been seen going into the front door ot one of the most notorious houses of ill fame in Washington. The time of her visit was 10 o'clock in the evening. Confronted with this charge, she met it very calmly. She said that she was a member of the Society for the Keform of Fallen Women, and this made it necessary for her to visit all kinds of bad places, at i.\lL«C*9 C»llO pv« nii-eH-letters from people in town showing that she was connected with bvme such organization. Then the usual number of senators and members mine up and indorsed her, and that ended the matter. The chief said that he miirlit have believed something of her statement if she had been an efficient clerk at the department. Fbcing absolutely worthless tha'"

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irredeemable, it was very hs\'v[ ,or "lm to be made, by a set o'pol'tocians, acknowledge her as**11 angelof reform.

nusslan Proverbs.

As regards the treatment of a wife by ber husband, proverbs in Russia differ. "Love your wife like your soul and beat her like your Shuha" (overcoat or furs), says one of the stern class to which another responds in the same spirit, "!Not long hurt the bumps from a loved one's thumbs.'' Wives have undoubtedly been ,-ubjected to much ill-treatment in Kussia, where many husbands have always been of the opinion that "Liberty spoils a good wife."

Some Russian proverbs are cynical its to the advantages of luatrimonev. If the bachelor cries "Oh! Oh!" the married man cries "Ai! Ai!"and those who "Wed Mice, wail always." One of the brief dramatic proverbs tells a mournful tale: "Why so blithe'.'" "I'm .coing to tret married." "Why hangs vour head?'' "I've got married.''

Facts About Women.

Many ladies are now at their wits' end to find a place where they can put something more in the way of polished brasB in their houses.

Women find great trouble in getting employment In the departments at Washington nowadays, and President Arthur is held responsible for it.

A great-grandniecc of Gen. Washington, who married her cuitMii. CoJ. Lewis Washington, represented 'he name and family of Washington at th« Newburgh Centennial.

There is a "club" for working girls London

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The object of the stay of the Misses Longfellow at Newnham Hall, in England, is to study the methods pursued there, for .the henefit^of

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Fashion Noll*.

The li'gh-shouldei'p'l sleeves liave at last found favor In Paris and are seen on all Imported dresses.

Monsquetalre gloves are worn shorter than they were last season, that is, less wrinkled on the arm.

Triangles formed of many rows of soutaclio braid at i' newer than wheels of braid for ornamenting c!olh dresses or cloaks.

Plain velvet is the material preferred above all others for winter costumes for the street, for church and for afternoon receptions. I-'uror feathers, with a little lace, are the trimming*.

The newest svHt-^kln wrap is a short visitc, with high shoulders and long lib fronts, but very short in the back. The trimming, instead of being a baud of tor from some other nulnial. Is a ball fringe with the balls cover, with sealskin.

Transparent crepe of faint pink aud blue shades covered v/lth sliver spots is the novelty for evening dresses. It is ornamented with fringes of silver sequins and is made over satin. Embroidered tulle skirts with scarlet chenille poppies are worn with red velvet bodices.

Warm cloths in heather-gray mixtures are fashionable for morning costumes for the streets, as they are also rjuite sultabl® for mantles and Jackets. Fancy cloths show close aud intricate bleedings of color which make hem dull and harmonious in tone, and therefore suitable for the street. Fur plastrons and borders with some bronze, gilt or sliver braid are the trimmings.

The smallest children wear large widebrimmed hats, which form a most becoming frame to the face. They arc made of very soft and flue fell, and are handsoinelv trimmed with velvet, bands aud full plumes. Dark colors are the fashion In thCHC hats—pre-eminently dull-red, blue and brown and witii these should be worn a cloth or plush coat of the same color long enough to hide the dress beneath it.

CURED BY PRAYER.

Miss Jennie Smith Relates the Story of Her Long Suffering. Chicago JS'ews.

A large audience at Farwell hall last evening listened to the recital of the story of the marvellous cure of Miss Jennie Smith through the agency of prayer, after more tlian sixteen years of suffering and helplessness. The story attracted much attention, for in this skeptical age, when anything that resembles a miracle is looked upon with suspicion, such a manifestation of the mercy of God goes far towards strengthening the faithful in their belief. If Miss Smith'8 story of her sufferings be only partly true, she deserved a release from them year? ago.

When entering upon her teens, she says, her father met with financial reverses. She was ambitious to assist the family, and so overworked herself that for six months she was confined to her bed. From that her physical troubles grew. Suffering first from spinal troubles, one of her limbs afterWard became affected, and for- some years she endured the most violent paroxysims of pain. At times she lost the power of speech and sight, and for awhile could only hesr with one ear. Every kind of medical treatment failed to effect a cure. Having entirely lost the power to help herself Miss Smith began her religious work. She was carried before her audience on a couch. At Philadelphia, five years ago, the last effort was uiado to obtain relief from medical aid. All hope ofa cure was then abandoned, and sha gave herself up to suffering and Christian work. AVhile still coufiued to her room at the hospital a time was set (or some ministers to call .upon her. She theh determined to tost the will of God, and to ask the prayers of her friM»4o iav. l*o# tllG little meeting opened she toloiifcr friends the time had come when she must know the will of God. A time was spent in prayer and scripture-read-ing. At 0 o'clock some of the ministere were compelled to gb,but she felt that they must wait, for God's mercy. She asked all who were willing, to stay and prav with her until morning. Eleven o*f those present renamed. At 11 o'clock she first opeutnl her mouth to prav, and then after a sliort silence she recalled the words of Christ, "stretch forth thine arm." When she thought of those words the gift of prayer came aud she felt the strength come into her body. After first rising to a sitting posture she stood on her feet for the first time in sixteen years. Miss Smith attributes her cure wholly to prayer, and she has determined to consecrate herself to religious and temperance work.

In company with Miss Adelaide Sherman, of Mountain Lake Park, Md., Miss Smith has been in this city two weeks, holding meetings in connection with the Woman's Christian Temperance Union. They are especially in charge of the work among railroad men. Beginning yesterday morning at 'J o'clock, a twelve-hour prayer and consecration meeting was held at Farwell hall. One of the city ministers had charge of the meeting each hour, and a good deal of interest was manifested." Miss Smith's recital closed the meeting. Bishop Fallows, who had charge of it at that time, hoped that her history would lead to a more fervent trust in God. Miss Smith and Miss Sherman will now go to

Davenport, and then back to their work on the Baltimore A Ohio road. During the past two years they have visited seventeen states and made 1,500 converts.

Children's Sayings.

Chambers' Journal. At a public meeting in Edenburgb, some time ago, Prof. Blackie told his audience the following story "A little boy at a Presbyterian examination was asked: "What is the meaning of regeneration'Oh, to be born again,' hp replied. 'Quite right, TommYou'rea good bo v. Wouitl

like to be born agaiu Ton' my hesitated, but on-

lJOy„..s sitting by the bed of his grandmother, who was very ill. "Ah ray poor child," she said, "I am very bad I am going to die." He looked very much mystified for a few minutes, and then suddenly exclaimed "Why will you die?" Does God want an old angel?"

A New Use of Pretty Shop Girls. New York Letter in the Boston Ilerald. In one of our millinery establishments a number of remarkably pretty youns girls are kept in an ante-room, ostensibly employed to sew. Tliev represent a wide variety in complexion and types of feature. When a customer wavers in deciding between bonnets the wily clerk calls in one of these girls and pays: "ITere is a head and face quite like yours, and I can shovt you the eflect this hat would have on you." Of course, on beauty's top, the piece of millinery is bewitching, and gratified vanity quickly completes the sale.

A member of a Kentucky church offered the Ladies' Aid .Soviety $5 if its members would meet and make a quilt without saying a word. Two dozen of the ladies tnet at the parsonage, and in two hours the quilt was finished, but they all say that they would not do such a thing agaiu for $50.

The false effects of hnmor are not heriditary. .jitn Wintersiuith, the new doorkeeper of the house, is a son of the famous Kentucky wag, Col. Dick Winteremith.

A Newport man attempted to drown a cat by throwing her into the harbor in a paper bag. The cat teached her

Two nights in the week old horae before the Newport pan did.

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are devoted to singing, needlework and "cutting-out,and five nights to a school, a drill and instruction in the bible.

Ont of twenty candidates. Miss Alice Gardner, a student of Newnham Hall, Cembridge, has been elected pro-1 fessor of history in Bedford college London.

THIRTY YEARS A ROB BE It. got the money from lier husband. He }was arrested he pleaded guilty when The Celebrated Brockway Thieves and taken back to New Haven, bat tne

Their Marvelous Hlstory-Wliat lias man who put the job up ana Steerea Iteen Made, What Lost and thu liai- Brockway

auce-Sliftct Inn Life of Critue. New Yofk Woria. In the basement of the old City Hall, was the office of Chief of Police Matsell and his aids. That was many years ago. The chief sat behind his desk, and when offenders were brought before him by him by his detectives, he Bat in a magisterial capacity, allowing reporters to be present when he crossquestioned the captured.

Charley Kothschild, a celebrated criminal, a German who spoke seven languages very fluently, was once brought before tiie-chief, who addressed him in a fatherly way, aaking him who he could not reform. "Do you think 1 could live on a policeman's salary?" said Charley. "Why not? why not?" Baid the chief lifting bis glasses. "Why should 1 do it when I don't pretend to be honest, they (the detectives) pretending to be honest don't— even they don't Bteal directly, but they don't object to taking a 'century,' ($100), even a 'fineff' ($5), if it is offered them." "Who does that in thia office?" asked the old man angrily. "Who can buy lots up town, farnls out West^get rich ou $800 a year! I tell you what it is, chief, there isn't an honest man living. There isn't a man that won't steal directly or indirectly, if he can do it without risk. No, there isn't an honest man living."' "What!" exclaimed the phlegmatic chief, "do you know what you are talking about? "Perfectly," replied Charley. "Give me your salary, possibly I might be honest. Put yourself in my place, without my brains, what could you do?" "Lock him no," was the prompt order of the chief.

In a measure all men are criminally inclined, else why the continuous prayer to be delivered from evil After he was locked up Charley said lie would not recant ot apologize. "If I went into a store as floor-walker or salesman I might get $500 a year. How could I live on that I make as much as that sometimes in a night playing faro," said Charley to the reporter. "And you lose it?" v" "Then I steal, as you call it. Then I go \jack and win or lose, just PI luck is with me. I said what was true., there isn't an honest man living."

That was a broad assertion to make, bnt be made it, from his limited knowledge of the world, which didn't go beyond the detective department and the several halls of justice.

Onjje ou.the broad road of crime it is next to impossible for a man to reform. If one of the better class cannot get a position, how can he expect to get a place of trust when there are hundreds with good characters has competitors, willing to take almost any salary?

William E. Brockway began life as an apprentice in a job printing office in New Ilaven thirty years ago or a little over. A gentleman of means of» that city took a great interest in the young man, and at his own expense took him out of the job office and sent him to Yale college to study under Prof. Silliman. Sent there he had him under a particular course of study, chemistry and the moulding of metals. When he knew enough for practical purposes he was returned to his old position, and then he started on his criminal career.

From then until now nearly all of the great foigei ies have beeu done, as that hv the first on the New Ilaven bank, by the aid of chemistry. The pjtOUMg ^ptiuto^ -waq. (llO patron whispered in his ear how a fortune soon could be made. They-would divide. He listened, and obeyed orders.

It was customary iu those days for the president of the bank to bring to the printer the plate of the bank, and have the bills struck off that were needed for circulation, and he stood by while the sheeta were printed. When they were printed the plate was carried back to the bank by the president.

Brdukway was at the pvqss—a hard press—when the plate was delivered to him. He had in his apron pocket an impressible plate, the boss printer took thfe president to the window to show a supposed defect in the paper, and while their backs were turned, the plate to take the impression was put on the plate under the press, and in a second an impression was taken of the plate.

This was forgery made easy, the gaver and the lathe were dispensed with.

In this way have all the great forgeriers been committed here and in AVashinton with which Brockway haB been connected.

Not all the assigned number of sheets were stricken off, and the bank president returned to the bank with his sheets and plate. But in striking off the notes paper was bought on which the genuine notes were printed, and after Brockway had electrotypea his plate he had a plate from which to print on genuine paper.

Thus, after a little touching up with the graver, they had a genuine $5 note plate. They had also the genuine paper to start on everything was genuine but the signatures of president and cashier.

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After the notice had been given out that the "fives" on the New Ilaven Bank were of a doubtful character it was certain that many were issued from this photographic gallery. Thus, if a $10 bill was given a five and the change was returned in payment. The Lady in Black could not be reached, and the case was given here to our officials, who took it up, and Chief Matsell gave tjie case to ex-Iuspector Leonard, then captain of the Second Precinct in Beekman street.

Leonard and Burton, the old come-" diau, were scarcely ever separate. Jim Leonard would do anything in reason for Burton and Burton would do anything in reason for Jim. Without telling Burton what he wanted, he eaid one day to Burton: "Mr. Burton, I would like to get your phiz off the stage." "What the deuce do you want with my ugly phiz?" replied Burton. "Mr/Burton, it will be a favor." "Well, I'll oblige."

Mr. Burton agreed to sit for his likeness. "But you must pay for it in a.SfO bill, and"here itis."

Burton objected to taking the money, but Captain Jim insisted on him talking the money and returning the change.

Burton went to Grand street and had his likeness taken by the Lady in Black, and retnrned the change, as agreed, to Captain Leonard. As expected, this was a counterfeit. Burton sat for his likeness and brought it back to Jim. Jim, while they were drinking together, asked to look at the change. He found in it the "five," what he had expected—a counterfeit.

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jj, into crime couldn'i reached. Brockway was convicted, sentenced to the state prison for five years, but after serving three was par-

Ten' years afterwards, in 1863, be made a greater sensation. By the same process he obtained a »1 ,uuu treisury note in Washington, for which he was arrested after having disposed of ten of them. Somehow he got out of that difficulty at a cost of $7,000 counsel fees and etceteras.

There is no end of the charges that are preferred against this man, and yet after thirty years it is questionable if there is anything now to hold him. He was about to commit a crime. Has it been committed?' In his own house a man can do many thingB by way of experiment. Can he not, as in this case, claim that it was only experiment? Aside from that, can they prove he is the experimenter?

The arrest of Brockway has made plain a fact that is alarming. The vaults at 'Washington contain tlie germs of the life ot the country-- By his process of workiag the credit of the 'countrv can be greatly hurt.

He does nothing himself, but he can instruct others to do it, and has showed how it can be done and escape pun' ishment, vide the Cooke suit, where "experts swore in court that the counterfeits were genuine. And BO they were they were transfers, as xn the

New Haven bank case, and transfers from plates held in trust in the vaults in W as in to

The seven-thirties was one of the biggest hits that Brockway made, not financially, but by way of mystification. He got rid of $90,000 of them, $1,000 bonds. They were like the New Haven bank affair. Impressions were taken from tbe original plates. Jay. Cooke bought them and in Washington they were discovered to be forgeries from the fact that bonds of the same numbers were sent to the treasury for redemption. After a long, suit the bonds that Jay Cooke bought were declared forgeries and Brockway was arrested. He was taken to Newark, and after paying out $7,000 in various directions, was discharged.

Three years ago last month he was arrested with Doyle, who started to St. Louis with the plunder, but somebody gave them away, and when Doyle reached St. Louis he was arrested.

This is the way detective or operator described this case, and continuing, added: "Doyle had two trials. When convicted, his mouthpiece got iim a new trial, and he got e'ght instead of twenty stretches (years). Brockway squared it by turning up the plates^ and a $100 plate that had given the rovernment considerable trouble."

In Connecticut he served three years of his term when arrested over thirty years ago. In '67 when sentenced to twelve years' imprisonment, he served a portion of his term and was released on surrendering the plfttes*

In Danuemora jail, from which he escaped, he owes time on an unexpired sentence of fifteen years ago.

Like Gleason and Roberts, the forger,'"all has not been smooth sailing. He was a mine of wealth to a few old detectives. When they, could find him, if he didn't come down they arrested him on some fictitious charge and took him off to Boston or Philadelphia, or elsewhere, to be identified. Rather than be annoyed, if the strike was not too deep, he "came down." It was to this blackmail on the part of detectives that Col. Whitley, of the secret service, alludes, speaking of his assertions in regard to the villainous course pursued towards him.

Like Mose Ehrich, the celebrated re-, ceiver, who when he hail business on hand could not be piped or shadowed by any man on the old or new force. When Mose got out of a house he went -to-where there was a car route. He jumped on ttre car and stood on tbe rear platform. If an officer got on with liim he walked to the' front and

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him. Jt was with. Brockway as it was with Mose Ehrich, he could not be followed when on business, and the easy shadowing that the officers had shows that there Mas a give-away of poor old Brockway.

In the course of his life Brockway has been three times sent to the state prison. Twice he has been pardoned out and once he has escaped. That was years 8go, and yet, although they knew* him te be such a dangerous character, he waB never arrested and sent back to finish hiB unexpired term. Was the pigeon too valuable as a stool pigeon or a pigeon to pluck that he was permitted to be at large?

Should old Brockway be sent up for life, there will be but two of the "old school" of any note left behind him— Gleason and Roberts. Oakly Beemer iB long dead, so is Honora Shepherd and all her family BO is the Hon. Marmaduke Reeves, of H. B. M. service, who fooled the Brooklynites, and was dined and wined, supposing him to be a British blue-bloodea aristocrat. With him lias also departed Jerry Cowsden, who during the war flooded city, town and hamlet with forged shinplaaters. All of the old school are gone but three, Brockway, Gleason and Roberts. The two last the police should now give thmr attention to. ,r

Senator Edmund) on Polygamy. Senator Edmunds, of Vermont, has sent the folio wing letter to the National League for the Suppression of Polygamy, recently organized in Cleveland, Ohio:

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He left New Haven and came to New York. He had married and he and his wife started a daguerreotype establishment in the Bowery- near Grand street. The wife was known as "The Lady in Black."

26,1883.

Yours of the 15th was

duly received. Pressure upon my time does not allow 80 into details. HJy views jespect of further lej{islft* tion-~i4ardin8 polygamy are mainly expressed in the bill reported last session by the committee on the judiciary, which I shall again introduce at this session, with perhaps some additional provisions. I have reason to believe that the legislation already is operating favorably to the end desired, and, if it can be supported and supplemented by legislation which the com mittee, on the occasion of the of the former bill, stated they expect to bring forward, I have no doubt that with good administration, without which all 1 iws are useless, we shall gradually extirpate the crime. Respectfully yours,

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EDMUNDS,

Prof. Tice.

Prof. Tice, the St. Louis weather prophet who acquired national not or eiy some years ago died last week. He was a quaint, curious old man, undoubtedly sincere in his professions and altogether indifferent to either the laudatory or the adverse comments those professions occasioned. He looked like the conventional picture of Santa Claus, baring the round belly and rubicund nose. His white hair and snowy beard were unkempt, be was stiangely indifferent as to his dress, and his whole air was that of an abstracted but earnest man. He was a ready and entertaining talker and always appeared glad enough to patiently explain his pet thbries. He was a kindly, genteel, honest old man. and, however much huinbuggery there might have been in his work as a weather prophet, it was the result of a weakness in the upper and not in the middle storv..

Nearly all the justieeS of the United States supreme court are good whist players, and they have formed themselves and their families into a whist party, meeting every "Saturday evening at the home of one of their number. Justice Miller is probably the best whist player among them, and Chief Justice Waite and Justices Blatctiford, Woods and Matthews are said to be expert euchre players.

It is reported that William H. V*nderbilt has given bis son, William K., an allowance of $100,000 a ,year, and tbat the young muu io:*Mlers himself poverty stricken in consequence.

THE TERRE HAUTE EXPRESS, SUNDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 9,1883.

A WIDOW FOB WEALTH.

Anns Thanafil'l Great SehenM—Her Demaad for fluibaud'i IAte iBrarance Ouei the Arrest of Confederates —Dr. Gelger, W. Guetcchuw and Halloa Driver Implicated. Chicago News. ..

Dressed in deep mourning, a° woman hurriedly entered the Home Lift Insurance office on Clark street, yesterday abodt 10 o'clock. She appeared bowed down witii grief, moreover, she wept in a quiet, genteel way. Weeping women are not strange sights in a life insurance office. Her entrance created no excitement, tybt as s6on as she an-, nounced that sb^ WAS the widow of William Shaler afije became an object of much interest^ in fact she was at once escorted into the office of Edgar H. Kellogg, the (Chicago agent of the company. At the conclusion of the interview the wcitnan was no longer the Widow of William Shaler. Kellogg skipped over to,the office of Justice Lyon and at once filed acomplaint and began swearings out warrants on charges of conspiracy to defraud. The warrants issued.: were for William Goetschow, of 21 fiosebud street, Italics Driver, a clerk in the county clerk's office, and Dr. Henry Geiger, formerly countyphysician.

The warrants-charge the parties with conspiracy ,to defraud the life insurance company of $2,500. The methods of the fraud are thus outlined Driver, who is as healthy and abl»bodied a ci^zen as one could see in a day's walk, would make application to a life insurance company for a policy, giving instead of his own name that of some man whom he knew to be so far gone in sickness that his death was simply a matter of a few days. After thfe death of hiB counterfeit had occurred and been properly certified to and^ proven up, a woman, named Anna

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When she had stepped away for a moment Guetschow again evinced a willingness to talk. "It was Charles Wqldmann, a representative of the company," he said, in a quick, uneasy way, glancing at the woman in black. "I deny the charges they are nothing. I will tell But at this instant the "widow" advanced toward him, and he stopped.

Driver was brought in about 6 o'clock. He was very airy. "You can't pump me,'( he remarked to a reporter. "I am a citizen of Chicago employed by the company." But in spite of this fact he was held in. company with Gutschow, until to-day in bonds of $1,000. Bail was furnished.

All of the accused are well known*in Chicago. Dr. Geiger lives at 491 north Clark street. He has been thiee times county physician, and is at present north side inspector for the city health department.

The case on which the arrest was made is one whejrein it is claimed that Driver procured fan insurance in the name ol William Shaler, who was then lying sick at the county hospital Shaler died, and yesterday morning the woman called at the Home com pany and presented a claim for the $2,500 policy which stood in Shaler's name.

It happened that Mr. Kellogg had been suspicious gf this case for some time, and instead of handing lier check for the $2,500 lie caused the ar rests of Geiger Guetschow and Driver. According to the charge made by Kellogg, Geiger's part in the frauds was to ascertain the names of those about to die aud see that proper certificates of death and burial were issued. Guetschow's part iB not clear.

The warranto were placed in the hands ot aiconstable, and-at 5 o'clock In "the afternoon Guetschow was brought into Justice Lyon's court. He is an intelligent-appearing German, about 35 yfears ,'jof age. He began, to give ut A.V otuiy, wuefl tile "widow," wlio.ts a close friend of the ^iiesings, *n£hit#H?een -promui»nl as. a German politician during his twenty three years' residence in tliis city His reputation has alwayB been good. Driver is a clerk iu the county clerk's office. He has been a political .hanger-on to the Harrv Rubens clique for many years, and is principally knwpn in that connection. Before tbisno charges affecting his character for honesty have ever been made, Guetschow lives at 21 Bosebud street and has alwayB been called a person o:: some property. He was arrested Mon day on a capias sworn out by Edgar Kellogg, son of the agent ol the Home Insurance company, on a charge of defrauding Kellogg out of $559 in a real estate transaction.

Anna Thonagel, the woman in tbe case, is a person of considerable force of character, and is said to have been engaged in many schemes before, notably some frauds connected with the whisky-ring steals of 1874. One Charles Holdman was employed by Kellogg as a private detective in the case, and Guetschow claims that he was concerned in the affair. A future sifting of the case will throw considerable light on some spots that are now dark.

Too Awfully Utter.

Texas Sift lags. A party of ycung ladies were visiting a photograph gallery in Austin. "Do you know, girls," carelessly observed one of them, "that in tbe photographer's camera everything stands on its head?" "It can't be possible!" exclaimed one of the young ladies, growing pale and trembling like an aspen leaf. "You don't mean that?" "But it's so why What's the matter with you said the first speaker. "Mercy on me! Why, I had my photograph taken here last Monday, and —I—oh, it's ^ust too terrible for anything!"

The sacred rooms in Windsor Palace formerly occupied by John Brown, Esq„ vice, president of the British ®mpire, »«j»-iMDt locked. The queen willnermit no o&e occupy them whfl^she lives. The queen^ puj-. cal health is now said to be quite good.

Mary Churchill ran away from St. LoOis because her parents required her to practice at tile pianaforte two hours a day, and now that slie has returned and began to plav eighteen hours a day, a rumor says lier parents are missing.

There is, it seems, to be an umbrella that cannot be stolen. A genius has invented a detachable handle, upon withdrawing which the ribs are automatically locked. Replacing it unlocks them. No'two handles fit the same umbrella.

Michigan by a curious provisioifof her state constitution forbids not jrmlv the employment on salary of a regular chaplain of either house, but prohibits praying or any form of religious services in either house.

A hot iront passed on the underside of plush, the pile being upward, will smooth it and take out creases. Holding it near a fire without burning is a good plan.

In a game of foot ball at Annapolis a muscular cadet kicked tbe ball fifty yards. His friends arc willing to back him against any opera Binger in the country.

ACtora are made, not born, nowadays," says an old New York manager. "One-tenth genius, ninfc-tenths mechanism.

Hobert Henry, sexton, of Grace chapel, Brooklyn, goes up' two yean for undertaking to secure pay for burying a sqjdier's child that he uidn't bury.

America, during tbe last year, sold to other countries $122,000,000 more goods than she boqght of them.

The Harpers spent $10,000 on the il.lustrations for th«j current number of Ittrtir magazine.

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POST OFFICE DIBgSOTOBT.

OftMl Wo. Soatli Mxtfa Street OFFICE EOVB8. General Delivery from 7JO m. in. untl tiK v. m.

Lobby and Stamp Department) from 730 a. in until 8:00 p. m. Money Order ana Registry ofllce, from 8:00 a^m. until 540 p. m. olllet

On Sunday the oflloe la open from 9:004. m. until 10 o'clock a. m. No Money Order or Reglater builneea tranaaoted on Sanflays.

aiAIU CLOSK. EAST. 12. night 12 noon. 1.-46 p. m. 8:40 p.m. 9:00a.m. 1:45 p.m.

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Indianapolis and through East I. H. AI. BMlroad, way station t. A St. I* B. R. way station. Toledo, Wabash A

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U, night 8:40 p.

Western, east of Danville, 111.

1130 p. m.

WE8T.

1 12, night 8:40 a. in 1010 a. m. 1:45 p. in.

St. Loulg nd through West. .... Van. R. B. WW sta. 8:40 a. m. 1:45 p. m.

I A St. L. R. R. way station 101*0 a. m. Hi. midland way sta.- 6)00 a. tn. Tolsdo, Wabash A

W tis'n, weal of Danville. ill. llOQp. m. Charleston, IlllnuU, (through pooch,) 12, nighU« Mattoon, Illinois, (through pouch,) 12, night. Paris, lib., (through pouch,) 6iU0p. m.'

NORTH.

Chicago, Illinois, 6«0 a. m. 1:48 p.m. 11:30 p. m. Ohl. ft Eastern 111.

R. R., way stations, 6:00 a. m. Danville, Hi. through poucn 11S80 p. a*. T. H. & Logansporl R.

R.. way stations. 8 OU a. rn. Bockville, Indiana, through pouch. 8:40 p.m. North'n Ind. north'n\ 12, night,

Ohio, Mich. *Ca. 1145 p. m. -.1130 p.ns SOUTH. Evansvllle and stations on T. H. ft B.

Wo'rthlugton and stations onTv B. A B. E. R. R.

18 nlglrt 330 p.

SMI a. m.

HACK LINES.

Prairleton, Prairie Creek, Oraysville and Fairbanks

representing

herself as the widow of the deceased, would go to t&p insurance company and collect -«e insurance policy.

Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday: Nelson, Ind., Tuesday and Saturday

7300 a. w, 14)0 p.

CITY DELIVERY.

The Carriers leave the Office for delivery and collection, over the entire city, 7:00 a. m. and 1:80 p. m. Over the business portion of the City: 7:00 a. m., 11 a. m., 2:00 p. m., 8:80 p. m. and 6 p.m.

The mail Is collected from Street Letter Boxes on Main street, from First to Twelfth streets, north on Fourth to Cherry, south on Fourth to Walnut and south on First to Poplar, apd on Ohio between First and Fifth, every week day between 8 and 9 a. m., between 9 and 10 a. m. between IU and 1 p. m. and between 7:80 and 5:20 p. m. All other boxes are collected twioe a day. between tbe hours of 7:00 and 10 a. m., and between 1:80 and 8:80 p. m.

On Sunday the Post Office Is open from 8 to 10 o'clock a. m., and persons desiring their mail oan call at the window designated by the number of their carrier.

Sunday collections over the entire city are made between 4:20 and 6 JOO p. m., and again in the business part of the city between 7:80and8o'elook, p.m.

J. O. JONES, M.

1884.

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Harper's Magazine.

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its Klxty

eightii volume with the December Number. It is the most popular U'ristratod periodical in America aud Eugland,' always fully abreast of tbe times In its treatmenUof subjects of current, social aud industrial interest, and always alvancing its standard or literacy, artistic, and mechanical excellence. Among its attractions for 1884 are: anew serial novel by William Black, illustrated by Abbey a new novel by E. P. Ron, Illustrated by Gibson and Dielman descriptive illustrated papers by George H. Bough tou, Frank D. Millet, C. H. Farnham, and others Important historical and biographical papers: sliori stories by W. D, HowellK, Charles Reade, etc.

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HARPER 4 BROTHERS, New York.

J. F. McCANDLESS,

Dealer in allirades of hard and soft coal,

BRAZIL BLOCK, BLOCK NUT, and BITUMINOUS

O O A. Xj.

WOOD AND COKE.

Office, 18 and 20 South Third Street.

(Telephone Connection.)

Billiard and Pool Tables,

iOf all sizes, new and sccoud-hand.

Ail Kinds of Billiard Material

To be had the sainir prlcc a* per .^Cj

situ NSWICK and BALKE & CO.'S PRICE-LIST,

In. Terr®

JACOB MAY, Agent.

PAUL BLACKMAR & CO.,

BIG RAPIDS, MICH.,

Manufacturers aud General Dealers in

Lumber, Lath Shingles,

AT WHOLESALE. ._

Buy Direct from the Saw Mill, aud Save Money.

No price lists issued, but will be pleased to quote delivered prices on any grade of Lumber, etc., you need.

St. Charles Hotel.

mm- GOOD ACCOMMODATIONS.

MT JIATES BKASONABLB.

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Men'4 Sewed Brogans, $ 1.25. Men's Fin* Sewed Sutton, $2.00 Men'# Calf Boots, $2.50. Men's Kip Boots, $2.00 Boy's Brogans, 50 Cents. Boy's Kip Boots, $1.50. Women's Fine Buttoned Shoes $ 1.50. Women's Lace Shoes, $1.00. Misses' Fine Button Shoes, $1.00.'

All goods are Marked Down to Make Clean Sweep, to Close Business. We dont Brag or Blow but will substantiate all we advertise, so come along and bring your families, we can save you from 36 oents to ILOO on a pair of Boots.

Goods Warranted as Represented or Money Refunded.

Tours Truly, _.

Daniel Reibold, Cor. Third and Main Sts., TERRE HAUTE, IND.

PROFESSIONAL CARDS. I. H. C. ROY8E,

Attorney at Law, No. 5031-2 MAIN STREET.

H. BARTHOLOMEW. W. A. HALL.

BARTHOLOMEW & HALLDentists.

OFFICE:—Southwest corner Sixth and Ohio streets, over Savings Bank. Entranoe on Ohio street.

MS. MCUKMf & VAX VALZU, Dentists, Office, S. W. Cor. Fifth and Main Sts.,

ENTRANCE ON FIFTH STREET.

Communication by telephone. Oxide Gas administered.

Nitrous

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TEItKK HAUTE, INDIANA. Sfeffi .t

OFFICE HOURS: 3 to 5 p. m.

-9 to 12 a. m., and front

SAVE YOUR EYES!

Terre Haute, Indiana, Eye infirmary R. D. HAT.ZV,of N. Y., late of Trentou, Mo. and J. E. DUHBAK, of 8t. I^ouis, late of Winchester, Mo., Proprietors.

Will treat all diseases of the eye ten days free of charge if Ample satisfaction not given. Office and rooms, 129 South Third street, opposite St. Charles Hotel, where one of us can be consulted at all hours during the day. City references:—J. T. MusicK, druggist, next door to postofflce -K. vr McVorrln, dealer agrloultural Implements, west side Public So uare Hiram iroultc, Rrocer. Cor. First ana Main.

FARMERS, ATTENTION

Save Your Feed.

FEED STEAMER,

Just the thing for Farmer# or Dairymen.

R0MAIN & DAILY FEED STEAMER

can be seen at Fouls & Hunter's livery stable, or at corner ot Seventh and Poplar streets. It wJll save you money—call and seet H. A. B. WILLIS, 628 North Seventh St.

CHOICE

J. F. ROEDEL,

N. K. Cor. of Vint and Ohio Sta.

New Goal Office.

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N. S. WHEAT

There Is a telephone connected with tbe office, and he is prepared to furnish coal ot all kinds as low as the lowest, and ot the best quality. His old former friends, and as many new ones, are cordially Invited to call and get prices which h* Is satisfied will be satisfactory.

W. H. HASLET,

IS Sooth Filth Street,

Pays a liberal ptX* "Worn cast-off olothlnff.

MRS. K. K. CHILTON

moved her stock of

MILLINERY GOODS,

To 006 Mala Street, Halma• Black.

T. i. PATTON & CO.,

y1 DKAl-KIW IN

Otioio© Meats.

CStMtmeM, Etc., o» commlMIon, In eonneetfon with their present line tor Sprtof trade. Address If. CM5S8WJ5LL CO.i MMu^MturtrSj ^Market ftreptf OklO.

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GROCERIES

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Fresh Country Produce,

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NOW REMOVED TO HIS OWN COAL .ot-irnrK BDILT AT

9X3 East Main Street

9 city. We have Boots, Shoes and in any

BRAZIL BLOCK, BLOCK NUT, AND BITUMINOUS

made

REMOVAL!

As an Inducement to Persons Desirous of Getting .Up Clubs for the

Weekly Express

The following premiums arc offered

1st. City Lot 45x172 en Thirteenth-and-a-half street in Harbert & Barton's subdivision, bought of Ross & Balue, valued at $250 00 2d. An elegant Walnut-eased Shoninger Organ, bought of J. A. Marshall A Co., valued at $ 1 Z&

3d. Studebaker farm wagon, bought of the implement house of C. C. Smith,valued at $75 00 4th. One White Sewing Machine, elegant Cabinet, bought of J. N. Hickman A Co., valued at $65 00 5th. Double barrelled shot gun, valued at $50 0Q 6th. Bed-room set of furniture, fought of Probst & Fisbeck, valued at $40 00 7th. Silk Dress Pattern, bought of Buckeye Cash Store, val* lied at $35 00 8th. A "New Champion" driven or open well force pump with 50 feet of piping, bought of Stubbs Bros., valued at $35 00 9th. Set of double harness, long tug, bought of Peter Miller, valued at $30 00 10. Full-jeweled Levenges Watch, perfect time keeper, solid silver hunting case, bought of E. W. Leeds, valued at $25

11. Fifteen premiums to be selected from the following articles, each valued at $2.50, and bought of M, Bolinger & Co.: Diston Hand Saw, or a set of Knives and Forks, or a set of Silver Plated Knives. $37 50

Total I..

The above premiums will be distributed on tbe 1st of January, 1884. The first premium will be given to the person who sends in the largest number of paid subscribers between September 20th and January 1st, either of renewal* or new subscriptions.

The second premium will be given to the person sending in the next largest list, aqd so on down to the fifteen premiums of $2.50 each, which will be distributed to the persons furnishing the fifteen lists following the 10th premium.

To every person sending us ten or more paid subscriptions, who does not secure one of the above premiums, $1.25 cash and the Weekly free for one year will be awarded.

To every person sending us five or more paid subscriptions who Joes secure one of the above premiums, $1.2o cash or the Weekly Express free one year will be awarded.

A receipt will be forwarded for each subscription, and the a&ard of" premiums will'be made to the persona presenting these receipts by January 1st Subscriptions should be sent in as soon as obtained, with a notification that the Bender intends competing for one of the premiums. A careful system o* keeping the accounts of each competitor's work will be observed in this office.

Money should be sent either by POST OFFICE ORDER, POSTAL NOTES REGISTERED LETTER, by EXPRESS or AMERICAN EXPRESS ORDER

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BARGAINS FOR CAPITALISTS!

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DON'T F-A.IL TO VISIT

J. R. Fisher's Bargain Stores:

We show the largest, beat selected, moot varied and complete stock of

Boots, Shoes, Furniture, Stoves and Queensware,

In the^ city. We have tut'received our second shipment of 10,000 piirs of slippers. If you contemplate purchasing goodB in any of the above lines yon should visit our

MAMMOTH ESTABLISHMENT, BBFOK.B BXJYINO BUSHrWXXBHUC. R. FISHER, 325,827 & 329 Main St.

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DBALBB IH ALL OBADBB OF HABD AND SOFT COAX*,

WOOD AND COKE.

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Phcenix Foundry

BSPAIBIHQ P1I0MPTLT ATTENDED TO

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