Daily Wabash Express, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 31 January 1886 — Page 2

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13*. i:* GOLD BRICKS.

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socially,inteUectuaUy

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Address all information to Martin Kerigan, chief of police, or Its M. Porter, chief of detectlves. "»v. .'!To narrate the details of the swindle will be a sufficiently.clear explanation of ,wlmt is known in police circles as tne

J!,tgold

brick swindle." On the 13th day of November last, a man answering to 4l¥6^e#cTiption published above arrived in. Nashville, and began to make inquiries in regard to a .well-known-citizen, *r where he lived, how long he had been here, etc. On being directed, he went to the house of this gentleman ,and ringing palitely at the.door, asked for him. When he met his victim, the visitor exclaimed with a most forlorn air and in tones of utter blank disappointment, "You are Mr. mentioning the name of the gentleman, but omitting the middle initial, "but you are not the ifS*n I'm looking for."

Then be continued, "Ob, I've looked so long and earnestly for my. friend that I feel heart broken at now not finding him."

The gentleman naturally felt a sort of sympathy for themanaild began to make inju*ri?s. The latter told him that fh« man for whom he was in search was his friend, and he was now so anxious to »see him. After conversing awhile the visitor said, "Well, I have one chance left. I'll go to see his sister, who lives in this state. You seem to be a .good, kind man, and if I don't find her „lfpjl come bfick Tqr^eaVou and get you td aQvise me*."^ yhe geBtleman kindly con

[9£^^^r ai'absence of three or four days, the strange, earnest visitor again turns W up and tells the gentleman, to whose ac'•T' quaintance he now seemed to have a claim, that he found that his friend's sister had married and moved off to 4 distant state.

The gentleman's sympathies are aroused and through 'them the visitor sees unmistakable signs of gullibility. .The visitor, after drawing on his victim most cautiously but effectively, pours into his

ears a mos^ wondrous tale. Aladdin's dream could only equal, but not surpass the splendors which were being pictured bv this visitor to his new found friend H«

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Co»M«»« i. tb.

Celebrated Gold Brick jeweler,

The Madison and. ,rp«r CatiRbt by a Detect* I#e—The Scheme.

chippingsand dost from the process being caret ally deposited in a paper. Each brick was thus bored several times, the chippings each time being

The Seanel to the Stoiy About preserved. These were ostensibly kept, Beauw W «U_ most carefully, bat in reality some real the Arrest of Suon. man chipping* were substitnted their H.J ^-Oeorgla. stead anl t&se coming from the brass and copper bricks were destroyed. The

assayed

Detect-

„jve

"Th'61 Ataerican this morning is able to of yoar money if yon won' Bay anything about give tbfi details of one of the slickest and our little transaction for. thirty d.g^Twjis, mflst subcessfully worked repetitions of

swindle that has ever been perpe-

trdted' in this city. The victim is one of

carefully, and declared

Swindler. to be real gold, 22 carats. This tickled the Nashville man almost to a crazy point. Another conference

Iiogansport

which the Indian agreed

t},e

gentleman one-third interest

in the mine, if the latter would furnish sufficient cash to start the mine The money required was $6,000. As collate-

iiti* ral for this, the Indian woul«t leave with the man his two briefss, weighing sixtyfive pounds, and which, if they had been gold, would be worth, as we learned from

The Man Who "Worked" Logan sport and Hadlsop, Caught After the Nashville Trick. fx jeweier, me sum oi jo«,uw.

FI jeweler, the sum of $30,000. The

The Express, a few days ago, published Nashville man did not only jump at this the story'about the arrest of one "J. H. proposition, but plunged. He immeditae story aDoui

atelp

Brown, in Georg it to the two sharpers for one-third roftn absconding partner of a ierre Haute jn

firm. No snch man was known here, and himself had no interest in the mine ww no clew to the case could be obtained, willing, however, to trust to his two no ciew iu friends to do the "fair thing," as he be The story given below, from the Nash

ville American, refers to the same man, The Nashville man took up his two but how "J. H. Brown" and Terre Haute brass bricks and went his way rejoicing were drawn into the case, does not ap- Howard and friend took their $6,000, and retective scheme, one of those dark, un-

fathonable plots which are alleged to be lows: very cunning and shrewd—or worse. NASHVULB, Tenn., December 6.—My Dear tx

got the $6,000 in money, and paid

t^e

Old Uncle:

Indian's mine. Howard

The victim at

until

the most prominent citizens of Nashville, sations experienced. ,. standing deservedly high, whether meas-

or financially, and Mr. Robert

Nearly'six weeks ago the following shaped* thek plans accordingly. They circular found its way from Nashville to mailed copies of the circular printed a number of the most reliable detective above to parties who were likely to catch agencies in the country $500 BKWABD. ". rn 13 .•

Omoz or NASHYIIXK MBTBOPOLITAM POLICE—Martin Kerigan, chief of police B. M. Porter, chief of detectives.—Nashville, Tenn., December 7, 1886.—Twtr confidence men

workoflth'e "gold brick" swindle near thiB city, ^jje police department of St. Louis, Kijiy,'Pecfember 4, and obtai*eda large

DESCRIPTION OF THE PBINOIPAL IN THE BOSESCE. Forty-five years old, 6 feet 9 inches high, weight about 145 pounds rather chunky build

cofnplexion medium fair eyee dark, but have yellowish cast, and when speaking opens them Very wide, showing a great deal of white. Nose slightly Boman. Hair dark brown and 'worii very long behind, extending down over coat collar. Monstaohe and full whiskers,same dolor, the latter five to six inches long. He wore a dark sack coat vest same material panfa' aark gray with small black pin stripe

Bloaoh •'hat. Carried a very tine openface stem-wind gold watch, with extra heavy crystal..

The other man was seen bnt once, and then at a distance, only for a few momenta, and can not be described.

Five hundred dollars will be paid for the arrest of the principal in the scheme alone, ohd 10 per cent of all money recovered.

an)j

good ini tone8t

a note) which

ran about as fol

They're

a goo^

not gold, but brass now

boy, and I may give yon back apart

last tumbled, but not

after the trick was turned. It is un-

necessary

to attempt to describe the sen-

He ip,known for his energy, enterprise tectives, were immediately notified^ and and public spirit. These facts were told all the circumstances as deUiled. assured the reporter, though the name of They saw at once that the man who had tMs gentleman ra withheld by the perpetrated the swindle was one of the big birds of the "queer" profession, and

Porter, chiefof de

the wanted man. One of these reached the eyes of Mr. C. W. Page, manager of the Central Detectiue agency, of Springfield, Illinois. He at once began to make an investigaloa. He. was formerly connected with

through his acquaintance in that

city an(1

tjje entire

Eis

west, decided upon

the right mpn. He settled upon one T. J. Hennesey, and went to St. Louis. He kept watch on Hemiesey's house long enough to learn that the latter was not at home. He then found a clore friend'of the wanted man whom he knew to be in correspondence with Hennesey, iind he began to watch his movements. He followed this man from St. Louis to Humboldt,Tenn. From there to Nashville, then to Atlanta, and from there to Marietta, Ga. In this latter city the detective saw Hennesey and arrested him. Then the detective began to

lay a sharp game on his man. He told prisoner that he was wanted for working the gold brick trick on a man in Indiana. Never alluding in any way to and Nashville aflair. Page, however, was anxious to get his man into Tennessee, to render it unnecessary to go through the delay and formality of securing requisition papers. He arrested Hennesey, Saturday night at 11 o'clock and took him to Atlanta, where the two spent Sunday. Page then led his prisoner to believe that by the payment of a certain amount of money a compromise could be effected with the party whom he had swindled in Indiana. Hennesey was anxious for this. At Atlanta, Page toid him that there were certain parties inquiring for him, and thus persuaded him to go to Chattanooga. Here he persuaded his man to come to Nashville, where they would be able to telegraph the better in regard to compromising the affair. Page consequently arrived in Nashville yesterday morning and stopped at the Broadway House. Later in the evening he took his man to the police station. While in these various cities with his prisoner, Page would secure a room at a hotel for the two, and on retiring would lock up every stitch of his own and the prisoner's clothing and hide the key. This was to prevent his man from running away at night, unless he would go naked.

To the officers, Hennesey made a full confession, and in default of $10,000 bond was sent to jail by 'Squire Hinton. Detective Page stated list night that his prisoner was a noted character. He had worked this dame gold brick in a number of instances, and always most successfully. In Madison, Ind., he swindled in this same way Mr. U. S. Wolf out of $5,0Q0. In Loganlport, Ind., he worked the gold brick on Samuel McFadden to the tune of $4,500, and in Columbus, O., the same brickB got from John S. Morton the snug sum of $5,000.

He is said to be a remarkably shrewd man. Adaptability is. his strong point. He can make himself most agreeable with anybody and at any time.

The detective who arrested him is certainly an expert and skilled man. He has made a number of notable successes ia his line of work. In the celebrated Walkup murder trial in Emporia, Kas., a few weeks ago, in which Mrs. Minnie Walkup was charged with poisoning hei

_e told the latter that he was from. An* nao uiugcu huh pumuiwg u« zona, where he had spent a number of husband, the mayor of the city, Mr. Page years. He came back to see his friend was the detective employed by the defor whom he had searched in vain, and fense, and worked up the facts by which

Jo was a man of wealth, te ask his aid the fair defendant was acquitted. aid in a certain matter. He paid prompt and ready tribute to He then proceeded to tell of a gold Chiefs Kerrigan and Porter, of Nashmine of which he knew, and which he ville, for the proper manner in which believed would make to its owner a co- they handled the case. Detective Page lossal fortune. It was the property of an will not only receive this reward of $500 old Indian, who owned the entire gold and 10 per cent, of money refunded, but region. This Indian was afraid to tell will also receive rewards in other cases in his secret to anybody for fear that he which Hennesey^gured. would be murdered. Howard, for such The latter is known in criminal circles was the name assumed by the visjior, de^ as T. J. Hennesey, alias Dan Brown, clared- that he haid obtained the alias Dan Davis, alias W. H. Howard, secret by chance, and he alone alias J. H. Van Dora. The grand jury knew oi the mine. He had, how- of the Criminal court will investigate the ever, persuaded the Indian to agree case to-day, after which the name of the to take in a partner who had money unfortunate victim will be known to the enough to get the mine started to work, public. The Nashvule man's eyes begin to open It will be remembered that the Ameriaa Howard proceeded with his story, can's Hopkinsville special some weeks ago "This old Indian is in Hopkinsville, Ky., gave an account of the mysterir«nd if you wish to see him come and go oos movements of two men and of thesubwith me to that place nnd I'll show you sequent discovery of several brass bricks hi™, and jdso some (specimen bricks of in the woods where they had been {he gold' to fee found in the mine." hidden. This is no doubt the occasion

A trip to Hopkinsville was according- just after which the "Indian was sick and ly arranged. There, however, it was removed his bricks." The recent perpefound that the Indian was sick and had tration of this same swindle in Madison, removed the bricks. Howard said, how- Ind., and the subsequent sensational suit ever, that to make it convenient he wojuld which has just ended, is also fresh in the idian nearer Nashville in a minds of The bring the Indian nearer Nashville in a minds of The American's readers. It is few days. This was accordingly d^ne. ab old dodge and has been Written up in The Indian came to Nashville and buried the newspapers of the country a hundred the gold bricks out in the country about times,. but, the adroit swindler still finds five miles from the city. The swindler suckers to snap at his golden bait and his gullible friend went out to that The spot the next afternoon. There was the ... .,

Indian sure enough. He was painted and

era w2eda*e(L Congregating "m'ysteri-

Howard

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disguised for the personation of an Indian, dever, last night, "that Brown was ar as was afterwards learned. Anyway the rested in this city last Jail. He went to prospective millionaire, or pipbablybil-

0id

ously around a certain spot, ihey dug up him where a large amount of gold was two gold bricks wrapped up concealed many years ago, in the woods very carefully. They were shown tri- west ol Terre Haute. The Indian would umphantly to the spwulative idapit&list. tell thejexact locality for several thousand

had taken with him a drill, and dollars. If the farmer would furnish the proposed to the geaUeuah to dr31 a hole money, he would divide with him. in any portion of the brick to wove that This the farmer agreed to do. So, it was gold.

VoTi

satisfied now, said Captain Van

farmer rear Effingham and told

him old lndian had

regaled to

came to Terre Haute and met the

"Now, where shall I bore?w was gold revealer Hebfotight a lawyer with him to draw up the agreement. The "At this spot," designated the gentle- farmer and the gold revealer were overman. heard talking at a livery stable, and the

Accordingly the drilling went on, the police department was informed. Super-

V5«6k

-if

StlSll

intendent Lawlor and I arrested the parties, and took them to headquarters. The! one who knew where the gold was secreted gave his name as Dan Smith, and he registered that name at the Terre Haute house. It was hard work to make the old farmer believe the fellow was a swindler, And only believed it when Smith owned up. We found a letter in Smith's possession from his wife, dated at Atlanta. We got a circular from Nashville a few days ago, giving a description of Brown, and we wrote them, giving a descriptien of Smith."

A FEMININE BLACKMAILER.

•flow'The Duch*w" levied Tribute on Tmpmdcnt Married M*n. Special Dispatch to the Globe-Democrat.

WASHINGTON, D. C., January 26.— "The Duchess of California," or "The Daisy of Chicago," as she is sometimes called, readily acceded to the proposition of the police to leave Washington to escape prosecution, although it is extremely doubtful if any of her victims could have been persuaded to appear against her. She was arraigned in court to-day under the name of Allie E. Ellis, with the aliases given above. The charge against her was "being a person of «vil life or fame, a suspicious person having no visible means ot support and unable to give a good account of herself."

Her counsel offered the plea of not' guilty, but in almost the same breath said she was willing to leave the city, The court readily agreed, and "the Duchess" departed. She is not more than 25, good looking, and when taken into custody wore a costly velv.et walking: suit. When "she found .the police had, discovered ber she made no defense, but talked, bdldly and unblushingly of her succt ss in plying her trade of blaekmail! among public men in Washington. At least one diplomat of high standing has given money in the hope of sealing her' lips. She claimed to have made a score of victims among senators and representatives. 'Among her most plebeian victims was a hotel-keeper, whose loss of a paltry $100 provoked the beautiful blackmailer to some contemptuous remarks in the presence of the detectives.

The style in which the woman carried on her traffic is pretty good evidence of the lucrative character of the field. She had with her a young woman who played the role of maid, and a little child, claimed as her own, but really belonging to the maid. The retinue also included a discreet colored man who acted as messenger. ,M.rs. Ellis, as she called herself here, readily admits that she has a speaking acquaintance with the police of all the larger cities of the country. In talking of her business she said she made it a rule to attract the attention of elderly men only, and she found that not one time in twenty did her estimate of human nature prove untrue.

The story which the police tell about the woman is an interesting one. She came to this city about six months ago, and took a suite of rooms at the National hotel. Shortly after her arrival the police were notified to arrest her for the Philadelphia authorities, and two detectives were immediately dispatched to the hotel. They told their mission, and the proprietors were horrified. "Arrest this woman," they said, "and you get yourselves into trouble. She is a personal friend of the president, and has numerous influential friends come to see her." The officers, however, insisted, and one of the gentlemen of the hotel went to the dining-room to summon the lady. Instead of doing so, however, he conducted. her through a rear passage to street, where she took a carriage and went immediately to the depot and took the train for Philadelphia.

She was not in the- least intimidated, however, and shortly after her arrival in Philadelphia she advertised for a maid, one having a child preferred. A young married woman with a little girl 2 years of age, was engaged. She also engaged a colored valet, and with this retinue she again started for Washington. Her plan, as parily unfolded to her maid, was to pose as the wife of a wealthy gentleman. Her beauty would be sure to attract attention, and having secured old and wealthy lovers, she would lead them on until they were too much compromised to inform on her, when she would chloroform them and go through their pockets. The child was to be utilized in two ways. First, to add a show of respectability 8nd, secondly, to be used in- extorting money from members of congress and other gentlemen whose indiscretions had led them into her toils on former occasions. The objections on the part of the maid were peremptorily dismissed with the remark that there was lots of money in it, and the whole party arrived at the National hotel.

The first step taken by the lady was to write to a prominent citizen, demanding $1,000 under pain of exposure and threats ening to take the child to his wife. This scheme, however, evidently did not develop, for a few days later she discharged her maid, and leaving the hotel without paying her board took a house in the northwestern part of the city. This she "furnished luxuriously and commenced housekeeping. Her success seems to have been great, though in what form or who her victims were is as yet only a matter of. rumor. It has been found out however, that a certain Joreign minister paid her furniture dealer $100 to delay for one month the seizure of all the furniture she haH purchased and not paid for. This furniture she had bought in Philadelphia on the installment plan. The dealer lost sighfof her and only traced his property to Washington with considerable difficulty. The next da/ after the payment of the $100 obtained from the diplomats, Mrs. Ellis moved away every piefee of furniture in the house, then took her maid, the child, and the colored man servant and three large trunks to a well-known hotel, where she engaged a suite of rooms. While at the hotel she endeavored to inveigle old men into her room and rob them or blackmail them. She confessed to her maid, whose name she assumed, that she had, by the use of chloroform, stolen over $30,000 in money and valuables from different persons.

While in Chicago she boarded at a

first-class hotel. Her money ran short, and she hid her valuable diamond pin and reported to the proprietors that her room bad been robbed and her pin stolen. She received by suit from the proprietere $200, the value of the pin. She is looked upon by the police as being the most daring blackmailer in the country., v'

From Poverty to Wealth*

ST. LOUIS, Mo., January 29.—By a decision of the Illinois Supreme court, Mrs. Mary Price, the wife of a baggage wagon driver in this city, comes into possession of $75,000. Her father, Isaac Foreman, of O'Fallon, 111., willed his property to the Bible and Methodist missionary societies, aside.

During

but the will was set pp

Transfers of Real Estate. James N. Shepherd and others to Thomas C. Shepherd, 41.50 acres in section 3, Otter Creek township, for $1.

Jeremiah Hayworth to Barnabas Hayworth, 64 acres in section 6, Linton township, tor $1,300.

Barnabas Hayworth and wife to James Harlan, same land, for $1,600.

^8*. Louts Wants the World's Fair. ST. LOOTS, MO., January 29.—A joint meeting of the directorate of the St. Louis Fair association and St. Louis Exposition association is being held to-day, for the purpose of taking the necessary preliminary steps towards securing, for thin city, the World's fair in 1892.

THE EXPRESS, TERRE HAUTE, SUNDAY, JANUARY 31, 1886.

DEPARTED GLORY.

A Glance at Covington, on tlie "Wabash —Talk With a?V*teran «2 the Knight* of the Golden Circle. Special to the Commercial "Gazette.

COVINGTON, Ind., January 28.—This is one of\the oldest towns on the Wabash, and in the etrly days of Indiana it was an important and thriving place. ..It was the midway station between yincennes and Fort Wayne, and at one time supplied all the Indian trading posts. In tboee days the Wabash was navigable to this point, and it was no unusual thing to see fifteen or eighteen steamboats here atone time loading or discharging cargoes. The prospects of Covington then were indeed bright. The Wabash and Erie canal furnished means for transportation to Lafayette, Logansport, Fort Wayne and Toledo. Hither came the grain of the

great

Wabash valley for

shipment to New Orleans, and from here the necessities of life were distributed throughout northern Indiana.' In those early days Covington wouldn't have traded places with Chicago. But, alas I alas! her glory was short lived. The age of railways came, and iron highways were built in all directions. Literally there were railroads to the right of them, railroads to the left, of them, railroads in iront of them, but for years none came to Covington. It was then the glory of Covington departed. With the building of railroads the Wabash passed from a navigable river to a sluggish creek, with scarce enough water to float a canoe, and it has now been many years since the plash of a-steamer's paddle wheels .has been heard at the deserted wharves of Covington. It ought still to be a prosperous place, for it is the county town of one of tbe best wheat growing counties in the 6tate, but somehow or other it has never been able to recover its lost ground.

the late war, tbis was the dark

and benighted ground of Indiana. Here draft officers were assaulted and driven away. Here Knights of the Golden Circle flourished and held their meetings in the darkness of night, and amid the swamps and bogs. Here companies were organized to resist the government, and openly drilled with arms in their hands. At length so dangerouBhad these demonstrations become, that the government had to send troops into this section to suppress the incipient rebellion. Those days of disloyalty and darkness have passed away, and Fountain county has beep thoroughly reconstructed. I had a talk ty-day with one of the old veterans of the Knights, and he gave me an amusing account of many scenes when they were trying to hide from the government. He recalled to mind how, one night, a few of them had assembled for the purpose of organizing a lodge, in_ a log cabin situated on the canal bank in one of the out townships. They had no light except what was shed from a ''tallow dip. They had sentinels disposed at some distance to give alarm of the approach of any enemy. While in the midst of their work, a gun was fired. The light was extinguished, and the valiant knights stole out into the darkness and scoured in everv direction. He said that he did not reach home until 10 o'clock the .next day, and that some of the others hid in the woods for two or three days. At that time he was the editor, as he says now, "of the

vilest

secesh paper north of Mason

and Dixon's line." But.now, strange as it may seem, he is the editor of one of the most vigorous republican papers in the state.

one time during the war, a

company of Union soldiers from Danville, 111., visited his office and tumbled it into the Wabash.

As remaaked, during the war this coun ty was intensely and violently rebellious, giving a large democratic majority, but now it is pretty evenly divided, the republicans having five of the eight county offices, and republicanism is steadily growing. I think Covington can boajst of the veteian officeholder ol the state, in the person of William Lamb, the present auditor, -and, by the way, he is no relative of John E. Lamb, whose record the Commercial Gazette has so mercilessly exposed, although he is of the same political faith.- He has held office almost continuously for thirty-five years, and he fold me he should be a candidate for auditor again this fall.

Speaking of John E. Lamb calls te mind that this is his old congressional district, and that a large number of democrats are fairly howling for him to be a candidate this fall. If he is," said one democrat to me, "we will give his political jacket such a warming that even that boss hypocrite, Cleveland, will not have cheek enough to appoint him to office again. He goes around and boasts that he ran ahead of his ticket, but if he is a candidate this fall that boast .will be taken away from him. He is 300 votes weaker in this county, thap any other democrat to-day." I found several others equally free in their expressions against Lamb

At Attica the case iB somswhat different. There the democrats all agree the republican should be unceremoniously bounced but they can not egree as to who is the proper man to take the place. While thfey quarrel among themselves the republican holds the office and draws the salary, all the while smiling at the wrangling of his enmies. In Covington, if the present officer is removed, ho patter who is Appointed, a serious split will result. In Attica, if the republican is not speedily ordered to walk, a split will be inevitable. Evidently the democratic party of Fountain, like that of every other pfece, is a party of loaves and fishes, ana ov6r their distribution they are ready to rend each other to pieces. The republican party is not in as good shape as it ought to be. There are local dissensions and jealousies that threaten serious disasters if not healed up. If harmony shall prevail the county can be readily ^carried this fall.

Just now the county is torn up from center to circumference, so to speak, oyer a local matter. In Indiana, when the people can find nothing else to quarrel about, they always ttike up the matter of gravel roads and bridges. In this county it is bridges that are setting neighbor against neighbor and friend against friend. The assessed valuation of property in this county is a little over$8,000,000, and within the last few years the sum. of $170,000 has been expended in bridge-building. One-third of the amount has been in one township. It is now proposed to purchase two more at a cost of about $40,000. This is vigorously op posed, especially by the people of the township that has hitherto nad the.lion's share of tbe bridge-building fund. Hitherto Attica and Covington have been, in some sort, rival cities, but on this bridge grant they are "Two Bonis with bat a single thought,

Two hearts that beat as one." Both cities ere on the Wabash, one at the northeastern corner and the other at the southwestern. Each has a bridge crossing the Wabash. They are toll bridges, and it is now sought to have the county purchase them. The mere mention of this has raised up a hot fire of opposition in other parts of the county, and at the suit of seven of the taxpayers the commissioners have been temporarily enjoined from concluding the purchase. So high has the excitement run that threats have been made of destroying the two bridges, and one of the papers has openly advocated the hanging of the commissioners in effigy.

The truth is this excitement, while ostensibly on account of the bridge^ is really the breaking out again of the old county-seat war that has periodically agitated the people of the county for twenty fiye years. Veedersburg is an ambitious little town, about the geographical center of the county, and it wants to be the seat oi justice. The people there are leading in this war on the

proposed purchase of the bridgfei."*[-it"i8 not improbable that the outcome will be an arrangement of the line between Fountain and Warren counties in which Attica will be thrown into Warren and become its county-seat, while Covington will remain the capital of Fountain.

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AMUSEMENTS.

"V ."3* liti®

f•

Harrison's Art Rambles.

The Celebrated lecturer, Mr. Thomas B. Harrison, intends paying this city a visit and will open at Nay tor's Opera house on Monday, February 1, for five nights. It is understood that the lectures, of which there are six in the course, are the result of along tour of sightseeingand study on the part of Mr. Har isoa. His delighted hearers say that he carries one from the British Isles to the Orient, and by means of his interesting discourse and magnificent illustrations, the various countries, with all their points of interest, the walled cities, the lofty palaces and ancient architecture, appear with such vivid reality as to transport one in a delightful dream from the prosaic ball and all surroundings.

In the historical lands ot the East "we feel a never varying interest, and we listen to the tales of the warm, romantic -south, and gaze upon its pictured beauties with the same rapt interest that in our childhood accompanied us through the perusal of the marvelous Arabian Nights. The entertainment is of the highest order and well calculated to please the most cultured audience. Each night is a separate and distinct entertainment.

Minnie Maddern.

Manager Nay lor announces the appearance of the: charming young actress, Miss Minnie Maddern next Thursday, evening, February 4th, in Mackaye's new play entitled, "In Spite of All." Thid drama was adapted' by Mr. Steele Mackaye from Sardou's "Andrea," and he has' succeeded in producing a pretty and pleasing play. Although the play is of French origin, it iff entirely free from anything that would shock the most fas-, tidious.

In the role of Alice Condemning, the young wife, Miss Maddern has a character for which she is admirably adapted perhaps better than any other actress on the stage. Had it been written to order it could not have been better fitted to her. She possesses the, gift of interpreting womanly pathos in a manner ihat never fails to touch the heart. During the action of the play Miss Maddern depicts the broken hearted wife and the deep love'of the woman with a tenderness anq sweetness that delights every one. Het naturalness is exquisite, and her freedoni from stage tricks praiseworthy. I

Thesale'of seats commences three dayfe in advance of performance at Button's. Secure your seats in advance without extra charge.

Coming Events.

On Monday night will commence the engagement of Thos. B. Harrison. A rich treat is in store for our people, in the shape of a lecture course, six in number, handsomely illustrated and conr sisting of a description and views of the various European countries, the Holy Land, Egypt, etc. The lectures form one long fascinating ramble and they convey the travelfef through one country after onother. The lectures are the result of a long tour of sight-seeing and study on the part of Mr.' Hapison. The entertainment, is of the highest order 'and well calculated to please the most cultured audience. Each, night there is a separate and distinct entertainment. Thursday night Mr. Harrison will not lecture, the house being occupied by Minnie Maddern. A course ticket, which admits one person five times, or can be USPd by five persons on one night, will be placed on sale at Button's at $1.

Minnie Maddern appeals at Naylor's Opera house one night only, Thursday, February 4th, in Mackaye's adaptation of Sardou's "Agnes," entitled "In Spite of All."

Notes.

Indianapolis News. Bose Coghlan will play Lady Gay Spanker, Lady Teazle, Viola, and Beatrice, next season.

Letitia Fritch will make her first appearance at the Casino, New York, in "The Gypsy Baron."

It is now a settled fact that Buffalo Bill and his Wild West show will visit England during the year 1886.

Signor Salvani is playing before the largest audiences of

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at McVicker's theater, Chicago. Mr. Wilson Barrett lost $40,000 on Lord Lvtton's "Brutus," which was withdrawn after three weeks of empty houses.

Mr. Brandon Thomas, of the "Vokes" company, is said to be one of the best light comedians ever sent from England :to this country.

Frank Mayo, with his excellent drama, "Nordeck." has met with great success in New England, and is doubling his dates in that section.

That was a remarkable performance in New Orleans. For probab'y the first time in America, if not in the world, "Julius C»esar" was played with an entire cast of colored persons. The production was ambitiously prepared, and was not, it would1 seem, devoid of merit.

I rather doubted Mr. Thomas when he told me few weeks ago that the presentation of "L(ohengrin" would cost $30,000, but when the stupendous gorgeousness of. .the. mounting and four hundred new dresses were shown to-night, I readily became a believer.—[New York letter. .According to reports the minstrels are having a hard time. Lester & Allen's are likely to disband shortly. Thatcher, Primrose .& West and McNish, Johnson & Slavin propose to dissolve partnership and to form new combinations, and sinother new one is to be formed by John Hart, Billy Sweatmen and Billy Welch.

Miss Viola Allen has made a more remarkable advance than any other young actress during the past three years^ Her work as a member of the Salvini company, playing, such roles as Desdemonia and Parthenia has proved her to be possessed of a fine order of talent. She is yet young and should have a bright future.

Miss Mather will cerlaihly have earned some metropolitan reputation to "boom' her when she goes on the road.—[New York Herald. It isn't needed. Miss Mather has been "on the road" sopie years and has been seen many times and pronounced good in all the personations which she has presented to the. metropolis.

The following interesting "note is now heprogramme ot the Thomas •ta: "Tliose attending the popular c^oerts, who wish to make a request for any particular selection, will find a letter box outside the office of the Thomas concerts, in the lobby of the academy, in which they can drop their notes of request."

The financial results of the first three weeks of the American opera season in New York have more than come up to the expectations of *he management. After the matinee yesterday the company found that it had thus far realized $5,000 above all running expenses to place, to the credit of the original expenditure for costdmes, scenery, etc.

The notice which has been taken of Maurice Barrymorp's "Nadjesda" by English royalty, w&ich went to the length of the Pnncejof Wales exteqdin an introduction to Siifis "Eigl, has ha the effect of improving%be prospects of the play, which is

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was neatly hissed add hooted off the stage the nrst night. Sara Bernhardt and her handsome husband, Damala, ace no longer "out." A Paris letter announces that she has made up with him, "entirely forgiven him for what she had done to him." She is going to take him on her tour through the United States and South America, giving him $60,000 of the $420,000 she is to receive from her managers.

Europe ia just now quite full of American prime donne. Their number includes Ella Rusaeli, Marie Dtirand, Mme. Bolla, otherwise Mrs. Kammelsburg, of Cincinnati Theresa AfitattlS, Marie Van Zandt, Ada Arthurs, Mi® Tifit and Miss Spaeder, both of Brooklyn Miss Johnstone.of Washington Mrs. Ewen Cameron, formerly Miss Wheelock, of Boston, and a host of others, little and big. 'New York Letter:* Chatting with Harry Smith, the theatrical agent, a few days ago, the talk turned on "road business." Then we managed to count up just thirty-seven companies, that had become stranded :in this glorious country since last Thanksgiving day, and a supplemental list of those just about ready to ride home on their trunkB might easily be made to surpass in the aggregate the figures first named.

Giddy Gusher in New York Minor: -The style of dress affected just now by the swell mob is more disgusting than a ballet dancer's. 'I saw a member of the "fust suckles" at a German opera the other night. She was a big pink-fleshed woman, with shoulders like a Kennebec salmon. Somewhere in her bex she had a lot of skirts, but as she leaned over the rail she looked for all the world as if she had left a bath in Bearch of a towel.

Some printer might give Sol Smith Kartell a hint as to now to.eet a printing office. One stand'and a pair of cases no more go to make up a printing office than does one swallow to make summer.—[St. Louis Globe-Democrat He doesn't want to set a printing office, nor does he attempt to. He merely wants to produce the'illusion of one., In these' days of the stage-carpenter drama the purpose of playing and the uses of the stage are much obscured.

It is singular what a craze is striking many of the most fashionable women in this city for the stage. Those who have money are gratifying their taste by appearing in amateur theatricals, and every few days we have matinees for charity at the swell theaters, at which these aspirants appear. The Madison Square seems to be their favorite house, and on afternoons the swellest. kinds of audiences are entertained at that theater by aig^teurs. —[New York letter.:

New York World: "The, topical song market is always glutted," said Henry. S. Hewitt, the author of "Adonis" Dixery's famous song, "It's English, You Know,r sol cannot say that the present over-pro duction is unusual. One of the new features that I notice is the number of young actresses who want topical songs written for them—'so' I can do my specialties,' they say. Almost every girl on the stage wants a song since Fay Templeton has made such a success with 'I like It The price varies according to,the necessities of the author. A very popular song which an actor is now singing coat him but$l. Only the best song writers get more than $25 for their work, unless they rely on getting—a- royalty for each copy sold.

DOM FERNANDO'S LOVE.

The German-American Girl "Who Captured the Portuguese King. It's a good thing for the royal family 6f Portugal that the Portuguese code did not enable Dom Fernando to do what he pleases with more than a third of his propeity, or at least of that part of it which was not invested in debentures payable to bearer. Had he been able to dispose of his whole fortune as he choose, the Countess Edla would have been probably his universal legatee.I often saw her, and on three occasions met her here at morning concerts. She was German, and looked her nationality, although a woman of a tall, elegant figure. Her father went to America, when she was a girl in her teens, as a professor of music. He was connected with the singers at the Grand Ducal theater at Coburg, his function being to accompany singers engaged there when they were practicing. It appears that he did not like the morals of the Grand Ducal court, and when he found that his daughter had a sweet soprano voice, he preferred- that she should seek her fortune in the United States. She sang in the New York Opera, house, and, obtaining an engagement at the San Carlos theater, went to Lisbon,. Where she played herJ cards with judgment and decision. The king, when he fell ih love with her, had had racoessive bereavements. Mdlle. Hensler had a soft full voice in speaking, and a sweet and delicate one in singing, so that, as he was a melemaninc, she was yell adapted to play tne part of consoler. He admired her long before he could make up his mind to propose marriage. Thi3 he did when greatly urged by his family io accept the crown of Spain, which Prim offered him in 1869, to gradually bring about Iberian unity. He had had enough of tlie cares of Btate, and only aspired to be a dilettante ^and country gentleman. He and the couintess suited each other, and as'she had the good sense never to give herself airs, Bhe was popular at Lisbon. She latterly gathered her relatives around, her from Germany and America. She has two American nieces at Cintra, and if the Crim prince marries one of them, the third of Dom Fernando's fortune, into which, under his will, the countess comes, may eventually go to his posterity. Dom Fernando had, as the widower of Maria da Gloria^a pension of. £10,000 a year since 1853. He was the eldest son of Prince Ferdinand, of Saxe Coburg, brother to tb^ late Duchess of Kent, and husband of the only child of Prince Kohary, one of the ^richest members of the Hungarian nobility.

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