Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 28, 1887, Page 5

kS 4 MISCARRIACES OF JUSTICE, Echees From the Black Hills Tell of Crimes Which Go Unpunished. A HOWL GOLS UP FOR LYNCHING, Red-Hot Times at RapidCity Over the Reported Big Silver Strike, Bat the Community Gets Badly Sold. Deavwoob, Dak., March 25.—[Corres- pondence of the BEE.]--During the past ten days the Black Hills have not lacked for sensations. Deadwood, like the Peer- bingles tea kettle, *‘began it” with the release by a technical faw of four in- dicted ex-oflicials of uhis (Lawrence) county. This case revived public inter- est in the carnival of official squander- ing and stealing of past years that has helped to plunge the- county into debt nearly a million doliars. This is ancient history here; 1t has been going on almost since the coynty was organized, un- checked, until nearly every branch ef the public service is tainted in some way and the counsciences of nearly all repu- table citizens have become calloused to public dishonesty or their tounges silenced. Discoveries made in 1885 of the finan- cial eccentricities of the county commis- sioners were 50 extensive and rash as to lend hope of reform and to cause A POPULAR UPRISING. A fi"“ indignation meeting at Dead- wood, the appointment of a citizens’ committee of fifteen to investigate and prosccute, and the placing in their hands of a lnr‘i- fund tor that purpose, raised by popular subscription in all parts of the county; the importation of a Chicago expert to go through the county records and a thorough overhauling of every- thing followed. Particulars of startling frauds in county bonds and warrants were from time to time made public, and finally one of the implicated officials turaed state's evldence. What has been done? Thigis the last of the prodigious and costly inyestiga- tion, up to this writing, The committee have never made a_report. The grand ;ury of the county has asked them for ‘pointers” 1n vain; and the last one that held inquest ~ into these frauds made a formal presentation to the court complainin, of their inability to obtain areport, the com- mittee to that extent protecting the pecu- lators they were appointed and paid to prosocute. Whether thsee were so many of the committee’s friends and associates who “‘had some of the pork,” or whether their reticonce was dictated by that mis- taken idea of loonl interest Which sups presses such truth for fear of “‘hurting the town,” I know not; charity gives preference to the latter theory,” How- over, the grand jury last year indicted FOUR OF THE COUNTY OFFICIALS, and they were duly put upon trial. The indictment was quashed tor a flaw so blundering as to excite the suspicion that the district attorney must have “‘made a mistake on purpose.” The same ex-officials were again indicted two woeks ago and again the indict- ment was set aside for another flaw, equally blundering and equally sugges- tive, perpetrated by a new district-attor- ney, elected mainly on the demand and promise of reform 1n that oflice. Tax payers and all who are not in the ring are discouraged, and one constantly hears such remarks as, “Well, 1'd like to know if there is an honest man in Law- rence county?" ANOTHER MISCARRIAGE OF JUSTICE by a technicality followed close on the heels of these, in the same court. Pat Casey has just been cleared and turned loose after two vain attempts to get his case to trial for murder. The crime was a premeditated and cowardly one, and the !zcu wero all admitted; yet the first and jury that sat on it found a bill for Exfllrm ter in the second degree. The that some of the bondsmen of the accused were allowed to sit in the l:{.: is sdduced as an explanation of extraordinary indictment. Be that a8 K may, the judge promptly set the in- dictment aside and remanded the case to snother jury. On the second arraign- ment, week, the judge quashed the ruon\l Indictrment, on motion of the pris- mer’s counsel, on the iground that a man cannot twice be put in jao{)lrd{ for the same offense. And by by this legal ugglery Cnm;xy goes free without being jed at all. There is a suspicion out that the Black Hills is getting more law than 'ul ce; or, as an old miner expressed it, “We're gettin’ a d--d sight too civilize in this country.” JUDGE LYNCH, ALMOST. The natural results of theso perver- sions of justice by its chosen agencies be- gnns to be scen. Last week at Leaa Civy, busy mh:hugl town three miles from Em the people were near to taking the winto their own hands—would have done 80 had notcircumstances Prevouud. W. L. Sackett, an old man of the best business and social standing, was ac- cused of attempting rape on the eight- ear-old daughter of & miner. A hear- ing before Justice Monroe resulted in his duohnrlp the evidence being deemed :lblurd 'mdnqlllxnw by the Su f' to hold m. At once the ery of judicial corrup- tion was raised by tho excited mob, who reatened Sackett to the extent that he fled in terror. The fury of the mob was lev- eled at Monroe, and at an excited public meoting & committeo was appointed to wait on him and demand his ofticinl res- ignation, which he flatly refused. He es- caped the hands of men who were hunt- lng for him that night by remlinlng“ in ing guarded by friends and guns. The niee ng offered & reward for the rear- rest of Sackett, and he was brought back e’mm & town about sixty mifcn away hither he had fled, ana by another judge vut under bonds to answer the grand jury. He is now back ‘}uhsfly at work in the Homestake mills, of which he 18 engineer, and all is quiet. The sober second thoughts of the Lead Cityites seems to have brought & better view of Lm case of Sackett, and their own action now seen to be but a rash lollowlnfi of the lawless examples set by so-calle: Jeading citizens and eke by the chosen guardians of the law. THE EXCITEMENT AT RAPID CITY was of & more innocent if not less un- reasoning nature. Some wood-choppers eame in town the nuddle of the week beavy“with rocks and a secret, which they professed to have found in & canon about five miles west of town. The town and its daily papers at once saw a min. ing boom looming up at its very doors. t was announced that assays of the rock losed extraordinary richnese in sil- ver, and away went the whole town in one of those durlodiml mining crazes of the Blaok Hills. All available vehicles, m::w or public, were ordered out, ‘‘then was mountirg 1 hot haste” and a scrub race for the mow silver deposits. Two hundred teams were at one cached in the ravine d as many bundred claims were staked ‘; excited citizens of every previous condition of staidness and sobriety. For few the town's streets bore a Sab- stillness—nay, more than th; hen were no more flelds to Sheopily: aud tho. [¥ery e “re; ily, and the livery men ‘‘re- red loeou':t their ill- m:" ns.” I now that a Pin| could find with & bench-warrant a Rapid City man who will admit to baving taken n in =h silver . The ye ar authentically reported flv- the new rock silver in quanties vu“- ng from thirteen centa to the ton to noth- ing—mostly the latter. Tt was a curious study in morbid mental nnalom{ while it Iasted. And the manner in_which rival mining towns comment on Rapid City’s silver boom 18 a study in morbid human depravity, R ——— ADDITIONAL OOUNOIL BLUFFS. A Foul Nest. The *'Texas'’ bagnio on Broadway just west of the Northwestern 1s on a fair road to be broken up by the police with the as- sistance of Justice Schurz who is acting in the place of Judge Aylesworth, he being at Colfax Springs. Richard Baker, who is known as “Tex,” with his alleged wife and several other colored femalcs have kept ono of the worst dives in the city. It wasone of the first places ever visited by the police in search of crooks after each and every robbery and has had the reputation of being the scene of many arobbery where whisky has first got control of the victim. 'Squire Schurz by his recent act has put new life iuto the entire police force and they now beliove that there 18 one indge on the bench who will deal out ustice without fear or favor. Asa po- iceman remarked yosterday, ‘‘we run a big risk in mnklnf an arrest; perhaps the man we go after is ‘loaded;' after keeping him in jail all night he stands a remarkably fine change of being released the next morning. This has been the cace time and time again and the police feel that the risk they often run, don't pay for the scntence the parties receive, because we not on!r have to préve ‘beyond a reasonable doubt’ that the party is guilty, but have had to prove the very strongest kind of a case in order to have the judgo even hold our man,” In regard to the notorious “‘Tex” crowd, they were arrested for being inmates of a house of ill-fame. Justice Schurz Satur- day evening sentenced Mary Baker, tho mistress, tg the county jail 1n default of $300 bonds for her good behavior for one year and treated Anna Wood, an inmate, to a like sentence; while Henry Dust, a lover, was sent to jail in default of $300, his hearing to take placo April 5. Rich- ard Baker, “Tex,” was bailed out, John Dunn being one of his bondsmen. His trial also takes place on April 5. My 8" somewhat surprised the court by testifying against the two women, and from the testimony it appears that *Tex" was not a half partner in the enterprise; that he was trying to break up the dive, and is willing to let the law take its course as regards himselt provided the women are sent to jail. ikl el SO An Incendiary Caught; On Saturday evening while Frank Rom- mel alias Fred A. Johnston, was enquir- ing at the gencral delivery window for his mail he was arrested by Shenift' Schare of Nevraska, It seems that Romme! is 37aan about thirty-two yeais of age and is charged with havibg set fire to the high school building at Hastings, Neb., in November last. After haying been bound over in the sum of $5,000 at the preliminary hear- ng, held on Novemher‘mh, he wag taken to jail in default of furnishing bonds. While in jail he did the janitor work but on March 16th he made good his escape. Rommel's father-in-law was janitor of the high school building, and it is thought that he set fire to it for the purpose of throwing the old man out of a job, as he had threatened to have the father-n-law bounced out. Sheriff Schare traced Rommel to this city where he had obtained a position on a farm just outside of the eity limits, he arrived here Saturday and consulted with Sheriff Recl who laid the plans forthe arrestand the two quietly worked to- ether. As Rommel was making inquir- es at the general delivery window in the {)nstoflico he was vlaced under arrest. He offered no refistance but accepted the sherifl’s proposition and_the two imme- diately left for Hastings, Neb. Amusements, Manager Dohany has received a letter from the “‘Monte Cristo” manager stating that the statement published in the Omaha Republican of March 20, is false. The statement read: “‘On account of the fact that he has surrounded himself with @ second-rate company and is traveling on his former reputation, Manager Boyd refused to give Jim O'Neill a date this season.” Charles N. Richards, the James O'Neill *Monte Cristo” manager, writes: I cannot understand why such an article should appear unless they felt nliqhud because we won't play in Omaha while we give you two nights. Our com- any is the samo as last season and our gnshmu has been better. I'm under the impression that we've played to audien- ces fully as capable of judging our merits as those of Omaha,” and he encloses comments of the Kansas City press on “‘Monte Cristo” which are fine. The facts of the case are, that O'Neill could not have been given the dates at the Boyd that he wished, as Modjeska is bitled for three nights beginning next Thursday and O'Neill will be at Dohany's on Thursday and Friday nifhtl next, one night of which would have been given Omaha had 1t been possible. COMING SHOWS. To-night—*‘Nancy & Co,” play at Do- hany's. Tgnrsdny and Friday—James O'Neill and company in ‘“Monte Cristo." Avril 6.—Andre's Alpine choir and try- rolese, also in matinee. April ‘A Farmer's Daughter.” April 28.—Thatcher, Primrose & West's minstrel troupe. i Passing Postal Olerks. The case of C. B. Lawson, whoreceived an appointment as postal clerk, and who was refused transportation by the Mil- waukee railway from Council Bluffs to Marion, where he was to take his run, as stated in the BEE yesterday, will proba- bly be settled to-day. Lawson has r celved instructions from J. G. McM: ters, chief clerk, to make another at- tempt to-day, and if the company refuse transportation to lock the mail car and send it through. In the latter case itis claimed that the railway company would be liable to & heavy tine; also that the contract with the company includes the transportation of postal elerks to and from the Flnces where they befi{n work and on all the roads centering here the postal clerks begin work at the other end of the divisions. It 18 stated that therea- son of the Milwaukee's refusal to trans- port Lawson was on account of the in- terstate commerce law, but as that law does not go into effect until April 4 there must be some misunderstanding, The Union Pacific is the first road in this vicinity to issue orders to conductors to collect fares hereafter from all postal clerks, and 1t is possible that some trouble mn{ ariso if the road holds a contract which conflicts with their new rulings. ——— A Sad Case. A girl arrived at the transfer Saturday morning on the early Kansas City train, and after remalning there until late Saturday night, was bronght up town to the city jail. She seems to be in rather an unsound mind, and the authorities will to-day try to obtain, from the superin- tendent of the poor, transportation to where her parents reside. She says her namo is Anna Secehase; that her step-father, John Seehase, with her mgther reside on a farm near Waverly, Ia.; that she was chloroformed and laid on a railroad track by her rela- tives, discovered by section hands: sent to Kansas City; taken with typhoid-ma- laria; sent to the hospital, where she re- malred several months, and that the authorities of Kansas City sent her to Council Bluffs, stating that her uncle would meet her at the depot here. at now, “‘my mind is not quite as bright as it has been at times sinco my illness.”” The poor girl has hip disease, and is one of the most forlorn looking creatures to be found on the face of the earth. —— A remarable and handsome woman is said to be the moving spirit in & philan- thropical movement in Russia to supply the poor of that country with Dr, Bull's Cough Syrup. In a chronic and stubborn case of neuralgia, gout and rheumatism use Balvation Oil. 1t 18 the greatest pain destroyer of the age. Frice only 25 cents. —mm—— A Millionaire Butter-Taster. New York Letter in Cincinnati En- quirer: One would think that an earth- | quake was required to break up the se fish business habits of the American pe ! ple. I was looking out of & club window yesterday at a great, huge gro- cery store opposite, known all over the land. There is probably no grocery firm in America as well knowr, cer- tainly none in New York. Said I to & well-informed person by me: “Do you know those grocers?” ~“Yes,” said he, “I go over there to settle the bills of this club. We buy ever?;(hing there, liquors and all. That old chap you sce out there is the head of the house. 1 can see by the way he is walking that he has just come up from down town, where he has been tasting butter.” “‘What does he taste butter for?” 'Why, he has made his fortune on that, Ho is the best judgze of butter ™ New York. Butter in New York is managed by a combination; they fix the prices, and nothing much can alter them. It is one of the great articles at the founda- tion of the grocery business, That old fellow can put butter 1n his mouth from anywhere, and can locate 1t and tell what ia wrong about it, and whether it is going to spoil. You can’t run any oleomar- garine in on him.” “Is that the man X have heard the ladies speak about, who was so sweet that butter wouldn't melt 1n his mouth?’’ *“There i8 not much sweet about him," said my friend. “Heis a slave to his business. He began life somewhere down town about the time we were born. He had a partner. The two partners are together yet. They had some $350 apiece, saved or {nrrowed, with which they set up a grocery store. Une man slept under the counter and the other slept on tha counter, Thnx took alternsts Tights un- derneath, for thare was a bunk, and but one. Our old friend over there acquired his taste for butter atthat time. Now the two partners do a business of $6,000,000 a year. That old fellow you see hasa summer place a few miles out of New York which has cost him $1,000,000. He told me not long ago that he only went to it on Saturday nights. Sunday morn- ing he spends looking at his cows and stock to see that evorything 18 being fed right., He furnishes a good deal of his own butter. He gets through about noon on Sunday and then he says that he has not one minute’s peace till he can take the tran that Sundu{ evening for New York and taste more butter. He is a slave to his business.” ———— IMPERFECT digestion and assimilation produce disordered conditions of the sys- tem which grow and are confirmed by neglect. Dr.J. H. McLean's Strength- ening Cordial and Blood Purifier by its tonie properties cures indigestion” and gives tone to the stomach. —— Real Estate Transrers. Real estate transfers filed March 25, 1887. Mads Toft and wife to Margerethe E Scha- fer, 80x1051t beg at e line of 20th st , the 70ft 8 of sw cor of gmnud owned by B £ B Ken- nedy, w d—86,250. Robe. 1 Jesstip jr to Wm A Morris, lot 6 bllc 9, Paddock place, w d—8$4,000. ‘Wm R Morris to Jos W' Paddock, lot 6 blk 2, Paddock place, w d—84,700. So1ph|l Lowe to Sam D Mercer, 10.08,acres in 17, 15, 18, q c—$1. ¥ B Johnsou to the Public, plat of Raser's sub div of 1t 1 blk 5, Newport. Michael Lee and wf to John Gallagher, lot 17 Lee’s sub div of lots 18 19 22 Brookline ad, W d—8250, Alfred Forman and wife to Nat Brown, lot 15 of Smith’s park add w d—84,T! David Jamieson et al to Lulu Inlow w 10t of }%31 and e)§ lot 20 Hickory place, wd— 2,300 ¥’ Morris Brown and wite toJ ohn P Schon- ing lot 20 Clark’s add, w d—$4,800, Wm W Thompson et al to_ Josephine Mar- ischang. 0t 18 bik 3, McCormici’s 2 add, W d— Wm W Thompson etal to Luther L Thomas lot 14 blk 2 McCormick’s 2d add, w d--$850. saac N Watson to Richard C Patterson,lot 7 blk 2, Patterson’s subdiv, w d—$175. A P Tukey et al to Albert M_Kitchen, lot 12 blk 8, Clarenden add, w d—$2,000, H O Devries to Frank D Tanner, lot 18 blk 20, Hanscom place, w d—$900. Geo P Stebbins to Frank D_‘Tanner, lot 16 blk 20, Hanscom place, w d—8§860, Edwin S Rood and wife to Frank E Cut- ler, lot 12 blk_ 4. Albright’s annex to South Omaha, w d—$117. rady to Lyman D Marsk, lot 7 blk 4, Town of Elkhorn, w d—8$150. May B Powell and husband to Woodbridge Bros, lots 1, 4, 12 and 13, blk 4, Albright’s an- nex to 8 Omnhfi wd—$L Chas McCormick to Jos L Woods, lots ‘AE' 6, 7and 8, blk 3, McCormick's 2d add, wd— Wendell Benson and wite to Mare A op ton, lot 17, Benson’s subdiv of lots 6 and 7, blk's0, 8 (Sm.mi w d-$5000. Albert E Lewis and wife to John N Peters, lot 8, Lewis subdiv of lots 11, 12 and 13, Oka- homa, w d—$650. Edwin 8 Rood and wife to May B Powell, lots 8, 4, 12 and 13, blk 4, lot 21, blk 6, lot 6 blk 7, lot 14 blk 8, all in Albright’s annex to 8 um.h.b wa-sLIm, Frank P Koll and wife to Ralph W Haynes, l‘%uwlannd 2, blk 7, Jerome park add, wd— Chauncey O Howard and wife to Omaha Real Estate & Trust Co. all wi{ of nel{ 35-10- 13, T.nd n 185§ acres of nw{ se){ 35-10-13, w d euben Elton to A H Merrill et al, lot 2, bik 78, 8 Omaha, w 300, Edward J Taggart to Soren ¥ Nelson, n 25 1t of lot %mG 1, 1dlewild add, w d—$2,600, Geo T Walker and wifa to A Klein, lots 6 and 7, Pruyn’s subdiy of lots 5 and 6, Shinn’s d, w d— Alice 0’Donalioo et al to Jas T Morlarty et ILNM 6 of Union Square, w d—83,500. ewton E Barkalow to Isaac 8 Hascall, lot 19, Barkalow pl. a subdiv of blk 14, West Omaha add, w d—8550, Wm H Alexander et al to Wm G Albright, lot 6, Rees place, w d—87,000, Wi Alexander and wife to Wm G Albright, beg 207 ft n of sw cor of sel{ of 21- 15-13, n 66 f¢ e 1634 ft to nw cor of lot 6. Rees rllee. thence s along w line of lot 6, 66 ft w 0 beg, q o—$1. H Pearl England to Harry L 18] bik 4, Hawthorne add, w d—$1,000. ink R Myers et al to Mary L. Watson, 80 acres in 3-15-13, q c—$500, Geo G Holmes jr to the public, plat of Holmes' add to 8 Omaha, being in 8-14-13— dedication, “Chamberlam" xo-nim ll;illlfillon l‘(. Tfl:".. oy Was written ieo, i T Hazel Gm’n, Wis. vEgist, ———e Young gent (in furnishing store)— Want to get a box of paper collars, fif- teen an’ a half inch, and a satin neck-tie. Dealer (affably)—Yes, sir; all rignt, sir; and how is everything over in Boston? Ll T Relief From Indigestion. 221 Skconp Ave New York,Jan. 9,'88. I deem it my to to the henomenal ~effects of BRANDRETH'S upon myself in eruuudn, from my system the most avated form of indigestion, the atlacks of which were nearly as severe as spasms. After a costly medical treatment two boxes of BRANDRETH'S PiLLS have put mein a better coadition than I have been for years, Franx W, Gursrs. d—t Stanton, lot 1,000, CLUSERET'S NEW: CAMPAICY. A Famous French General Publishes a “Handy Fighting Guide,” SISMOGRAPHS AND SAUSAGES. De Lesseps Berlin “Spree”—The Bou- riee Dance—Megular House-Top Man—Emile Zola's Trouble— Spicy Parisian.Gossip. Paris, March 9.—]Correspondence of the Bee.]J—That amiable Prussian luna- tic, Anacharsis Calovtz, who disappeared on the scaffold when guillotine industry was briskest under the first republic, maintained society required no leaders, no ministers, no government. So think the anarchists to-day, the merriest fel- lows alive, if only prevented from ever having a “free hand.”” They approach the conservative strata of society in not being consistent—proof of how extreines meet. If they were they would suppress the individualism of the amnestied com- munist, General Cluseret. He too comes out in the “plan of campaign,” as if one of the great powers to whom opinion alone concedes the speciality of organ- izing war—because unable to do other- wise, Itissaid that Arabs and vultures have the gift of smelling coming gun- powder in the air. So apparently does the general, since he publishes a *‘handy guide,” how to compel regular troops to demolish cities they intend to protect. Ho says: In the presence of magazine rifles, communists would be nowhere ina street fight. Their duty, when the day of glory comes to wipe out the middle classes, then consists to wriggle into mansions, like clowns, monkeys, or burglars, and from every cogn of vantage fire from under cover, down on the troops inthe street. The throwing out of the windows of furniture, pots, pans, and kettles, etc., are obsolete tactics. The new departure will compel either the soldiers to ‘‘walk into the parlor,” where the conditions of killing will be more equal, or will force the artillery to shell down the houses, and so level the capital, Ot course the red patriots would be buried in the ruin, as 1f cau in a tirst-class earths 5 0 will be tenants, and possibly soldiers. What do orderly people desire ; clearly ou canunot make an omelette without reaking the eggs. Sismographs, or earthguake indicators, are now selling on the boulevards for two sous each. They supply a much ‘long felt want.” To anticipate Cluserets at work, a ‘“‘Com- mune indicator” should be in every nur- sery like a bottle of squills, or in a gen- tloman’s hbrary, as the book that it should never be whh‘?ut. #n If Major von Pfister's appetito for sau- sage and salt cabbage be on a par with what he displays for French territory, he must be the heir direct of Sargantus. ' In his audacious demands for ‘‘more,"” he surpasses Oliver Twist. tle requires the departments of the Nord and the Arden- nes, to be united to Belgium and Holland, and all_swopt into that drag-net—the Germanic confederation. Doubtless it is out of consideration for his majesty’s heavy fall in the royal ball room while dancing, which prevents the major in- cluding Denmar! m_ the territorial sweepstakes. As appetite comes in eat- ing, the major further demands five other deparvments vn sho ofist, 0 fUrm IWO new Germanio duchies. = To prove that there is no exclusivcl{) anti-French fecl- ing in this dismemberment, Germany intendsalso to absorb the Tuctonic speaky, ing portion of Switzerland ; that is, the three-fourths of the republic. Napoleon 1 was more fi;rccdy.since. in his day ho took it all. The series of impartial taxes will be closed at the expense of the Austrians or Irredentists by the annexa- tion of Trieste for a .soulhern Hamburg. L Perhaps it is to ward off these prospec- tive amputations, that M. de Lesseps has returned to the work of his early official mnrs, a despatch carrier, by visiting rlin, and en'oym%the ‘‘spree.” Heis cupital in cutting through obstructions, and if he succeeds in. bringing abouta mutual disarmanent of Germany and France, he will merit not only a free tomb in tho Pantheon, but later on, can- onization, As for decorating him with any order, he has no room in his house for nn{]more; even the garret helps to store themaway. Only think, that whilo 80 many persons are in the dump!, and feeding on crack o' doom literature, the Auvergnats have no othér wrongs to be righted, no other obstacle to enjoy the cup of overflowing pu.pEmen‘ _than to be allowed to dance, in the public halls, therr time-honored hop, skip and jump— the Bouriee. The{ have petitioned the municipal council, section fine arts, to grant their prayer. " " The Auvergnats naturally come from Auvergne a8 bishops from priests and deacons. Tha&u;mmbor in Paris alone, upwards of 60,000; like the Israelites, they view Paris as their abiding city. They are the hewers of wood and drawers of water; they discharge the public func- tions of coal men, water-oarriers—Aqua- rius is their patron saint, commission- naires, porters and the lowest born of wine shops and eating houses—the traiteur, of late these latter have gone in for literature, as they sell newspapers and all the penny aupul publications; they speculate alsoin fruits—in their dull season. The Auverfinnu are powerfully built men; like the Chinese when they make a fortune, they return home to nd it; only on their native heath are they extravagant; here the oldest inha bi- tant never saw an Auvergnat give a sous to a beggar, or a subscription card to convert Jews, or_ill-conducted Gentiles. He surpasses a Normand in_ driving a hard bargain, but unlike his rival, he ab- hors law suits, The Auvergnat girls are famed for their chastity and domestic virtues. p .‘. i The Bouriee dance is ebjecfed to as bordering on the can-can, and the Alnees, T his is its abused form and not as it was dan ced by Marguerite de Valois, who, having very pretty legs, wore the short pipon to show them off. It was she who introduced the dance at court, and where 1t reigned, under Louis XIIL 1t was too much. of a gesture dance for salons, or the opera. It is stilt l‘he p':]‘;u.l‘?r d'"::s in Amrgne, tbhe r:ore levol striots, espe y on Sundays and fetes, to the sound ‘of a fife, a drum and a fiddle, a hurdy gurdy, or women singing; it unites the Scqtch reel, the Irish j|( with the brogues; a\q English horn and the American clog dance. And it 18 still more than these, and yet not positively gay. It is boisterous” house Dll{ set to music. The men look well in their blue cloth costumes, wide brim soft hats or red night caps, or large mantle coats striped red and blue. 0 class of men, 80 slow 18 their gait as a rule, would derive more benelit from ‘“taking the floor,” and kickiug up a dust. If they be debarred the riE.ht of self-animation by leg-whirling, they ought to receive as compensation qntdwun and odical eloctric shocks from the municipal *'bat- teries.” A o’ M. Camulle Flammarion has hitherto devoted his lifo to stars and nebula; he is supposed to live on the summit of some observatory, or on the top of a tower like Simeon Stylites. It is on the coof of his house that he roceives his friends, and at bis country vills be gives dinner parties up in a congln of elm troes. When articularly wanted he will be “‘not at ome," but gone ballooning as others do for a carriage drive; he has no stables but keeps a few ballons under a_shed in tho city gas works, and Flvnn bzehlcphom\ the order to ‘“inflate” as others do to yoke. M. Flammarion considersthe time ripe for an international handling of earthquakes, just like a collective sitting on the Suez canal, the Egyptian ‘or the Bulgarian questions. He " thinks it full time to start @ project to examino the central firc of the earth and discover what is going on_ there. Stanley is elsewhere engaged to conduct a forlorn hope, and Arctic voya- gers have their special unknowns to look after, He proposes that all the European powers subseribe to dig animmense pit— not a cock-pit—as many miles dee{; as the borers can penetrate, till scorching point. This fire brigade is to be com- posed of soldiers from all states, tho Bis- marck Pomeranian included; while firing below this would keep the soldiers from hrin'x at each other on the surface of the carth. Having once tapped the central furnace, the heat could be utilized for many purposes—pipe laid down to warm say cold climates, and save peoplull;amr to'the Rivicras to be earthquaked. M. Flammarion a!mplg wants to boycott earthquakes. He does not consider the Yankees, with their_half-million dollars, o serious boring scheme. Why not con- sult M. de Lesseps? There are many “openings’’ for the company—Etna, Ve- suvius, Hecla; in Now Zealand,the Andes, etc. Some might consider Mon te Carlo as the most suilable site for thé mouth of any gft in search of the infernal regions. The 'arlh&;uako Journal, just brought out, should deal with this burning ques- tion. Perhaps Mr. Gladstone might tako up Vulean when he has finished with Neptune. * ute Emile Zolo had better look to his lau- rels. He has already veen instigated for many literary sins of commission; he nearly caused the sudden death of a pro- fessor ot natural history by describing shrimps being caught red--not in a pot, but all alive in the sea. Jules Janin mantained the sameo heresey, but on a bigeer scale, respecting lobsters,the *‘car- dinals of the sea.” Zola has run foul, too, of geography by alluding to ship- ments of watches from Geneva into France. Doubtless the vessels were commanded by a Swiss ad- miral. He also alluded to the glorious singing of the nightingales 1n “September;’ perhaps he means when “they were baked in & pig,’’ as that is the montk: they are sent to the Paris mar- ket from Italy, They come into season with frogs'thighs and vineyard-some add, churchyard snails, However, it is in aiscovering social filth, and dishing it up, that tolu is run close by M. Mace, ex- detective of Paris noLIcc. » M. Mace assorts it s unjust for the French to believe the English pickvock- cts are the most expert, and responsible for all the purses and watches »hich dis- appear unexpectedly from the gaze of their owners. May this be the com- mencement of amicable relations—not the-queen’s #peeches point of view—be- 1 the two nations! The English pocket saves himself by pradence; v has one pull in a erowd, and then walks off to some other point of Paris; the detectives can hardly keep pace with him; he operates best on a race course. The German pickpocket's specialty is to hang about banks, knock against his victim, when the latter, in his confusion, is cleaned out. The Spanish pickpocket has for hunting ground the churches; his extreme devotion is blind; he will ever be Inden with chaplets, prayer books, ete., and when arrested, implores to be al- lowed to offer up a few appeals to some saints. The most perfect pick&)ockct is o Italtail; iy dexterity 15 MArveilous, but his self confidence is his ruin; had ho the qrudancn of his English confrere, he would be in\'incin‘le. G M. Mace gives some wise counsels; in railway trnvellnf avoid accepting cigars, eatables or drinkables, or books to _read, from persons you do not know. Timeo Danos et dona perentes. Also, the best way to avoid having your pockets picked is to have nothing in them. Such is not always practicable in this vale of tears; woll, divide the risk: keep coppers in some, silver in another, gold in a third; your purse will be thus empty, and the thief who steals it, will agree with Sbakespeare that it is “truth.” Keep notes apart. Pickpockets are, as a rule, solitary. Some are well-to-do citizens, keep eating houses, dram shops, or are tobaconists. The Paris detective force is not up to the mark; they are underpaid—1,400 to 1,700 francs a year, and the candidates selected are too virtuous, It would seem Vidocq's standard is bcst,[pcrhaps: “‘Set a thief to cateh athief.” This famous predecessor of M. Mace duly graduated in prison for robbery, and the ability of the Russian spies is due to the same doctrine of “‘selection,” A " Leclere is a broken down printer, aged thirty-four. He is all head and almost no body. His wifeis twenty-eight, comely and to a degree, idiotic. ~ The husband had no_money to pay his men, the wife renewed ante-nuptial relations with Rit- ter, & manufacturer of printing ma- chinery, he lent her money against her adultery. She arranged with her hus- band to squeeze ‘‘capital” out of him. She wired to Ritter, who was married, father of a family, and debauche, to come to her residence. He did so. hen in the bedroom, the husband entered, wanted the outrage to be oomprommea then and there, by Ritter signing blank bills. He rehuofi. A struggle ensued between the men. As Ritter was escav- ing down stairs Leclere fired a revolver, hitting Ritter in the stomach, The men closed again till the police were called. Ritter died two days later. ‘The wife confessed hey husband planned the plot and she bad but to o.l'zey. " Less tragical is a nigger. He went on crutches, had an cnormous wooden leg, and a tri-colored scarf round his head— to work the mine of pity and patriotism. The police took stock of this ‘‘black flag” vagrant. In his wooden leg was a cavity filled with trinkets, purses and watches, the crutches at the hand-rests were similarly hollow, and commencing to be filled with valuables, like the wooden member, " The municipal council have arranged with the police to henceforth supvress all the open-air betting shops on the race courses, whether held under Sally Lump umbrellas, or on the top of a mail coach, or in & cab. One layer of corruption will thus be carted away, and the race course vans and their loads of shady occupants and lame ducks will be numbered with the past as effectually as French kings and emperors; only members of the Jocke, club, or the *'paddock veople," will be al- lowed to gamble. Some privileges still exist in Franee; perhaps the distinction will in time be abolished. It is only now, after seventeen years of republic, that the arms of the second empire are to be superceded on pmroru. o' A wrinkle, for the charitable: boqueath a small annuity to supply a certain num- ber of bouquets weekly to hospital wards, and ol a permanent subscription to some illustrated -rwnr. Gentle read observe in the waiting room of a denti: surgery, where painiess extraction tal flucu only are to be lound, or, us who has' musical borces werriest and most soothi Janie reiterates his helief that the supe- riority of over French literature is due to the English being a more car- niverous people. This s corroborated h gg Michelet, who attributes the genius of jpeare to his having been once a le dentist’s, grinding the Derve airs. butcher's boy. In the physical sense Dr. Johnson ‘supperts the theory by his maxim: “He who denles fat men, should hiroeelf be fat." 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