The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-05-29 00:00:00

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SATURDAY, MAY 29, 1875.

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tire fbrrofeign Afraifs ‘Ol---er .6 1
for t
444°"a'il ollY consideration had been paid by Russia to
th
eapite he recent cession to Russia by Japan of her rights
ieg e Wald of Saghalien. .
e',,,11,1'• lottlere'plied that negotiations with. regard to elms
,578041 efi it portion of • the islaad of Saghalien had gone oa
evesat,ev,een. the. .9eveenrneats .of Russia and
...Tteltrapan. erletiltr
'elecArirßipe,49lla.g,nor..4Lat eraC't PP e leeiiei ef
ki-„_. „I-4 unqber, e believed— sintig. :i._, , .
ilacri rintte lees 'Andtlfdeletetasiderk ere
eeeit,sn'lt.etta,,a,lat
t,i leaseessed tpasttof,the lislattiPoluttP`m
ol'EM* or rdimito tlitt•iditi Ithelkihki):"CrB: , ,
e‘ilir. j. civreh'itelsed the lierire SecretttrY d' had his
a,etention dire t' of the Zoological Gardens,
ft he la
Lae 13 t • o eta to the opening
Pisces o ante Gardens, the horticultural Gardens, and other
fof public resort on Sundays; arid whether such open-
eg was centrary.to the provisions of the Act 21 Geo. 3, under
'vetch the Bright r'um had recently been closed ;
and, if so, \ hether°nh Aquaulid take the necessary lecilre Ulallovrim C3m P " hlaw.
steps to
e
phance with the
Aire Cross replied that his attention hart not been diren'ted '
and
'PecuillY to the opening of the
.Zoolcteleal, Horticultural, a
tee 13otani
the oth c Gardens, and he stsa net quite know what were I
heard to Places to which elle nem gentleman referred.
him to stalhel,attee
part of the question, possiele for
With
epoe we, e w•eat his opinion might be utwonasaunstate of facts'
-tell he Ne Was not thoroughly informed, but as far as
alehtormation he had obtained went, the
ud ent of the
not aeply
wourdof Quee j
us 13each in the case of the Brighton Aquarium
4 tota4 differebt f
in either of these cases, as they stood upon
obtin
g.
•
Mtn PRESERVATION ACT.
if the
t'al)tatil Nolan asked the First Lord of the Treasury esolution t
othe
e• three
-w° suspend the standing orders on the 4. in the
.4.. ?Rouse of Parliament for the purpose of passing g
was
ajete-e'etes of the Peace Preservation Act in a single sittirnnment,
d with the concurrence of her Majesty's Government,
e it it were intended that such a resolution should form a
e Precedent for the conduct of future legislation.
Mr. D
the eeeisraeli said the motion in question was carried with
t?
her Theeer__ eurrence of the Government.
eases of
precedents l would
yidd swell the
, as there were sever It e
a
buttes eof the Cattle Disease Act of 1566, the, such as
e Steger
Was 13, A
"9 (St 1867 ; and when the Peace Preservation Act"
siren esi In 18/0 the standing orders were suspended in a
_, ar esaene,
eosolutel • e nee no
h uld
' Bells u
''' 11 d t remind the House that it was
be pa, Y necessary that the Peace Preservation
8e(1 before the let June.
Mar •
RELAzosa OF GERMANY AND FRANCE.
Qev
eine Ts _ qtliEi of Hartington rose to put a question to thel,
ern 'end of the Treasury, with no desire to embarrass the
en 0 esent, bUt simply to afford the right hon. gentlepman na,
MibgtlttniitY to give some information to the.Hous
Whether—
, which great interest was felt.
Majesty
to e,.. het' Majesty's Government had advised her
He wishe,lete ask
C44-‘4l'e an representations as to the relatioes between
eeeeshY and France, whether he had any
%et -•' 'Attire and theto them and whether therestate
•onie he an
bi
t. replies . ,
en the table! o ec um to lay copies of the correspondence
Mr, bis
ha.,,, a , yaeli: It is a fact that her Majesty' Government
no:.° qvised her Majesty to make a representation to the
besyweernment of Germany respecting the existing relaretisoenns.
tenon" 15"ennanY and France. The nature of that rep tied te weas to correct misconception, and to ensure peace,
with ereinat representation we received a satisfactoryeiof
the house gard to laying the correspondence on the table
'Hence Ido not think it would be for the public con-
at should be done.
,•
eei
le ail VIVISECTION. , ese• e, ~ •
Mr
Stet epaa. to Dr. Playfair,
liareee said there were at present two Bills befereP
fete_ee on the subject of vivisection, and as considerable
tiQv'etrettat Was taken in the subject it was the intention of the
00 th znel,lt to enove for the issue of a Royal Commission
iraot, e au,bject, it order that the Government might have full
n elation before they attempt to legislate upon it. . _
tioer.hPlaYfair gave notice that in consequence of this infinite
~
e sh"ld aek for leave to withdraw his B
'lt
1 PCBLIo wee
Lostee ACTS AMENDMENT BILL. ..
Actlial4°"Y'ng the second reading of the Public Works Loan
the Arnendment Bill the Chancellor of the Exchequer took
tserotesortenit
e Yof recalling the attention of the House"... to
a det,aalte.araeter, which seemed likely to be lost sight
of_lna
, ee,Proneiese . s._
li t.O partake of the character, pertly, f
He
tee`;::actecience Discussion and, partly, of a Party Fight.
the eee,r,:reeted a misstatement as to the money, borrowed from
eee,eornsaioners, which amounts to £67,100,000, of la'
that this
proposed
Othi as been repaid, including interest. lie
stood next Li' together with the Consolidation c Bill which
Mee,
With an , , It, should be referred to a Select t° both sestruction to amalgamate the two ; and with regard
foeedse, he CC On
that they were intended torlaayethflel
Drouldrn for !mitre proceedings, and every year -1'
ttdp,e to be introeuced providing the money to be
Chaise""• Referring to Mr. Fawcett
clove collar
re of the Exchequer explained the attitude of fi
s amendment,. the
Were -isnent with reference to Local Taxation. Thereeeee
--•the "iwo considerations to be taken into anceurie!
eerie' inProvernent of the relations betwee 4.°..eal Finanaede Lecal Taxation, and the amendment of
Noteratie e itself. ''' The Government put the prtoero_c_ou.- .
tete ee,;',,a first, whereas the late Government took the Us'
Propee-ree and endeavoured to place Local Financep a
°llght to°,9"ng. But the Chancellor argued that the
.nolfieely. '
loeeeff thee settled nrst, and then the machinery • andi
the lines la ceurse the Government, he showed, hadcted on
eleeectituorf Sir Massey Lopes' Resolution, For instance, the
Matter axle on the administration of justice was be
ee_ , cl the
should
,
principles on which further assistance
en..
~.
an Imperial ,
Nl,Tl,ll3list be settled before the machinery for
apettilea"LO'claV
liateemeTanot think it sufficient that subve.ntions to. ''Thoilld ber luider more prosperous circemstancee they
be
witi;:"(l37 to make further subventions—shouldflefive audit •
contr rt ismaaures securing more
ux th ° over the expenditure of the subventions s
was also e loans obtained by the Local Authorities ; it
i'l,iget •Prqoaed that there should be an annual Local
(lebts of the "ti;_ which the Local Finance of the country and the
Ile ae .oe Local Authoritiea would be brought into lew .
eeleo rented that the Government did nothing for Local_
be cloZtrnineut, but he maintained that very little could.
Ineaßt,i„ Y attacking this subject with a great, pretentious to
coeside'r... At the
Proper time they would be . ready
instance, a
hew nal9lSnsirnetts in the present system—for
msßut On
this eee.etation. Bill would speedily be necessary._
l't tie acren he hoped the House would not-take the advice
mr. versare as to the plan of campaign.
eteeaciFizaw,eett, in a long and discursive speech, 31 way of
clasteg eeit to the Second Reading, moved a resolution de-
of the Bill cannot be regarded as meetingfb the
noyeeeseeee of the time or the expeatation.s raise(. Vete.
lated s`uellt, and that further delay in legislation is e 1
Loonetre
ea aeliede the social and economical f the
progresb 0 .
thA"' BeYond the remark that it did nothing
tiote Way of layin
e be-
g a basis for future considera-
fore trer• Fawcett 'said ' nothing on the measure
0_
the Prese ~1•1°J18,e, but dilated on the inconsisteney,p.
or
Mee „,een, Munstry in doing nothing after it had corn into
areerntaltlY ou this question, and repeated the flue
f Local
l'aeatiou a and staterneets as to the unjust incidence o
of
keel
nee, the confusion of areas, the defective systemethe
Prese4vgninent, &0., none of which were touched .
y the
7/eUsee 'tiered Ile treated with much scornful derision 41aetiee bY the Chancellor ot the Eechequer for the
tree, US. of the
ediale Governent, asserting that they were
faetritn the m
question, and that Local Taxeedon.set_leci
ef a'tinn benst be dealt with together.
~,:neete''
C. Paget c
- -TaXation
°Utile fee . ongratulated those interested intent
Who had
antaidable ch
Fawcett,
arnpion they had gained in Mr Fawcate,
Meet, ee last mastered and adopted arguments and st . -
eoessat'eeown to theta years ago. A propos of the charge of in-
on se. eileY made by ..Mr. Fawcett he asked him how he voted
local tax asaeY Lo pea' Re'solution, when the complaints of the.
Meet. e„PaYer were treated as delusions by the late Govern
bin the'neY had never done anything to alleviate his burdens,
oe hire, Present Government had actually conferred some relmf
agreee. au hattengaged to do more when he was able.
_H.
the Witheel, e
sae 'Fawcett that it would have been well had
statj,Y.erniuent done more • but Mr. Disraeli-was the firsa,
:lillalti to recognize 20 years ago the importance of Local
ita-;:,°_,? and he was the first statesman to do anything f
lea.; Zateal relief; and the local taxpayers would be wise to
ease in the Lands of the present Government.
After r
Ir. Peel,
Capsae, •,,ol,arks from Mr. Ridley, Sir G. Balfour, 3 . .
lir.7,"(mati, and Mr. Sclater-Booth,
ate ieftanafeld quoted from Mr. Disraeli's speeches in 1840,
Of th'eenea slibsequent declarations of other eminent memberso
eroelsevovernenent, to prove that they had shrunk from
°I thee '!.iey had made. Ile discussed. the provisionsficl
all aA ill, contending that they did not ier i/,
It warluate • basis for future legislation, and that
the Seastellot auPPlereented by the other
.measures of
hot tette, Ile On the financial part of the question there w„..
tenon ,eereisagre.enient between the two sides;
.but in opn e
firet tieuetue Mintsterial declarations, he maintained that the
of seee:•eg to be doue was to amend an,l complete the system
Mae essas Administration This necessity he illastrated by
grow of the ingliesa • the P Ilution of Rivers, and the
I tendee y''' • • °
The ch cy to centralization.
•
the ebs ancellor ot the Exchequer, in replying, remarked on
the e'e;',etto natilre ot the diteusslon, and maintained that
fine, ti Pledges
ethoneh, perhaps not completely—had f. 111.-
te care Wedges on Local Taxation, and was continuing
re4te Y them ollt. That they had given pledses in
The aete Local That
he denied emphatically.
reeet o,S,?.rninetit believed they saw their way to the settle--
meet, eelsocal Taxation, and probably also of Local Govern-,
alow e1,4,,,t they would go at their oven, Pace, which, however.
Woefe n'eastaiiter than that of the late Government, pi.d they. ,
eeedk,
~ be Incited into taking any false step, or into Prp
be te,"'g oy SOY oth d than that which theyteliee believed to
I
e ~,,„ ,
.er or er anw
The "
a eftleacious,l
Mieistelrarghaja of
- f HAIL'
Ilartington maintained that most o .
e.
votes et, :s. ad Wedged themselves on this subject by their
''''
eeaeest ir ii,
-.Lowy Lopes 'Resolution. The country ought
of the Go'
veree% and frora 'this discussion that the policy.. 0-.
pep.
geesa "t was subventions, and nothing else. But the .
ee theesi Local Taxation, the Marqui t argued, could not
1
111:111
Of etu, CODett With, and, he laid it down that a re.o ir;
taxea °cal institutions was the true way to relieve the plea!
been Yer* The'Local Budget, on which so much stress Hall
laid t
to Parba-
tneet, bee, 0 be of use should be presented, not
ea a
41 LO %Sauce' taxpayer.
le,---240 tZlia,,iou Mr. Fawcett's amendment was- negatived by.
ii,as ale° ;eel& The Bill was then read a second time, as
the two the Pllblic Works Loan Acts Coasolidationßill, apoi
atte„„o. Were referred to a Select Committee, with an m-
ei'''. ei to consolidate them into one.
•
kilt: Itilitary le ,
_
e, arid , . ancens res I was.
BM - passed through Corn
Soi,„ l'ile Post Office Bill was•retul a sec9na.l44l9e. , -...--;
joh -`e Oth . -
House ad- •
ettiee e,.
seer business was disposed of, and the
~,e ~,,
-" 4ve nainateszintwa D'eineic. iirro3a:CE Mia.s.,-.lalP
•
ul
tr, ,
-WY
04.4
* aLsaii_:2_T3 1•737 et ne3
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In-4,,
Jo Y DA.. e‘e _
tit "te It , Ti4l/1, 'ERB .- t the Morning Sit- •
ee g, tee iiOUSB OF COMMON 3, May 20, a. - d the
lici°4ln; •14N31, in the absence of Mr. Disraeli, move
de
Dra teem eet over the Derby Day, and Sir W. Lawson ma
ovis Prete A I speech; which literally
ked th ' n a most amusing,
t 1 °IA e House to frequent roars o
~ ,
f laughter." He
e!ehesen,Y attribute the motion to Mr. Disraeli 's fanatical at-
alteeestt to use
Lord
, , "Unwritten law of Parliament,' in which
1(!,1140ii tele tiad included the peactice, and to the mistaken
ei eteet ele e
n 4 .3' Many people, that it was as much a part of the
t 4011 -. as magnaCharta, Lord Mayor's Day, and the Lx-
rat 4,,,i'cl t B t 'tt •la institution for the
Jangers. u i Was no an o
- et was in 1e47, audit was not tilllB6e. that. thal
llot undertook to make the motion.-
' two " great sporting , eutliori-e
god Mr. Disraeli, who *, had .
_estOn's exantple -, he called upon
- connected with the Turf to explain - Should be selected for a holiday, and
on given of Racing by the late airr
as an "ennobling' sPorl ' te, Sir Wilfrid
m .
. ,
entirely from I' sernet , and read ,
frier e. Grey e e
---,sage . - Diaries
.
ts deg an_ g srssocia-
thilraw ff opposition
a• ' shentd honour the
-'-'• his State -Ceach,
,a bodyguard of .
he was likelyelier.
il Tor rnig,ht,bee,
s v ,atcockhey

istri tfi:

• s

trpsi
it 1
"

totiVipid dignitys

rouadjQurnnntL

much ris—k.

tudit of school accounts, and related several
stances of improper charges being imposed on the

nio cl a Resolution calling 'far llirreino'val of
qiesql ehdafts„.v.eeficl,4lo9tclt 44 fißTl4Blif be
nassqe. th -year. • - . I. 4 , , • .
lia "hgy sibated'Viahtah ks 'agYtiti*
M'Laren,,whd dwelt therekttititaginlde, resulting f 'the
want ;If an audit; and complainta that the qemanonttensekt
Scotch rnembeji had:not bevniallor,tclgclse, italltir lq
fiuence .4ctifis.passeck,ii theta jOloveirdnient.,
. rietdid, voValt adinittecr, tte'r'er WA' I:ERv'etrii
pantaiin tilt kc llbldttl tlitke'tiaehlidifetYletteßetohildoll,'
whith thght Tequiretrevisiolv;,but theittokterninentehlatf ndt
bteß 447i;iouttti)/414tiqtp#44 4113#4iiilaelt .Pil,l,thifqll3 IA 1
trial had .ho.pn giyep, to the Nxistint aye em. • ,With regar
to die Midge-411N br'ic46Bl,l„ 'tfd ISTil6ea"M
*Orkepefttign Ithair Rin gihnli I ari Ete, itn Fietrt le, t law it
Mei ctiantut might affect both.,,As•tatifetainilito adinittted
94ftWillitArifitc4FM9nroventri,-il iiL34 ~{'
4qArFefilcei IrPrPpVect flt, get, pvt rveim ;„gt,
q c uca ct;.,bii thou tt. t e p on
audit %night be fifth with at Oland' '' • ' " • ' '' "
Dr. 'Mayfair and Mr. Kinnaird tolrithe same view, and
the former, referring to the charges of extravagance brought
against the present system, remarked that it large sums had
leen expended it was because they were needed for the
advancement of education in Scotland.
Mr. Dalrymple and Mr. Anderson made some remarks,
and

Lord Sandyn, in winding up the Debate, declined to hold
out any h,opes iJi regard to the transference of schools, the
difficulties of which were greater than generally supposed.
But the question of audit must be speedily dealt with, and
he asked the House to leave it to the Government to choose
the most opportune moment.
Sir W. Stirling-Maxwell desired to withdraw his motion,,
but Mr. Anderson, who had expressed his intention of sup-
, porting it, objected, and it was accordingly negatived.
The next motion was a Resolution to be proposed by Mr'
Dillwyn touching the "Exclusion of Strangers," but the
Speaker informed him that it was out of order, as it related
to a matter (Lord Hartington's Resolutions) for the considera-
tion of which the House had already fixed a day. '
Sir E. Watkin brought in Bills for facilitating the estab-
lishment of Provident ljavings Banks, and for providing
Compensation for Accidents to Workpeople.
A Bill was also introduced by Mr. Winn (for Sir J. D.
Astley) to make the Administration of Polaonous Drugs to
Horses a punishable offence.
Several Bills were forwarded a stage, and the House ad-
journed at ten minutes to twelve o'clock until Thursday.

NATIONAL TRAINING SCHOOL OF
i:• I -
COOKERY. ,
. A meeting of the subscribers 'to this school was held'
London, on Tuesday, at Stafford House, by per
-
Mission of the Duke of ,Sutherland, to receive the.
,f 3 ebond report of the executive committee.- The Duke.
of Westminster occupied the chair, and among those
present were Sir Henry 'Cole, Mr. John Macgregor,
Mr. Lucraft, Sir Walter Stirling, Mr. E. F. Leveson-
Gower, 3,'LP.,, Lieut.-Colonel Du Cane:tie' Rev, Pie- •
bendary Irons, and Mr. Buckmaster:--il By 'far the't
larger portion of the audience consisted of ladies,
among whom were ER. 11. the Princess Louise, Miss
Shaw Lefevre, Lady Sidney, Lady Lamb, Mrs liodg-:
eon Pratt, Lady Cooper, the Hon. Mrs.: Talbot Mrs.,
Capel Cure, Lady Selwin-Ibbetson, Mrs. F. Morri-
Son, etc.
The report of the first year's working of the school
was read by the secretary, and its adoption was moved
1:)3, Mr. Leveson G-ower, who said that the character
ond numbers of the meeting assembled augured well for
the success of the school. It was an undoubted fact
that in no country in the world was so much good food
wasted as in England, and it was certainly time
that some effort should be made to prevent such
waste. This school was Making that effort. It
was important that cookery., should be made as palat-
Pale and as wholesome as possible, but he must say
that the subscriptions they had received to carry out
hat object had not come np to his expectations.
-le chief element of their success had been tbe teach-
ig of cookery to. people who paid.fees for learning.
here was no. doubt .that the greak,majority of the
les who came to them,belOnged, tothe upper classes
society, and if the accounts were examined it would
a found that the payments they, had made had been.
iuite sufficient for the expenses of teaching. In con-
clusion, be pointed out the school as a means whereby
adies of education might qualify themselves for the
osition of teachers of cookery, whose services could
nstantly command £lOO per annum.
Lieutenant-Colonel Du Cane, in seconding the
notion, pointed out that good cooking was as much *
riaatter of sentiment as anything else, as anyone would
idmit who knew in how great a measure bad cookery
was the cause of bad digestion sail]. humour.
Mr. A. C. Bicknell suggested that the fees were too
high for the wives of artisans to v 47, and also thought
that the advantage of learning -might be extended to
the male sex, as there were many -men who would be
only too glad to know how to cook some simple thing ,
fOr themselves rather than have it ill-served by the
9 dirty drab" of the lodging-house.

_
Sir Henry Cole, in reply, said that sd long" as there
as space of course anybody could go into the-school,
,at its real object was to train teachers, and not to train
artisan's wives. The teachers, when they were pro-
ficient, could go throughout the whole of the United
Kingdom and dye other people the benefit of their
knowledge. A lady or an artisan's wife might come
in, and she was very welcome, as she enabled the
school to go on, but that was an accidental
thing. As regarded the high fees, one lady on
sOme days would spoil 80 eggs, and another would
spoil a sweetbread costing ten shillings, before they
kaew how to cook them properly, and under those
circumstances they could not teach people cookery
whose expenditure in this respect only reached a
shilling a day. With respect to the gentlemen, of
course they were a persecuted lot, and many of them
Would prefer, like Box and Cox, to cook their own
rasher, but he could give them an admirable recipe
fdr good cooking, and that was to get somebody-who
was not a dirty drab to cook for them. He proposed
al vote of thanks to the Education Department for
encouraging the teaching of practical cookery into the
tiaining colleges. n -, .
Mr. John Macgregor seconded the resolution, which
,s
Mr. u agieckmaster gave a brief account of the lectures
h had delivered in various towns of England, and the
' creasing interest that was being taken in the subject
b the ladies in those places.
a
The meeting was subsequently addressed by Mr:
tucraft and the Provost of Glasgow, the latter of
whom referred to the public kitchens of that city,
where the working classes were supplied with dinner
for 50., and tea for 2d., of which 50,000 persons daily
stalled themselves.
!In responding to a vote of thanks, the Chairman
siid that they. had seen. that the country was quite
ready to receive the instructresses if they could only
train them and provide them with the means of learn-
,. . . .

,vnal rig IV,
CLEOPATRA'S NEEDLE. mot
,
Major-General James Edward Alexander writes to The
Times :
, :I have only just read in a letter from your corres-
' loondent in Egypt a paragraph to the effect that a gen-
tleman had arrived in Alexandria with the intention
' of transporting to England the prostrate obelisk pre-
sented to the English by MahomedAli.Pasha in 1820,
and your correspondent adds that the expense of
transport will be borne by this gentleman's
private p"urse. As I am the gentleman referred
to, I should be -glad if yell would allow me to
correct an error into which your correspondent
has unwittingly fallen. It is true that I have
been to Alexandria at my ownchargesio Consider the
feasibility of transporting the obelisk in ezei3tion to
.Elagland, and I am glad to say that "found the monu-
ment, with its hieroglyphic superscription, in perfect
pOservation, and its transport a matter of compara-
tively snaalldifficulty and expense. Skilled engineers
haveconchrred in reporting that the obelisk can be .
safely conveyed to England and erected ou the firm
site already allotted to it by the Metropolitan Board
of Works on the Thames Embankment at the cost of.
£lO,OOO, just an eighth part of the sum expended by.l
the French Government in the transport and
erection of the obelisk new standing' in the Place
de la Concorde at Pari.4. But the further statement
that I am prepared to bear the expense of transport is
erroneous. While I have already given much time and
trouble to the facilitating of the removal of this beauti-
ful monument, and am fully prepared to devote much
more of my time to the accomplishment of this object,
I am not prepared ,-() bear the expense of it, _ Nor. do
-I think that any private person, however rich, should
be allow to undertake what seems to me a national
duty. The obelisk was presented to the nation as an
acknowledgment of the valuable services rendered to
'Egypt in the beginning of the century; it is a work of
art of a unique character, and its transport will, I
tlaielubject of a Parliamentary grant." .
i bat; Sl.Mti
'fj '-)3ANK -ROBBERY' *"
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, --_-,
, ~-.LL )1,1r! ' , •
I'. , . ,4 i, , t., •
The 'BOuhe,s;an 'National Bank at Milford, New
Hampshire, was robbed in October last. by six masked
men, who broke open the house of the cashier in the
night, and, aftei securing the other inmates, compelled
the cashier to go with then:ClO-the bank and unlock
-the safes, from which they took& large amount of pro-
-perty and securities. The wide publicity given to
°this audacious outrage, may have interfered with the
iiposal of the spoils. The Nashua (New Hampshire)
.41egraph gives the following account of what has
ice happened, the statement being, obtained from
° . Towne, the president of the bank
iit
.
A ilAbout Vail) months'after-the robbery gr. Towne
e.. beived a, dispatch from. a`person professing to be an
independent detective' in Math:note; stating that lie
, Lad information concerning the stolen property, and
' requesting an interview. No notice was taken of this,
tter, but when it was followed by another, Mr.
-'crowns thought it worth while to reply that he would
liso at a well•known hotel in Baltimore at a certain
fine. He went accorduigly, and shortly after he had
klegistered he was greeted by the detective who, after
lel few remarks, suggested that it would be better to be
'clirbere they would not be interrupted, and invited the
°banker to his office. Mr. Towne was conducted to a
l','lnipding not far away, and ushered througha recep-
Tto; room, on: the first floor to an office, *here the
p 14at : down: ;, Mr. Towne.
_presumes that the
teoLive, if such. was his real avocation, eyed him
Ie
arply with a view of determining his character
a the arnotinfol 'nerve he possessed, and he is certain ,
that he returned the compliment. After some preli-:
mibary conversation, in which Mr. Town was 'in-
formed that the sPeaker obtained his information con-
cerning the bonds from an attorney who was negbtia.t-
--"n• in for a client, he was asked if the hank would pay
• 40,000 dols. or 50,000 dol. to recover the property that
to 81.,Z.----% , had 'been stolen, Mr. Towne replied in a guarded
=4., I;l%st-:::,•ici.',-' statement that 'the bank would pay ,something forille.
'tiff'-ile - -recovery of the a ontents of the vault.' ' Where are,
zr. the bends?' asked Mr. Towne. ' I don't know,' was
'Rif - tho reply. The interview lasted about an hour and a-
ANiguse • ,half, and in it vine accomplished the sounding of each;
lion'ad-. -other very thoroughly. As they were about to separate
•Itcht)- 'tile detective said, 'ln the course of the night I think
IrialaWiStiaa, and- I can get a schedule of the property. Will you meet
IT :v'tillt,h' this office
.aAtutenTo:lcwloncle.c tAliz.o,treinciw6m,loorerikingile'
'44,44. next ;morning Mr. ' Towne finiiiiVbis man.' V-
I
-- / -11-,VO - itifTi tIO reretiiti4tllie ''A. t ectiOnle' had begii tie
- 'err 1 = viiiiittuippro4;l.-4-wili tracAteiwAttiatweitaning itr"Tld' d
al an 'lio /Ed Pt.
.exrense raid inconvenier,s
'''ch 544 so thorkughly, and after satikifying himself that the
43 Scotch Act hemaintained, property did not belong to the bank, say. 'lf this is a
di - Act ,in this respect, I correct schedule, the bonds are not ours. Thorn Wall a
4140 IA tne want et an 1 short Rase. 'Then there is nothing more to? be lade