The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1860-12-14
Astounding Success of a Conf
dence Man--S2O,OOO Swindle.


| Mr.. VIM IL. Newcum, a wealthy gen
tlenan residing near Nashville. Tenn, has
been lately on visit to his brother AMI
other relatives in this city, living on Wash
iugton avenue, between Sixth and Seventh
streets. About ten days AGO Mr.. New
Gums acquaintance was Handsomely made
b. an individual represented to be Il rich
and influential citizen of St. Louis. named
Washington L. Johnson. Mr. Johnson
assiduously cultivated an intimacy with
Mr. Newcum
Mr. Newcum came to repOse Unlimited
confidence in the probily and pecuniary
resources of his valuable St. Louis friend.
The latter insiduonsIy y impressed him with
conviction that Washington l.. Johnson,
ESQ, was the principal millionaire of the
Mound City. Mr. Newcum, therefore, felt
no surprise when his honorable friend cas-.
usiiy and graciously expressed himself as
having sn available cash income of three
thousand dollars per month.
| On last Saturday the cordial friends
light have been seem in still more fra
ternal and confidential mood. surveying
| the valuable blocks between Fifth and
Sixteenth streets in Car all of which By
the golden imagination of one friend, and
the trulhfulness of the o. her, showed as the
almost priceless property of Washington
L. Johnson, Esq. The latter inadvertant>
ly exhibited a large number of valuable
drafts, mortgages, etc. which furnished
him occasion to remark that with the i'm
mediate conveniences OF about $40 600 he
! Il
would richly remunerste them both. Mr..
Newcum agreed to take his friends paper
and furnish him in return with IS 900 in
currency and $4,000 in drafts. The
money was paid over, and the drafts were
promptly cashed At the counters of the sew
eral banks at which they were made pay
able
Mr.. Newcum reposed in security until
yesterday, when he missed the pleasing
attentions of his friend. The hours wore
on, and Mr.. Johnson did not appear
Kind inquiry disclosed that the ich citizen
was not so well known as he should be-
Further investigation diseipated Wa>hnr-
ton L. Johnson, Esq, entirely, aud left, in
place of the goodIy citizen, MISSING
sharper Mr.. Newcurn'8 securities are
worthless, and most adroit villain has
fed with full twenty thousand dollars of
which he has fleeced an estimable but too
confding gentleman Louis Democrat
IMPORTANT TO FARMERS .-Upon tha
question of " How much pork will bush
ell of corn make p Mr. Ricuard Thatch
er, Of Pennsylvania give in the NeO Yo,k
Tribune, the result of feeding scalded o..
cooked corn meal, in several instances, to
fatten hogs. The result of one trial gave
.ixtsen and one-haf pounds Of pork for
each bushel Of fifty pounds meal fed out
In another instance seventeen and nearly
one half pounds was the gain from n
bushe The freed of hogs experimental
upon was the Chester" County, Pa, 8,
white, which we regard as among the best
breeds now in the country. We have re-
Gently seen accounts of several other ex-
periments Of feeding hogs in the same
way. with similar results, while the same
breed Of hogs fed in the ordinary way, upon
dry corn in the ear, gave return Of about
one thitd of the Weight compared witt.
those ted on the cooked corn.