The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1865-11-23

Victed OF subornatlon OF perjury. We
must not omit to mention the story. if on.
ly to set it down as hoax unexcelled in
ghastliness-of the boy who deliberately
cut off his arm to keep from going to
school. This story from New Jersey was
widely circulated
THE COLOSSAL RoBBERY-BANK OPERA
Large operations of robbery appear to
have been in proportion to other crime
The succession Of several robberies of
banks within short time, and the appa-
rent ease with which they have robbed,
have already called forth words of eau
tion from the public journals against
state of financial insecurity. The follow
ing state of bank and kindred robberies
alone will show that this warning was not
without reason of facts :
Jan-Bank of Crawford, Pa S150,OOO
March-Nationa Central, N. Y. $4,000
March-Banking House, Blands,
Louisville $4,000
May-Blnk, Walpole, N. H.,
(recovered) $4,000
June-Btnk, Richmond 100000
Aug.-Blnk, WeIlintnn. o. 100000
Aug.-Bank ng House, Portland, $4,000
Sept-Bank, Concord, 100000
Sept.-Trea>ury, Texas, 10000
S pt.-Adams Express, $4,000
This comprehends only robberies com
mitted by outside parties, AND we cannot
pretend to say the list is complete. A
tew OF the robberies were very remarka-
bic. 10 the instance Of the Crawford
Bank evidently worked up robbery,
it seems that while the cashier was at
work, in the evening the thief entered,
extineuished the gas and made away with
the bonds, before any light could be OBJ
tanned. Mr.. Bland of Louisville was I'M
prisoned 10 his own safe, and dearly suf-
tocated to death. The Concord Bank
robbery is recent and well known.
ROBBERY AN ABSTRACTION.
\ list Of bank robheries would not be
complete without a statement of the i'm
mense defalcations and swindles of the
past six months, which have assaled the
safety of banks from within as burglars
from without We append generic
list
May-Bank of New Haven Sa-
wings, about S 100000
Aug.-Bank, Phoenix, Jenkinss) 25O,OOO
Aug.-Banks, &c. New York
(Ketchum's) 100000
Aug.-Er'e Railroad bonds Jones)
reported 100000 10 100000
Aug.-Custom House, Memphis
reported 1,25O,OOO
ster at Paducah
by clerk $4,000
Sept-Governmen Bonds, Bliss
NY. $4,000
Collector, Ohio,
(defaulteD 10000
Sept.-Anerbach Swindle, Louis
vile $4,000 .
Sept.-Railroad Lond forgeries,
(Gladwin) 264, 900
n. Y. book keeper 10000
Oct.-Government bonds By Gen.
Bristow, Lynchburg. $4,000
A few Of these were recovered. The /
list, of course, does not include the al /
legged paymaster frauds, Navy Yard frauds
aud official corruptions Of which the pa
pers have been full. 1t must not be o.
mitted, however, that a State Treasury of I
Ohio was removed from office on charge /
Of heavy embezzlements OF important
operations in the professional line may be
the robbery Of Mr.. Veazle at
Albany of Sl1 GOO, that Of $25 900 from
an Indiana farmer; S48 900 at Chatta-
nooga the $4,000 burglary at Detroit
and S5j 900 at Philadelphia. Forgeres
have also been very numerous, and ex
tcnsye, but it is, OF course, impossible to
give statistics.
RAILWAY MAssACRE-A NEW CHAPTER +
FOR SEPTEMBER.
Railway accidents open up large ac-
count. From May ID to Oct. Is there
were 63 in all, or 63 in six months, up
to September. OF these a were coils /
sions, 8 explosions, (two Of which did
not occur on the line), 5 came from bad
bridges and culverts, y from rotten ties,
broken rails and axles, aud II were pre-
cipitations, more or less uncomfortable to
the travelling public Ten accidents oc-
Cured in June, s in July, 10 in August,
II III September, and in the whole year
to date, not less than 1000, comparing
the present with our former statement of
accidents published in August. Thirty
million dollars would be modest reckon I
ing for the loss involved In the demolish
ed lives, trains, and properties OF the past
year, and probably not less than,3UU per-
sons have been killed and more than 900
injured in every shape by accidents in
the same time.
CALAMITY BY STEAMBOAT AND SHIP
WRECK.
Steamboat explosions and shipwreck
naturally accompany this class of travel
iug accldcnts. Zen explosions and eight
collisions OF steamboats, are noted, along
with 45 burnings, siskings and wrecks OF
yessels-03 disasters in all. upon the wa
ter Several of these catastrUphes, which
have crimsoned river and ocean far and
wide, are remembered in all their awful
poetry, aud helpless agony any terror