Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1867-01-17


specially invited to witness the shifting,
magniaed the accident to Mr.. Cross in
to an escape OF the lion out of his cage:
thus filled with fear, they rushed out of the
menangerie with great terpidatlon. The
lion still held Mr.. Cross fast by the hand,
nor could he be enticed TO let go his
hold, although tempting junks OF beef
and cows hearts were thrown into the
cage; but the most surprising part of
all was that during the whole OF the
time each was trying to attract the at
tention Of the lion from him, Mr.. Gross
appeard the least disturbed, as, with his
eye fixed upon his captor, he seemed to
be watching and waiting patiently for
some expected opportunity.
Finding the lion determined to retain
his hold, and the pain becoming very
severe, Mr.. Gross asked one of the keep
ers TO hand him q small bar of iron he
was holding ready for use. With this
Mr.. Cross succeeded in striking the brute
terrific blow between the eyes. The
enraged animal sprang back with
snort, tearing away the flesh from the
hand, and mutllating one finger so seri-
ously that at first it was thought am-
putation was an absolute necessity and
was recommended, but Mr.. Cross, with
GOODNESS in him characteristic, refused
all surgical aid-he thought he was
sufficiently cut up already, and wrap.
ping his mutilated limb in wet cloths,
walked out of the menagerie as If no
accident had happened to him, and re-
turned as soon as possible to Liverpool"
How DRY GooDs IMPORTERS MAKE
LARGE PRoFITs.-Fraud upon the pub
lie revenue is far from being peculiar to
the manufacturers and dealers in ar
dent spirits. On the contrary, we find
from incontrovertable evidence that
some of our largest importers o. silk
goods, laces, velvets and ribbons from
the looms Of France and Switzerland
are scarcely behind the distillers in the
magnitude Of their attempts at these
fraudulent operations, and although we
do not hear OF these transactions as
they occur, we have little or no doubt of
the existence of the evil. If the manu-
facturer or importer who mulcts the
public treasury of thousand or two
dollars is held up to public apprehension,
how much more is the man guilty who
endeavors to cheat by tens of thou
sands ? Surely he is deserving Of like
exposure and punishment. We have ev-
idenCe that one importing house alone
was compelled, on detection, to pay some
$50, 900 in gold on an attempt at evasion
of revenue but few weeks since, and
this case is far from being singular.
There are numerous other cases of like
and smaller sums being recovered.
There are various ways common in per-
petratiOn of these dishonest transac-
tiOns. The old undervalued invoice is
often resorted to, together with stuffed
packages of bales and in the ribbon
trade we hear of false blocks, having
some twelve yards of costly fabric
rolled on the outside, while inside the
block is concealed some twelve yards
more, the latter, of course, never being
discovered by the custom house exam
liner, Apart from the grossly immoral
| and dishonest character of these whole
sale attemps at fraud, we would partiC-
ularly dwell upon the great wrong done
| the less extensive, but more honest i'm
porter, who finds himself undersold by
his INSCRIPTIONS neighbor, and his bust
ness seriously impaired. The petty thief
and wealth swipdler are upon conviction
! equally guilty before the law, and that
| these Ubiquitous transaction should be
compounded, compromised or concealed,
without exposure and punishment to
the perpetrator, is egregiously and radi-
cally unjust and wrong. The collector
of customs is using every means in his
power for the prevention of fraud upon
the public revenue. This is as it should
be. Let US, therefore, hear of the mer-
CHESS prosecution and exposure of all
offenders, whatever be the amount in
volved in the attempted defalcation.-
| ". Y. Herald.