The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-01-20
GENERALlTIES.
A Life for n Patent,

About year ago last June, Judge Blatchford,
of New York, virtually sentenced William Miller
to imprisonment for life for violation of the
law in relation to patents. The prisoner, who is
advanced in life, was charged with making india
rubber combs, and thereby infringing on the
rights of the patentees, Messrs. Poppenhauser 81
KONG, of Cliff street. Mr.. Blatchford was the
sole arbiter of his fate, for he did not have
jury trial.
The Judge decided against him, and SEN
fenced him to pay fine of $2500, and to remain
in prison till paid. But Miller i0 poor, and
hence he is doomed to inhabit cell for life.
An application for his release has been made to
Judge Blatchford but he declined, it is said, to
interfere further in the case as he had no power.
Not long ago, ex-Deputy Marshal Mccoy, who
arrested Miller appealed to the lawyer of the
patentees to ask his release of Judge Blatchford,
but he replied'curty that "neither the President
of the United States, nor Judge Blatchford, nor
the Governor of the State can release him with
out my consent, and I'm going to keep him in
prison."
How much better it would have been for poor
Miller to have been a drawback thief than
manufacturer of india rubber combs!
TorturinR School Girl TO Death.
A little girl, nine years old, attending public
school in Manchester, Conn, failing to repeat
to repeat on Friday the lesson for that day and
the day previous. She failed again, and as Il
punishment was required to stand on the floor
in passage way while she learned it. She
btOOu llcTc du uOuT, dtlu MAS cOLup6iltu ullcT-
ward to stand in the school room five hours
longer, until she had learned Thursdays Lesson,
and for another hour trying to learn Friday 8
lesson. On Saturday her legs bench to swell,
and she suffered intensely, soon becoming deli
rious, trying to repeat the lesson which was the
occasion of her punishment, and entreating her
teacher for leave to take her seat few days
after this ordeal death ended the childs agony.
The School Committees investigation resulted
in finding that the teacher was guilty of an error
in judgment.
ACnrgO of Bittcrs Sent to Antwerp.
Our friends of the City of Brotherly Love have
been playing very shabby trick upon the mer-
chants of Antwerp. The steamer Alpha was
laden at Philadelphia with what psrported to be
a comparatively harmless cargo of petroleum,
but what, to the amazement of the sturdy Hol-
landers turned out to be hogsheads filed with q
compound more explosive than New York kero-
sene-in fact, flood of bitters had been let loose
upon the unoffending city of Antwerp. 1t is
claimed by the sober citizens of Philadelphia
that il was all mistake, but we are inclined to
believe that dire conspiracy has been set on
foot to purge the whole Dutch nation by force
n. I. Times.
The Peabody Remains.
The following order has just been Issued by
General MCDOWELL
HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE EAST,
New YORK CITY, Jan. II, 1870.-By direction of
the President of the United States, funeral
escort of United States troops will accompany
the remains OF the late Mr.. George Peabody
from Portland, Me- to South Danvers, Mass
The escort will be composed of battalion of
the 9Th Artillery, under the command of Brevet
Brigadier General B. H. Hill. Lieutenant Colonel
9Th Artillery, commanding Fort Preble and will
consist of the band of the 5th Artillery, a COM
pany Of fifty men from Fort Independence, two
companies of fifty men from Fort Warren, and
company of fifty men from Fort Adams.
Brevet Brigadier- General Hill viii send the
necessary orders direct 10 the several posts to
fA kr. ho
present ON the arrival of the feet bearing the
remains from England. The troops will wear
their oyercoats on the march, and will be quar-
Hill at Fort Preble while awaiting the arrival of
the fleet. Brevet Brigadier-General Hill will
give all further orders to carry this order into
elect, and TO return the companies TO their
several stauoAs when the duty on which they
are ordered shall have been fulfilled
BY command of
Breyst Maior-Gensral MoDowxII.