The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1870-06-21
THE PETTY LARCENY,

On Saturday, the government was
cleverly robbed of $4,000. The fol-
lowing are the facts, as obtained from
General Spinner, United States Treasur-
cr, by the special correspondent OF The
Cincinnati Commercial: At nearly 3
O'Clock it was reported to- him by Mr..
Root, Chief Of the Isshe Division Of the
Treasurers Office, that two bundles of
ten-dollar {new issue) greenbacks had
been stolen from his room. Each lun-
die contained one thousand notes,
amounting to ten thousand dollars. =
There are employed in this department
nearly one hundred clerks and counters
Saturday morning these bundles of mon
ey, with number of others, were deliv-
cred by Mr.. McCarter, Chief of the
Printing Division, to Mr. Root, who re-
ceipted for the treasurer These bun
dies are usually all assorted and counted,
and then placed in the trcasurer's vaults,
ready for use. About O'Clock, two
ladies, accompanied by gentlehiaf,tis-
tied the room, as permitted VISITORS
AS one of the ladies was we'll knownj
and the others being. her friends, he
showed them through the room. Two
young men followed this party into the
room, and as a matter of course Mr..
Root thought they were of the same
party. One of them looked around q
little, and walked past the table where
the bundles of uncounted money were
lying, while the other showed his face
into that of the colored woman who was
watching this money, and asked her for
a Miss Clarke. The colored woman
protested that there was no Miss Clarke
there, and Indignantly asked the young
man rot to place his face so close to
hers, as the ladies and gentlemen in the
room would notice it. 1t was evidently
at this time that the two bundles of mon.
ey were taken by the accomplice, who,
holding his lat Under his arm,placed the
bundles under his coat-a black sack, as
described-and thus made good his es
cape, because there was no suspicion
that the money was stolen for nearly an
hour after they left.
The ladies and gentlemen in the Room
were all closely examined, and nothing
found upon any of them to implicate
them in any way. They all remained
in the room until after eleven O'Clock
Saturday night, and until after the clos
est search at counting was gone through
with.
THE GRAND LARCENY.
By the bill granting lands to the Cen
trail or Atchison branch of the Unior
Pacific road, Which passed the senate
Saturday, this road, which is now bull
one hundred miles west of Atchison
Kansas, will get, at the minimum esti
mate, two and half million of acres o
the best lands in Kansas and Nebraska
Under the original grant the road on
ly got the odd sections, and did not re
ceive anything for the sections that hat
been taken by pre-emptors, by othe
railroads or by school lands, etc. Blu
by this new bill they have a fertile re
giof fifty miles wide within which to Sc
lect lands to make up the deficit. Th
company has already received the cd,
sections and S1,5O0,O00 from the gov
ernment in bonds. The president of tn
road, brother of Senator Pomeroy
was on the senate Hoor when the bill
passed, and twenty-seven senators wer
absent when the final vote was taken.-
1t goes to the house for concurrence.