, 1876-01-05
MISCELLANEOUS,
+fi1-IIftT

Tie appraisers appointed BY tho United Stated
District Court 10 view tbs coutonts Of Matthul'a
recsifsfug establishment, T. Cleveland. Ludwig
Wolf, aud Hugh bradshaw, uado tLcic report
yesterday. actting tho apprasemont At g., ,028.s3.
Bond was tlen offered aud approved. IN eini-
lar fornl to TINT already olrered br Kceley l.
Kerwin, In tho sum OF a4.10o.with William Nut
thei as principal. and Philip Il. Matlhei and
Louis Mastlei % securities.
lSroaxA1!oSs.
Among tho dlstlltora aud rectifors n1ope ea-
tabliBImenta have bocu~ Iasoiy setzod, inrortna-
ton has 10 far boon only iilotl In thrse cases.
tloso Of Koeicy l. Kerwin, tho Chicago
Alcohol Works. and William ,iattAci.-aud
bonde hare boon submitted aud approved
III Tho casea OF Eeoiey & KesSin aud
Matthoi. The Chicago Aleollol Works Ilayo benn
represented lu court every day siuco 1ast FRIDAY
appraisers have bean appointed, appraiscments
made, and tho parties have not only boon willing.
hut an1ious, TO bond out under the l1sual arnount
Of cnnd-twico tho yaluo Of tla appraisc1nont.
But, aB tic auscica NC Eoard-ol-ltcd men,
tlor time IL 60 yalnAbla tha: thoy cannot afford
~ 10 prGBent in court for days q. ting, waiting
tor m oppo tunity when the cascs on baud hayo
been diarosod of to appcsr and sign tho bond.
III tic meantime, other caseH on tho
docket have been callol aud hoard,
1nnc4 to the disgust OF iho propr.asor1, 1T tho
Alcohol WolkB. Judge Dlodro:t inatractad An
bistaat District Attorney Burke, 4 day or two
ago, 10 examine the bonds ard tho boutl.ncn,
aud to haya tho tcat,moay brought bofo.p tho
Court, hut, owing to sono reason or other, lilo
tnost probable OF Hhich ID tho groRt rraksura Of
business attendant uEun the ilng OF tnfcEna-
ttona and the urand Jury work, this has not
boon done, although strennonElv urged hy Dr.
Ruah, bis sstosney, and nia bondatuen. Tho
matter will probably bo utsoudol to st Gu early
data aa possible.
who sFaa waiting aT0und the corridors Of tho
Custom. HOUSE yesterday. really and uuye than
willing 70 I'LL his bond. was eonyosslng 1ith q
TRIBUNE reporter OH tho subject Of tho rccont
Roizureg. ! 10 gcntls.naa oxprassed hs optulon
prossy cloerls that tho Goveshsnont bad pushed
th,nks . little more rapidly .har would provo
thnk, in other wcrdh that there was
. good cane against Hon,e OF Tho dIa-
sIlerd, and particularly against hsmAc!f. THO
books OF his coucotn lall been worry carefully
examined lest spring when tho fcyonro AEentB
wcro making their regular inspection. and they
l.ad found an error, which was 80 trivial Oh to
bring confession from thu oficors thouHolyes
that It wns 80 palpably cescal 1nistalo ,hat no
acro,.ut WIS takou Of 1t to tho pretud,co Ut tho
dlatlllagy. II amounted to something liko five
barrels Of vtfhsy. blnco that t'tuo nothing OF
tho ldod had occurred. aud l.o did not think the
claseEt inspection would really discover anything
actually crooked.
Tho theory Of ttIa gen,lcmsn was that tAers
Wcfe certnin crooked whisky mGn hero WHO hud
bcen found out. End who. 10 drag tho othors IN
NTH thom, had manufactured ntot1os ont OF
whole c;oth no plausible, apparently, that tho
tovcopo officers weFo Gnlled. aud ment to work
Tho gentleman WAS asked what ho thought OF
tho probability that tliore was anything crooked
In Louisville mud CinclMpat, md Lo tcplacd that
There vas no tosliug. I: dd look lntlo queer
ctICRrer than st, Ipuja or Chicago couId which