The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1877-11-17
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Our Chicago Letter.
CnICAGO. Nov. 3.


nouncement that John NJ. Buckley had
sent challenge to mortal combat to
one DR.. Tope, doctor OF the lancet
and the pill. Buckley Is among the
faded and decayed notablllties, and 1t
will take few words to call him back
to memory. During a part of President
JOhnson's administration he was AS.
sistant Attorney General, and did many
queer things, and wrote many queer
opinions while in Office. lie it was who
made the discovery that IL the North
conquered the South it would become
bound to pay the Confederate debt, but
he kept it to himself until the fighting
was over, in order, so he said not to dis
courage the Federal soldiers. When
johnson went out he became edltoI OF
the National Intelligencer" for a time,
and then drifted out here, where lie
tried to practice law, but failed at 1t.
For some time he has been living at
Milwaukee. A few weeks ago he pre-
tended to discover that his wife, niece
of General Joseph johnson, the Con-
federate soldier, had been playing the
fool with this DR.. TOpe, of Chicago. So
Buckley came down here with murder
Gus thoughts, and sent challenge TO
the medico, inviting him to meet him
out in the woods somewhere, armed to
the teeth, the two to fight it out until
one or the other was slain. The Doc
tor did not have chivalric soul, and
did not accept. He sweaTs to his inuo;
cenGe, and is doubtless correct about it,
SO it does not seem quite reasonable
that he should either slay or be slain.
So he went to Justice of the Peace and
swoIe his life against Binckley, who
was arrested and bound over for year.
Had the doctor chosen to prosecute him
for sending challenge, it would have
been serious matter, since it is an of.
fence punishable with the Penitentiary
or a very heavy fine.' Buckley admits
the sending of the letter, and processes
strong desire to, slaughter brother
Tope, but declines TO state the reasons,
for, as man of honor, he says he cam
not divulge them. The wife left her
husband after he had forced her to sign
confession, which she subsequently
repudiated, and has gone to Virginia to
live with some of her folks. The truth
probably is that Buckley is laboriDg
under an unpleasant hallucination.
The railroad managers are in perpet-
ual conference over their freight rates.
The price of marine Insurance goes up
with the beginning of the month, and
navigation will be over by December.
There will come another hoist in rail.
road rates, and the indignant farmers
will give another howl. In 1873 1t was
hn m hn
against the, railroads, and forced them to
cut down transportation charges. The
road, in order to pay dividends, cut
down, step by, step, the wages of EN-.
plpyees, which led to the riots of last
July,n Those wages have been raised
in part, and in order to cover that eX.
pense the freight tariff is revised and
the producers are struck at. The indi.
cations are that they will resent it more
promptly than before, since they have
learned their strength, and that instead
of going it alane, they will seek to ally
themselves with tile railroad hands.
Such combination would have strength
in the city as well as country, and
would make things lively for the roads.
A pleasant little partnership was
broken up this week by the police. 1t
was partnership between two expert
hotel thieves, man and woman
whose operations have extended from
the Atlantic to the far West, and who,
at one time and another, have absorbed
many Watches. diamonds, and other
tritles, including lot of stuff belonging
| to RignOld, the actor, which was pack
ed up in New York hotel. The wo-
man, a good looking and very smart Is
raelite, has been In the habit of getting
place as chambermaid in hotel. The
man would follow along presently, and
take rooms at the same place. She, be-
ing competent, soon won the confidence
of her employers. Then, in the course
| of time she furnished him with pass
keys, and he made a clean sweep of
| profitable rooms. The last operation
was at the Palmer House, where they
secured yaluables worth $1,000. BY
some blunder on the part Of the man, he
was captured not far from the city with
about 100000 worth of stuff, but she
who is. suspected to have fully as much
more about her, has not yet been heard
| of. The police of all the large Eastern
| cities have been after them tor year,
but without success. Generally, after
making a stroke, they dropped into OBJ.
| scurity, taking rooms at some private
boarding. house as man aud wife, aud
dwelling there in peace until they felt
moved to Ie.cOmmence operations.
They are both English, and left their
native land owing to inability to do busl-
ness there any longer.
| There has been une more bank collapse but
the CunCeln n which went Il der l. a pelty affair,
| OWING only about stu,uOJ, and iVs dOWnfau has
! long Uoen expected. 1t was 50 [ OF co opera
| tive, mutual aftIir which tried TO paw depOsltOrs
| a little over seven per cent, ami broke down IN
| the up hill task Having been run az a loss for
| several years, II has NO assets at ALL except on
| paper.
| In recent lets or l spoke I'm reference TO In
| dian claims 20 real estate coming mp af6er the
| la0se OF many years TO piague an innocent pur-
| chaser. Another Of tAesc has Jst turned up
| IL Is the SUIT of Mrs. PAa-Wa-Ash-Run. Wlte 81
| the late ksh-Run, Indian chlef TO ecOver a
! couple OF sections OF lana which she alleges are
| gwen TO her spouse bV the Treaty OF llpprca
noe made IN ls-e She ullegsssthbt this land
| was never sold by her UelOved Ash Run; but
| that lie was cheated out Of II. ana that they
| huVlng no Chlllrvn Il rs unw her prOperty-tue
| propertv ut an I'D crons OF eighty. who cannot
! oven yet speak uUzeu w0rds Of EnRlish. lhe
progress, Of the suit was uneN p6ctedly stopped,
however, Oy hecsiun OF Judge Druinm0ned.O III
tue United states Circuit Court. that an lntlall,
being nsltner cltizsn nor AN alien, but AM
anoina'Ou, nobody .c0uId not Or1ng suit m Ted
| era court 20 tne dls.Ons0late WIDOW depart.
| ed alo the prOne y ho-dtrs she mepaeed pre
g. peace tOr time, il. q.