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The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1877-02-14
DETAILS OF THE DEFALCATEON.
A Comprehensive History Of n Marvel
Robbery.

The defaulting cashier of the crippled
bank was in this city last Monday, and
transacted business at several of the local
banks. To the Indiana banking company
he sold $4,000 worth of ex-
change-SlOO 900 on New York; So. 900
ceiving currency therefor. He deposited
$4,000 on account of his bank and took
$4,000 with him. He visited other banks
among them Fletcher Il Shapes, but it is not
known whether he made any similar trans
actions elsewhere or not. When last seen
he was going toward the union depot, and
told friend who met him that he was going
home. His brother Elmer w. Taylor, who
is assistant cashier of the bank. yesterday re-
ceived letter from him stating that he
.tRichard) had fled, and that the
affairs of the bank were in a
worse condition than any one would
imagine, and that he (RichaTdl had been
forcing balances and deceiving the bank ex-
aminers for long time, and had been pay
ing dividends to stockholders without earn
ing them. On receipt of this startling epis-
tie Mr.. Elmer Taylor at once informed Mr.
Forsyth, the president of the turn affairs
had taken. and the bank was closed, as
stated above.
FERRETISG OUT THE FoRGERIEs.
The directors of the bank were busily EN-.
gagged yesterday in what might be termed
locking the barn after the horse had strayed
away. AS the fugitive cashier had
foretold, matters were found to be
in worse condition than any
one could have possibly expected
1t was discovered that Taylor had mad
away with the general ledger in which the
general accounts of the bank were kept,
and therefore the directors found it impos-
sible to ascertain in Just what condition the
affairs of the institution really were. 1t
was found that of q balance of $4,000
of current funds Tor running money" "
which the books showed to have been in the
bank on Monday, only $4,000 were on hand.
The further discovery was made that $25, 900
of the reserve had been appropriated by the
dishonest cashier, and it was estimated that
the bills receivable would prove to be
short by about $4,000. 1t is the
suppositiOn that Taylor had the
bills discounted and used the proceeds
tor his personal ends This is indicated by
the fact that lately foreign bankers have
been writing to this city inquiring about
the bank. The accounts have been so COM
plicated that it will be nearly impossible ex-
cept by long and patient investigation,
to ascertain the exact amount the bank
loses by TaylOr's rascalities. The footings
of the rough estimates made yesterday
amounted to 100000 The total
defalcatiOn may prove to be
considerably less than or far in excess of
this amount, in such bewildering confusion
have the affairs of the bank been left At
all events it is certainly the most extensive
single handed swind.e ever perpetrated in
the state.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1877-02-14

change VIII execute orders for the purchase or
sale of Stocks, Bonds and Gold on moderate
margins. Commissions, s. on each loeshares.
Stock privileges negotiated on responsible
parties only. Correspondence solicited HENRY
MERRIAM, Member Am. Mining and Stock Ex-
change, IS Wall St., New York. Reference
ID. r. Mangam, ESQ.,. President National Trust
Co.. N. Y.
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The South Wants It.
charleston News.

The suggestion that Judge John A. Camp
bell, of New Orleans, would be a worthy
successor to Judge David Davis, as associate
justice of the supreme court, is followed up
by the nomination, by the Augusta Chroni-
Gle and Sentinel, of William Hope Hull, of
Augusta, who is claimed to be the peer of
Mr.. Campbell or of any other lawyer in the
country. AS nominations are in order, we
venture to say that South Carolina can pre-
sent candidate as eminent as either Mr..
Campbell or Mr.. Hull in the person of the
Hon. A. G. Magrath, of Charleston, who
wOnld bring TO the discharge of the duties
of the exalted office dignity and experience,
and capacity of the first order.
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Unprecedented Merit.
BosToN, Jan. /, 1876.

BUF5ION, Jan. I, I0Ib-
II. r. STEVENS, EsQ.-Dear Sir: For many
years have been afflicted with humor in
the blooo which finally developed into Scald
Head, and only those who are similarly
afflicted can realize the disasreeable suffering
one is compelled to endure with this com.
plant For a long time my head was in a
dreadful condition. / used various kinds of
remedies and medicines, some of which was
especially prepared for me. l got no better:
indeed, constantly grew worse, the surface of
my head being entirely covered with sores of
the most aggravated nature. This was my
condition when commenced taking the Veg
etine, which am pleased to inform you and
the public Of you choose to make it public)
has made n complete and satisfactory cure of
my disease; and shall always deem il a great
pleasure to mention the unprecedented merit
of Negetine. remain, ver1 thankfully,
CHARLES r. SMITH,
33S Fourth street South Boston
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Brief Biography Of Taylor and History
nf the

Richard T. Taylor, who has just turned
out to be one of the greatest forgers in the
country, was appointed cashier and general
manager of the bank in 1870
since which time he had had al
most autocratic control of its affairs. He
has passed the most of his life in Franklin,
and before going into the banking office
was in the clothing business He is about
81 years of age. five feet eight inches in
height, light complexion, with good fea-
lures and auburn hair. He has
hitherto borne an irreprOachable char
acter, being member in good
standing of the Presbyterian church. and
generally regarded in business circles as a
man of the strictest integrity. He has a
wife and one child. When the
news of his crime was preached to his wife
yesterday she broke out in loud lamenta-
tons, and it is a pretty well defined fact
that il was the first intimation
she had of his wrong doing 1t is also gen.
orally believed that Taylor brother, Elmer,
was hoodwinked in regard TO his operations.
ABOUT THE BANK.
The First National bank of Franklin Is the
Eftieth in the United States and second in
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Reliable Evidence.

Mr.. II. r. STEvENs-Dear Sir: will most
cheerfully add my testimony to the great num-
Der you have already received In favor of your
great and good medicine, Negetine, for do
not think enough can be said in its praise, for
| was troubled over 30 years with that dreadful
disease. Catarrh, and had such bad coughing
spells that it would seem as though never
could breath any more, and Vegetine has
cured me, and do feel TO thank God all the
time that there is so good a medicine as Vege-
tine, and also think one OF the best medi-
cines for coughs and weak, sinking feelings at
the stomach, and advise everybody TO take the
Negetine, Ior can assure them ii is one of
the best medicines that ever was.
MRS. l.. GORE,
Corner Magazine and Walnut streets,
Cambridge, Mass.
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- u GO - -
is THE
T z s T OF M E RITZ
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blood, together with the increasing demand
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of its real value as the Negetine, which has
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known remedies, and, after trying the Vege-
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All Diseases Of the Blood.

If Vegetine will relieve pain, cleanse, purify
and cure such diseases, restoring the patient to
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EAST MARsaFIELD, Aug. %, 1870.
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The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1877-12-15
To be Printed in School Books.

Reader, your eyesight is worth more to
you than any information you are likely
to gain from this book, however valuable
that may be. You are, therefore, earn
estly cautioned:
l. To be sure that you have sufficient
light, and that your position be such that
you not only avoid the direct rays upon
your eyes, but that you also avoid
the angle of reflection. In writing, the
light should be received over the left
shoulder.
,. That you avoid a stopping position
and forward inclination of the head.
Hold the book up. Sit erect also when
you write.
3. That at brief intervals you rest the
eyes by looking off and away from the
book for few moments.
And you are further cautioned to
avoid as much as possible, books and
papers printed in small type, and especi-
ally such as are poorly printed; also, to
avoid straining or overtaxing the sight
in anyway.
Boys may need to be reminded of the
great Importance of thoroughly cleans
ing the eyes with soft, pure water both
morning aud evening.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1877-12-15
An Old-Time Dance in Colorado


The first settlers of Boulder came here
in 1858. In 1859 quite number came
and some sixty Lighthouses were erected
before 1860 stepped in. OF these LOG.
houses but few remain. Christmas.
1859, saw joyial crowd of dancers IN
one of these houses, windowless. we be-
lieve, at that time The hardy pioneers
when after fun had it. On the night in
question about two hundred sons of toll
and seekers of gold and their fortunes
and seventeen ladies had assembled at the
above-named place to partake of frontier
terpsichorean. Marlnus G.. Smith was
then one of the beaus of the town. and
his dress suit consisted of pair of pants
made out of seamless sacks, and colored
blue by the aid of logwood. A lady now
living in town had an elegant dress made
out of flour sacks, also colored by the aid
of logwood There were few white shirts
in the neighborhood then, most of the
pioneers wearing WOODEN or flannel ones.
A man with white shirt ON was in style
and could dance with his coat off man
without any would wear a coat buttoned
up to the neck. Coats for dancing pur.
poses did not seem to be any too numer.
Gus, consequently the pioneers helped
each other out. For instance, Alf.
Nichols had six white shirts, which were
all at that ball, and the coats of those six
white-shirted fellows went to cover the
backs of some one else. When one fel.
low had dance he would loan his coat
to another, and then his turn would
come, and SO the white shirts and long
coats were dancing all night, and went
around among the 200 men. There were
no wall flowers among the seventeen
ladies. But they say the supper for the
occasion was grand affair. Wash boilers
full of coffee, great hunks of black-tailed
deer, jack rabbits, fish, game and delica.
cies brought from the States in cans, all
went to make up a glorious supper-one
that the partakers would like to see re-
peated. There may not have been much
style, but the seamless sacks and -four
bags saw as much pure enjoyment as
does the finest and gaudiest attire of to-
day
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1877-12-15
Pleasures of Swiss Sketching Tour


An artist has recently published in a
French journal, an account of his Swiss
sketching tour. On beautiful after
noon in June, of the present year, he
left his hotel in Interlaken, went out
alone with his camp-stool, and strayed as
far as the foot of the Jungfrau. AS he
was about to begin his sketch he was
startled by seeing, a few yards in front
of him, a huge bear, that growled fero-
ciously. He seized a six-chambered re-
volver and leveled it at the beast, but
before he could fire, he heard the words,
Halt! haltw The bear sat on his
hind legs and wrung his fore-paws.
Whatw cried the artist, edo bears
speak English?" Then holding the re-
volver close to the nose of the pretended
beast, he demanded, "What dost thou
in this accused costume?" The rogue
in the bears skin replied that he was
merely earning his living. He was
driver by profession, but the season had
been very bad one, and he was obliged
to take another trade. He had entered
into compact with number of guides
to clothe himself in bears skin, which
| can assure you is as hot as purgatory in
such weather as this" and plant him
self in one of the favorite mountain
paths. "When one of my associates
comes along this road with tourist, /
suddenly show myself. The foreigner is
ready to die with fright, but the cour-
ageous guide rushes at me and drives me
away, naturally receiving very hand
some douceur for his bravery in risking
his own life in order to preserve that of
his employer" In the evening the bear
and the guide generally met at an inn
and divided the spoil The bear pleaded
so piteously that the artist did not have
the heart to have him arrested.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1877-12-15

THE Horseshoe at Niagara is now a
right-angle, rather than curve. The
rocks in the centre have been eaten away
from year to year, and now the side
walls are crumbling. Recently a large
section of rock towards the Canada shore
fell with tremendous crash, and during
the night a still larger area went down.
The falls now wear new face, and visit
ors will undoubtedly be charged twenty
five cents extra next season. The public
can scarcely expect that the owners of
Goat Island and the Museum can afford
to have those rocks fall down without
making penny by it.-N. Y. Tribnne.
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The deaths average less than one pei
cent, per annum of the whole number uI
to the age of fifty-one, although amount
ing to upward of ten per cent. of the mum
Der surviving after the age of forty-one
Of course, thenceforward the annual per
centage of deaths increases very rapidly
until at ninety-three it amounts tc
nearly the entire number of survivors
To sum up, modern statistics would di
vide the average human life into three
portions of twenty years each, which
may be entitled youth, maturity and old
age
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1877-12-15
True Economy,

1t has been found that the only true
economy is that which stops the little leaks
and saves in trifes. For instance, one
saves in milk, butter, eggs and -four by the
use of DooLEY's YEAST POWDER, which is
made from the purest cream-tartar, derived
from grape acid Good housewives have
proved this by eXperience
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1877-12-15
PUMPKIN PIES.
I'VE tried the best
T. o,ef and wpst

I'VE tried the best
In east and west,
I've lunched meath Iropic sun;
I've tested all
The fruits that fall,
And like them every one.
But north or south,
No human mouth,
i viii the world Apr Sc,
Meier tasted food
One-half SO good
As our own pumpkin pies.
Upon the vine,
In rain and shine,
Through fragrant day and night,
The yellow globe
In emerald robe
Drinks up the summer light,
Oh, golden sweet,
The suns repeat
To mould thy lucious size,
mat we may come
And roll thee home
And make our pumpkin pies.
Our lovely girls,
With shining curls
Put neatly in cap.
Cut slice on slice,
And peal it nice,
And stew 1t to a pap;
Then milk is had,
And eggs they add,
And sweater as Is wise,
While others haste
To spice to taste
These homemade pumpkin pies.
Oh, pure and fair,
This food so rare,
Made up of all that's best;
No creatures pain
Goes to its gain.
But only natures Zest;
For Summer days
And Autumn haze
And smiles from beauty's eyes
Are in the dish,
Mixed to our wish,
That we call pumpkin pies.
No wonder, then,
That loyal men,
From Florida to Maine,
Their quarter eat,
The same repeat,
And pass their plate again;
That exiles fret
With vain regret,
And vex the air with signs,
When forced to stay
In chimes away
From their own pumpkin pies.
SO to our boast
give toast,
Embroidered all in rhyme;
May pumpkins round
With us abound
Through future Autumn-time,
And may our girls,
With shining curls
And tender beaming eyes,
All learn by heart
the happy art
OF making pumpkin pies!
-Harper'S BG-Gr.
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Mrs. General Sherman.

Wife of the General of the United
States Army, says: 81 have frequently pur-
chased Durang's Rheumatic remedy for
friends suffering with rheumatism, and in
every instance it worked like magic" Send
for circular to Helphenstine & Bentley,
Druggists Washington D G
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1877-12-15
GOLDSMITH & Co.

GOLDSMITH & CO.,
Carpets, Curtains, Blank
cts, Shades, House Fur
nishing Dry Goods, etc.
We are now prepared to
show our new Fall Stock
which we are Offering at
very low prices----365 g.
367 East Water St., Mil
wauke e, Wis, Core
spondenCe solicited.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1877-12-15
Concerning Longevity.

For the benefit of those curious in such
matters, the following table may be OF
interest, the estimates being based upon
100000 children, of either sex, who have
reached the aoe of ten wears.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1877-12-15

OF all the effects that exposure of the skin 10
the air produces, the most disagreeable is
called freckl les, If spread over the entire
surface of the parts exposed, it is called tan; if
are most subject to them The KALLISTON,
prepared by Joseph Burnett s. Co.. Boston, con-
t,ins q peculiar erasive property which will re-
move these disagreeabe stains 1t is at the same
time perfectly harmless, alays all tendency to
inflammation, and renders the complexion clear
and beautiful.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1877-12-15

MILLIONS of bottles of BURNETT's
COCAINE have been sold during the last
twenty years, in every civilized country,
and the people have rendered the verdict
that it is the cheapest and best Hair Dress
ing in the world.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1877-12-15
CANCER.

The treatment of Cancer has becOms SO interviewer
with quackery that the progressive physician has
appeared unwilling enter alto the arena against the
deception consequently the of the medical pro-
fesslon almost totally ignorant of this fearful and
most prevalent disease They regard cancer as incur
able, because they did not understand its origin
pathology, consequently they merely try to alleviate
the eXcruciatng pain which this disease entails upon
its victims. We regard durable in both
forms-medlllary and scirrhus We have used our
remedies in this country anl Eurore TOR the last
of the womb, breast and face. We earnestly
solicit call from those who have given up hope. One
of the physicians of the institute wi visit those
part of the country who are unable to call. We use
neither knife, plaster Caustic and cause no pain
depending entirely upon specific Patients on be-
ginning treatment only pay for the medicines they
receive until they satisfied they improving.
All letters ef inquiry must contain Sl.OO.
inc is valuable and cannot be given for nothn
Address all letters to the Superintendent DR.. ROB
ERTSnN at office of institmte 81 fremont ST Boston
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1877-12-15

SEAL SKIN sacques are long and half
fitting.
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PATENTEES and inventors should read ad
vertisement of Edison Bros in another column