Morning journal and courier., 1880-10-19

obstacle to fast travel A "waiting carriage, !,
 comprising steam engine with special gear,
 and space for passengers and luggage, is
 placed on siding at the station, and picked
 up by the train as it goes past. The latter,
 bymeans of a hook on it's last carriage, catch
 with cable wound on a drum in the waiting
 carriage. Thereupon the drum begins to
 unwind, and in doing so congresses system
 of springs, while the carriage is moved at a
 rate gradually increasing to that of the train
 The engine of the carriage then winds in the
 cable, the train and carriage are connected,
 passengers are transferred (the carriages being
 of the American type) from the joined car
 riage to the train, and Uice Uersa, then the
 two are disconnected, and the engine of the
 carriage working on the wheels brings it back
 to the station whence it was taken.
 If Bill English, of Indiana, gets through
 this campaign alive he will probably feel like
 keeping quiet for awhile, and trying to make
 money to cover the expenses of his campaign.
 It is now said that the proof has reached
 Washington that when the exposure of MT.
 English's dealing with his grandmothers pen
 sion appeared, a false transcript from the
 court records was furnished at Indianapolis
 for telegraphing over the country to break the force of the disclosures. This bold fraud, according to the Washington correspondent of the Boston AdUertiser, consisted both in changing the date of the court record of set. clement from November Il, 1847, to Novem-
 Der II, 1S46, and in presenting the receipts pertaining to this settlement as covering the distribution of the pension. As Mir. English collected the pension September 8, 1S46, it was sought to prove by the altered and irrele- want record that he settled the pension matter with the heirs and obtained a full discharge as administrator from the court in less than six weeks after collecting the penrion money in Washington. A transcript of the court record, certified by the deputy clerk, shows that the settlement was November Il, 1847, and that it did not embrace the distribution of the pension. The latter fact appears from vouchers for expenses filed with the settle ment which do not include the expenses of collecting the pension. MT. English is Ca nice man."
 With ''Nrs Howe' and stMiss Gould" the two women who were especially con- spicuous in the ''Ladies' Deposit Company of Boston, under arrest that swindle is end ed so far as fresh victims are concerned. That it has been successful is a striking evil dence of the guIlibility of people. The regu- lations of the company were as follows
 The Ladies' Deposit is a charitable institu- tion for single ladies, old or young.
 No deposit received for less than $200 nor more than $1 ,OOO. Interest at the rate of $S on $1OO per month is paid every three in advance. The principal can be withdrawn upon call any day except Sun day.
 No deposits received from any person own ing house.
 Office hours from Q. m. to , p. m. daily. |
 As the first quarters interest was paid in l advance, deposit of $1 1000 was really only a deposit of $76O, since $24o was at once re- paid, and thus so long as paid, the bank really gave more than per cent a month, and nearly 10 per cent. No statements were l made. Questioners were paid off and for l bidden to return, and the bank ran on for | three years Of course the only way such | interest could be paid was out of new depos- | it's, and when they stopped the crash was in evitable. The Boston Ad0ertiser was the l principal cause of the collapse of the fraud, and it deserves much credit for its persistent and well-managed attack upon it. It is sup posed that the women were the agents of some | man or men. |
 We have been requested to correct single | mistake of our reporter at the Cheshire Cen | tennial on the 14th inst The hundred year l old paper reported as shown by R. W. Wright l was the CoNNEcTIoUT JOURNAL (not Herald, | as stated), published April ,, 17S0, by Thom- | as and Samuel Green, near the college, in New Haven A large number of the "old | the original imprints- those made century | after the originals. But this is the original | of the paper of the date given, | and shows the exact dimensions of our paper, | the JOURNAL AND COURIER one hundred years ago. It is folio sheet, just 13 inches by T | form size, and the 649th issue of our journal. It contains several important facts as well as The latest debates in the British | Parliament were to December II, 1779, and
 
 13 17SO. It also contains, among other matters of stirring war news, the fact that | the celebrated Paul Jones had recently ar- rived at Corunna from Holland, in command | of the American frigate Alliance, bound for with one hundred and fifty American prisoners who had just made their escape from England to Holland; that Jones on his passage from Holland to Corunna fell in with large Dutch ship, having a large cargo of powder, designed as supply for the British garrison at Gibraltar, which he boarded and captured as prize, the Dutch captain not being sharp enough to conceal from him the true destination of his cargo. The vessel and it's cargo were taken by Jones into Corunna, where it shared the fate of his other prizes.
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