American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1880-11-06
OF GENERAL INTEREST,
The Bo>to0 Ladies' de so.It',

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THE Eostc II newspapers furnish a number
OF intcrestin details of tt Ladies' Deposit
swindle in II ost1n. and OF the so-clIlrI Presi-
dent, Mrs arab l.. Howe, that have not been
published In the Times specials. she and he +
agents have repeat edly declared that their
bank was no cxr eriment that it had been
in uperatio L for forty years in Alexandria
n, where IL mad been founded by capital
furnished from time To time by benevolent
Quakcrs nxiuus to aid virtuous and uupro-
tected wo men, The object of the Deposit was
never TO accumulate money but to benefit
humanity especially its feminine portion.
Consetu entity, it willing pay ninety
SIX per cent. per annum half q
quarter OF that rate. AT least three
four.hS of the depostors are asserted
to I've out of Boston, and never
to have drawn their interest when it had
fallen due, which has materially helped the
'bank" to pay OH city creditors. The fact
has been revealed that large number of Bos-
ton business men have singuisrly enough,
raised every dollar they could by selling
curities, household furniture and personal
property in order to put it in the Deposit.
while they had no faith in its management or
ultimate solvency, they were willing to incur
the risk, reasoning that, If the establishment
should oniyiast one year, they would nearly
double their capital, and then draw out the
whole amount. The opinion that most of the
deposits have been from the middle and lower
classes is entirely erroneous. Many of
the first families in that city are de-
clared have intrustcd Mrs. Howe with
the care of their funds to the extent of
from $1,000 to $1,000 each and to have
sustained, well the business men, very
heavy losses. The house in East Brookline
street, where the bank was situated, was most
extensively, though tawdrily, furnished. So
many costly articles were bought and carried
there last spring, at the time of its removal
hmm, RITZ hn hnl
bor4ood wondered at such luxury. There are,
doubtless, various branches of the Deposit,
Ind not few of the depositors arc reported 70
be residents of this city. Mrs. Howe's record,
which has been industriously traced, shows to
| extreme disadvantage. Her age is given at
sixty, and she is described as short, fat, very
ugly and SO illiteratc as to be unable to write
an English sent ence or to speak withou.. max
| ing shameful blunders. How such n woman
could have been successful a swindl'er defies
| conjecture.-N. L. Times.
A Remarkable Case.
THERE died on Tuesday last at Bayview
| Asylum one of the m ost singular persons that
| has ever hved-a fem ale with woman's head
and the body and arms of child. Visitors t
| Bayview have notice 81 this singular case, and
| it has attracted larR ely the attention of med
| zeal men. Her mare was Kate Dashields. She
was received in the old County Almshouse in
>1Sss2 with her mother. The latter died of the
cholera and the child has been cared for ever
| since by the city. ON the separation of coun-
| ty and CITY and the erection of Bayview Asy-
| lum for the city poor Kate was removed to
| the la tter place. During all the time she has
| been in the institution her head has grown
| with each day and year until it be
| came the head of woman, but beiow
| the neck nature was ut stand-still
| She occupied to the day of her deash the
| childs chair she occupied when three year.
old and slept in the same cradle. ii er arm
| and hands were beautiful, and she wo old show
them with great pride to each visit Thi
vanity was about the only womanly trait sh'
| exhibited, and with the exception of beinl
| alive to remarks complimentary to the white
ness and perfection of her hands and arms
she seemed to be insensible to all else passing
round her. This singular creature was sub
| ject to epilepsy, and this is what caused hel
L wonderful condition She ate and slept well
and seemed in her usual health up TO nftecr
| minutes before her death, when she wa
| seized with an cpiIeptic fit, from which sh,
| never recovered. Katie was forty-eght year
| of age at the time of her death. Forty-five o
| these she was cared for ut the county Aim
| Eousc and Bayview Asylum, and it is perhaps
| attributable to the care and treatment she re
cefved in those institutions that she had sur
| yived SO long.-Bdltunorc Gazette.
Railroad Accidents.
THE RddroId Gazette of recent date has
l record OF 12i accidents during Scptem ocl
| whereby Is persons killed an
| 81 injured. Eleven accidents ause
| the death of one or moro persons
- caused injury but not DEATH while 4
no less than 81 or 1916 per cent of the Who'll
| number, there appears to have been no injur
to persons serious enough for record AS con
pared with September, 1873, there was an in
crease of 40 accidents; of = in the numbe
killed, and of also in that injured.