The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1881-05-18

guess the crowd was about twO-third
full when that was taken. Pryne was {
fast New Yorker, who had taken good dea
OF interest in the world, the flesh and the
devil, and his father prevailed on Tom t.
take him away to build up. He built
! When Tom lit out he left the business in
that fellows hands. Know Seth Diggs'
Think do; the old miser. He was a South
American trader from New York, and would
gouge Every one he could lay his hands on
Remember that big diamond Tom used tc
wear on his shirt? Well, he put up an old
Jew diamond dealer TO beat Diggs out OF
that stone, and Moses talked il down till
Tom got it for song" land Kline laughed
till telegram to quit came from his leg)
briggs got $500, 600 from that commission
and all the rascal lost in Gods world
was span of horses Yes, sir
that's fact. l heard them talking
about it before / left; and l see he has
the cheek now to squeal because Tom and
Talmage wanted slice. No use believing
anything that fellow says. He'd lie straight
ahead for a week without meals or sleep.
Then there was the Widow Adams She had
a big cocoanut plantation back of Caracas
and when the Insurgents tramped over II
and let the milk out, she put in claim for
$4,000 damages Tom told her she didn't
know her business, and suggested $50, 600.
On further consideration Tom and TaImage
agreed on 100000 and in went the widow s
mite at double her own figures! Know Mi
chado? Oh, yes.
HE WAS A LUXURIOUS MOUNTAIN GOAT,
by the way. The fellow was regular Span
lard, tall dark and 1.-THE, n perfect gentle
man in his manners, and a great man for the
ladies. l think he inherited his money
Anyhow he had the most gorgeous planta-
ton around there. Among other things,
such as costly wines. full stocked MENACE
RE, and any quantity of rare birds, he had
cascade on his place, where the water fell
from great height, splashing through raw
ines, till it landed in large basin cut from
the solid rock; and here, in the cool of the
day, Michado and his friends used to battle
with a choice collection of divine Castilian
girls. He could tell lots about those crooked
times.
tom had cheeky way about him." con:
tinued Mr.. Kline II remember the time
that Talmage was out here and we drove to
thegrayel pits He had been prodding Tom
for some time about the $50, 600 he owed
him, and while we were driving over that
afternoon he opened on him again. 1t was
something about Venezuela bonds, but |
couldn't get the exact situation. Well,
Tom bantered him till we got to the pits,
when he pointed to my $500 horse and said:
Damn it, Talmage, what's 100000 between
gentlemen? Take that horse of Kline's and
call it square,"
JOHN A. STEIN, oRTH's BRoTHER-IN-LAw,
was the reputed lawyer before Congress for
these rascals; so l asked Mr.. Kline: $50
Stein was the Attorney
Here is his answer: Yes" replied he
with sly wink of the eye, "he was the one
they correspondent with; but, of course. he
couldn't have done anything without Ortiz"
No one having the least familiarity with this
whole job will doubt the correctness of Mr..
Kline's remark; and if Judge Higginboth-
am will be patriot enough to open his pri-
vate safe to the public and place those let
tiers on exhibition, we shall soon see that
whole brood of rascals gnawing files. We
may be able TO learn what consideration in
duced Morton to champion the validity of
those infamous awards in the Senate, while
Orth did the business in the House.
WHY IT WAS THAT MORTON TOOK SUCH PRO-
FOUND AND sLEEPLEss INTEREST
in the matter that hourly kilograms were
sent to Tom Stilwell informing him of the
prospects; how il was Orth appeared before
the State Department as the attorney of
Stilwell and Talmage, when neither OF those
worthless had legal claim 10 a dollars worth
of these bonds; and why Orth should later
explain before Committee of Congress that
"the name of Talmage did not appear in the
correspondence as the person for whom he
was acting but the name of Thomas Brown
did," and what it had to do with the Brown
business when Charles Dresher, former
clerk in the Anderson Bank, when con-
fronted with various entries in the name of
Thomas Brown, testified, with his head
down, that Brown was n man of straw and
the entries were dummy ones! Judge Hig-
ginbotham, man of responsibility and
honor, owes the truth to his outraged fellow
citizens Will party consider atoms lead
him to still further shield Hon. Godlove S.
0rth, or will he out with the facts and ease
his conscience?