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The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1881-01-07
MAIL LETTINGS.
NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS.

PoST OFFICE DEPARTMENT.,
WASHINGTON, ID. c., Oct. Is, 1880.
Proposals will be received at the Con-
tract Office of this Department until }
the p. m. of January IL, 1881, for carry
ing the mails of the United States, upon
routes, and according to the schedule of
arrival and departures specified by the
Department, in the State of louisiana,
from July 1, 1881, to June 80, 1882.
Lists ofroutcs, with schedules of arriv-
ais and departures, instructions to bid
ders, with forms for contracts and bonds
and all other necessary informatio on will
be furnished upon application to the
Second Assistant Postmaster General.
HORACE MAYNARD,
Postmaster General
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EOR RENT.
SUGGESTIONS of Noah A., and Sarah L..
PhiIpot, decc'd.

BY virtue of an order of the Hon. Fifth
Judicial District Court in and for the par
ish of Ouachita, State Of Louisiana, to me
directed, L will offer for sale to the last best
and highest bidder at the Courthouse door
in the City of Monroe, on
Tuesday, the 1Ith January, 1881.
between the legal hours, the lease for the
wear ending on the 3lst December, 1881, of
the following described real estate, and
improvements thereon) inventoried in said
SUGGESTIONS as Lot No. in the act of parti-
ton of the land belonging to the estate of
VIM. and Ann E. Frantom, Sept. 2lst., 1916,
also Lot No, 4, in same act of partition,
bounded on the north by lands of A. Willis,
on the east by lands of VIM. Sandel. on the
west by lands formerly owned by Reuben
l.. Frantom, but now owned by S. w. Saun-
ders, and on the south by tho Ouachita river;
containing in the aggregate two hundred
and ten acres, more or less. Something
more than 100 acres under fence foI cultiva-
ton. No cotton seed to be removed from
the place and at the expiration of the lease
the property to be surrendered in good
| condition as when received. The lessee to
give bond in favor of the Administrators
with good security to be approved by the
| Hon. Judge of the 9th Dist. Court for tho
punctual payment of the price and fulfill
| meut of the conditions of the lease.
| HENRY T. WIMBERLY,
| Monroe, La, Dec. 10, 1880. Arbitrator
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MERcMANT.s wIIARFnoAT AND
TRANSFER COMPANY
Reduced Rates of Storage.

Owing'to large increase of our capacity
for storing and handling Freights and Cot
ton, we beg leave to call your attention TO
our greatly reduced rates for Storage.
All freight consigned to the care of our
Mr.. w. p. REDwICK, Agent at Monroe, La,
or to Capt. Il. B. CRYER, at Trenton, La,
will be charged Storage at the rate of 10
20 days; for each succeeding 20 days, one
half the rate for the first 20 days will be
added. On flour, meal, potatoes. onions,
fruits, rice, beans. crackers, and all dry
barrels cents per barrel.
On pork. beef, macllerel, sugar, lime, &C.
ment, vinegar, krout, bacon and hams, and
all wet barrels, 71a cents per barrel.
Molasses, whisky, coal oil, Is cents per
barrel; bacon and sugar in casks 30 cents
will be charged in the same proportion.
For shipping cotton Is cents per bale.
FreightS consigned to our care to be for
warded by the Cryer Line of steamers to
Bayous Bartholomew, D'Arbonne and Sa-
| line river, will be stored free Of charge.
Through bills of lading will be given from
| st Louis to all landings on Bayous Bar
1 high as navigation, and to all landings
| the Ouachita river above Monroe as high as
| the mouth ofSaline river by w. B. Russell,
| Agent, via the Delta route to Monroe.
All freights consigned to us are t3aa1naded
| from the cars and steamboats, 4 nto oiiI
| warehouse and wharf-boat, there3S avoid
| ing the rough handling and ext Else Incl
| dental to drayage.
Our Mr.. RENWIcK will always be on hand
to give his personal attention to business
intrusted to orr care.
E. b. CRYER, PROPRIETOR
| w. +. RENwICK, Agent.
Monroe, La. May %, 1880. mss:
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MISCELLANEOUS

Epilepsy or Fits treated with wonderful
success, MS all cases carefully examined
and none taken but those offering good
prospects of curing.
Impotency, Spermatorrhea and Sexual
Debility, treated by medicine alone, has
heretofore proved useless and even injur |
ous.- They do no good, is the universal tes-
timony of all honest physicians. Thous- |
amos ana nave t ,0f Imese cop1aia nnS
their constitutions together, but the Doctor
combines medical treatment with electric
ity,the electricity being generated by a
simple electrical apparatus that any one can
use, and by these means insures success.
and the most prolific source of ili-health,
| cured by simple method, with little or no
| medicine.
without pain or exposure.
| Structure ofthe Urethra and Rectum cured
pain; rape Worm, Diseases Of the Kidneys.
| Bladder, Private Diseases. rheumatism,
Neuralgia. Nervous and Sick Headache,
without a surgical operation; Deafness,
Noise in the Ears, all Skin Diseases, Scrof-
fully full treated by improved remedies.
Letters of inquiry must be accompanied
with stamp for reply.
| N. B. No names made pu bic without the
| written consent of the parties.
The following names may be referred to:
NEW ORLEANS TESTIMONIALS.
Capt. MAX BLANCHARD, Piles.
JAS. WALLBII4LECH, Supt. Johnsen's
L. II. PATTERSON, Pilot Stmr. Pagan,
Piles.
MAX BEER, 1913 Canal street, Neuralgia.
Mrs. MILLER. corner Jackson and Lib
erty streets, Deaf.
e. DILL, Morgan Railroad, Tape Worm.
THOS. ROBINSON, 10 Cont street, Piles.
JACOB BLUM, Baronne street, Piles.
Capt. PHARR, Morgan City, Loss OF
Voice.
LEO wOLFSoN, Graphs Bluff, La. Piles
Col. w. ONEAL, Covington, Ky, Fistula
w. f. BROCK, Goodman, Miss, Piles.
il. SWIM, Main street, Cincinnati, Els
:, sure.
E. WOLF, Port Hickey, La, Piles.
BYRON EASTMAN, Mercer, Ky, Stric
d j. b. ROSS, Ben Lomond, Miss, Piles.
e JAS. ALDRICH, Covington, KY, Dia
g betes.
u A. F2EIDHEIM, Bastrop, La, Piles.
# S. j. GORDON, 1872 Walnut street, Gin
- | cinnati, Catarrh.
u J. T. HAWKINS, Mason, Tenn, Dis
j. charge from the Ear.
&c j. b. WILSON, Alton, KY. Epilepsy.
= G. ID. HICKERSON, Vicksburg, Miss.
j. II. WARREN, carrollton, Tenn, Bron
chitis.
Fl. SHIP, Owen, KY, .scrofula.
> Office hours from A. NJ. to p. NJ.
Dec. 3, 1SSO.-Sm.
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General Robert Toombs and Senator
Brown were on the point of fighting a
duel a few years ago. The challenge
was sent and accepted, but fortunately
the affair was compromised. It is
said that Mr.. Brown practiced
savagely in anticipation of the san
culinary event.
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HA"nUKG
HIGH SCHOOL,
ASHLEY COUNTY, ARK

L
This Institution, for both sezes after
recess for Christmas, will reopen on
Monday, january 10th, ISSI.
Six and quarter months of the school
yearyet remain. One hundred and twenty
five dollars in cash, or sight draft on New
Orleans, will pay all school expense. in the
house of the Principal, for this period, ex-
cept books and music tuition.
Our rolls go beyond $50. The school is in
a fine condition for study The village is
retired and healthy; the academy and
boarding house buildings and furniture are
all now. The teachers are all professional,
and board with the Proprietor.
We candidly believe that we can, and we
do, render better service TO boys and young
men under is or 20 years old, than all the,
colleges put together.
Pupils designing to enter can take a
onachita boat and stoplR Marie Saline
landing, and there find veyances any
day for Hamburg.
Is. c. u INNERLY,
December 81, 1sSoI Principal.
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Postmaster General Horace May
nard is the Republican candidate for
United States Senator from Tennessee.
If he fails to secure enough Democratic
votes to elect him, there is a posi-
bility of transfer of his strength to
Judge Key.
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It is said that Kate Claxton puts
snow on her neck when she plays the
ssTwo Orphans" to make her shiver.
We always supposed the other orphan
touched Kate with her bare foot to
make her shiver. A. woman's bare
foot beats snow by thirty Degrees
lLil,Oa,tkee Sun.
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Ladies, says the London Truth, Will
be glad to hear that the "huttered
frog" is the name of the last new
color it is rather lighter than
enlightened toad" or "angry mousse"
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seCari give my son college educa-
tion at home?'' says proud ard anx-
ious father. "Certainly," replies an
expert who knows all about it. ssAll
you want is Il base ball guide, a racing
shell, and few packages of cigar
attaS -
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KILLING THE DEMocRATIc PATTY.

1t was killed when John Adams
beat Jefferson in 1897.
1t was Killed in 1924, when Andrew
Jackson was defeated by the coalition
between the friends of John Quincy
Adams and Henry Clay.
1t was killed in 1910, by the tsHard
Cider Campaign" of Gen. Harrison.
1t was killed by the election of Abra-
ham Lincoln in 1860.
1t was killed by the re. election of
Lincoln inf1SG4.
It was killed by the election of
Grant in 1865.
1t was killed every dead" by the
reelection of Grant in 1872.
1t was killed by the tcounting out"
process in 1876.
1t was killed by the "counting inn
process in 1880.
It had a popular majority of the
South, and within small fraction Of
a popular majority in the North and
West in the election of 1880.
1t numbers over three millions O.
voters in the North and West, ant
nearly million in the South.
Its members cannot be bought or in
Observation-Disclosures faith is founded upor
the eternal principle of justice, libert,
and equality.
+ Long live the Democratic party
Monmouth (N. ~ Democrat.
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Estimate Of the Expenses of the
Parish of Ouachita for 1881:
MoNRoE, OuAcH1rA PARISH, LA.

MONROE, OuACHITA PARISH, LA.
December 6, 1880. J
To the President aud members of the
Police Jury of Ouachita parish.
Gentlemen I'VE, the undersigned
committee appointed to prepare an
estimate of expenses for the year 1881,
beg leave to call your attention to the
following statement
For expenses of courts and crimi-
nal prosecutions, comprising Sher-
1ttS fees, etc.,. 100000
Feeding prisoners 500. 90
Prisoners to per otentiary ............... 700. 90
Witness claims 250.00
District Attorney feeS....,.............. 200. 90
Salaries of Clerk of Police Jury...... =. 250.O0
a." Parish TreaSurer..... $50. 90
Justices of Peace........ ............... 200. GO
Constab 1900. 10000
Grand and Setit Jurors 1850. 90
Police Jurors $50. 90
Coroner and Coronors.. ,.............. 10000
Public ........... 100. 90
Roads and Bridgcs...... 100000
Printing $4,000
Charitable purposes 500. 90
Repairs on public buildings. .-... 25o.00
Miscellaneous expenses. ................. $4,000
Recommending the adoption of this
estimate ands.fs publication according
to law, we have the honor to be,
Very Respectfully,
U. MILISAPS,
a. ID. RUSSELL,
A. MYATT,
Committee.
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The Galveston News gives the, full
official vote of Texas as follows Han
cock 1856, 52s; Garfield 53,29s; Weaver
q, 4O5. Hancock over Garfield 1O3,-
$50. This puts Hancock ahead on the
popular vote some $4,000 or 10000.
The highest estimates of the Texas
majority heretofore have beeu $1,000.
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F.. WETZEL,
r r. WETZEL,
Dealer in all kinds of
HOUSEHOLD FURN URE,
coFFINs, COFFIN TRIMMINGS, &c.

Furniture repaired, or made to order, and
satisfaction guaranteed. All orders for
Furniture promptly attended to. Collins
supplied at short notice, with services OF
undertaken, if desired.
I have also on hand a full stock Of
Children's Carriages, which / offer for
sale at low prices.
store and shop on Grand street, opposite
McFee's drug store. An inspection of our
work and furniture is respectfully invited.
January i, 1880. 1y
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A young man should stick to his
principles until they are sure to stick
to him and are good.
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The Union loss during the war was
327, 1871 the Confederate nearly 2O9,-.
900. This is the recently verified
official account.
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1t is the who.e-so lled people who
make holidays worth remembering.
The haif-soled man is too thin for
Christmas.
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EDUCATIONAL.
r OUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY

r oUIsIANA STATE UNIVERSITY
AND MECHANICAL
COLLEGE.
rNTTE next session of this Institution begins
i October s, 1880, and closes July 5, 1881.
wM. PREs s4cTIr JOHNSTON.
President.
j. w. NICHOLSON,
Professor of Mathematics.
GEORGE S. THOMAS,
Professor of Ancient Languages.
l.. W. SEWELL,
Professor of Modern Languages.
II. s. MCCULLOCH,
Professor of Analytical Chemistry, Natural
Science and Physics, including
Astronomy.
j. II. RANDOLPH, JR.,
Instructor in Mechanical Engineering, in
Guiding workshop instruction
l.. W. CoNERLY,
Instructor in Scientific Agriculture and
Experimental Farming.
DIR. J. w. DUPREE,
Surgeon.
Professor of Military Science and Tactics,
and Commandant of Cadets.
A Boarding Derartme Mt has been ostab-
lished at the University, which is to be
Steward, elected by the Board of Super
visors. Students can also secure board and
lodging, if they so desire, with good families
living in Baton Rouge or vicinity, at from
$3.50 to SIS per month.
The monthly fees, payable quarterly in
advance, by each Cadet, shall be as fol-
lows:
Board S12 SO
Lodging and servants attendance....1 SO
Washing and mending. ..............2 OO
tuel ana lights. w
Medical attendance and medicines....2 0C
Total, per month .............. ........".S19 OC
Annual incidental fee, $40.
Prof. J. w. NICHOLSON, the Senior Pro-
| fessor of the Faculty, will act as President
| until one is elected.
| No distinctions shall be made between
Cadets, whether boarders in or out of the
| University.
Cadets shall be required to purchase theiI
| own text books, and provide themselve e:
with the uniform designated by the regula
| tionS.
| 1t is the intention of the Board to proceed
| immediately with the organization of tn,
| Agricultural and Mechanical department
To this end it has secured the services o
experienced and competent instructors.
For further information. address
| LEON JASTREMSIII,
| Nice-President Board of Supervisors.
| October 1850. yI6n5 3m
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Commodore Garrison estimates Will
liam II. Vande5ilt's wealth at one hun
dred and twenty million dollars.
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STEAM sAw-MrLL.


Having purchased the interest OF the sue
cession of H. NJ. Bry, deceased, the under
signed. of the late firm of Bry IL Muir, be-
comes sole proprietor of the Monroe City
Steam Saw and Planning Mill, and will
continue it in active Notwithstanding
lumber, pine or cypress, planning, making
shingles, &c, to pc furnished, on short
notice. in any quantities desired. a large
lot of superior, timber, both pine and
cypress, on hand. Prices to suit the times.
Address orders to j. X. MUIR,
Z. o. Box ST.
Monroe, September, 20, 1850.
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Modesty cannot be expected in a
circus manager. His business COM
pels him to travel in a horse-t cntta-
tiouS manner.
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healed forever. Next to a Southern
Slave Confcderacy, he believes free
Union the best government for the
Republic. a. K. M.
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Bowdoin College has struck Bon
ANA. Millionaire Mackey will give it
$50, 900 for the endowment of schol-
ship
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THE CORNER SALOON.

CORNER DESIARD AND ST. JOHN STS.,
MONROE, LA.
The undersigned, having opened a new
and elegantly furnished saloon in Monroe
respectfully solicits n liberal share of pub
lie patronage. Every attention will be
given by polite and experienced bar
keeper. Imported and domestic Wines,
Liquors and Cigars kept constantly on
hand.
Two elegant billiard tables in the Saloon,
kept for the amusement of guests.
#@# All kinds of MIXED DRINKs, in season
a specially. NJ. l.. DlGDMAN,
Jan. 1, 1880. Proprietor.
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FULL INSTRUCTION BY AN ABLE
and experienced faculty in the usual
collegiate studies. Cadets viii have choice
cultural and Mechanical. No tuition fee is
charged. There is an annual fee of five dol
lars. Total charges for board, etc, in the
University, nineteen dollars per month.
Cadets, upon entering the University,
before being assigned to quarters or classes
and every three months thereafter, shall
for three months fees in advance. Cadets
shall be required to purchase their own
with uniform and underclothing.
For further information address,
VIM. PRESTON JOHNSTON,~
Baton Rouge, La. President.
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GRAND STREET, MONROE, LA.

Flour, Meal, Pork, Oats, Corn, Bran,
Hay, Wagons, Lime, Cement, Coal, &c !,
kept constantly on hand for sale.
Orders for all kinds of merchandise filled
at Manufacturers prices.
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d. Il. aUNBY.
IT. PURCELL.

IT. PURCELL. ID. II. aUNBY.
DURCELL s. GUNBY,
Produce Dealers and manufacturers
Agents,
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MISCELLANEOUS.
LoJISIAN "a
STATE UNIVERSITY
Agricultural s. Mechanical College,

Tho nextlsession OF this INSTITUTED
JANUARY 8, 1881, and closes, JULY A, 1sy
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THE NAN WITHOUT a COUNTRY.
A VISIT to the Ex-Confedcrate Execu-
tive-IIis Appearance and Philoso-
phical Temperament.
itorial Corr. Philadelphia Times. ]

[Editorial Corr. Philadelphia Times.]
MIssIssIPPI CRY, Miss, Dec 10th.
write on the open veranda of the
summer hotel that consti-
tntes the most of the city. Beyond the
bar-room across the way, bearing the
inviting title of the ssDew-d drop, /" and
the little warehouse aud station, the
hotel is guiltless of tenementassoc
but the air is balmy asa Northern
summer morning the roses we well
come in June are in full bloom along
the broken fence that once made an
enclosure about this resort of fugutives
from yellow Jack when he sways his
deadly sceptre in the Crescent City,
and the LATEST content prevails among
man and beast without regard to race
or previous condition of servitude. /
have learned to look with contempt
upon my thick travelling blanket and
the well-lined overshoes buckled with
I in. They seemed to be quite superfiu-
( Gus luggage last night when, after a
long, hot evening, the lightning and
the tempest danced the racquet with a
running accompaniment of young
earthquakes; but they may grow in
favor as journey back toward the
Pennsylvania mountains.
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Professor of Military Science and Tactics
and Comrnandant of Cadets.
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Union. lie answered that he had no
such intimation from any source, but
that ifsuch proposition had been made,
he could not have entertained it as the
executive of the Confederacy. He said
that he was the sworn executive of a
Government founded on the rights of
the States that slavery was distinctly
declared to be exclusively a State
Institution, and that such an issue
could have been decided only by the
independent assent of each State. Some
of them, he added, would have accented
such terms at that time, but others
would have declined it, and peace was,
therefore, impossible on that basis.
DAVIS HOPEFUL OF THE SOUTH.
/ Mr.. Davis discussed the present at
i itude and future prospects of the
South with manifest interest and great
candor. While he is not and cannot
be factor in attaining any desired
political results for the South, he
shares the hopes expressed by the
great mass of the more Intelligent
Southern people, thatall the difficult
problems will yet be wisely solved by
gradual advancement and final har-
mony of races and sections. He was
unreserved in expressing the belief
that a civil.service in the South that
would ensure fidelity to government
and people, could not fail to end parti-
san or sectional issues between the
South and the Garfield administration,
and unite both North and South in
the promotion of the material inter
ests of the whole country. His dis
cnssion of the relations of the two Sec
tions under the present political aspect,
was thoroughly philosophical and
statesmanlike, and while he Will re-
} main the one adjudged stranger TO the
Republic, he hopes yet to see the
South prosperous in common with a
prosperous North, and the scars of war
, and the bitterness OF sectional dispute
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-11-19
STATE ITEMS.

Track laying on the Georgia Pacific
railway was begun yesterday in Atlanta,
General J. b. GORDOS, the president OF the
road, driving the first spike.
The wife of J. Steinmetz, residing near
Hanover, Lehish county, was seized with
fit and falling upon her two year old
chilG, killed it instantly.
The International Labor association at
Pittsburgh adopted resolutions in favor of
the absolute prohibition of Chinese immi-
grafton also, inviting all the coal miners
of the United States and Canada to or.
ganize unions for the purpose of forming
an international union. The congress
adjourned, to meet in Cleveland next
year.
About three o'clock yesterday morning
some villains attempted to blow up the
house of MIR. Merkle, a prominent coal
operator, at Minersville in Schuykill
county. A large can ofdualin powder was
placed Oh one Of the parlor windows and
exploded bya fuse. The lower portion of
the house was torn out, but the occupants
escaped injury.
In Pottsvllc, Mrs. Thomas Danbcrt,
aged twenty eight, mother of three chill
dren, was burned to death in the cellar of
her house. While going up stairs and
carrying a coal oil lamp she fell and the
lamp broke. Her clothing took fire in an
instant She ran into the cellar, She
fell to the floor, where she was found by
neighbors attracted by her screams.
Katie Hempele, of Reading, not quite
twelve years of age, employed at Jack
sons rope walks, was feeding a machine,
when her dress caught in an endless chain
and all her skirts were pulled off and torn
into shreds, On the endless chain we're
hundreds Of long sharp needless, which
tore her garments aud punctured her
right side and right leg down to the knee,
penetrating to the bone, causing excru-
ciating pain and a severe shock to the
system.
Mrs. G. ii. Moorhead, wife of the cx
cashier Of the Oil City trust company's
bank, has instituted proceedings for a
divorce. A few months ago Moorhcad
was found to have embezzled about Sl4,
600, from the bank !; his wife clung to him
and through the instrumentality of friends
Moorhead was kept out of the peniten-
tiary. At the time he claimed that the
money had boen lost in the Oil Exchange,
but the story was not credited aud it has
since been learned that he spent large
sums in dissipation.