Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1881-10-27

AsSasSlnatlOnS were never as numerous
as they now ere, and, as for attempts
TO rob with Violence, they are perpetrateC
even in omnibuses. immortality has be
come singularly gross. The Palals Roya
has become almost the great Ratio of vice
it was before 1880. Girls Of ~ and Il
years are there in numbers plying an in
famous trade TO enrich monsters who drive
them on the street The insolence of the
lower classes is intolerable, especially to
priests and nuns. All this, is going tC
bring on a reaction, which will confide
power TO a sword. The general elections
will produce "a great excitement, A shop
keeper said 10 me n day or two ago: "As
soon as the canyass begins / Will sell no.
thing but drink NO work will be done; no
money will be made" Ice-dealers, how
ever, cannot complain that the season has
been stagnant for them, the sale of ice this
month having exceeded In Paris alone
ZOO tons; Cafe Anglaise, Cafe Richie,
Cafe Foy, Maison Doree, Vachette bought
each a ton of ice daily, and there was
scarcely cafe or restaurant which did not
buy three hundred to 400 pounds Of ice
every day. More ice would probably have
been sold had not the revelations of the
pohce's chemists checked the sale of beer.
The chemists declared that every sample
of beer analyzed by them was unwhole
some from adulterations of all sorts, SO
few people were bold enough to pour
such poison down their throats. The drouth
has made itself felt in other ways than the
sale of ice. Our vegetables have been
scarce and of poor quality, and so small
that they seemed dwarfs; they have been,
and are, very dear.
The other night two ; ing clerks were
playing billiards in a cafe Of Boulevard St.
German, and talked freely of their con-
Germs without needing "A man who seemed
to be asleep at an adjoining table. One of
them said 'I have just inherited $400.
Ion, then, We are going TO have jolly
time of it." ''No, no! 1 will net touch
one cent of that money. 1t is still in nv
lodgings, safely hidden in chest of draw
ers under my shirts. Tomorrow ! am
going 10 carry it TO stock broker and buy
threes." A few minutes afterward the
sleeping man woke, rose, took his hat and
went out. An hour afterwards the clerks
paid for what they had taken, took their
hats one of them, Lie vino had inherited
$4OO, found that his hat had been taken,
probably by the sleeper, and another left
in its place. as the hal left was Just as
good as the hat taken, and as the former
fitted quite as well, he bore the exchange
philosophically and logged home, He lad
no sooner entered his lodgings than he saw
they had been entered with false KEYS, his
chest of drawers broken open and his $400
stolen. He did not sleep that night The
hat left him did not altogether suit HIM,
50 he went TO his halter TO change 1t. His
halter told him that the evening before
man had come into the shop and had said
that he had called, thinking the halter
might be able to give him the owners
name and address that he might restore the
hat accidentally taken. The halter gave
the name and address. The burglar secur-
ed $400 by the information given. The
burglars hat was left with the halter, and
a new hat selected. After the clerk left
the halter took out the Inning of the burg
lars hat and TO bis surprise found under it
letter, bearing an address. He read it,
and found it was from a burglar, promis-
ing aid in contemplated burglary which
had been planned by the person 10 whom
the letter was addressed. The halter took
the letter to the police and told what had
occurred. Before sunset both burglars
were arrested.
A few days since the cashier OF a Stras-
burg bank was surprised to find, on open
ing a registered letter from Scblestadt,
which he was advised contained $1,000, that
it held only waste paper. He at once sum,
moned the police, WHO, on examining the
waste paper, found it came from Paris
newspaper. Continuing their investigation
they found that the person who had sent
the registered letter was a subscriber to the
Paris newspaper. A newspaper of the
same date as that from winch the cuttings
had been taken was procured, 1t was found
that the collection of the subscriber (who
filed the paper), lacked the newspaper of
that date. Evidently the thief was in the
sender's house. All persons in it were
watched and inquiries as to their character
made. 1t was found that an apprentice
had asked his master the day after the
theft had been committed, leave of absence,
to assist his parents, who lived in a village
some distance off. and that he had not
gone there but had taken different direc-
tion. The telegraph was used to order his
arrest just as he was crossing the frontier /;
the $1,000 was found on him and he con-
fes5ed his crime
Countess Branicka and Countess Ozark
took few evenings since a coach of the
Northern railway for their exclusive use.
When they reached Charleroi they found
that their two satchels had disappeared.
Whenl where how2 They could not
answer. All they could say was that their
satchels contained a seven row pearl neck
lace, six gold bracelets set with rubies,
sapphires and emeralds, So, 900 IN gold and
bank notes, prayer book and two pass
ports, the whole worth between $50, 900
and $l20, 900. The police are all out try
ing to discover the thieves who made of
with such rich booty.