Sacramento daily record-union., 1881-09-30
cRIHE IN PARIS.

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Assasslnatlons We're never as numerous
| as they now are, and as for attempts to rob
with violence, they are perpetrated even
III emnibuses. immortality has become sin.
gularly gross. The Palais Royal has be.
come almost the great Rialto of viceit was
before 1880. Girls of u and Is wears ara
there in numbers plying an infamous 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 to bring OF a re.
action, which will confde power to
sword. The general elections win produce
great excitement. A shop.keeper said to
me day or two since I" As soon as the
canvass begins will sell nothing; people
will do nothing but drink no work win
be done no money will be made" Ice
dealers, however, cannot complain that the
season has been stagDant for them, the sale
of ice this month having exceeded in Paris
alone $4,000 tons Cafe Anglaisa, Cafe
Richie Cafe Foy, Maison Dore and Vachette
bought each ton of ice daily, and there
was scarcely single cafe or restaurant
which did not buy 300 to 400 pounds every
day. More ice would probably have been
sold had not the revelations of the policies
chemists checked the sale of beer. The
chemists declared that every sample of
beer analyzed by them was unwholesome
from authorizations of all sorts, so few peo-
pie were bold enough to pour such poison
down their throats. The drought 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 young clerks were
playing billiards in q cafe of Boulevard st.
German, and talked freely of their co.,
Germs without needing man who seemed
asleep at an adjoining table, One of them
said to the other: +" have jast inherited
s400." sOh then we are going to have a
jolly time of it" "No no! | will not
touch one cent of that money. II is still
in my lodgings, safely hidden in chest of
drawers under my shirts. Tomorrow l
am going to 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, he who had inherited
$500, found that his had been taken, prob
ably by the sleeper, and another left in its
place. As the hat left was Just as good as
the hat taken, and as the former fitted him
quite as well, he bore the exchange philo-
sophically and logged home. He had no
sooner entered his lodgings than he
saw they had been entered with false
keys and 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, SO he went to
his halter TO change it. His halter told
him that the evening before man had
come into the shop, and had said that he
inadvertently taken a gentleman's hat,
and seeing the hatter's name inside, 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 ad-
dress. The burglar secured S400 by the
information given. The burglars hat was
left with the halter, and new hat Sc.
lected. After the clerk left, the halter
took out the lining of the burglars hat and
to his surprise found under it letter,
bearing an address. He read it. and found
contem plated burglary which had been
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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 Stras-
burg bank was surprised to find, on open
ing a registered letter from Schlestadt,
which he was advised contained 81 600,
held only waste paper. He at once sum-
moned the police, who on examining the
waste paper, found it came from a Paris
newspaper. Continuing their investiga-
tions they found that the person who had
sent the registered letter was subscriber
to the Paris newspaper A newspaper Of
the same date as that from which the cut
tings had been taken was procured, and it
was found that the collection of the sub
scriber (who fled the paperl lacked the
newspaper of that date. Evidently the
thief was in the sender's house. All per.
sons in it were watched and inquiries as
to their character made. It was found
that an apprentice had asked his master
the day after the theft had been COM
mitted, leave of absence, to assist his
parents, who lived in a village some dis
tance off, and that he had not gone there
but had taken a different direction. The
telegraph was used to order his arrest Just
as he was crossing the frontier; the 81 900
was found on MIN and he confessed his
crime.
Countess Branicka and Countess Ozark
took few evenings since coach of the
Northern Railway for their exclusive use
When they reached Charleroi they found
that their two satchels had disappeared
When? where? how? They could not
answer. All they could say was that their
satcheis contained seven. row pearl neck
lace, six gold bracelets set with rubies,
sapphires and emeralds, $4,000 in gold and
bank notes, prayer book and two pass
ports, the whole worth between $50, 900
and Sl20 600. The police are all out try
ing to discover the thieves who made off
with such rich booty Paris Cor. New
Orleans Picayune.