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Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-03-10
BANKING FRAUDS.
ARREST OF A. DIRECTOR.


The Extent Of tho Mississippi Floods and Re
suIting Suffering.
A deficiency of s7O,0OO has been dis
covered in the accounts of the Fourth
national bank, in Nassau street, New
York, corner of Pine, and official notifica-
ton to that effect has been transmitted to
the comptroller of the currency. The vice
president of the institution yesterday
stated that last Friday, while making an
examination of the securities in possession
of the bank, he missed a number of bonds
and other securities. The clerk in charge
of the loan department was Mr.. r. H.
Cornwall. He had been at his desk that
day, but left at noon on account of sick
ness. On discovering the deficiency a
telegram was sent to Cornwall asking
where the securities were. A reply was
received indicating correctly where the
securities ought to be, but, as they were
not in the proper place, letter was sent
asking for an explanation. A reply was
received from Cornwall, requesting that an
officer of the bank visit him. Accordingly
the cashier, Mr.. Anthony Land, went to
Plainfield, n. J. where Cornwall lives,
and had an interview with him, in the
course of which he confessed to
having hypothecated the securities.
An examination revealed that for
three months past lie has been hy-
pothecating securities, with whom the
officers of the bank will not state, but as
it was admitted that Cornwall had prob
ably been indulging in speculation, the
property no doubt went into the hands OF
brokers as margins. Cornwall took about
| SAC, 900 worth Of miscellaneous securities,
comprising New York City, Union Pacific
and Lake Shore bonds, &C., but by mani
pulation or other securities he has caused
| further loss to the bank of $50, 900,
making total of $4,000. The bank has
been able to secure the return of the Sc
| curities, but is obliged to shoulder tn e
loss, which it is thoroughly able to sus-
tain. In the statement of its condition of
January /, 1882, it is shown that the
capital stock is So, zoo, 900 the deposits
(net) SIT, ,424, ,6S9. Al, and the surplus and
profits 81, 161 ,82225. Cornwall is sixty
five years old, and lives at Plainfield, NJ.
He has eight children, several of whom
are married. He has been seven years in
the service of the bank. He started in
business as q clerk in the house of Geas,
Robbins & Laws, bankers, but before en-
tering the bank had been in business fol
himself.
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a SERIOUS CHARGE.
Another Arrest Growing Out OF the Newark
Bank IrOObles.

Another Arrest Growing Out OF the Newark
Bank Troubles.
Director H. Condict, of the Mechanics
national bank, Newark, has been arrested
on a civil suit brought by Receiver Fre-
linghuysen. The arrest was made on a
writ of ne exeat issued by United States,
Judge Nixon, the bail being fixed at $3.50,
600. The affidavit on which the arrest
was based was made by Director James F.
Bond, who states that Condict told
him of the confession of Cashier Baldwin
on the 30th of October last. The affidavit
set forth the proposition Of the directors
and Condict's subscription of $3.50, 900 to
renew the bank also the fact that in
November last Condict told him that his
subscription was half his property that
Condict recently withdrew his subscrip.
ton, saying it would leave him penniless.
Mr. Bond says that he had ample means
of knowing Condict's means and be-
lieves him to have been worth
over 100000, and he believes that
that if the payment of @250, $50 would
leave him penniless, he has disposed OF
his property to evade his responsibility as
an officer of the bank. There is also an
affidavit by Receiver Frelinghuysen set,
ting fo.th that Condict had knowledge OF
the situation of tho bank and concealed it
from the other directors, and that the loss
to the bank after his knowledge was ac-
quired was 500, 600; that he obtained
payment of notes on Nugent & Co., held by
himself; that he allowed dividends OF
fourteen per cent. to be declared that
had not been earned that he sold 24s
shares Of stock at high prices that he was
an active director and was relied on by the
others, and that he was responsible for all
the losses of the bank after he became
aware of the abstraction of the funds by
the cashier and failed to inform tho Other
directors. The receiver also alleges that
Condict has disposed of part of his prop
erty to evade his liability.
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COU0C10O uaS0 LakoU TeIuX6 IN the
hills to the east, and. thus have their
immediate wants provided for through
such local aid as can be furnished. No
reports of desitution have been received
from Sharkey and Issaquera counties, on
the river front, this side of Vicksburg and
probably no aid will be needed there, as
the levees are still safe. From Tunica
county down to Greenville, in Washing
ton county, the levees are broken in many
places and people are compelled to seek
refuge in such buildings as are standing
on the levees, wherever possible to reach
them. Plantations are entirely SUBJ
merged and the only communication in
most cases is by means of skiffs. With
the one hundred thousand rations already
sent, tho SO, 600 now on tho way from St.
Louis, and with the local aid furnished by
the state of Mississippi. the destitution
in my district can be provided for
until the Goth instant. Everything
shows that i. the destitution must
be cared for at least thirty days
from this date, which will require an ad.
ditional 20 days rations for 1S, 900 persons,
making total Of $50, 900 rations. The ra-
tions should consist of meat and cornmeal
nothing else. Many planters say it will
be five or six weeks before any work can
be done in the overflowed district others
say not before the first of May. But just
as soon as work can be commenced would
advise that the issue of rations cease.
General Hemingway's distribution of the
rations is systematic and effective. He
has shipped to well known and respon-
sible parties in the overflowed district in
Mississippi with a careful discrimination
that none but those absolutely deserving
shall receive succor. leave in TWO hours
for the overflowed section. If possible
will report further as soon as can make
personal inspection.
"Very respectfully.
~. NJ. LEE,
"Captain 9th Infantry"
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THE FLOODS.
Water Covering Long Distances of Railroa,
Track.

Water Covering Long Distances of RAILROAD
Track.
A gentleman.who arrived from Edmond
sons station, seventeen miles from Mem
phis, on tho Little Rock railroad, reports
the water at that place over the flat cars
standing on the track. Two engines of
the company were caught there by the
rapid rising Of the back water, and it is
now up to the cabs of tue engines. People
have to 20 in and out of their dwellings,
through windows in the second story, as
the water covers everything there to a
depth Of from four to eleven feet. The
railroad track is covered with water from
Riceville to Madison, a distance of twenty
nine miles. Eight miles of track are eaflOar,
and the telegraph wires are down
nearly the entire distance between Ed
mondscn and Madison. At Blackfish the
water is five inches above the saloon coun-
ter in the eating house. There is a small
house there with second story and about
thirty people are congregated in it, SUBJ
sisting as best they can. Some few have
built RATS, and are living on these floating
dwellings,. The gentleman came all the
way from Edmondson to Memphis in a
dug out. The country intervening if filled
with the carcases of dead animals that
were caught by the water and drowned.
Official Report TO the War Department.
Secretary Lincoln has received the fol.
lowing telegraphic report from Captain
Lee, in regard to the damage and suffering
caused by the flood in that portion of the
overfowed district lying within the state
of Mississippi:
"MEMPHIs, Tenn, March 9.-To Hon.
Secretary of War, Washington Under
instructions of General Beckwith, assign
ing me to the overflo wed district in tho
state of Mississippi, arrived here this
morning. have conferred with General
Hemingway, the agent for the state Of
Mississippi for forwarding supplies to the
sufferers, and have conversed with a num-
Der of planters just from the overflowed
district, and have also read letters from
persons now there. From the information
thus received, am satisfied that this over
flow is the most disastrous and widespread
that has ever occurred, and the result
ing destitution is cOrrespondingly great.
My information will pertain exclu.
sively to the counties in the state of
Mississippi lying between Memphis and
Vicksburg, fronting on the river, and the
tier of counties just back Of those. All
these counties are wholly or partially over
flowed, the water breaking through the
levees. running back over the low basin and
coming again to the Mississippi through
the Yazoo river. The very lowest esti-
mate as to the number of destitute is
placed at 1S, 900, distributed as follows
Tunica county, $500; Coahoma, 5000 ;
Bolivar, 6,0OO &; Washington, 800 Quit.
man county, 1000. As yet no demands
have been received from the counties of
Sunfower, LAHORE and Tallahatchie, lying
back of the river counties, but as these
are inundated, applications for assistance
may be received at any moment, or as
soon as it is possible to commu-
nicate. Many persons from these back
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TIE Erominer's appreciation of civil
service reform as exemplified in the elec-
tion Of Fred Miller, as watshman at the
prison, is only equalled by the same news
papers depreciation of bosses and boss.
ism. These symptoms of the political
millennium are not any more significant
than the heroic efforts of Levi Sensenig
and J. W. johnson to reform the poll
tics of this county by committee of p
persons selected from their cronies,
Altogether, Reform is too utterly on
top.
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John Healy, deputy United States mar
shall, having arrested several illicit traders
and captured their goods, in the Milk river
region, in Montana, was himself taken
prisoner by the Indians, and is held in their
camp. General Ruger, commanding at
Fort Assineboine, has sent force Of in
fantry aud cavalry, numbering 400 men. to
the scene of trouble, not only to rescue
Hcaly, but to drive the half-bIeeds and
Creek Indians back into Canada, whence
they came.
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A Cruel Father.

Charges of terrible cruelty are made
against John Bennett, farmer at Johns
town, n. 7. 1t is alleged that he has
mercilessly beaten his four-year-old daugh.
ter, after throwing her, naked, into a
snow bank and plunged her into cistern,
confined her, without food, in a cold room.
When found she eat SO ravenously that a
physician stopped further supplies. Ben
nett has fled, and his neighbors threaten to
lynch him if they find him.
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cations with which judges are pestered. It
is said Judge Butler, of West Chester, put
al end to the importunacy Of parties who
tried to reach his ear outside the court by
taking into court and having there read
aloud the communications written to him
by oficious and impertirent people. That
settled it.
1GNATICs DONNELLY, once an untamed
congressman from Minnesota, has pub
lished big book to prove his theory that
there once existed in the Atlantic ocean,
opposite the mouth of the Mediterranean,
large island, which was the remnant of
an Atlantic continent and known to the
ancient world as Atlantis, which was tie
region where man first rose to civilization
and whence America, as we'll as Europe,
Africa and Asia, was populated by civ
ilized nations. This was "the true alte.
diluvian world" and the description Of
Atlantis given by Plato was not fable. but
history. The gods and goddesses of the
ancient Greeks, Hindoos and Scandinav-
ians were but the kings, queens and heroes
of Atlantis the mythology Of Egypt and
Peru represented its original religion.
The Ph@nician alphabet, and also that of
the Mayas of Central America, came from
Atlantis, which was the original seat of
the Aryan family, as we'll rs the Semitic
and possibly of the Turanian reces. The
island perished in a terrible convulsion of
nature, "but a few persons escaped in
ships and on rafts, and carried to the
nations east and west the tidings of the
appalling catastrophe, which has survived
to our own time in the Flood and Deluge
legends Of the different nations of tho Old
and New WOrlds.''
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Bold Thieves.

An attempt was made early yesterday
morning to rob the jewelry store of Frank
Tice, in Fulton street, Brooklyn. Mr..
Tice discovered three men at work ON his
safe, and began firing at them, when they
escaped, leaving behind them the frame of
dummy safe and a fine set of burglar
tools.
The residence Of H. Sellers Mckee, in
Allegheny, was entered on Tuesday even.
ing while the family were at supper, and
jewelry and clothing to the amount of
over 1000 secured. There is no clue to
the thieves, who are presumed to be pro-
fessionals from tho adroit manner. In which
the robbery was committed.
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PERSONAL.

Ihe Lord Mayor OF London still rides
to royal receptions in a gilded chariot,
with coachmen and footmau in powdered
wigs and gorgeous liveries.
1t is denied that Senator HILL, Of Geor-
gia, now suffering from cancerous affec-
ton of the mouth and throat, is in any
immediate Or special danger.
Congressman DUGRo, OF New York, aud
his wife are the youngest couple among
congressional families, he being only
tweaty-six and she several years younger.
The papers in the FL1pPER court mar.
tial case were submitted yesterday to the
secretary of war. 1t is believed the SEN
tence will be mitigated to light punish
ment.
Miss FRELISGHUYsEN, smart but not
pretty, superintends the setting of the
table at all these fine dinners given IN the
White House. Arthur will not save as
much money as Hayes, but he will 90 out
Of Office with more friends.
Some one has been authentically in
formed that it was Mr.. COMBINES desire
to resume the practice Of his profession,
that lie had permanently retired from
politics and wanted no political position of
any kin d.
Miss EENIE DEsCAMPT, better known as
VES1E CLAScEY, the talented young ac-
tress and vocalist, died in Santa Barbara,
Lower California, and not in Florida as
has been previously published. Her funeral
will take place in Baltimore on Monday.
By mistake the telegram of March 9
from Secretary FRELINGHUYsEM to Minis
ter Lowell was given to the New York as
sociated press with the words "for the
deed" omitted. The dispatch as sent,
and as published in the Washington Sta,
Of March 3, is correct and reads: "The
feeling Of indignation for the decd and
thankfulness for the queens safety is deep
and universal"
Whom PATTI demanded $1,000 for each
concert from Manager J. Y. Haverly, he
remarked that it would be equivalent to
$50, 1000 a month, and remarked, soto
voce !: Tho president of the United
States works year for that amount" "
"Well," responded the diva. promptly.
get tho president to sing for you" AS
President Arthur sings a good bass the
suggestion wasn't so far out of the way.
SoJoURNER Truth writes from Battle
Creek. Michigan, in reference to recent
published paragraphs of her having a fine
home, and her having made a will, etc.
She says she has made no will, owns nc
farm, but has a small house encountered
| by mortgage, and has no income but
what she derives from the narrative of hel
life and sale of her photograph, which she
hopes. and We hope. her friends will buy
to help her along in this one-hundred. and
seventh year of her stay Oh earth.
The new house which Mr.. SAMUEL
TILDEN is building on the site of his for
mer mansion, Is Gramercy Park, will be
one Of the costliest on Manhattan island
the estimates running all the way from
$500, 900 to 5000, ,OOO The materials uset
arc Scotch red sandstone, Bellevue
brownstone and Maine granite. The
whole front of the house is one mass OF
elaborate carving, wherever the Carlisle
stone is used, and upon this part of tht
work no fewer than forty men have beer
employed for several months The style
is mixed Gothic and Renaissance.
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crimes punished, fair trial by jury for al!
classes secured, and sound morality te
promoted.
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SOME RECENT DISAsTEUS.
Losses of Lite and Property.

Losses Of Life and Property.
4 dwelling occupied by Mrs. Henbach,
at Lachine, Quebec, was burned yesterday.
The loss is $40, 600.
II. ID. Crandalls furniture factory at
COhoes, N. Y. was damaged by fire yes
terday to the amount of 1000; no insur.
ance.
The store rooms and varnish-rooms of
the chair factory of Arnold s. Co., of
Pougbkeepsie, n. Y, wero burned last
night, causing a loss of 10000
Calvin church at Fredericton, n. b.,
was completely destroyed by fire last
night, which is supposed to have originated
from the furnace. Loss, $4,000
William Brown has been arrested in
Orange county, North Caralina, for at
tempting to burn the Orange cotton fac
tory in revenge for dispute with its
prophet tor.
One child has died and three persons
are sick of a mysterious disease in one
house, in Winchester, Massachusetts,. A
consultation of physicians, held on Wed.
nesday, resulted in the decision that those
now sick have the cerebro-spinal menin-
gifts, but no conclusion was reached re.
garding the child.
The remains of John Glover, buried to
the depth Of twenty five feet by the cav ing
in Of we'll near Peoria, ILL.,, in which he
was working, were reached after workmen
had beon engaged over "a hours in remov.
ing the earth. The body was found in a
sitting posture.
Two of Napoleon Bonaparte's old sol.
diers died in this country yesterday
Christian Shaefer at Mineral Point, Wis,
and Nicholas Remy at Ottumwa, Iowa.
The first was personally acquainted with
Napoleon, and fought at Waterloo. The
other served in this country in the war OF
1912, and also in the war Of tho rebellion.
Tho Stress of Weather.
The severest snow storm of the season
in the Northwest prevailed yesterday and
last night, interrupting railroad travel.
At Milwaukee the wind reached the We
locity of Al miles an hour. Four inches OF
snow fell in Northern Texas On Wednes,
day, and snow fell in Pike county, Pa,
yesterday morning.
The first steamboat of the season from
New York arrived at Troy yesterday
morning. Navigation on tho Hudson j!
opened two weeks earlier than usual.
A hurricane at Fort Wayne, Ind, yes
terday destroyed a new frame house. ant
blew down several smaller ones. Three
men were severely injured.
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By vote of nearly two to one the Sen
ate yesterday passed the bill to prohibit
the incoming of Chinese labor.
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Pittsburgh and unanimously resolved to
advance prices 8 to 5 per cent, according
to the quality OF the goods.
THE NeU Era praises Prison Inspectors
Bitter and Weaver for helping to elect
MUIR underkeeper at the prison, and the
Examiner responds with equal commenda-
tion Of them for electing Fred Miller
watchman. This is not half SO interesting
as if tho Ne1 Era would tell what it thinks
about their votes for Miller or if tho Err
aminer would let US have its views on
their vote, for MUIR.
ISAAC BURR, who died in New York in
1857, left widow, three daughters and q
five acre farm. But as the farm was on
Fifth avenue it has SO enhanced iu value
that when his daughter died the other day
the accumulated estates of herself and
sisters amounted to three million dollars,
most of which goes to charities, the
American Bible society and Episcopal
church boards getting the largest slices.
In reply to an anonymous letter about q
country tavern, and for the benefit of the
public generally, Judge Livingston makes
it known through the Examiner that he
does "not, nor does the court, notice
anonymous letters. nor act upon them"
He wishes no more of them aud though he
gets many his waste basket also gets
them promptly. This is an excellent reso.
luton and might perhaps be proftably ex.
tended to other than anonymous commuui
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Ir is Bell Ringers VS.. Bull Ringers at
the county prison now and the pealing of
the bell browns the believing of the bulls.
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