The Arkansaw traveler., 1883-09-15
3ALVE CASE IN COURT.
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 The San is informed that there is ease about 10 be begun in the United States court here that will be of national importance. IL will be test case to de- side whether an Gngrateful man can ap- propriate the brains of another without tenderr an equivalent. It seems that Hr. Frank Parmlee. the Chicago omnibus hne proprietor, is the diseoverer of kind sf salve which has been gradually work ng its way into popular for years. It is called the " Omnibus Salve," Mir. Farm lee desiring to give il a name that would do honor to the branch of business by which he has made d fortune. The salve has been used in the best families of Chi ago, and MT. farmee will bring into court as witnesses to the fidelity of the ,alve many prominent citizens, such as George NJ. Pullman, Potter Palmer, the sarwells, the Letters, and many hotel nen, including Mir. Drake, Mir. Turner, Mir. Rice, and others. The case is said to be against Colonel Johnson. who keeps she railroad hotel at the St. Paul depot m this city, and is in the nature of breach of trust. We get the particulars rom Honorable Richard Somers, steward of the P.ankinton House, who is friend oi both parties. ostensibly, though he tells some pretty hard stories on Colonel johnson. It appears that the colonel was m Chicago not long since and pu, in an sYening with Mir. Farmlee and q lot of those old Chicago apostles, and when the game broke up-that is, hguratively speaking-w when the hour arrived al which | vas necessary to -eash the chips" Shich IS Chicago apostolic method of expressing the idea of going to bed. the colonel was not feeling as we'll as could De expected. He was not enjoying that degree of hilarious conversation for which he IS noted when he is holding good hands" That is another term used by Chicago apostles to denote the posses son of plenttude of this worlds goods, which have a financial bearing on the question at issue. denoting whether it is slse to " help the blind." or remain passive spectator and allow the poor blind to help itself Helping the blind $ a practice that Chicago apostles are noted for, and there are perhaps no more charitable people to the blind on this earth than the hulying. restless citizens at that great beehive ot human industry aur informant does not state whether the colonel claimed salvage. or whether he ,u, in claim tha, there had been any hing wrong in the manner in which he had been reduced from atiluence. Tn an mguarded moment. through the seduc- i've influences of the unreliable. If no, positively deceitful bob-tail flush. though the habit MT. Parmlee has ol holding his lands below the table when dealing. and vettlng his thumb with his tongue. has given rise to grave suspicion. in some ot He best Chicago society, that he deals hom the bottom, but his trained features oeser show the least indication that guile turks there, though Mir. Somers says he Sill bear as much watching as any man n hlcago. Anyway. when 1t was seen. sha, the colonel's feelings were wounded, Mir. E.nmlee. in the kindness ofhis heart, shoh was overfowing from the fact that he had succeeded in bluffing on a pair of aeuces, gave the colonel box of the omnibus salve. The colonel thanked him m few well chosen remarks. and shey parted. and none who saw the friendly parting would ever suppose that either would ever betray the other. but M thls world of sin the bes, man Is liable 10 go selling salve. IL IS alleged that the colonel brough, ,he salve home, and a, once proceeded to put up some kind of an ointment used AS d sauce on pudding at the cheaper summer resort hotels, labelling the counterfeit mixture Farm ee's Omnibus Salve, and ,ha, he has been selling il to unsGspecting people 10 the great injury of his benefae,or, Mr. tarmlee. NIT. Parmee was here ,o see about the matter this week, and II is said the meeting between him and the friend of forty years standing standing part of he time on pat hand was touching. though remarkable for its ooldness. Mr Plrmlee went quietly to work hunting up evidence aga,ns, his betrayer, and |, is said succeeded in finding several citizens sho had been inveigled into purchasing she worthless imitation, including Mir. fohn (. Smith, MT. Samuel Chandler
 Ar. White, of the plankin,on house, and others who are only too anxious 10 go into cour, and testify, and without, hear ing the coloneis vefslon of the contfu- versy II IS plain that he is in box. NIT. Smith is particularly bitter towards the aolonel, whom he has always onsidered
 Ae soul of honor, and he has been tempted to bring the matter up in church and have the colonel suspended as an srise member. Mir. parmlee in speak. iAg e the matter to Mr. Somers, seemed lgsar crushed at the exhibition of gall os.she part of Johnson, and he shed tears when As thought of the fall from rectitude sf his old friend. He says he does not care to. recover damages from the colonel. as msasy is no object, but his duty to Emsen, after inventing that salve, after years of patient study. demands ,ha, he uake an example of the man, who in the guise ef biendship, palms of pudding sauce as genuine salve, and he will follow him until hades freezes over, and then he will buy pair oi skates and follow him. All,he wants is to get the colonel in state priscn on the charge of counterfeiting salve. Sill, he says he has no hard feel ings against the man who would thus rob