Milford chronicle., 1883-03-23
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

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- it over to one of his creditors, and il
- slowly came East, passing through sew.
: eral hands and in time reaching New
York City, where it went through the
N Clearing House, and whence it was sent
= to Messrs. Riggs and Co., of Washing
ton, for collection, being drawn upon the
:. United States Treasurer. When pre-
= sented in the cash-room for payment the
other day it was discovered that the
!. check had not been signed by the dis
: tributing officer who drew it, hut Of all
> the persons and banks whose indorse-
meuts covered its back not one had no
J. ticed the lack Of a signature AT last,
r after all its wanderings, the distributing
3, officer signed the check and Riggs * Co.
i received the money.
, THE NEW POSTAL NOTES are likely to
be very popular, particularly those for
small amounts, as already 459 ont of
: every Thousand orders are for 50 or less.
The limit of single monoy-orders is raised
from $50 to 800, the following scale
being adopted: Not exceeding $40, s i
cents; SO to SIS, 10 cents; SIS to $50, !
Is cents; $50 to $40, 20cents; $40 to $50, |
% cents; $50 to $50, 80 cents; $50 to
$40, 35 cents; $40 to $780, 40 cents; $50
to 800, 45 cents. The reduction on
sums under SO from present money
order rates is one-ffth. Sums not ex-
ceeding s. viii be but cents, or re-
duction of about two-thirds the present
rates The postal notes viii DO issued
payable to bearer simply, there being no
expressive letter Of advice attending it,
aud they viii be good for three months
after which time the bearer if lie neglecls
to get his mouey, must send to wash Y
iDgton. The object Of this is to prevent a
it being used for general circulation Y
A New York paper says there is a L
whirlwind of nonsense in the rustic pa t
pers about the notable funeral Of James t
Elliott, the prize-fghter and burglar Il
There were not twenty thousand nor c
forty thousand nor fifty thousand beetle n
browed short-haired cut throats, thieves, a
and criminals marching in procession at n
that funeral. Oh, no. Nothing of the q
kind Elliott was a notorious character, O
and his funeral was an event of great no. n
toriety, which took place from a donsely
part of the city, on q Sunday, pl
when the multitudes there we're idle. HI
Many thousands Of the people Of the To- w
cAlity turned out to take look of curl m
osity at the hearse and the show. The 50
great body Of spectators were neither
uffians nor criminals, but Ordinary hard tn
working citizens, earning their daily stl
bread by their daily toll and not nearly tn
IS dishonest, in heart or hand, as the
lypocrites who turn up their noses at gil
hem. lze
In THE spring of 1880 New York city t' t'ii
nth population Of ,206, ,299, contained 'ni
3, ,684 dwellings, each of which was oc. PFC
upied on the average, by little over
xtecn persons. Philadelphia with 847.- ."
70 inhabitants has lac, ,412 dwelling L4sl
ouses, or an average of $40 to each. iiei
oston with 362, ,S39 inhabitants had 49, Ilu'
"A dwellings with an average Of S.27 in ire
lch. The average number of persons !,
dwelling, all the United States taken TINS
gether, was $50.
a 15-YEAR OLD BOY was brought before lea
New York police court the other day can
Tged with stealing $40 from his Irel
other. The $40 had all been invested ing
the purchase of blunderbuss. four ever
7olvers aud n scalping knife. "What reac
s your object in arming yourself in pres
IS way ?" asked the Court 'I was is a
ing out to the plains to fight the In Irelf
ms, said the boy, innocently. When III
ing further questioned, the youngster man
4 that he had read "The Boy Detec- has
e, " "The New Haven Mystery, "The after
.wart Body" and "Scalping the No. bull,
vk, and these stories had set him to say ]
hiking that he could make name ful
Ial to any Of his heroes by going to tbev
las and fighting Indians. He had aceni
ret for Boston and fifteen cents in his bers.
ket when arrested A prominent ono
sctive in one of our cities saws that n,
S are so carried away by the detect acair
stories they read in boys papers that ssv 4
received from fifty to sixty letters a ClorL
k from boys and Young men through oo,,rs
the country who wished TO become sbouI
.ctives. It is little wonder that a - A.;
lber of bogus detective agencies in Eli
country are reaping a rich harvest ,,reot
these unsophistie young men. men
az houses in the City Of Mexico are ;sb a
Of massive masonry, with stone have
ways, and roof and floors Of brick fgbt
cement The city is virtually FIRE m,
f, it being impossible to set FIRE to or vio
lean house except by the ignitng Of free
: accumulation of combustibe dry who a
IS or chemicals. Consequently fires q race
lot here regarded as among the cur he REQ
possibilities Of life. An American
ent in the city of Mexico during the Tm
three years says that during that tives j
he has known Of only one con- have v
able fire; and on being asked what way st
lis considerable fire: heroplied beliey,
the one he terms so was limited to a six the
e room in the building aud did train
ge to the amount of about three only O
red dollars.
REFORMED GAMBLER in lecture on zoe
profession" and its connections ',,'sss' ''.,.
that gambling hehs are simply girl Is