Morning journal and courier., 1884-11-19
.Y MORNING. NOVEMBER Ia l884

county, Pennsylvania. He has three sons
 who had voted the Democratic ticket ever since they came of age. while he, at the age
 of eighty, had voted it all his life. But he
 was very tired of being defeated every presi- dential election and he remarked few weeks ago that this was probably the last time >he
 should vote for presidential candidate. He wanted to vote for the winning man once be- fore he died, so he put in ballot for Blaine
 and induced his three sens to do the same
 Another bridge is to be added to the mas
 sive structures which span the Thames with
 their gigantic arches. The proposed new
 bridge is to be 8 low-level structure, with
 mechanical openings for the passagesof ves-
 sells. The bridge, which is to be 50 feet wide
 between the parapets, and 29 feet above low
 water mark, will cross the Thames from
 Hongate stairs, near the Tower, to Horsely
 Down and its approaches, will extend to
 Little Tower Hill on the north, and Tooley street on the south. The distance from shore
 to shore will be 980 feet; there will be two piers of about 40 feet, leaving clear way of
 about 200 feet for the passage of vessels.
 The cost of the bridge and approaches is es- timated at e75o, 900.
 MT. Poland, the great London criminal lawyer, was recently robbed of his watch in the immediate neighborhood of Cranbourn street, close to the notorious French quar- ter of Lower Soho. He gave information to the police and was soon informed that the pickpocket had been arrested with a stolen watch in his possession. He went down to Marlborough street to give his evidence, and as he entered the door dirty Frenchman thrust letter in his hand It contained two sovereigns, two-shilling piece, and half crown the exactly conventional fee for bar rister and his clerk With them was the following touching appeal scrawled in the yilest handwriting: "You talk well; you was only Frenchman who would have hit on this daring expedient of retaining as his counsel the man he had robbed.
 Some mischief maker has invented story and obtained circulation for it in Paris and Vienna, on the authority of an anonymous American general to the effect that the Count of Paris, while serving in military capacity in our civil war, allowed the regi- ment which he commanded to be taken pris- oners, while he himself rode quietly back to camp in safety, giving no more thought to the unfortunate regiment The American general adds that the Count being pressed for an explanation of this extraordinary conduct refused to give any, and even over looked an insulting expression used by one of his indignant questioners, and that the Count few days later offered his resignation. It is quite certain that no American gen. eral told this story, because, as matter of fact, the Count of Paris never commanded nor had any military command whatever in our army. The only commission which he held was that which appointed L. ! P. d'Orleans captain and additional aide-de- camp of United States volunteers. In that capacity he and his younger brother served < with credit on the staff of General McClel- Ian, and were honorably mentioned in official