The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-03-27
chicago. silver conn.erfeiters.

silver COnnfcrfeifers.
There are further developments in regard
to the expert silver counterfeiters SHELTON
and Osborne, who were captured in Chic
ago a few days ago with their outfit. IL.
II. Kimball. alias Kingsbury, had been ar
rested in Covington. Ky. for passing
counterfeit money. kimball is a partner
of Osborne and his clique and their travel
ling agent. George Kellogg Osborne is
from Brooklyn. Three months ago, in
company with Wilson, alias SHELTON. and
II. II. Kimball he came to Chicago. While
i'll Brooklyn. under the name OF Joe Muir
ply. he was sentenced to three years i'm
prisonment in Auburn Prison for counter
feiting.
Osborne home. situated in North ave
brick house, with a high attic. In this
attic was the counterteiter's mint 1t is
accessible only through a small square
hole, by means of n ladder. When the Off
GERS searched the house on the night of
the arrest of Osbprne. they almost over
10 pked it. They were just about to go
away when the hole in the ceiling was no.
ticed. The machinery must have been
put in the attic through the outside win
dows or else the flooring had to be torn
up. for it could only be aiken down in that
way. The paraphernalia was taken to the
Government building. 1t consisted OF a
charcoal furnace. to which was attached a
tanning wheel run by IA belt connecting
with a large grindstone. In the furnace
crucibles of all sizes were placed. The
eccentric press weighs a ton, and would
turn out $500 in silver in three hours.
There were two bars of silver about a yard
in length and six inches wide The cost
of the dollar when completed was about
fifty cents, thirty per cent. of the compost
ton being of silver. The twenty-five cent
pieces contained no silver, and displayed
poorer workmanship than the dollar pieces.
They We're composed of copper alloy. bis
muth and %antimony. Osborne is a well
educated man. and has a wife and four
children.
In the April number of The century Adj
miral David Porter contributes to the War
Series a striking paper on The Opening
of the Lower Mississippi While Admiral
Farragut led the men-of-war past the New
Orleans forts. Porter paved the way for and
supported the attack with the Mortar-Fleet.
At the beginning of his paper Admiral
D.rfUr .,aalS Af tha Nau- Dr1aanS ('atn
paign as ''the most important event of the
War of the Rebellion. with the exception
of the fall of Richmond He writes from
a knowledge of the secret history of the
campaign. and has made graphic descrip-
tions OF the many stirring incidents which
beiel the fleet in its memorable battle with
Forts Jackson and st. Philip. Accom-
panying the article are portraits of Admir-
al Farragut, Admiral Porter. Captain
Theodorus Bailey. General Butler, who
was in command of the land forces, Gen
eral Lowell. the Confederate commander.
and other leading participants in the con-
flict. Besides the portraits there are more
than twenty-five maps, plans. and pictures
! tl lltttltlilN, lilpSt " lllt ldtttI FtiiI8 dtttI
designs by Admiral Porter. George W,
Gable, in a brief article. gives a spirited
description, from personal observation, of
New Orleans before the Capture"
Theodore Roosevelt contributes 4 paper
On PHASES OF State Legislation, in which
lie reveals the dark side of the legislative
picture. the methods Of the Lobby. and the
perilS which beset legislators. Part of the
blame for the unfortunate condition Of
affairs at Albany he lays to the charge of
the constituents. Of an instructive and
amusing character are the anecdotes and
incidents of legislative experience which
enliyen the paper.
A reply to Mr.. Cables recent paper ON
The Freedman's Case in Equity" is CON
tributed by Henry W. Grady, of the At
ldnto Constitution, who writes under the
suggestive title In Plain Black and
White" Another article of political in
t%erest, found in the Open Letters De-
partment, is a discussion of the causes and
probable disappearance of THE Solid
South" by Edward P. Clark, and in
Topics OF the Time are editorials, enti-
tied practical Politics, Not the Ameri-
can Way" The Attempt to Save Mag
ara, and THE Difference between a
Painting and a Pound of Sugar, = the last
with reference to the movement for free
art.
"A Florentinc Mosaic" Mr.. Howell's
second illustrated paper on Florence, is the
opening article in the magazine, a repro
duction of Mr.. Pencils etching of the
Ponte Necchio being the frontispiece.
Eugene Y. Smalley. who has contributed
to The Cthtufy several articles on The
New Northwest describes his journey
From Puget Sound to the Upper Column
bia, accompanying which are views of
Mount Tacoma, and of the Tyler glacier,
which is beginning to be an object of in
terest to Travellers. DR.. Edward Eggles-
tons ',Calonists at Home is one of the
most popular of bis series on life in the
Colonies. 1t deals with domestic life, and
especially with house decoration. Meats
and Drinks, and styles of dress, and per-
sonal ornament. To the latter phase belong
tWnIbirIs nf tla I,ipt1r.- ,t whintt thew.