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The Wilmingtonian., 1886-06-05

Plinn White was q Vermont boy, whose
teacher predicted his eminence as thief In
the last twenty-five years he succeeded in
fleeing business men, gJrilible grangers and
conading women out of 81, 100000 AT least
this was the total of his robberies made
known through the ineffective suits brought
against him. The full amount of his swind-
ling operations can never be known, as his
victims were often ashamed to acknowledge
their losses through dealings with him.
He first achieved national reputation in
1S49, 1850 and 1851, when he netted S4OO, 900
in California gold dust swindles, and escaped
to Europe. Between 1851 and 1855 he was
arrested four times in New York city, and
once, while in Jail there, swindled the sheriff
out of $4,000. Subsequently, he opened a
mammoth dry goods store in Kansas City.
Mo-, and obtained from eastern dealers goods
valued at 5000, after selling which he
disappeared.
A list of his operations would fill a book.
They covered the whole country, and every
line of business, from poultry raising in
Texas to dealing in diamonds in New York.
His offences were usually such as to render
him liable only to civil suits, and as he
squandered money as fast as he obtained it
the prosecutor rarely got any satisfaction.
He crossed the ocean some sixteen times to
escape arrest He was splendid conversa-
tionalist and had frank, open way of tell
ing of his affairs which was wonderfully
effective in winning the confidence
of those upon whom he operated. 1t
never could be discovered that he drank a
drop, gambled or in fact had any bad
habits whatever He had way of following
up his victims, instead of avoiding
them One instance will Illustrate this,
Thirty-five years ago Maj Hall, of
New York, advanced S50,0O0 in checks
on Whites promise not TO have them
cashed, but to use them as collateral. The
checks were Immediately cashed, and
although Maj Hall sought redress in the
courts, Whites conduct was not liable to the
law White disappeared. After an absence
of thirty years White came back to New
York in June, 1881. He at once called upon
Maj Hall at his house, told him he had made
an immense fortune, was repentent, and
came home on purpose to pay back the
S50,0 Maj. Hall was then 20 years old.
and he was so touched by tho eloquence Of
the prodigal sharper that he wept for ioy.
After paying several visits White asked
Maj. Hall for 81, 800 with which to liquidate
pressing debt, saying that his capital was
so bound up temporarily that he could not
lay hold of any money. Mrs. Hall had made
g, 900 the previous winter keeping board
ing house, and that sum, with $500 more
that he borrowed from customer, was
promptly handed over with the usual re-
suit White would have made success of
any honorable occupation he might have
engaged in; but he was absolutely without
any moral susceptibilities and became uH-
questionably one of the most polished Wit.
lains on record.
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TIE ANARCHISTS.
EkETcH OF SOME OF THEIR MA.
CHlNERY FOUND AT CHICAGO.

Picturesque Preparations For Them nj
Cincinnati. Where They Were Looked
For, But Did Not Come to Time-A
Steam Battery-Soldiers in Camp.
When the dens OF the Anarchists were un-
earthed in Chicago, after the riot, enough
explosives were found to blow up the state
of Illinois If it could have been got into the
right position. The police discovered the
main one of the poor wretches' hidden lairs one
day shortly after the mob. They said moth
ing to anybody, but that night at 2 o'clock,
the stillest hour of the twenty-four in city,
they made a descent on the Anarchists.
Several of them were sleeping in the house,
crowded together. With their shaggy hair
and beard and shabby clothing they looked
not unlike wolves. A young artist named
Brown had picture in the National Acad-
envy of Design, at New York, last year,
called simply "a Socialist" 1t represented
man with long teeth, fierce eyes and
bristly, long, red hair and beard. The pic
ture was a remarkable one. And really,
there was a particular fitness in representing
the Anarchist with the fiery red hair and
beard. That color seemed to add to his dan
gerous crazy expression. One of the An
archists captured by the Chicago police was
clad in suit Of red flannel underclothing
from head to foot In the old days of belief
In magic and witchcraft 1t was said that
black and crimson were the colors of the
evil one.
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The Chameleon cnrpetbnerer,
HE COAST CLEAR.


Remarks Of a carpethag politician on the
occasion of his reception on arriving in the
territory with government commission in
his pocket:
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN: must take this
early occasion to thank you for giving me
so Kindly reception. Always having lived
IN the east, should probably have remained
there had | not been selected to fill this
office. hope and trust that my life among
You may he such that, when return at the
end of my term, may carry away none but
the most pleasant memories
One year later he hires brass band to
serenade him, and to the crowd the noise at
tracts speaks MS follows:
FELLOW CITIZENS: As you well know,
year ago voluntarily left my home in the
east to settle among you did so because 1
had grown tired of life in that effete region
and longed to cast my lot with the hardy
pioneers who have pressed to the front and
built up this great country. am glad and
proud that l am one OF you. And, fellow
citizens, l will speak plainly: Iwant to rep.
resent this grand territory in congress-; l
want to tell the assembled statesmen of this
country that am proud am a resident Of
Dakota. y Estelline ID. IT, Bell.
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The Chicago riot at once put other large
cities on their guard. Preparations We're
made by authorities to deal with a possible
uprising in various states, in view of the
great eight hour strike Of May 1. Matters
looked threatening III Cincinnati where
$4,000 men were out on strike. II may be re-
marked that it would be mistake to con-
meet the strikers with the dynainiters, as a
rule. 1t would be another mistake to con-
meet the strikers officially with the knights
of Labor But the classes that hang upon
the ragged edges of civilization are always
on hand, in any uprising, to work mischief.
In Ohio, at the very beginning Of the
strike, Governor Foraker sent four regi-
ments of soldiers to Cincinnati to ouell any
possible outbreak. One Of them was the
famous Fourteenth, Ohio National Guard,
from Columbus, that did such stern work
in the court house mob in 1884 They had
already grappled with rioters. The SOL
diers were stationed within easy call of Gin
cinnat Some were at Burnet Woods, three
miles from city hall. Others were camped
in the armory, near the court house that
was, but is not any more, but most took up
their quarters at the picturesque town Of
Carthage, seven miles away. They en-
camped upon the county fair ground, where
the wooden sheds already provided afforded
them shelter. Two railroads pass through
Carthage and enter the very heart of Gin
cinnatL In fifteen or twenty minutes these
would have conveyed the troops to the scene
Of the riot il there had been any.
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THE
Philadelphia
Weekly Times
Attractive, Entertaining
Instructive, The Fam
lily Journal Of
America.
STORIES OF THE WAR
ILLUSTRATED IN EVERY ISSUE
A Paper for the Homes of the
Land-Sparkling and Origi-
nal i'm Every Feature
STORIES OF THE WAR
ILLUsTRATED IN EYERY IssuE

On the First of January next.
a new departure in every feature
of the WEEKLY TINES will be
made. Every number will be
literally illustrated in its war con-
trlbution, which have SO long
been q specially in its columns,
and its Stories, which will be
greatly enlarged from the pens of
the writers, and in current His
tory, Biography, Politics, Art,
Science and the leading events of
the day.
The time has passed for the
weekly journal Of the city to fill
the place of a newspaper. The
daily newspaper from the great
centres Of news now reaches into
every section of the land. Every
inland city and every town of
Importance have their daily news
papers, and the local weekly, with
the wonderful progress Of provin-
cial journalism, meets every want
that the daily newspapers fails to
supply. The metropolitan week.
ly Of to-day must be much more
than a newspaper; it must be a
magazine in popular literature; /;
it must lead in popular Illustration,
and it must meet every
requirement of the intelligent
reader of every class.
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Employer TO collector-See Mr. SMITH
Collector-Oh, yes.
Employer-Was he annoyed at your call,
ing upon hima
Collector-Not bit. He asked me to cnll
again.
THE COAST CLEAR
Young Man lat the door)-Is Mr.. Smith ini
Servant-No, sorr; he's gone down town
not foive minutes ago, sorr.
Young Man-Ahl VIII you please hand
that card TO Miss Smith,
TOO EARLY IN THE SEASON.
Young Featherly was guest at Sunday
dinner, and was somewhat amused because
Bobby complained of there being nc ice
cream for dessert.
THE weather is rather cold for ice cream,
Bobby" he said. "Ice cream is only nice
when the weather is hot"
"You like it in cold weather." grunted
Bobby
"Oh, no, don't"
Well" said Bobby, as if dismissing the
subject, "all l know is that sister Clara says
it's cold day when you buy any. Ma, can't
have another piece of piel"
HIS HEART UNTOUCHED.
Clara tsorrowfully)- Mother, am con
WINGED that young Mr.. Simpson does not love
me.
Mother-Why, DEAR
Clara-Last evening he referred to new
PAIR of shoes that he had just bought He
got them size too large No young man in
love ever buys shoes too large for him.
A PERFECT BABY.
O'd Bachelor Ito young motherl The baby
is rather small Of its agei
Young Mother hesitatinglyl lyl-Well, ye-es,
rather
Old Bachelor-No teeth YETI
Young Mother falteringly)-N-no not yet.
Old Bachelor-Legs little bowedl
Young Mother tdoubtfully)-Er-a trile,
perhaps
Old Bachelor Nose small for the rest of
its facet
Young Mother Uncertainty Yes, but it
will grow.
Old Bachelor-Cres most of the timel
Young Mother (luhiously)-It cries little.
Old Bachelor-Well if the baby possesses
all these defects why do you cali it the
sweetest, incest, dearest, loveliest and most
beautiful baby in the world9 Huh!
Young Mother triumphantly)-Be Because it
IS So there You mean old thing. New
York Sun
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SJne ngcmou creature has invented a
theatre hat that shuts up, to be worn by
ladies.
If this same man-or any other-can be
prevailed upon to patent a woman to go with
this hat, who is likewise capable of shutting
up during the performance, be will be ne
leading inventor of the age-Life.
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French for seven Buttons.

"Let me see some of your black kid
gloves" said Mrs. Snaggs to clerk at a
Fifth avenue store.
"These are not the latest style, are theyn
she asked, when the gloves were produced
"Yes, madam, said the clerk ave have
had them in stock only two days.
Il didn't think they were, because the
fashion paper says that black kids have tan
stitches and vice versa | see the tan
stitches, but not the vice versa
The clerk explained that vice versa was
French for seven buttons, and Mrs Snaggs
bought the gloves. Pittshurg Chronicle
Telegraph.
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sTEAM BATTERY.

But the most deadly as well as the most
picturesque preparation for the Anarchists
was that made by the Eighth battery. -Four
pieces of artillery were loaded upon an open
freight car of the Cincinnati, Hamilton and
Dayton railway. Fires were started in the
furnace of the locomotive engine, steam was
made and kept up, the engineer was seated
in his cab, the fireman was stationed at his
post The car with the cannon upon it was
hitched to the engine. The men of the Eighth
battery stayed close to this strange train
night and day At the first signal by tele-
graph the engine would have gone shriekinp
and tearing like mad into the city and in a
time almost unbeievably short the guns
would have been trained upon the rioters
1t is thought that these stern precautions
prevented scenes like those in Chicago. The
mayor had 500 extra policemen patrolinr
the streets The authorities say they know
for certain that 600 Anarchists and dyna-
miters were already drilled to begin work
But next election these warlike preparations
will be capital campaign powder either for
or against the mayor and governor, accord
ing TO which party uses is.
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The red flannel person was caught in the
very heart of the dynamite factory. In the
house were found the articles shown in the
illustration. At the upper left hand corner
is seen glass bomb. The wire at the top is
to fling it by. It was eight inches in di-
ameter and full Of explosives. The double
dyed tiendishness of the thing is shown in
the fact that it contained not only terrific
explosive, but was made of glass to do twice
as much damage when it was shattered
Another object found was an arrangement
for the manufacture of dynamite. An un-
calmly iron pot had cylinder of sheet zinc
and copper fitted over it. 1t was of the
rudest, simplest character, but amply equal
to TIE task of holding the DEVILS broth of
glycerine and nitric acid which the Anarch-
lists were accustomed to brew therein. The
cylinder was four feet high
Dynamite paper cartridges, one Of which
is also seen in the picture, were among the
things in this remarkable find. Light the
fuse at the end, throw it from house top
among squad Of soldiers, bloated capital
lists or policemen, and away it and they
would 60 into kingdom come,
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lie would Like a Remedy,

The doctor is hastily called TO tho pelslu.
Of sick man. "Alas~ he murmurs, a, la
takes the hand of the patient, there il
nothing 70 be done. His hand is already
green" But, DOCTOR" returned the wife
my husband Is painter, and that is the
replied the doctor, 'that does make n dIfPer-
ence, to be sure. He really has some chance.
II he were not a painter he wouiI be desd in
five minutes French Fun. :"
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The New York Tribune believe, inc
Panama canal will be completed in the time
allowed, because NJ. de Lesseps is moving
heaven and earth to accomplish that and
M de Lesseps would get on faster if he
would move less heaven ani more earth
San Francisco Wasp.
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CnIncldence.

The angler to the brooklet HES,
Puts on his hook the tempting bait
OF wriggling worms or gaudy flies,
And for the troutlet lies in wait.
Next day, when by his friends bcsought
The nature of his luck to state,
He tells what heavy fish he caught,
And, as before, he lies in weight.
Boston Courier,
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jobbery that have
brought the thoroughbred horse too often
Into disgrace in America of late years"
The Louisville Derby is run at Churchill
Downs a field little outside of the city 1t
is a beautiful race course, fringed and lined
with that famous blue grass which Atlantic
coast race track owners might well give half
an eye to possess.
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"PLlNN" WHITE, THE sWlNDLER.
Death of the Most Daring Rascal of Our
Tima-

Time.
The news Of the death Of Plymouth White
will bring feeling of relief to many men
who have had business dealings with him,
for the reason that "Plinn" had the happy
faculty of revisiting victim with the result
of revictimizing them. Some there are who
think that this is one Of his latest schemes
to have his death reported, that he may
appear in the flesh to the unwary If that
were the case the publication of his portrait
would defeat his game to some extent Our
portrait is made, through the courtesy Of a
detective, from the one in the celebrated col
lection of the rogues gallery, New York.
1t was placed there scarcely twelveponth
ago, when he was last in the custody Of the
police
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=. nlttins up with the girls 1, pleasant mas.
ume' but remember, young man. that Il
taxes hog and hominy to keen bonso y
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STORIES OF THE WAR

VIII be published in each number
from the ablest writer's who par
ticipated in the bloody drama of
civil strife, and each will be
profusely illustrated. The most
entertaining and instructive
STORIES from the best writer's of
fiction will appear in each issue,
with illustrations.
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thtNh VI taNat NbAAhi u
which pr o hibits
pool selling outside
Of a race course.
This fact is ap-
provingly quoted
by the papers
tn er ea b outs to
show tn at "th Q
Louis willie race.
track is feared and
avoided by tn 81
Scoundrels of tn el
turf, and is conse-.
quently free from
the trickery and
jobbery that have
The Wilmingtonian., 1886-06-05
THE KENTUCKY DERBY.
PEN AND PENCIL PICTURES OF THE
FAMOUS LOUISVILLE RACES.

Uncle Simon Cameron Packs His Little
valise and Trips or to See the Horse
Race-Ben Airs Great Run-Half
Length Ahead.
At the annual fairs at Lexington, Paris
and Cynthiana, in the blue grass region,
Kentucky is in her glory. But most Of all is
Derby day, at Louisville, the great occasion
for the assembling of fair women and strap
ping big men. At the recent meeting there
were not less than $4,000 persons, white,
black and yellow, present to witness the
chief race.
The Derby races were instituted eleven
years ago, by Col NJ Lewis Clark, president
of the Louisville Jockey club, whose good
looking portrait appears herewith.
Col Clark is very rigid in his rulings on
the turf, and very delightful socially. The
day before the great race began, this spring
sixteen pool sellers were arrested for plying
their trade contrary to the Kentucky law
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sunbeams.
SunDehHiss
A pIFAgANT pEcFpTIp,

PLEASANT RECEPTION.
Employer to collectorl-See Mr.. SMITH
Collector-Oh yes.
Employer-Was he annoyed at your call.
ing upon himl
Collector-Not bit He asked me to call
again.
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1886-12-31

In Mr.. Powderly's recent little troubles
he has been alternately abused and COM
plimented.
We do not believe in Mr.. Powderly,
but it is not on account of Mr. Pow
derly's individual lack of wisdom and his
vacillating character The reason is
deeper and relates to the principles he
represents, which would make the best
and wisest man in the world bad. 1t is
impossible to impose a centralized i'm
periality on immense bodies of men and
maintain it by educating them to
false beliefs Millions of men, melted to
discomfort and ignorant of the progress
of the labor element under our system,
can be persuaded for time into anything
that is all promise and theory; but when
brought face to face with the wrongs
committed by this aforesaid centralized
power and its domination of the local in
terests, they must certainly rebel.
And that is just where the Knights of
Labor, by the operation of their own
ideas, will bring themselves.
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1886-12-31

Canada's new fishing law bears later
date than the correspondence of Mr..
Bayard on this subject.
The purpose of the new act is to give
"more effectual protection of the inshore
fisheries of Canada against intrusion by
foreigners" 1t amends the act 81 Victo-
ria, chapter 81, for the same purpose,
which had itself been amended by 33 Vic
tOria, chapter 10. For the first section of
the latter act, which received the royal
assent In 1870, the new statute furnishes
= substitute that more fully defines the
offences.
The act covers the whole ground, and
provides for seizing and confiscating
foreign fishing vessels that are even
found lowering within three miles of
any coast, bay, creek, or harbor of Can
ada"
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1886-12-31

We published yesterday the views OF
another paper in full, opposing the extra
session, but though that side was pre-
scented strongly we think the Governor is
right in calling the Legislature together.
The members may feel that influence
of pledge" to the Riddleberger settle
ment," which we appreciate fully, If 1t can
be proved settlement.
But it only brings us closer to a crash
every time it induces an issue with the
Federal courts, and times have changed
since the ideas of States rights went that
far.
The Democratic party with two-thirds
majority in the Legislature can afford TO
tell the truth to the people, and we can
not but believe that a fair showing Of
the figures and sensible address to the
people would satisfy them by the very
hard facts that there is one thing to be
done for the good of the party and the
State, and that is to call for conference
with the creditors.
If this is not done, the coupons will be
used for taxes more and more, and at last
the State will be without revenue.
The only real objection to such policy
among politicians is that the Republicans
might advocate reputation.
There was enough known long age to
insure the reverse; and, now mark, when
the Republicans advocate debt settle
ment, the coup ons will be increasing in
use everywhere, and any man who uses
them will thereby pledge himself to a
debt settlement including the coupons.
Then where will be the party which
proclaims the present policy of the audit
ors, and the alternative of reputation
Inevitably mashed between the Re-
publican party and the debt-paying Dem
Gratis.
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WOMAN'S VOTE.
Gratis.

Several high authorities of late have
prophesied that woman must inevitably
be granted the right to vote, but it re-
mains for THE DAILY TIMES of Rich.
mond to point out the way and we
wager "dukedom to beggarly denier
that nobody else has had the foresight to
point it out
There are thousands of women who
would not countenance the idea of the
sex going to the polls on pure political
questions, but when the liquor question
becomes the prominent one they will see
one way of killing or manning the
monster that almost all women regard as
the arch enemy of the fireside and the
fell destroyer Of domestic happiness.
1t will be curious struggle, but it is
inevitable wheE we think how deep the
prohibition craze has penetrated into the
heart of very many communities.
1t will remain for the West to take the
lead; and we believe that in the course
of time some man of enterprise in poll
tics will see his chance in formulating a
local campaign on this plan. We hope
Richmond will be the last to follow the
example.
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Birmingham, Alabama.

The New Orleans Picayune has studied
up the Pittsburg Of the South, and says
of it:
"When these establishments shall be
completed, as is expected in the course
of the next fifteen months, Birmingham,
Ala, will have twenty furnaces, with a
capacity of 2,015 tons per day-equal to
more than 735, 900 tons per annum, or a
yearly net production of considerably
over 100000 tons.
"There are iron furnaces going up at
Sheffield. Ala, and at Chattanooga, Tenn.
The daily output of iron is about 200
tons, with other iron works in process of
establishment In the course of a year
the Southern States, including Virginia
and Tennessee, will have capacity to
manufacture some 5000 tons of pig and
bloom iron, or over 100000 tons annu-
allyn
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1886-12-31

Nj. Clemenceau, the famous French
statesman, is in Vienna to attend the
marriage of brother, and he has vouch-
safed the following reliable statement re-
lating to the fears of war between France
and Germany:
"There can be no war between France
and Germany unless Germany makes the
first attack, because every responsible
Frenchman is determined that France
shall offer no provocation. Even if Rus
STA and Germany should fight, France
would remain passive. 1t would require
gross provocation indeed to rouse France
to war Of course, France will refuse to
disarm. 1t must be admitted that France
has been coquetting with Russia, but this
was intended merely to brighten Ger
many"