The Press., 1886-08-19


 wealth. He became treasurer of the In- dian Orchard mills in 1878. He was iv- ing in his elegant home on Howard avenue at that time, and his private income has always been regarded as sufficient to meet his living. expenses and the money he spent on his yacht. He did considerable in the way of developing real estate and put np a number of houses. But he sold them af- ter they were finished, and it is difficult to see where he could have sunk any large sum in these transactions. No adequate explanatinn is offered Rs tOl what has be- come of the money. On this point the directors and everybody else seem non plussed. Neither is there as yet any iEdi- cation as to when he began to steal it.
 The probability is that the recent burning of No. 2 mill thastened the disclosure of his perfdy, for after such an event the company wouldinaturally look into their affairs more closely. He is supposed to have received his first intimation from the directors that they knew a crookedness summoned before the directors of both companies and asked to- explain. And when he promised to meet them Monday morning and make every thing satisfactory it was taken for granted that he would keep hisiwofd! II Not till it was found that he had fled did the nagnitnde of the3d 3defal- cation become known. a' Mir Goodwin be- lieves the protestations of his family that they know nothing of his whereabouts are sincere. 3i Tie affair makes a profound sensation in Boston considering the man s hBaI6fable business Fecosd5 of 6 hfe-tim and the social standing of his family. "It is the greatest blow of the kind Boston has had within my remembrance" Mir. Goodwin remarked. And if it is blow to Boston, what is it to Indian Orchard The insurance on the burned mill has not yet been adjusted, and, consequently, nothing has been done to clear away the ruins. Up Saturday night Mr. Good win. had no doubt in his own mind that the mill should be. rebuilt asesoO as the insurance should be adjusted, but it seems idle to talk of such a thing nows If No. l should shut down permanently the loss in population to. the village from the suspen- sion of both mills would be 1,20O. Most of the. operatives of No. 2 have already gone away, finding work in other factories, for, taking the country over, there is a scarcity of c0ttOra mill hands,. Probably all have had chance to take work some where, and the few who have not gone are staying at the Orchard in the hope that something would turn up there. And the people who have worked in No. | will go off in the same way. glc.t ns1 ai hsa:
 ., After. the collapse of the southern con- tederacy, General Joe Shelby ..(now If Bates county, Mo-, went to Mexico and took service with Maximilian. In . Globe Democrat interview he says that the Mex ican soldiers have plenty of pluck and endurance, and can make longer, quicker marches on less rstions, than any other soldiers. in the. world, President Diaz is a magnificent soldier of the German pattern, and he is surrounded by coterie of brilliant officers -4rts:all of them gradu- ates. of the, best military schools in the same time General Shelby has no doubt come to war, would have the best of. it, and would make their way 8 second time to the. halls of, the Montezumas., '''"The Rio Grande," :" he says, 'Famounts 10 no more as an obstacle than. the Merrimac would. Fifty. or 8 hundred miles above Matamoras 1t is fordable, and the same, all the way up to the Arizona line. Having crossed the river you come to no forests, no mountains, no streams, nothing what ever to impede the progress of an army direct to the capital of the country" Diaz and his staff officers have no illusions in the matter, but they have to deal with 8 thin skinned people, "extremely jealous of their laws and institutions" and they know that any baekdown on their part before Mir. Bayard would mean instant turmoil and revolution. As to the alleged bitterness of Mexican sentiment toward us, General Shelby rather surprisingly afirms that it is newspaper myth. ''I never in all my life, saw anything" he says, (which. even tended to any but the most :, kindly feelings for all classes of Americans on the part of the Mexicans. As As to the, frontier and the Rio Grande boundary, there is always 8 class of men there making trouble. On the Texas side there are a lot of Americans prepared at all times to commit any depredations on Mexican soil within their power. It was So in my day. down in that part of the world, and it's 80 nov, noyg.a,t z1..aa s.gsI
 N. Y. Tribune The Taylors of Ten 'Hessee are bound to have t6e'next govern ofship fin their family. Alfred Taylor was nominated to that office by the republi- cans on June 15 j Robert l.. Taylor, his brother, was selected as their candidate by the democrats yesterday. ' Possibly the Taylors are of Scotch descent and feme1n Der the days when, if the father of the family took up arms for the Stuart pre- tender, the eldest son remained loyal to the ruling dynasty. This little arrange 'menB kept the estates in the family, no matter which side wOn..13 r aasaEsASIE, ' h The French are gradually losing the reputation of preferring light wines to any other iquorso Wine is eeasing to be drank and in forty years the consumption of spirits has just doubled.guAN kinds of H. quors distilled from grain, from beet root or from potatoes have, taken its place, and where there is an excess of aleahol there is also g marked depreciation of its quality. As a consequence, it, is said, the French character has been threatened with change Light -heartedness is leaving the people 1; exnberance and gaiety are being changed for the qualities that come in the wake of constant intoxication and drunkenness. 94
 Queen Victoria's dislike for Gladstone dates back to the, time when she hesitated about signing the Irish, church idisestab. dishment bill. But, madame, you must sign, ; said {, Mr, Gladstone. The queen indignantly rejoined: Sir, do you know who ! am ?" =. s'Yes, madame 2 responded Mir, Gladstone, s:the queen of. England. But does your majesty knew who am? I