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Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-02-02
A CASHIERS TROUBLES.



 pIoyers to the Amount of $1O,OO
 PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 2-Isaac Henry Roberts, cashier to ths old Quaker firm ot Whitall, Tatum & Co, glass bottles ano druggists sundries manufacturers, of Mill vile, N. J., is alleged to be defaulter to the amount of $10,0OO Mr. Roberts resides in g new and elegantly furnished house which he has just completed on Central avenue, il East Moorestown, N. J. He is about B year. old, tall and attractive in appearance, has { wife and two children, and is highly con nected He has been in the employ of tho Whitalls for sixteen years Through "faith. fitness" to their interests he was advance rom poorly paid clerkship to the position oi cashier, with salary of S2, 900 year.
 About ten days ago he was taken ill, ant was compelled to remain at homo for few days. During this time discrepancies were discovered in the cash accounts Investiga tion revealed the startling fact that the foot ings of his cash books had been altered, ant that there was difference .,etween the false and true balances of something like 10000 The firm at once employed an expert public accountant to examine Roberts books Tho expert confirmed the discovery.
 Mir. James Whitall says that when Robert. returned to duty he was immediately in formed that the deficiency had been detected Without a moments hesitation the cashier confessed to the truth of the accusation anG expressed willingness to go ct once to Moya mensing for it. He further made all the res titution in his power and transferred to the firm some small lots of property here and i Moorestown. The matter is still in course o settlement, and the firm has not yet decide, to prosecute him, nor has he been arrested.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-02-02
E. S. Wheeler & Co.'S Liabilities.

NEW HAVEN, Feb. 2.-The time for filing claims against the collapsed firm of E. $. Wheeler SS O. has expired, and ninety-two claims, aggregating' 's1 ,459 ,902, have been pre- sented. The creditors claim a dividend OIL the famous Wicks notes, which aggregate several hundred thousand dollars, and are ndorsed by Wheeler. This claim Wheeler will contest in the courts.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-02-02
DENIS KEARNEY ON HAND.
The Western Orator Talks to the Com.
 mittce on Foreign Affairs.

WASHINGTON, Feb 2.-Denis Kearney made an argument this morning before the Committee on Foreign Affairs in sup port of more rigid laws for seKclnding Chinese. In alluding to Congressman Hit, who manifested some opposition to the bill, Kearney said he would like to visit Hitt's District and see his constitu- ents pelt him with dead cats and baked snails, the favorite food of those whose cause Hit seemed disposed to esponse.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-02-02
Banker Rawson's Murder.

CHICAGO, Feb 2.--Mrs. Rawson, the wife of Banker Rawson, and her son, William Ralph Lee, were brought into Judge Cliff lords court yesterday to answer to the charges preferred against them. Young Lee pleaded guilty to an assault with intent to kill, and was remanded to jail. Mrs. Raw son pleaded not guilty to the charge of con spiracy in the assault.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-02-02
Against the Civil Service Law.

NEW YORK, Feb. 2.-The supreme court has refused mandamus to compel the state civil service commission to examine one Thomas Killeen, wno desired to be a candi- date for clerk to the collector of canal statis- tics The court holds that the state superia- tendent of public works has sole power to ap- point and remove, and is not subject to tle civil service law.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-02-02
Death of George W. Schuyler

ITHACA, N Y., Feb. 2,-George w. Schuy- Ter died here yesterday, aged 7s years. He was state treasurer in 1S64-5, superintendent of the banking department in 1s667O, and was elected member of assembly as Liberal Republican in 1875. In the following year he became auditor of the canal department, holding office until May, 18S0
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-02-02
They Object to Sunset Cox's Bill.

CHICAGO, Feb. 2-The clerks in the Chjcagi postoffice held a meeting yesterday and passed resolutions denouncing the bill introduced by Congressman $. s. Cox, of New York, t< classify postoffice clerks. The objection urged a sainst the bill was that it would compel ths best men in the service either to submit to ( reduction of pay or to resign. The resolutions which are pretty vigorous, will be forwarded to congress. Postmaster Judd is also against the bill, tooth and nail
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-02-02
FIRE IN NEW HAMPSHIRE.
X Large Cotton Mill Destroyed in Nash
 ua This Morning.

NASHUA, N. H., Feb 2.-An obstinate fire broke out this morning in the picker room of the Nashua Manufacturing Co. The fire started in the loose cotton on the first floor. The hydrants were frozen and stiiiing smoke from the burning rubber belts and tar much hindered the firemen. An immense quantity of cotton was des- troyed and may result in shutting down the mill The loss is heavy, but fully i'm surel
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-02-02
ANOTHER LARGE FIRE.
The Immense Clothing Manufactory of
 Manamnker & Brown Burned.

PHILADEI PHIA. Feb. 2.-Wanamaker & Browns large clothing factory, on 9th and Market Sts.. caught fire this morning. The flames V ere subdued with great difficulty. The fire Orit mated in the pantaloon room, which is total loss. Fireman Robert Killen was overcome by smoke. The loss is about S;SG. .0G0: insured Three thousand pc, pie are thrown out of work.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-02-02
Acquitted of Murder.

NEWPORT, N. H., Feb. 2.-Luke Crowther was yesterday acquitted of the murder of his mother at Claremont, Dec. 12. Mrs Crowther was found dead in her house after a violent struggle had taken place between her and her sou, who did not live at home
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-02-02
The Remington Gun Works Sold

UTICA, N. Y, Feb. 2.-The property be longing to the late corporation of B. Rening- ,on 6 Sons, comprising tbe large ar1nory and gun works at Ilion, was sold at auction yes. 6erday, by the receivers, under an order of the court The purchasers were Hartley & Graham, of New York, and the price s152,- 200. The sale is subject to confirmation by the court. The property oEigisaaAly cost El ,6DQQU
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-02-02
The Appropriation Bill for 1888.

ALBANY, N. Y., Feb. 2.-Last years ap- propriation bill footed up $S, ,037 ,44667. In this years bill there is an increase of $62, 800 for the regents a decrease of $6S,0O0 for charities, decrease of S120,00 in dividends for common schools and S15,O00 for public health. Some small increases bring the fig ures up to about the same as last year.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-02-02
Acquitted by the coroner,s Jury.

WATERvILLE, Mo, Feb. 2.-In the case of E. A. Wentworth, who was shot and killed by his young son last Sunday night, the cor- oner's jury yesterday found that the shooting was unintentional. The father was trying to wrest the pistol from the boys hand when it was discharged. Wentworth was abusing his Eaaai2y aN tb8 imH.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-02-02
su1livan Satisfied with Gladstone

DUBLIN, Feb. 2.-Mr. T. D. Sullivan, in a speech immediately after his release from Tullamore prison, admitted that he had at one time desired a greater measure of inde- pendence for Ireland, out he now thought MT. Gladstone's proposals a fair compromise, which would unite the two nations in peace and good fellowship.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-02-02
To Prohibit Deer Shooting.

TRENTON, Feb. 2.-The senate yesterday passed the bill to prohibit the shooting of deer in the state for two years It had opposition, though, for when it came up Senator Baker, of Cumberland county, alleged that it was a base scheme to prevent old hunters of Cum .erland county from shooting deer in their own back yards. The bill has still to pass the assembly,
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-02-02
MT. Tyler Gets His Divorce.

CHICAGO, Feb. 2-A decree of divorce was yesterday granted to James o. Tyler, former pos master of Binghamton, N. Y, but now a medical student at Bellevue hospital, New York city, from his wife, Bertha c. Tyler. Mrs. Tyler sued her husband for desertion, but he retaliated with cross bill for the same offense, and he, and not she, was suc- f,11
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-02-02
Nine Years for Uttering Threats.

LoGANsPoRT, Ind, Feb. 2.-When John Stumbaugh pleaded guilty of burglary in the circuit court here yesterday Judge Winfield fixed the penalty at five years in the peniten- tiary. The prisoner raved like madman, and threatened the court and officers with death upon bis return from prison. Judge Winfield then increased the sentence to four teen years, and Stumbaugh was removed from the court amid the widest excitement
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-02-02
sear1at rexer in Pittsfaeld.

PIrTsv1ELD, Mass, Feb 2.-An epidemic of scarlet fever has prevailed at Lee since Oct l. There have been ninety eases and seventeen deaths. The disease at one time seemed to be stamped out, but has reap. xeared. The schools, wh1h Ind hhn t. 0xansSA peA5kasa1 G0o1iR
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-02-02
The Crown Prince Better.

NEW YoRy, Feb 2.-Latest reports from San Reno confirm the favorable condition of the Crown Prince. Dr Virchon has ex- anined particles from the patients throat and pronounces them not malignant
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-02-02
Could Not Agree.

NEW YORK, Feb 2-The jury in the celebrated Paine will case repoitei this morning that they were unable to agree, and were discharged.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-02-02
Miners at Work.

PHILADELPHIA, Feb 2-Fourteen col heries are at work in Reading to-day. At Penn co,liery 300 out of 500 men are at work. All is quiet.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-02-02
Shoe Operatives on Strike.

CINCINNATI, Feb. 2.-For some time past the manufacturers and shoe workers have been trying to settle the question of the right of the former to discharge employees for cause, but unsuccessfully. Yesterday the employees of several firms quit work. About 10, 900 per sons will be affected
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-02-02
Speaker Carlisle convalescent.

WASHINGTON, Feb 2.-Speaker Carlisle is at the capital, but not occupying the speakers chair. He is engaged upon his mail, which accumulated largely during his illness
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-02-02
The Insolvent Columbian Bank,

PHILADELPHIA, Feb.-The assignees of the Columbian bank filed yesterday the first ac- count of the insolvent institution. They have gathered in s115,ooo of the banks as sets, of which s57,OO0 in cash remains to be disbursed among the depositors. Of this s115, 900 about $50, ,oOO consists of deposits of people against whom the bank held notes at the time of it's failure. The liabilities origi- nally were S2SO,000.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-02-02

ITHACA, N. Y., Feb. s.-In the police court yesterday two sophomores who took part in the abduction of the freshman, Davis, were tried for disorderly conduct. At the latter place great crowd of students had collected, for conviction of the parties arraigned mean, their expulsion from the university. Pro lessor Charles A. Collin, of the law school, happened in just as things were looking de- cidedly "blue" for the prisoners He took charge of the case, and succeeded in getting if dismissed
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-02-02
Weather Indications,

For Friday, in New Jersey, eastern New York, eastern Pennsylvania and in New Eng land, slightly warmer and from fair to part y cloudy, with light variable winds, mostly easterly
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-02-02
ALBANY'S ICE CARNIVAL.
THE FORT BRILLIANTLY LIGHTED
 BY ELECTRICITY.

Booming of Cannon and Ringing of Bells
 Announce the Beginning of the Festivi.
 ties-The Parade of the Bobbing Clubs
 Reviewed by the Governor.
 ALBANY, Feb. 2-Yesterday was the open ing day of Albany's initial winter carnival. and passed off most successfully. At noon a salute of cannon and the ringing of chulch chimes were the signal for beginning the fes. tivities. The flag on the ice fort was then raised and the carnival declared open. Horse races on the canal and ice yacht races on the river were held during the afternoon At the park lake the curling medal contested for.
 Last night this old Dutch city was aliv with enthusiasm. Strangers had fiocked in
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-02-02
Cashier Gilbert Comes Back.

HARTFORD, Feb 2.-L. D. Gilbert, the missing cashier of the Higganum bank has He refuses to be interviewed.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-02-02
Judge Noel Parker's Successor.

TRENTON, Feb. 2.-The senate yesterday in executive session confirmed the nomination of Charles G. Garrison, of Camden, to succeed Judge Noel Parker on the supreme court bench
Smyrna times., 1888-09-05
Hindu Women and Children.

Hindustai women are passiOnately at
tached to their children, especially to the
sons, who are the crown and glory of
their lives. Nor are they without affec-
tiOn for their little daughters, who must
be transplanted so early to other house
holds. They try to take good care of
them all. If prayers and offerings to the
gods ard to Brahmins could keep the
little ones in health, then would Hindu
children never know a pain; but in their
ignorance of the simplest rules Of health,
the mothers often cause sickness 70 come
to the beings they love more than life.
Diseases of the eyes are very prevalent in
India, and the children suffer even more
than adults. A curious custom prevails
of drawing a black line at the base Of the
lower eyelashes with a preparation called
surma. They think this protects the eyes
from inflammation, and also that it adds
to their beauty.
In sickness they formerly depended
upon their priests, who have a little
knowledge OF roots and herbs. Now
there are well educated native doctors in
all the cities, who are employed by
government to take charge of hospitals,
under the superintendent of an English
physician. But the poor people in the
villages suffer greatly from the lack of
medical treatment. When a child is sick,
the anxious mother gets the best advice
and medicine she can, and redoubles her
prayers to the gods. If the child dies
she is overwhelmed with sorrow and
despair fearing that some sin of her own
has caused the death of the child, or that
it's sin has hurried it into another exist
ence where, as a savage beast or venom
GUS reptile, it must expatiate its guilt.
The vague doctrine of the transmigration
of souls does not afford much comfort ia
the Hindu. No hope of recognition o1
reunion is held out; and yet, with the
utmost inconsistency, the people Otter
speak of paradise and of meeting deal
ones there.-Mrs. E. J. Humphrey il
| DemOrest's S Monthly.
Smyrna times., 1888-09-05
victims of Nervous Dyspepsia" !"

A malady that seems to have become
alarmingly prevalent of late goes by the
name Of nervous dyspepsia" The doc
tors are getting up as great q run on this
term as they did on malaria few years
ago. If a man has a queer fancy of any
sort, or a woman imagines that burglar
is really under the bed, it is a certain case
OF nervous dyspepsia, just as an ordinary
headache is set down to malaria. 1t is
astonishing, though, how heartily some
Of these victims of nervous dyspepsia can
fill themselves with food, and how ready
they all are to grab every good thing go
ing that they can reach. 1t is sheer hum
bug in the doctors to use this term at all,
or to encourage people in the notion that
they have any such malady but then
there is quite as much humbug among
the doctors as among any other class,
possibly even a little more. Hundreds of
men in perfectly good general health, and
attending to business as regularly as they
ever did, will tell you, if asked how they
are, that they are utterly wretched FROM
nervous dyspepsia, and go on to dilate on
the symptoms at a tiresome length. The
doctor has told them that's what's the
matter when probably the real trouble is
only stomach temporarily out of order,
and as the phrase sounds well they repeat
it at every opportunity. It is a peculiar
ity of the man who fancies he has nervous
dyspepsia to be more of a crank than any
other crank.-New York Cor. Detroit
Free Press.
Smyrna times., 1888-09-05
American View of English Manners.

No class in the world, probably, is
Judged so little on its merits as the Eng
ish upper class. At home it casts a
glamour on mems eyes, a glamour so great
that Mr.. Darwin absolutely believed it
physically superior to other classes, al
though another social observer, Mr. Ed
ward Jenkins, made, few years since,
the remark. "'Why noble earls should
be so ugly is q problem of nat
ure," and this strikes the Ameri-
can visitor to the house of lords as
being nearer the truth. So great is, at
any rate, their lingering prestige among
Liberals, that q leading London reformer
once told me that it was almost essential
to the success Of radical meeting to get
q lord to preside at 1t, and have myself
been present at such gathering in Lon
don, when one Of the few really good
speakers l ever heard in England man
full Of information on the very point at
issue, and expressing it sdmirably-was
put down, in that brutal way only seen
among Englishmen, through the impa-
thence Of the audience to hear duh and
inarticulate lord, who had nothing to say
and said it.
A class thus situated cannot be Judged
by what Is said about it in its own nome;
and when it Is transplanted It is apt to
drift among class Of similar admirers
abroad No doubt there are noblemen in
England whose manner a critical Ameri.
can would call high bred; but it is Ger.
tain that one may travel a good deal IL
that country, and even 90 through con
siderable course Of London dinner parties
without having the good luck to encoun
ter specimen.-T. W. Higginson in The
Forum.
Smyrna times., 1888-09-05
How Policemen Wear Cloves.


Did the man who notices everything in
the busy life around him ever take heed
to the fashion of the police force in the
matter of wearing gloves? On Broadway,
down town, where the tall, stalwart Of
ticer guides unprotected females through
the labyrinth of endless lines of trucks.
horse cars and drays of all kinds, his
hands are neatly encased in a pair of
white closely fitting gloves. At the end
of the day their original color is some
times not apparent, but he wears them
both.
On the avenue, where his duty consists
of walking up and down, up and down in
a monOtonous manner, the policeman fol
lows the fashion of theswells that parade
before him. One glove only is worn, and
that on the left hand, which clasps ten.
derly the other neatly folded white bit of
cotton, while his right hand is free to
swing nonchalantly his club
In the business portions of the city the
presiding genius in blue discards gloves
as a rule, and his hands are free to grapple
with any obstreperous member of the ex
changes who may feel particularly happy
But he possesses gloves, you know that
for you see them just protruding above
his breast pocket.
And down where the outcast portion o.
humanity exists, the strong, muscular
guardian of the law walks about bare
handed, for the men with whom he come:
in contact scarcely know what gloves are
But there is an exception to the genera
rule-a new man on the force always
wears both gloves until he finds out tn,
fashion of his district and accommodate!
himself accordingly.-NewY York Evening
| Sun.
Smyrna times., 1888-09-05
A WONDERFUL RAILROAD.
From Moscow to st. Petersburg-Ivan and
His Friend.


When the railway was first opened be-
tween Moscow and st. Petersburg it was
an object of great terror to the supersti-
tious peasantry of northern Russia, who
thought there must certainly be some
wttchcraft or magic in an invention which
could make a train of heavy cars run
along without horses at the rate of
twenty miles an hour, when the best
speed of the wagons to which they were
accustomed was only three miles an hour,
OF four at the very outside.
Some of them would not even go within
sight of train, and made the sign of the
cross whenever they heard one rattle past.
Others peeped timidly overHthe palisade
of the railway station to catch glimpse
Of the smoke breathing creature, which
they believed to be a living monster, and
when the steam whistle sounded they
cried out, Clear him screamingl He's
hungry, and wants to eat somebody and
took TO their heels at once.
But little by little this terror began to
wear away. The village priests were seen
to go to and fro by train, and the simple
country folk thought that what they did
could not be wrong. By degrees the
peasants themselves began to try the
''smoke wagons" too, and one day an old
had never been out of his own village till
then, made up his mind to go and have a
look at 'Mother Moscow" which all Rus
sian peasants reverence as the finest city
in the world, and the real capital of
Russia.
Now it happened that the down express
and the up express met each other at the
station of Bologoe midway between Mos
COW and st. Petersburg, where the pass
engers of both trains stopped half an
hour to have supper. Among the crowd
of people that got out of the other train
| Ivan suddenly recognized an old friend
The two went into the refreshment room
| together, had a chat over their steaming
tumblers of tea and lemon juice, and then
| Ivan, without thinking of what he was
doing, got into his friends train instead
of his own, and was soon travelling back
toward the spot whence he had started.
Their talk went on merrily for a while,
for Ivan's friend never thought of asking
the old man which way he was going.
But presently Ivan began to grow silent
and grave, as if pondering something
which puzzled him very much; and at
length, after sitting for nearly five min
utes without uttering a word, he sud
denly broke out:
'Ah, Pavel Yurievitch" paul son OF
| GeOrge), "what a wonderful thing these
railroads are, to be sure! Here am going
to Moscow, and here are you going to St
Petersburg, and yet were both travelling
in the same car"-David Ker in Harper'S
Magazine.
Smyrna times., 1888-09-05
E1ectrieity for Writers, Paralxsis.

In one of the broad windows of the re-
cording department of the Office of James
Bond, clerk of the superior court, is a
small electric battery. 1t is used by the
recorders for the relief of the cramp of
the muscles of the hand which follows
long continued and steady use of the pen.
The relief is instantaneous, and clerks
who formerly were compelled at times to
stop work for several days on account of
swelling and contraction of the muscles
of the hand now take few gentle shocks
of the electric current on the slightest
approach of stiffness. They return to
work at once, entirely relieved, and con-
tinue without inconvenience. Nearly
every one of the score of clerks receives
benefit from the electric current, and the
battery is regarded as an indispensable
fixture of the Office.-Baltimore Sun.
Smyrna times., 1888-09-05
Getting Even at Last.

Our red headed girls have at last got
the joke on the public. Every time a
pretty girl with red hair enters an ele-
waited train heads are stuck out Of the
windows and necks are craned to see If
there isn't a white horse following the
train. If she gets on to a ferryboat people
look as if they expected a species Of Per
seus of some kind to pass the boat. She
has got tired Of this and of the miniature
white horse that the Broadway dude wears
on his watch chain and faunts insolently
In her face as she enters a car. She has 6
new scheme-a counter irritant. It's G
white horse breastpin made Of celluloid
which she wears conspicuously at hel
throat. Instead of staring at her and thu
road alternately, people give her undi
vided attention for a minute, and wheI
they discover the joke they smile and pass
on, glad for chance to attend to theil
own business.-New York Telegram.