The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-04-25
.COUNTERFEITERS ARRESTED

NEW YORK, April 24-special--lt is
said in political circles that Compt lS
Bird S. Coler will probably be the DEM
ocratic candidate tor Governor OF Ne"
York this fall. 1t is further stated that
fhis plan has been tacitly agreed
to by David Is. Hill, Edward Murphy,
Jr., Tarnaany Hall and the Brooklyn
Democracy. Mr.. Coer declared some
time ago that as soon as his term OF
Office expired as Comptroller Of New
York he would retire from politics ana
60 back to business in Wall Street. -Mr.
Coler denies that he is candidate.
The police have succeeded in arrest
ing three persons and uncoYerlnS Gan
cerous plot 10 raise and counterfeit treas
Harry Eshbach, Edward Henry and Mary
Henry, his wife, who is also the SISTER
sof Eshbach a complete outfit for alter
ing and counterfeiting bills was found
in their possession on the top floor OF an
apartment house in West Nlnety-elghth
Street. The game OF these experts "aS
to raise two dollar bills to fives, although
occa sionally a two dollar bill was raised
to a ten and found its way into clrcula-
ton. The work was SO cleVeriy done
as to escape the attention cs most people
who were not in the habit of handling
money carefully The trio were heid III
s.. 900 bail each for examination.
BARBARA FRIETCHIE.
AT Cooper Union last night General H.
Kyd Douglas took occasion to explode
the Barbara Frietchie myth
General Jackson never even passed
Barbara Fretchie's house said General
Douglas 1T seems hard to believe that
all that beautiful poem is a fiction, but
the fact remains. Not even her relatives
will sanction the story.
General Jackson, just before an entry
into Frederick, had been seriously m
jured by fall from a horse that had
been presented to him by some OF his
admirers We were obliged to place Cen
eral Jackson in an ambulance and stop
AT Bert,s Grove about three miles from
Frederick.
General Jackson. on the following
Sunday evening, insisted on being taken
into Frederick in the ambulance to attend
church. He did not return to town again
until the morning Of the supposed Incl
dent-September 10, 1862. Then we again
took him into town in the ambulance
We stopped at the corner of Patrick ana
Main Streets. and there he asked some
CT the citizens misleading questions
about the surrounding country. Then
he directed that I drive with him TO the
residence of the Rev. DR., Ross, the Pres
byterian clergyman, whose church we
had attended on the preceding Sunday
evening. It was still SO early DR.. Ross
was not up, so we left a card.
I'VE drove the ambulance past the pres
ent Courthouse, past the home. of VIII
liam Bantz. then down Mil Alley TO
Middletown Pike, when we reached Jack
sons column and rode up to the front.
, We did not pass Barbara Frietchie's
house
Barbara Frietchie. I have learned after
long and painstafing investigation was
ninety-six years old at that time. She
was helpless and almost blind. No SOL
ia Of 1ul 1f
erick saw flag at her window. Her
relatives. with whom have talked, adj
init that there is no foundation for the
| story on which Whittier has written such
| a beautiful poem
..Mrs. E. D. E. N. Southworth, novelist,
and consequently unhampered by facts,
| is said to have given Whittier the story.
T was with Jackson all the time he was
in the vicinity of Frederick, and / can
| say that the beautiful poem is all myth.
Mr.. Joseph Jefferson is playing the
.:Cricket on the Hearth at the Fifth
| Avenue Theatre, and last night IN re-
sponse to calls for a speech, told the
ta,1dience that he had no idea Of retiring
from the stage.
| Mrs. Marie Forester died on Saturday
in this city from unique malady, known
as Addison's Disease. adisease discov-
cred by Thomas Addison IN LONDON IN
1885. After an attack Of grip four years
to .freckle. The freckles soon spread
to all parts of her body. and the woman
turned from white to bronze. Al first
she was apparently in good health, but
after while she began TO grow weak
and went from bad to worse un,a oealh'
MRS. sGOUI,D'S GOWNS.
| An amended complaint was yesterday
filed in the suit brought by Misses Smith
| and Dullan against Howard Could TO re-
| cover a balance alleged TO be due on. SIS
worth ofadresses furnished to Mrs. Could
Mary F. Smith, one of the plaintiffs,
said to-day. There was white cream
lace dress on which, we spent weeks and
| weeks. After it was all completed Mrs
Go,s--d came in and said: Oh. Miss
Smith. I have seen AIRS. Langtry in The
Degenerat es, and I want to look like
her. Can't you make my gown so that
| I will look as well as she does?' So we
| had to pull the gown to pieces to make
1t suit the latest idea.