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The Beef Robbery.
Best is one of the prime necessaries
of life, and m this country it is lodfi’d
on the table of all classes and condi-
tions. The working man enjoys it- as
.. Well as the man of fortune and under ..
ordinary circumstances is able to obtain
it. Anything that tends to make it "a
luxury affects the whole American
people.
The price of beef' has recently" beeni
enormously increased, and with low
wages to labor, this seriously affects the
great masses of the people of the
country ; but it is unfortunate that few
study the causes which produce this re-
sult or seek to understand “the trouble
and correct the evil in the proper way.
It is doubtless true, as is claimed,
that the supply of beef cattle is some-
what reduced, for the reason that there
has been overproduction and that has
gradually diminished the product ; but
the present price of beef is not 9170’,
duced wholly or even chiefly by a short
supply of cattle. It is done by a power-
ful monopoly that controls the cattle
and beef trade of the country and that
trust is enabled to impose. fearful exac-_
tions upon the American people.
Food Fishes.
The recent advance in the price of
meat has ngturally increased the con—
sumption cf fish, and as there is no
some months, it is probable that fish
consumption will continue to increase.
Among the wisest, acts of lawmakers,
National and .State, have been those
which have prompted fish culture. But
for such legislation most of our streams
lakes, and ponds, that now afford large
supplies of wholesome food, would have
been practically destitute of such pro-
ducts. Among the wisest and most
for the last fifty years have been the
labors of those energetic philanthro-
pists who have promoted such legisla-
tion-
In the whole range of bed suppliels
there is nothing more wholesome than
fish, and there are few things more pal-
atable. It admits of a great variety of
preservative and culinary treatment.
It can be, served simply and cheaply to
meet the requirements of economy, or
it can be so elaborately treated as to
meet the views of those who have no
occasion to practice thrift. The almost
numberless yarieties of obtainable food
fishes possess an equal variety of quali-
ties. All tastes and all prejudices can
be gratified or humored in this kind of
food, as well as in the usual meats or
in fowls or game. . '
, Thegeneral government has made
such lample provision that, at small
cost, all the strearfis of all the states
adapted to the local conditions. Many
missions and state hatcheries. There
are, however, a few states that have
given little or no attention to fish cul-
ture land whose streams yield no food.
The rise in meats will probably induce
these states to follow the example of
more provident Commonwealths,
As for Norwalk and its vicinage, the
Naromake club is stocking and protect-
ing the fresh-water streams, while the
waters of Long Island Sound, give our
inhabitants an unfailing supply of shell
and other fishes. Just now, flat fish,
.fill our harbor to repletionhnd it is a
poor disciple of Izaak Walton who can-
not catch a toothsome mess in a few
hours of angling for them.
Have a Care.
This is the season of bonfires, and too°
much care and caution cannot be used
in setting fire to the same, and the care
and .caution ought not to stop there:
Those who build them should also keep
a close watch that children wearing
light and inflammable clothing are
kept from playing about the fires at the
risk of receiving burns that in so many
Breweries
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WAR
blflRRElPUNDENT.
BY THE
Editor of the Gazette.
Copyrighted 1894.
CHAPTER LIII.
The great‘and normallyssad heart of
President Lincoln had, after months of
the deepest despair, been tremendous-
ly cheered and his spii it given an exal-
tation, which led him late on the morn-
.ing of the 4th of July, to proclaim to
the country the victory over Lee at
Gettysburg, and for which, with rever-
ent diction, he said: “The PreSident
especially desires on this day, that He
whose will, not ours, should ever be
done, be everywhere remembered and
reverenced with the profoundest grati-
tude.” It .is a truth of history, and
not immodest, I trust, to here record
the fact that my own intensely confi-
dent and assuring telegrams from Han-
“ over to the President. had led him to
expect that the defeat and stampede of
Lee was surely to end in his complete
overthrow and thus was he led to a per-
haps too exultant state of mind, at the
time his ofiicral congratulations were
placed on the Wires to electrify and
cheer all the loyal nation.
By a most singular as well as happy
coincidence, news reached the Presi-
dent in the afternoon of the same
day that Vicksburg had surrendered to
General Grant, with thirty-one thous—
and rebel prisoners of war, and at ten
o’clock that morning, the same mo-
ment the President had given his con-
gratulatory order to the press, General
John A. Logan had marched his troops
into Vicksburg and the rebel General
Pemberton had marched his army out
to stack their arms in front of our
works. This joyful and soul-stirring
news added to that from Gettysburg
sent forth by the Executive earlier in
the day, set all the loyal north wild
with tumultuous rejoicings. A few days
later. General Joe J ohnsou surrendered
his army and the capital city of Miss-
issippi, to General Sherman and a little
later still, General Banks captured Port
Hudson, and the great Father of Waters
flowed. free from its icy head-springs
to the gulf. Yetihopefully, wearily an
finally despairingly, did our intensely
- anxious President, wait and wait, for
the expected capture and annihilation
of Lee s army, which was still Icitering
unmolested on the eastern banks of
the swollen Potomac. .
Greatly, of course, was he saddened
by the details of the Gettysburg fight.
Two thousand eight hundred and thir-
ty-four boys in blue, killed outright;
thirteen thousand seven hundred and
nine wounded; six thousand six hun-
dred and forty-three taken prisoners
and then on their weary, foot-sore way
to Richmond. Forty-six thousand of
the flower of the Potomac army was
the sad and sickening total of our loss.
Lee never reported his losses, but it
was known that it was over thirty thous-
and in killed and wounded, probably
thirty-five thousand, while we had cap-
tured of his men over fourteen thous-
and. A ghastly total of over ninety-
five thousand men slain, wounded and
in captivity, and brothers all. No one
but the Recording Angelcan ever know
the anguish such statistics brought to
the keenly tender and more than
womanly sympathetic nature of Abra-
ham Lincoln.
Nor was all this the President’s chief-
est burden of sorrow and apprehension.
He had been for long and weary months
tilled with the most distresstul appre-
hensions of a second and serious rebel-
lion, born of treasonable machinations
in the very midst of the loyal states.
The Government detectives, employed
in large numbers during the war,
brought to Washingt'bn from Ohio, In-
diana and New York, most alarming
reports of the due and disloyal pur-
poses of the Golden Circle conspira-
‘tors. The avowed purposes of these
new enemies of the Union were to pre-
vent the replenishing of our armies in
the field and to antagonize the anti-
slaverv policy of the Administration.
The Vallandingham incident, which
had passed, will be remembered by all
interested in the events of that period.
New and alarming reports had reached
the President as to a determination in
New York city to resist the draft, which
had been ordered months before to be
put in operation in July. Mr. Lincoln
was very visibly distressed over infor-
mation received the da I called at the
WhiteHouse and when left his presence
for New York, where I arrived early
the next morning.
The draft had been commenced on
Saturday, the 11th of July, in the 22d
ward and adjourned at night to be con-
tinued on Monday. At ten thirty Mon-
day morning about one hundred names
had been rawn. when rioters destroyed
the whee and records and fired the
headquarters of the provost marshal.
This outbreak of riot, arson, rapine
and murder, opened -at the corner of
Third avenue and Forty-sixth street.
The Tribune of Tuesday gave the fol-
lowrng record of infamy:—“The men
who set on the bowling mob of yester-
day, Monday, (July 13, 1863,) are guilty
of aggravated assault and battery, 0
grand larceny; with criminally resist-
ing the execution of the laws with arm-
ed violence- of treason, of insurrection,
of arson and of murder. The catalogue
lacked but. one atrocity to prove itself
matchless in brutal villainy in the
whole world’s history of even mob vio-
lence, sothey set fire over theheads of
the screaming and terrified children in
an orphan asylum.” That night the
rioters attempted to sack and burn the
Tribune office, but were clubbed out of
the building by the police after setting
cases prove fatal.
fire to theficounting-room. The rioters
l.
spent the. night burning buildings.
looting hardware stores of pistols and
guns, jewelry stores of goods, cutting
telegraph-wires, tearing up railroa '
tracks and committing highway rob-’
bery and murder. Next ,day Mayor;
Opdyke and Governor Seymour issued
proclamations announcing that law:
and order must be maintained. But
the mob was fully organized. They?
ordered all street-.carsstopped and all;
factories and business places closed-
For four days it held almost undispu-l
ted sway in the beleagured city. Supt»
Hoyt of the New York and New Haveni
road was forbidden to start a train and?
passengers and mail could neither get’
in or out of the city. In short there}
was a complete reign of terror in: New‘.
York city. . _ .
On reaching the [Tribune office, in an-
ticipation of an attack, my first com-
mission was to get the subscription and
account books and important vouchers
to a place of safety. I had a_;re1ative in'
business between Twenty :seventh and
Twenty-eighth streets, on Eighth ave-
nue. Thither I prepared to have them
conveyed and placed in the. merchant’s
fire-proof vault. But no hackman nor
truckmau could be found who dared to
venture near the Tribune oflice.. ,
hunted the city from Canal street to
the Battery without success. Finally I
found a cab coming from the'Courtland
street ferry. The driver was an, Irish-
man, a Catholic, and as it chanced,
a fiery Republican, who bitterly, de-
nounced the rioters. He, 's'aid~*_tr'u’ly
that Archbishop Hughes was fth’ f set;
to recommend a draft as the ing, .. :3:
and righteous way to get recs” ,1: "
the army. When I asked if 11,}. . ii, 3.,
go over to the Tribune office and".‘darry“«
some hooks up Eighth avenue for me‘
he replied, “Sure an’ I will, ef they...
kills me and me horse, so I will.” He’f
thought it worth a dollar and I thought.
so too, and he took me in, drove to the
Spruce street side of the old Tribune
building where the books werefsoon load-
ed into his vehicle and we drove to our
destination with none molesting or
making us afraid. Instead of one dol-
lar, the faithful Irishman got five, for
his services. .
Congress had authorized the con-
scription in April of 1862, but Presi-
dent Lincoln had deferred resorting to
this extreme measure to fill up the
rapidly decimated ranks of our armies,
as long as prudence and a sense of duty
to the country, would permit and only
issued his proclamation May 8, 1863,
for a draft to begin in
Peace Faction or Knights, of the Golden
Circle, made this the pretext for oppos-
ing the progress of the war in every
possible way. These disloyal organi-
zations had several “castles,” or secret
lodges in New York where it was delib-
erately planned that a. .;revolu--
(1 tion should be inaugurated in that city.
Government detectives hadcfireported
that an organized outbreak was arrang-
ed for on July 4th and only our uni:-
pected victories at_ Gettysburg' a
Vicksburg deferred it. On July 13th,
however, when the enthusiasm over
these two great victories had in a meas-
ure abated and the draft was being
progressed with, the thieves, thugs and
murderers of New York commenced
their devilish work With the unlicensed
fury and merciless cruelty of wild
beasts. Men and women were robbed
and beaten to death in the streets and
colored men, women and children were
hunted and killed on the streets, in
asylums and in their homes as relent-
lessly as if they had been rabid dogs;
No page of American history is so stain-
ed with the very wantonuess and black-
ness of crime and cruelty, as that which
records the terrible outrages of the
New York draft rioters. The military
coming to the aid of the 'civil authori-
ties, finally suppressed this counter
insurrection, but not until more than
a thousand persons had been killed, and
over two millions of property burned,
,pillaged and destroyed. This terrible
riot was no doubt pro-arr anged by dis-
loyal leaders in other states, with rebel
sympathisers in New York and designed
to be thejprelude to a wide and desperate
conspiracy for an open outbreak in the
loyal states against the Union. Gover-
nor Seymour, Ex—Mayor , Fernando
Wood with his brother Congressman
Benjamin Wood, and other pro-slavery
leaders, were Widely accused with aid-
ing and abetting this revolt. At a
secret meeting held at the City Hall,
during the progress of the riot,at which
many prominent. democrats were pres-
ent, I chance to know that a detective
reporter of the Tribune overheard Fer-
nando Wood make this statement :-—-
“Gentlemenyit is useless now to discuss
by whom or how this riot was instiga-
ted. The citv is in the hands of its
thieves and murderers, and the life and
property of a democrat is no safer than
that of [a negro-worshiper. The mob
has got beyond all party control and
must be arrested and stamped out.”
The soathernIrebelslwere fully pre-ad-
vised of and expected this outbreak and
were greatly disappomted that it did
not spread, particularly throughout the
west, as had been promised them that
it should. . One of Lee's oflioers after
the march to Pennsylvania had com-
menced. When it wastheir expectation
to reach New .York City, boasted to one
of our‘ Chaplains that “they had thous-
ands of friends in New York who would
rise and welcome them there, .and.
would destroy the telegraphs,railroads ,.
government stores and property, an
thus aid our invasion?’ An overruling
providence of infinite mercy hoWever.
had ordained that such deep and dam-
‘ning atrocities of wickedness should
not further darken and disgrace the
[trad pages of our great rebellion his-
ory.
A number of Norwalk people’ who
f happened to be in New York when the
riot‘ broke out could not get home be-
cause no trains Were permitted to run
out of or into the Grand Central, neith-
er could they telegraph, as the wires
were all cut. The only way Supt.
James H. Hoyt saved his cars and
tracks from injury, was by promising
the leaders of the riot that he wduld
permit notrains to be moved in or out
Without their knowledge. Several Nor-
walk people were assaulted and robbed
in the streets and one, William Cooper
Williams, a brother of H. H. Williams
the Main street, merchanl, son of our
July. The; -
massages... the late 3.1. Williams,
was ,knocked down 'while peaceably
passing in the street, robbed and then
d foully mfirdered.
At'Norwalk, the greatest excitement
and widespread and unreasoning fear
prevailed. So theatening and disloyal
were the utterances of many who should
.have known better, and so angrily re-
sentful were the more intensely loyal
.pBODle, that looking back at that period,
{it is truly remarkable that no. personal
3encounters, collisions, or serious mis-
lehief were done here. A few houses
:were booted at and stoned by hoodlums
:the GAZETTE Editor’s among the rest.
in the latter case, on two different
evenings, while members of the family
were about the sittirig‘room, a broken
piece of the same granite was hurled
through the front Window. One piece
weighed about three“ pounds and the
other between four and five pounds.
These stories were of equliar tint and
formation, freshly bro 'e'n and not from
any local quarries. Dilligent search was
made at our marble and stone yards
andall the places where such rock could
have been used; finally these specimens
were‘fouud to have been broken from
some stone brought to South Norwalk
for the building of Trinity church. As
there were no street cars then and the
villain who dashed them through our
window was on foot, he had to punish
himself by walking up from the church,
weightedwith the eight pounds of gran-
ite. Fortunately no one was injured,
though the rocks came uncomfortably
near doing so, and a few dollars repair-
, ed the broken window panes and each.
No clue to the miscreant nor his mo-
gtives, could ever be obtained and as
there was no provocation, it was attrib—
guted to. the prevailing rebel-sympa-
,thizing “cussedness” which delighted
3 9. do an innocent party an IDJIII'y on
v éneral principles.
,5”: A— military company familiarly christ-
ened the “Home Guards” was quickly
formed by the special activities of the
late Gen. Craufurd, Wm.Randle Smith,
,General Charles Olmstead and others.
Despite all the threats and evil conspir-
acies of the ‘ilinights of the Golden
Circle,” the “ eace Men,” and “Cap-
perheads,” the Government at Wash-
ington asserted its power so that its
authority was recognized, though sul-
lenly by some, in a way that promptly
stopped all further trouble with enlist-
ments and the fair conduct of the loyally
authorized draft went on. ’
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A Terrifying Runaway.
.r‘ Early yesterday afternoon, the horse
of W. R. Bates, the Main street mer-
chant, attached to his delivery wagon,
and driven by clerk Eddie Holmes,
took it into its perverse, heads to enjoy
\anothe'r runaway. He started on West
avenue find as he came tearing down
past the: M. E. church at a fearful
gait and with heels trying to kick the
bent on bearing down upon the Gaznrrn
reporter who chanced to be in its front,
as were many school children. But as
he neared S. B. Wilson’s residence an
idea seized it to make for the Bridge
and an instant mm across the north—
east corner of the little green and over
the tramway tracks was made, which
whirled the vehicle in air on two wheels
and fired out young Ho‘mes upon the
ground as if shot from a catapult, It
was fortunate that he fell upon the soft
sward else he would have been serious-
ly maimed, if not killed outright. The
wagon righted and on went the horse,
tearing past the club house for the
Bridge. Here an act as brave and
daring asit was hazardous was perform.-
ed by young James Maples who chan-
ced to be wheeling by at the time. He
made for the racing steed, caught it by
the bits and though dragged several
rods, succeeded in arresting its mad
career. Holmes meantime, had come
up, got into his vehicle and drove back
for the seat, blankets, etc., that had
been distributed promiscuously about
the scene of his sudden turn around on
the little green. As the horse showed
no fright and fully exhibited a feeling
that it had enjoyed a nice bit of fun,
the bystanders at once convicted it of
being an old runaway “professional,”
entirely too fond of such escapades for
safe use lathe crowded streets of our
city.
lsHe a Fraud? -
’ On Monday last a man appeared in
town and went from house to house
securing orders for repairing carpet
sweepers. It is understood that he
met with excellent success and it is
believed has left town with a number
of carpet sweepers not belonging to
him. He visited the house of Mrs.
George B. Youngs on Orchard street
and securing a sweeper took it away in
order to put it in repair. The next day
.. he returned with the sweeper and col-
lected‘75 cents for his work. He then
pretended to discover that the work
had not been properly done, and again
took the machine away, but this time
failed to return it, and the owner 'of
the sweeper is under the impression
that he won’t. She has reported the
matter to the police, but they have not
yet been able to locate the man. ‘
' Election by Plurallty.
In the House yesterday the amend-
ment to the constitution providing for
the election of state officers by popu-
lar vote, which came from the last gen-
eral assembly, was favorably reported
and tabled for the calendar. If adopt-
ed by two-thirds vote of each house it
will go to the people.
sun from the sky, the brute seemed »
ALMOST ELECTROCUIED.
But for the Timely Actlon 01' His.
Assistant, Willis J. Burr Would
Have Been a Corpse.
He Received a 1,500 Volt Shock
‘and Lives to Tell of It.
a lineman and trimmer employed by
the Norwalk and South Norwalk Elec~
tric Light company, probably came as
,near being electrocuted as any other
pany.
That he lives to tell the story of his
narrow escape is certainly through no
fault of his own, but altogether by
reason of the prompt action of the man
who accompanied him.
As is their custom Burr in {company
with Hugh McAdam went out to make
needed repairs in the line. They visit-
ed a point on Union Park at the junc-
tion cf Franklin-avenue, and near the
residence of Henry I. Hoyt where the
electric wires are attached to a 25-foot
iron pole.
A ladder had been placed up against
the pole which Burr ascended and with
his feet on the top rung of the same
wasengaged, while holding on with his
left hand to the iron pole, in making
needed changes with his right hand.
McAdams, who stood at the base of
the ladder happened to glance upward
and was horrified to see Burr apparent-
ly lifeless. Quickly realizing the fact
that something was wrong, he waited
not a second but tilted the ladder caus-
ing Burr to fall to the ground.
He made and ineffectual attempt to
catch Burr as he fell, but only succeed-
ed in breaking his fall, the poor fellow
' striking the ground headforemost and
receiving some ugly scratches over his
eye and on the left side of his face.
Burr lay in an unconscious condition,
and McAdams immediately went after
,Dr, W. J. Tracy, who succeeded after
r Streuuous efforts in reviving himenough'
to be taken home in a coach although
he was yet in a somewhat dazed condi-
tion. ,
The cause of the accident is attributed
to the fact that while Burr was at work
he placed the back of his head against
an exposed part of the alternating wire
and as his left hand grasped the pole
the ground current communication was
made perfect through his body.
The wire burned a deep and wide
channel in the back of his head, and
his hand which was in contact with the
pole was badlv burned, and that he es-
caped almost instantaneous death seems
truly remarkable.
Mr. Burr was about this morning but
it will be some days before be fully re-
covers from the accident. He is unable
to tell just how the accident occurred,
but is posrtive that he owes the saving
of his life to the prompt action of Mr.
McAdams.
Suit to Recover Damages.
Mrs. Wilmott Fawcett, through her
attorney Joseph A. Gray, has brought
suit against Attorney John H. Light in
the sum of $5,000 and also against Con-
stable Samuel Ireland, and his bonds-
man, Herman Quittner in the sum of
$900, to recover damages for goods
"attached through the agency of the
above named defendants. It is claim-
ed that the attachment was malicious.
Afteradecision rendered in favor; of
the plaintifl' by the courts, the goods
were returned to Mrs. Fawcett but she
refused to receive the same and they
are now stored at the home of Martin
Kellogg on Wall street. ’
'7
Caught Trout.
Henry Lewis, Will Wardwell and
Thomas Gregory, not one of whom
would ever be suspected of throwing a
fly or a worm for trout, went fishing
yesterday, and returned with one trout
each to their. credit, varying in weight
as follows; one and one-half pounds,
one pound and a half pound fish.
Wardwell agreed to a proposition that
it be said that he caught the smaller
ene provided he was granted the priv-
ilege of exciting the envy of Will Mitch-
ell by presenting the entire catch to
to Jim Lyon who has a treat brook
running through his back yard on
Knight street.
A Shed on Fire.
' Yesterday afternoon, Mrs. Josiah
I Britto attempted to burn up a lot of
refuse and old papers, in the yard at
her home on Harbor avenue. In so
doing a shed and a hennery was fired
and Mrs. Britto was unable to extin-
guish the flames. James Gordon hap-
pened to be passing and going to the
rescue soon had the fire under subjec-
tion and drowned it out before much
damage had been done. '
Yesterday afternoon Willis J. Burr,
, No Better. ,
Mr. J osepha Matheis, who was item-
ized in these columns, yesterday, as
having sufiered a paralytic stroke to
his left side, at noon, is this noon
reported as being in a very precarious
condition by the attending physician.
A trained nurse will care for “poor old
Joe,” who is an old Masonic brother
and Odd Fellow, and well to do in
earthly possessions.
A Fine Vehicle.
A new vehicle to be used by D. W.
Raymond, in his new undertaking bus-
iness, at South Norwalk, has arrived.
It is an accessory to the business with-
out which such business could not be as ‘
-J—$.J
: nicelyoarri - . ~ '
man that the company has had in its' ed on It 15 Wk“ lsknown
employ since the inception of the com-'
as anundertaking wagon and is used in
the preliminary work of a-funeral or
the care of a body. The wagon, a cov-
ered one, was made at Chilcotthe and
is a beauty, with its highly polished.
wood, bevel plate glass and silver trim-
mings. It weighs but 800 pounds and
has all the modern appliances used in
such vehicles.
*»
Suddenly taken Dizzy.
Thomas Condry, who keeps bachelors
hall at a house on River street, and is
a hatter who had been out of employ-
ment for some weeks, secured work
yesterday, and put in a hard day's toil.
About 8 o’clock, he visited the Oster-
banks grocery on Main Street to leave
an order for some goods. While talk-
ing with one of the proprietors he coma
plained of a queer feeling in his head
and suddenly lapsed into unconscious-
ness. Later he revived sufliciently
to be taken home, and this morning is
reported as being all right again. It is
thought that the attack was caused by
his overworking himself.
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Thrown Out.
John Fitzmaurice took an unexpect-
ed tumble from a carriage on North
avenue, yesterday afternoon and land-
ed on his head but luckily without
serious result, although his Derby re-
ceived a gaping wound in its crown.
In attempting to guide the horse into a
short turn at the junction of Main street
and North avenue, J ohn succeeded in
“dishing” one of the hind wheels of
h . .
the carriage and was unceremoniously
bounced on his head into the street as
above. The horse was stopped by a
man who happenedxnear by, and John
got into the carriage again .and drove
off. Later he came very near colliding
with teams on West avenue by his
reckless driving.
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Had Good Luck.
Messrs. Sylvester Taylor, Frederick
Whitlock and Gardiner Bouton, domi-
ciled themselves in a flat-bottom boat
”in company with a mass of threaded
worms, last night, and floated with the
tide down the harbor, to a point where
they had prior knowledge that soft-
finned, snake-like fishes do squirm and
gambol in the mud. Reaching that
point the fishermen dropped the worms
which had been placed in aspherical
form, into the water and they quickly
sank into the lair of the Anguilla tenui-
rastris, with the result that about sev-
enty-five pounds of the squirming
“edible reptiles” were landed in the
boat, after which the trio returned
home and held an eel skinning party.
Policy Playing.
A bill on the policy question was re-
ported by the Judiciary Committee in
the House yesterday. The bill pros
vides that “every person whether, a
principal, or agent, or servant who shall
own, possess, keep, manage, or main—
tain, or who shall assist in keeping,
managing or maintaining any policy
office or place where the game of chance,
business, scheme of occupation, com-
monly known as policy, is or is reputed
to be played, or carried on ; or in any
place where bets or wagers are or are
reputed to be made upon the- result of
a drawing in any lottery, ’or- of the
drawing of any numbers by chance ;.
or any place whlch is, or is reputed ‘to
be resorted to for any of such purposes.
in whole or in part,” shall be fined not
more than $100 or be imprisoned not
more than six months or be punished
by both. -
The same penalty isprovided for per-
sons who shall write, sell, bargain, ex—
change give transfer, deliver, buy, col-
lect or receive, or be connected in any
way with policy slips, tickets, or tokens
. or anything connected with a lottery.
Anybody who shall play policy or fre-~
quent places where it is played is liable
to the same penalty. The manufactur-
ers of articles used in policy are also
liable.
Section 2 of the billimposes the same
penalty on the owners,.mortgagee in. ,
possession, lessee or occupant ofanm,
place used for policy. '
'—For Sale. '
good condition.
Address Bicycle, cared
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