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W. E. PHILLIPS,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Blacks ’tear, Ga.
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ga., Tuesday, 12 . 1873 .
Graptomantic Science.
The idea of expert testimony to iden
tify signatures and handwritings in die
pnted documents in court, is a familiar
one (says a St. Louis paper), but apart
from the limited number of persons w%
have been present at trials
questions of this kind, very few liape
auy definite idea of the nature and im
portanee of this description of testi
mony. The general introduction of this
kind of testimony only dates back to a
little over twe “
P-V spread to M nearly all civilize* countries,
The manner and occasion of its intro
dnetion was substantially as follows:
In 1866-6 the treasury department at
Washington discovered in various parte
of of the country extensive evidences ring for of the forging exist^^e ttsW
an
warrants under the law granting lands
to soldiers of 1812. Applications for
these land warrants had to oome either
from the soldiers themselves or from
their legal representatives, and the
frauds were conducted by forging the
names of soldiers to applications. There
was no act of Congress to pnnisli such
forgeries, but there wan an act making
it a penitentiary offenRe to present to
the treasury department such forged
land warrants. The ring got possession
by some meansofarmy '^ paymasters’ rolls
and other doc"** l j jaLwhich duplicates
were in the ^* n< * / JfV and from
ShCR Yolfs 2®^’ “ u * V.^applications JS obtained on
which t^ie arc were
concocted. unfortunately for the
of ring the piJKnsters’ JF the last rolls they and got subse¬ hold
were ones,
quent o^a showed that some of the
parties whose names had been nsed
were dead. But the problem was to
discover who had committed the forgery,
and by that clew get proof that the per¬
son who presented the application knew
it to be forged. Numerous arrests were
made and indictments found in St.
Lonis and other places, and the cases
presented for trial here were those in
which, as was eventually proved, the
men who presented the warrants were
the ones who had committed the forg'er
ics. Except by the evidence of accom¬
plices, no direct proof of the guilt of
these parties could be obtained ; but a
very intelligent officer of the general
land office at Washington. David G.
Perkins of New Hampshire, had made
himself an expert in distinguishing dis
guised handwritings of signatures or
papers, from his knowledge of the genu
ine handwriting of an individual, ac
quired by close examination of many
letters of such individual. He was thus
enabled to determine with great certain
ty whether or not the writer of the let
ters was the writer of the disguised sig
natures. In most of the cases tried
here, as well as elsewhere, that was the
B0le evideEce agaiDRt the partie8> The
idea that such evidence could be intro
duced was firmly opposed by the conn
sel for the defendants here. Justice
Catron and Judge Wells, who presided
over the United 8tates
during these trials, sustained the ad -
niissionof such testimony. The man
ner in which Mr. Perkins arrived at bis
conclusions in regard to the identity of
writers is a little curious. Just as a
man has certain tricks in walking, or
performing any motion by which he
can be identified, he acquires certain
habits in writing—as for instance, a pe
culiar formation of certain letters. No
matter how a suau disguises kimstlf oc
affects a different mode of walking, he
will be certain in some inadvertent mo
ment to make a movement that will dis
cover him te one familiar with his
gait. In the same way a man may dis
gxiise his handwriting, yet he cannot
by auy amount of caution infusing
the writing certain peculiarities
kat enable it to be identified as be
.y\nd any possible doubt
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^ Hereditary Inebriety.
.elTC^rntS nZ^L*
was delivy,Vd j\B. upon this subject iu that
city by “ N. Comings of New
Britain, ani?\ras trd*^U of - nnnsnal ----------- interest -
doctor the laws of hereditary
development tb ^ the vegetable and
animal kingdom t ? 1 man, and said the
indications were o i a perfect corres
pondence existed/e lid that man was
governed by BimiHulaws, and modified
in character andomtructnre by similar
conditions. In j A • aae the same thing
existed. The dt-Srine of the sins of
the fathers beingwinited upon the third
And fourth generations waB clear every
day, and had a'literal meaning that was
almost terrible. The consumptive, the
nsaue, the inebriate was, in many cases,
but a reproduction of the past—an epi¬
tome of the vices and diseases of parents.
The diseased taint was often apparent in
t irly life, long before inebriety broke
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by judicious training and education; We
should have the largest sympathy for
men of this class, and should provide
meanH to help them in asylums. They
require both mental and physical care,
aud need to be guarded from temptation
always and at all times. The doctor
gave some of the general principles
which guided the physician in the treat¬
ment of this class, asserting that ine¬
briate asylums were equally essentia] in
every community with insane asylums,
and that thetime was coming when maDy
of this class of persons would be restor¬
ed to lives of usefulness that now went
down from bad to worse, and died a vic¬
tim of their own, and the ignorance of
their friends.’
How the Errors Crept In.
Florence Dc Laigne, who recently
published some verses on “Autumn”
in these columns, writes to ask: “Who
is responsible for the typographical
errors in the Hawkeye f" Lean down
here, Florence, while we whisper in your
ear: “-sh; nobody is. The editor
writes so plainly that even a blind man
can spell out his words; the compositors
jtre college men who have edited papers
of their own, and set up the matter ex
actly as it is written and correct what
mistakes the editor makes; the proof
reader is a professor of rhetoric and
philology ^j ^ in an Iowa college, K and never
e a iBtake in Lig life . Hncl he cor .
rects what few mistakes the compositors
may make; the foreman is a Gottingen
graduate, who has nothing to do but see
that the matter is perfect when the forms
down. There isn’t a mistake in the
Hawkeye when it reaches the press,
But we’ll tell you, as a professional
secret, Florence, how the mistakes creep
in. The pressman told the manager,
and the manager told ns; it’s the ink,
Florence, it’s the ink. We pay but
thonsands and thousands of dollars a
year for good ink, and we can’t get an
article that won’t fairly measle the paper
with typographical errors.—Burlington
JIuu>U,yo.
NO. 40 .
l>c«n Stanley In America.
Dean Htauley, of Westminster abbey,
th e noted English divine, at a speech
mft de before the Century club in New
York, i,’ a short time ago, said:
i aV e done mnoh and seen much and
have had a vivid experience of American
)if 0 manners, and my only disap
p^tment i* that I did not anticipates©
much, and I was compelled to remold
anticipatory impressions of your
country. I can find it in mv heart even
uTSTimii I'r.tu
liave #A j^ OJt unnoted, and have
0 ften given me credit for doing and say.
ing things of which I had no r cool tee¬
y on> an d was sure that I had no
Wp * rieluse in. [Laughter.]
8o me ti m «* the questioning of the
our ioua * to my impressions and
vieW8 of have driven me al
most to t«ie limits of endurance, yet I
appreda^ that there was no disrespect,
no wish 1 1 lake me off my guard, but only
that pm dng urgency which is so mark¬
ed a feature of American character. If
there \<C any criticism I would m a ke , it
is that the manifestations of
and frkusdlincss lining. have been tod many
aud too The two months which
I have fpeut on these shores have been
two year, in actual work, or twooentu
rios ratLsince \ have livpd Yi*gfc)ia »hrougb
all A \ fill iMAtt ! history. In I
anr a1
of the earlier aettlera, and, aa it
were, I met Smith and Pocahoutas
aud witnessed over again the drama
of the struggle in the great centra)
State among the States. Iu Masaaohu
etts 1 saw the work and sacrifices of
the pilgrims, and in Philadelphia—well,
I lived in a way that would have shocked
the simple soul of William Penn.
[Laughter.]
There oro two impressions which sro
fixed upon my mind as to the leading
characteristics of the people among
whom I have passed, as the almanac
informs me, bnt two short months
Everything seems to be fermenting and
growing, aud yet I have been no farther
West than Niagara. As I stood in the
moonlight at that great work and cease¬
less labor of nature and saw it for the
first time, it looked to me like
the incessant activity and tireless,
restless, beating whirlpool of life
and existence here, In the ever
lasting tumult of the abyss I saw the
undying push and activity of America.
In the mist cloud that rose in the moon¬
light I saw images somehow of Ameri
can destiny. In the silver column that
ro *® silent into the night I saw the
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* r ° J® oth I have had
tlon * er Jl
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ever-present hopefutoess «<» . ,
of he people. y
ward and try again what had ., beenaban
(iouecl 88 ^° n ’f gra8p / >
Europe, . ,
pt- H, P le ° ey wor mg i
day to supersede these progressions by
new devices and new me. i s.
Mr. and Mrs. B. C. Hall, the English
authors, are seventy-eight and seventy
six years old respectively. They were
married at the ages of twenty-three and
twenty-one years, sod they are called
the youngest old pair in the United
Kingdom. He is English and she Irish,
and they are the happiest sod most
gezhal sc aj it luicws.