Show THE GOLD BRICK GAME it is a but stubborn fact that a moneymaking money making scheme or a dodge to gain filthy lucre luere may be ever so threadbare some gudgeon will be caught in it and repent too late of having forgotten that it is a risky business be eines to deal with self con fessel rogues ono oneff of the oldest west most worn out but still attractive tricks in the gold cold brick game which has been io o often exposed that it seems impossible to conceive of so a gullibility libi lity as it takes to catch eatch at the transparent bait still there are always some persons with greed of gain be it legitimate or fraudulent who jump at every opportunity to turn a penny more often not an honest one if they get left like the dog who passed a bridge with a piece of meat in bis kis mouth and dropped drop it into the water in hie his eagerness to secure the mirrored image everybody laughs at their discomfiture and they have the shame without the game sometimes however the tho trick get foiled in their attempts at roping in in a confiding victim and they become caught in their own snare thus lately in davenport iowa where the police authorities had been tor two weeks on the lookout for a couple of shar pers who had been playing the gold brick game in illinois kansa and iowa A davenport correspondent writes write to the chicago news about it under date of dec their names aro are john IV vandern and mcdonald McDona td and aud it is s su they are from chicago vandern had a victim in view view a from maquoketa near this city named charles Voel kera he ile represented to him that ho he was one oi 01 a party of road agents in colorado Collom do who had bad robbed stages and traine trains of bullion silver and gold bars ane bricks which were being transported east cast and that he be had bad a number on hand several of which were concealed in davenport and that lie would take him to the place and cell sell him a goldbrick gold brick worth for 2000 the money to be on hand band for him at a certain bank in the CIA city akers Voel kera came to davenport laid the matter before chief kessler and when vandern and mcdonald arrived in town they were allowed to roam around a little while and then taken in while the officers went after the bricks at the revealed place in east davenport the bricks had been removed and next day the prisoners were released so the plot and counterplot were worked until it appears Voel kera worked vandern around to maquoketa and this afternoon he be telegraphed telegraph ed chief kessler of this city arrested Arrest edmy my man this morning got the brick the rho chief started for afa maquoketa lu oketa and will bring vandern to this t his city mcdonald escaped the brick has every very appearance of bringgold being gold and is e well calculated to deceive any but an arl expert how the game itself can deceive any anyone one but a man steeped in cupidity wieh will blind his eyes and befog his reason is what puzzles us ae As shakespeare says how quickly nature falls into revolt when gold becomes her object JUDGE was appointed last week associate justice of the US supreme courtis court is about 52 yea yeara old and unmarried he ile graduated from Il harvard arvard college at t the ago of 16 he ile took a regu rega lar course in the harvard law sell school and find read law with the present judge lowell helas he was ad admitted mit to the bar in february 1851 he waa was reporter of dici decisions f for or the su supreme p reme court of massachusetts from 1854 to 1861 he ile was al appointed associate justice of the supreme court of hig his state in 1864 and upon the death of chief justice chapman in 1873 he was appointed his successor he was a delegate to the first state convention of the free soil party and waa was actively associated with charles sumner C CF P adams hen henry ry wil ion ton S SC C phillips Phillip sJ J G palfrey and other others in that movement NEXT transit of venus is is already the topic ef of interest in astronomical trono mical circles the german government is preparing two expeditions expeditious of observation one for the mouth of the la plata river and the other for or the straits of magellon 10 I CONTAGION is I nio most t subtle and it is almost impossible to guard against it thus we learn of the case of a lady in berlin whose four eb children ildren wore were afflicted with diphtheria one after another the children had a certain favorite picture book which they waru in the habit babit of perusing quite frequently having done so while they were affected bv by the malady the mother when turning the leaves of the book over with witha a moistened finger caught tile fatal germs of contagion and succumbed |