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Show Spencer Not Found. London, 19. Spencer, the defaulting default-ing Chicago bank president, has not been arrested yet. The police did not receive instructions to wlch for him on board the steamer Cncassian until after her arrival at Liverpool. The steamer touched at Moville on Monday night and reached Liverpool Tuesday morning. The London and Liverpool detectives are watching the Circassian for another purpose, but they tork such notice of all passengers as enabled them to say, Borne hours after, when the order for Spencer's arrest was received, that he did not land at Liverpool. If he landtd at Moville be had twelve hours start. Da. Davis, in his speech before the American association for the cure ol inebriate, propped a system which ought lo meet tne'views of all persona who have given any thought to thB subject. Repeated arn-B's tor drunk eunees, petty fioe.- or sentences, only i a -gravaie the evil, ai d in too many cases encourage th drunkard to add crime to his foohth weakness. Dr. Davis proposed tho committal of iuebriat.-s, upon th d rtilicatn of two competent physician, to confinement in on asylum tur onn or more year, during which confinement the patient, should be compelled to labor, bo im 'o' meet the coat of bis tupport.. There are hundreds of lauiihes in Chicago today cursed wiih drunken lathers and brothers even mothers and sisters. There is no law seemingly to prevent a huBband coming home day altordayin ustate of beastly intoxication, intoxi-cation, abusing his family, aud spending their little means for ajs r own brutal indulgences. If such 1 ;n ,,i, in oiiriwt thosS lllCU Will UUt nuim. wi uft---- - dependent on them, they should be compelled to do so by law. If many a drunken vagabond were to know that one word fr -ra his suflering family would counign him lo an inebriate in-ebriate asylum, where he should be compelled to work hard, and where not a drop of stimulant could be bad tor love or money, bo would think twice Lefore running any risks. The Origin of Postage Stamps. The origin of postage BtampB bad a tinge of romance in it. It was thirty seven yeara ago that Rowland Hill, while croaeing a district in tbe north i of England, arrived at the door of at inn where a postman bad stopped tt I deliver a letter. A young girl caroi ? out to receivo il; fits turned it ovei t aud over iu her hand and asked tbi I price ot postage. This was a larg 3 sum and evidently the girl waa poor i fr tho nnatnvm rip nui tided a shilling ihe sighed sadly, and Baid the letter vas from her brother, but that she md no money; and bo Bhe returned ' .he letter to the postman. Touched with pity, Mr. Hill paid the postage and gave the letter to the girl, who seemed very much embarrassed. Scarcely'bad tbe postman turned his back when the young innkeeper'B daughter confessed that it waa a trick between her and her brother. Some signs marked on the envelope told her all she wanted to know, but the letter contained no writing. "We are so poor," she added, "that we invented this mode of corresponding without paying for our letters." The traveler continuing his mad, asked himself if a.Bystem giving place to such frauds waB not a vicious one. Before sunset Rowland bad planned to organize the postal Bervice upon a new basis with what Buccess is known to tbe world. |