The Waynesburg Republican. [volume] (Waynesburg, Pa.) 1867-18??, 1867-11-13
SUNDRY MUMBCGs.

SUNDRY HUMBCGs.
The American AgicultUist, for this
month "shows up" sundry humbugs
as follows: The list of humbugs for
the last month is quite long. Follow
our advice, and do business, as far
as possible, with those only who are
well known and reliabledealers. Wright
Bros. & Co. are filling the country with
their circulars, offering rare chances to
obtain fine watches valued at from S45
to 800 for only a $40 greenback, and
a trihe for a case and postage. Among
other styles is Silver Hunting Chro-
nometer, valued at 500 recommended
as a splendid article. With pocket
full of tickets we dropped in" to their
place, Or rather, we climbed up, and
found their very small rooms on the
top floor, and examined some of their
stock. 1t is the kind known among
dealers in bogus, and that word means
the same all over the country, though
it may not be in the dictionaries-that
is, not what it is represented to be.
We purchased the Hunting Chronom-
eter, valued at 500, as a curiosity. 1t
has little silver in the case, perhaps
two dollars worth; the movement is
very snowy, and it will tick a few
times if shaken very hard, and kept
bottom upwards; turn it over, and it
is dead as a hammer, and as time
keeper it is utterly useless. The
"American Watch" described as re-
failing at $35 to $40, with 2 OF. solid,
silver, hunting cases, we saw, and
"the man" told us that both case and
movement were made in this city, it
was stamped "Union Watch Company,
New York" There is no such insti-
tuition in the city, and no such watches
were ever made here. An importer
in Maiden Lane examined our 800
Duplex, and offered to sell the same
article, which he had in stock and
showed us, for S6,75 gold, or $3.50
greenbacks. Tie Union Watch Com
pany's Watch in Hunting Case, pre-
cisely like the one ofW.B. & Cos. and
which we We're informed was white
metal, and not silver, was offered .or
1925 greenbacks. We warn our
readers again that those parties who
are induced by private circulars and
tickets to buy watches or other articles,
represented as worth several times the
price asked, will find their money gone
and themselves sold. C. i. Van AL
len, who told us a while ago that his
name was A. d. Bowman, now assures
us that their is nosuch person. He is
advertising, however, in the name of
A. d. Bowman & Co. Mr.. Van Allen
advertises also to sell rights to make
Eureka OIL" which is represented as
very cheap, not explosive, can be made
by everybody, etc. We received a
letter from chemist stating that this
article is very dangerous, so we obtain
ed a sample bottle ofthe Eureka OIL"
1t is simply bcnzinc with perhaps,
slight additions, and erplodes as readi-
ly as glnporder. Any man who re-
commends the manufacture of such
stuff by unskilled hands, deserves the
gallows or the penitentiary for life.
Don't touch il, or the advertiser
of it, in any way. Kelley & Cos
Grand Gift Concerts again postponed.
Keep the ticket ps warning to make
no more such estments, which not
only reduce g but generally good
nature too. have numerous in
qniries about ,seoncerts for soldiers
Widows and @ hans, Libraries, etc.,
where tickets are sold and prizes drawn
by some means "strictly honest" and
"entirelyl Legal etc. We class them
all together, without any exceptio ms
as lotteries, and MI lotteries as humbugs.
Bewareof parties who take great pains
to assure the public that they are ']i-
censed by United States authority"
All respectable business men pay for
.. 8. license, and who are not respect
able, and sucA Ecass gipss no authority
b diwyurd 6latb lars, as has been de-
cided over and over again, The med-l
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