The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-11-29
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From Our 0ton Correspondents
NEW YORK, Nov 90 1869.
A 1IiserIy MOrIbuud.'

NEW YORK, Nov. 90, 1869.
iIiserly MOrlbund.
For haif-a-dozen years an old gentleman VINO
made 1t his sole occupation TO accumulate money,
has been gradually dying at Taylor's Hotel, Jersey
City. He was little man, with a little voice, and
little appetite and occupied little garrett and very
little else was known OF him. The great thing in his
favor was that his board bill was punctually paid.
AS regularly as Saturday morning came around the
bill was presented and the money was forthcoming.
The proprietor OF the hotel might have possibly be-
lieyed in the phenomenon of all New York and Jer-
sey City being swept away by one immense tidal
wave, but he never doubted, never could have come
moribund miser in question, would have proved a
fraud and neither did he. Ye who would read this
brief biography expectant OF such denouen.e, are
instead SeS of making and for 0 himself Je nS@s s
room last Friday evening, aud having looked death
In the face the last 1ve six years, was stared
out OF confidence by him at last In other words he
died. To be slightly fguratve, he went up In that
unreturnable balloon which Is furnished with no
day morning the hotel clerk, as usual, went up to
The garret TO present the weekly bill. He Knocked
repeatedly at the door, but received no answer He
opened the door and went in. The septnagenarian-
The old gentleman was in his seyenty-thlrd year-in-
stead OF handing out the tin, maintained solemn
sience-sOlemn as death. IL tcas death. lie had
succumbed sitting at his accustomed desk. And
his is the point at which his story becomes interest
ing. Nothing being certainly known about him, his
desk and trunks were searched, and in them were
found stocks and bonds to the amount OF SIX nun
ored Thousand dollars and Will dated hteen years
her chldren, residing in Connecticut. You will
agree with me in thinking OF brother OF this kind
how extremely handy 1t would be to have hlm In the
rouse, provided he did not live too long, and there
was no danger OF the will being contested.
The OrOide swinde.
II were an oroide-wateh seller ! might wear
diamonds In my shirt bosom as large as Lima beans,
and drive horses that Mr. Bonner would not disdaln
TO sit behind the 0roide watch business In thl
city is an immense swinde, and brings Ia enormOu
returns to those who have SUFFICIENT genius TO en-
gage n IL. These returns are so great as 10 Ell
tirely overs hadow the incomes derived from the
legitimate pursuits OF the genuine importers About
one hundred thousand Orode watches are annua,IY
sold in this country, eXemplifying the truth OF the
proyerb that one fool makes many The demand,
80 far from dying out, is on the increase ana the
nasty, little, ill-smeng, out.of-the-way shops ol
these chr0LOmetrcal swindlers, situated generally
at the tops OF large buildings where various otnel
kinds OF active business are carried on, are more
sought after than ever. number or them are
found upon Broadway, which Is spotted more or less
with swindilng inquities of all kinds, but theil
fayorlte fostering places are in Fulton and In Mas
sau streets. There the b0gus-dealers eau be seen
every day ana AL day, cross between the gamble
and the rufilan, invested with the din
monds and the dlssoluteness of the one
and the surface pug-uglTsm and lurking poltrOoner
81 the other. II Is this kind OF person who make
fortunes out OF the sylvan or the suburban crednt
when believes against reason that watch wort
hundreds vi dOuars can be oDtaned for Iroln two Il