Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1870-01-13

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ened to pay the charges and in
vestigate afterwards. He .fonne
just what he had bargained for
but not what he had sought
Neatly deposited in his tin cas-
were eight card photographs
very "fine limitations" ordinary
photo size, of National Bank notes
His purchase would prettily adorr
a photograph album, and he hac
paid his tax.
Transparent as appears the a
bove transaction when explained
we are assured that a thriving
business has been carried on re
Gently by each of the firms whose
names are above gratuitously ad
vertised. After a while neat
looking sheet in newspaper form
is circulated, cautioning every.
body against the hollow head
swindles of Gumbridge & Co.,
Noyes & Co., and others OF their
kind, and assuring the gentle rea-
der that the only real establish.
ment where the business is trans
acted by square and level, is that
of Ketchum & Co., who do under.
take to send origicnal packages of
imported articles of great cost, or
something else very miuutely de-
scribed, at price not twenty per
cent. on the cost of production, and
not ten per cent. of its ready mar
ket. value. The important SER
vice rendered the community in
exposing the frauds Of the swim
ding parties named, are relied up
on to inspire confidence, and not
relied upon in vain, for this time
the net hauls in a whole school OF
silly fish for the benefit, in all
probability, of the identical firm,
who, under the names denounced
in the newspaper circular, had
perpetrated the original frauds.
A friend has handed us circu-
lar, issued by R. S. Turner. Fourth
street, New York, received BY
him, with inclosure of three min,
ute envelopes, one of which is a
printed 'jewelry order," setting
forth that ''on the receipt of this
order, with two dollars and seven
ty-fve cents to pay for postage
and package, will be sent by re-
turn mail one patent double-cased
American timepiece; marked fifty
dollars" The excellencies of this
fine gold timekeeper, worth fifty
= . =
dollars, which is to be sold for two
dollars and seventy-fve cents, are
then elaborately and infinitely
stated, and valuable privilege CIV
en- of exchanging it, if not found
to suit, for any article of like price,
in a long list contained in the cir
cular. A second envelope con.
tains a similar order for a "long
neck chain, fourteen carat rolled
gold, marked fifty dollars" and a
third an order for "a set of lady rs
lewelry, marked twenty-five dol
lars" which are offered on equal
liberal terms.
We're it not for the assurance of
those who, engaged as common
carriers, have peculiar opportupi-
ties for knowing the facts, We
should find it impossible to credit
the statement that hundreds and
thousands of these "orders' ale
sent from the country to New
York in good faith, the purchasers
apparently expecting to receive
fourteen carat jewelry, worth fif-
Iaty dollars, for two dollars and sew
enty.6ve cents. tt
The inquiry why establish
ments which, on their very surface,
appear to be gotten up for swind-
ling purposes are not suppressed,
lis met by the statement that in
nearly all cases the persons victim
lied are anxious for q concealment
Of the facts. Nicholas Noodle
never wants his neighbors to
know Of his Investments in specu'
iations Of this character, and be