The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1870-01-12


DR.. Stratford, the abortionist, occu
pies q cell In the southeast cOTner of
the jail, and has his cell fitted up
with some approach to comfort, and is
| ACCOMPANIED almost constantly by his
wife. DR.. McRea, the other abor-
zionist, / did not see, but | be-
Iieve he has comfortable quarters.
As Kpassed the cells. the prisoners
would call out to me, Say, Mister,
be you a ~lawyer?" Please come
here. | want to speak to you." lap
preached one of tue cell doors, when
the inmate asked me first, Cant you
give Us a stamp to post a letter with,
I'm dead broker
a negro IN one of the cells asked
me-"Please, Mister, won'tyou give US
five cents to buy q candle with. /
got to stay here in de dark, and can't
read muffin" Another negro In the
same cell said: Read readl / golly,
amt dat good? He can't read his
q, b, c's." Another asked: Say,
Squire, how long can they send q
Teller for burglary, eh?" Walsh, the
wife murderer, was holding a CONVEX
sation with an old employer, and
chatted cheerfully. Four half grown
boys were playing in one end of the
corridor. A gentlemanly-looklng
prisoner was p~romenading the corrl-
dor with q lady in a red opera CLOAK,
chatting gaily. In some OF the cells
the prisoners were engaged in playing
"seven.up" and checkers, and in
others, reading. The prisoners are
we'll supplied with reading matter,
thanks to the efforts Of q benevolent
young lady, Miss Linda Gilbert, who
collected books and money to furnish
, a library for the jail.
The landlord of this populous, 1t not
+ popular, hotel is Mr.. Conrad FoltZ,
who has had several years experience
> In the position, and although his
boarders do not boast of his sumptu-
Gus board. they will not deny that he
knows how to keep a hotel.
Happy New Year went of peacably,
there was a dance in every available
: hall in town, and all along Canal
Street and Milwaukee Avenue almost
every other German saloon had a
Taaz Graatzcher or FdnlIEien Ball!
But at the North CLARK Street Turner
Hall was the most respondent affair
of the night. There the German
element was 10 its element. Said
e element was not the aqueous, but wa
for the most part vinous. Nfne
flowed freely and so did good humor
I had a friend from way down IL
Maine" with me, and the geniality
and cheerfulness of our German
= fellow. citizens took him by sur
ie prise. IF We had not literally begged
d off they would have filed us with
- wina-not slop wine-but " De techtt
: innate Rhine aciae aebGt yOu git ont d
u Kline Ribber.' 1t must have beer
e, pure, for although we ercaUdted
r little army of bottles. no headache
greeted our opening eyes next morn
= ing. When | am born again, a
brother Moody says | must be, I'll b.
le born a German.
ID How | wish I could exchange m,
7. present abiding place for one wher
the seasons did not alternate fror
= six months of winter, to six month
more Of cold weather. As | write
~ the wind bowls ~moUrnfully, and tn
n snow blows about In the most drear
!, and bleak manner imaginable.
The political world Is just now tran
II Gull. The reformers whom we elect
: ed, have proved dead beats, with on
q exception, and that exception a ST
70 mon pure Democrat who was electei
City Treasurer. He pays the city 4
u per cent. on its balances Ia bis hands
p although the only obligation be i
V under to do SO. is his word pledge
before election. Mr.. O0ahan tn
70 City Collector, another Democrat
has hired a more commodious ofhe
is than the city provides, and will
Z, these exceptions, the cry aud pre-
y tence of reform was a great mOckery
/ Of the Republicans elected on tn
u " Reform " ticket, all that can be sal
d is that they prove the rule that
a renegade Radical is always less to b
trusted than a simOn-pure Copper
II head" while they are not to be com
~ pared to a real Democrat, withou
% damaging the Democrat by the com
u parison. Mr.. Gondele, County Clerk
~ was elected on his reiterated pledge
= Of reform, and one Of those pledge
"a was in these words: If my fellow
y citizens, IN their wisdom, see ft t
iie give me only n thousand dollars fo
~ my services, l shall willingly accep
- the Office" This speech was mad
several times during the canvass, bu
" as soon as the Board Of Supervisor
a met and proposed to give him fv
~IuOUs3au, me-, ike NIP van Wl0Kls
when he "schwored off," concluded t
Oh d" don't count dis time" and politel
ImI told them the law gave him fees,
and these fees be would haVt
- although his heaviest weapon agaius
his opponent was that his fees ha
n enriched him, and that they wer
~ enormous. and that it was the duty {
~ the incumbent Of this Office to foreg
ne some of those fees for the benefit
the County Treasury.
A few more such reformers woul
disgrace New York City. To relat
% all the freaks Of these reformel
would take more space than yeu ca
u afford in one issue, wherefore I wi
treasure them up for another lette
~ y for the benefit of those Republican
!; who desire the aid of Democrats !
reforming the party.
q Yours truly,
HIRAM STEBBIEs.
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lFOr the Evansville Journal.
uC Thns. r. Allen FSn