The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1871-01-27

pursued until arrested as q deserter and lodged
in iail, where he is now meditating over his
chances Of six years at the Dry Tortugas
Those familiar with his favorite expressions
viii wonder how ait strikes him" now.
A Sharp One Robbed.-An incident
occurred at TOledo,on Friday last, which shows
the value Of short acquaintance, at least to
such persons as resort 10 all conceivable means
to procure money. a young lady called at the
station house, in that city and reported that
she had been robbed of quantity of iewelry
and SO in money. She had been trying to
gain livelihood in Cleveland, at the millinery
business, but had friends in Michigan, who
had long been urging her to visit them. Ac-
cOrdingly she left Cleveland, on Wednesday
oflast week, for Ann Arbor at Fremont,
young man entered the car in which she was
sitting, and soon was paving the way to an ac-
q1sintance, by means of handkerchief firta-
ten. When near Toledo, he took seat be-
side her, and an arrangement was made to
stop off at Toledo few days. He represented
himself to be an agent for newly discovered
burning fluid, and that he was obliged to be
in Toledo for several days, to see some agents
who were there. They proceeded to hotel
and he registered their names as William
Huntington and wife. Their appearance Gre
ated no suspicion, and the happy twain passed
the hours in various ways, until Friday morn
ing On waking, she discovered her partner
missing, and on rising and preparing to dress
discovered her iewelry was gone, also her
money. She Immediately dressed and repaired
to the police station to report her loss. From
the description given of the robber the police
thought his name was William Haight, whose
exploits of this kind have been numerous
She succeeded in finding friend, III Toledo,
who accompanied her to Ann Arbor where she
claimed her friends lived
Diamond Cut Diamond.-some days
ago, while in conversation with gentleman,
the subject of honesty in trade came up, and
the consequent effect it had upon the business
Of community, and vice versa He spoke
earnestly and condemnatory of practice in
vogue with many, of returning false weights
in settling for purchases, and complained rather
pointediy of some one who,in purchasing pork,
had not done the afair thing" in regard to
weight, and that much pork had been taken
to other markets in consequence. The sub
ject OF grain was handled in same way, and
various other matters which farmers have to
sell. Wecould but agree with him that these
things were all wrong, and hurtful to any
community in which such dealers operated.
Yet we could not help recOunting converse
ton we had heard on the cars, recently, which
went to show, very forcibly, that wrong doing
was not all on the part of those known as bust
ness men. Two gentleman, seated III front of
us, were engaged in earnest discussion upon
the relative honesty of business men and far
mers. One, who appeared, from his remarks,
to be engaged in wOOlen manUfatures, in Mas
sachusetts, was forcibly condemning farmers
ior their scheming. "Why," said he, ''it cost
our firm $4,000 last year to pay for the tags,
and dirt, and stone, and trash, which were
done up in the feeces we had paid honest
weight for. The manufacturers are almost
ruined by these practices. We thought to our
selves "this is a hard saying" and while it
cannot be said to apply to all farmers, any
mUre than the other practices car be said to
apply to all business men, yet It shows that
there are those, in all branches Of trade who
belong to the Diamond Cut Diamond" spe-
cies, whose practices bring discredit on them
selves, and. aid in casting suspicion upon others
who are eminently above such transactions.
The business man who weighs a crock of but
ter and returns false weight, has no just
cause of complaint if in the heart of a roll pur-
chased from another, his knife crashes against
lump of salt which has not only added to its
weight, but is also less valuable. And so, he
who gains bushel Of wheat, or clover seed,
or corn, by inaccurate weights, must expect to
find his feeces of wool sometimes weighted
with trash or burdened with foreign substan-
ces. If only these individuals were affected
bv these practices, we might well say "let
them fight it out" But others suffer. The
consumer of a roll of butter in which chunk
of ice which afterwards turned to water, was
imbedded when the roll was cut III two, lost
half its weight in minute. The manufactu-
rer who purchased dirty wool, lost the profits
of his purchases; and so these evils affect out
side parties. These diamond cut diamoned'
tricks are laughed overland considered ''sharp'
practices by many, whose sense Of honor and
honesty can hardly be admired, yet they are
"not the thing" to fill people with respect for
the perpetrators, but rather contrariwise.
up in almost every relation of life. We have
known the man who borrowed money at an
illegal rate, but who to obtain it, agreed to
waive all redress, boast that he never would
pay only what the law compelled him; and We
have known the banker or broker or money