Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1872-01-31

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what you editors call .'Thej passive pol
ICY" but what the folks about the Sever
Stars call the possum policy. did not se
our neishbo-hood to talking faster thar
the shooting Of jim Fisk. We haven
got done talking, about him yet. W.
talked about hin q aIboy. and some ont
down at the Stars the other night. sale
that Jim's pap said that Jim was grea'
on trade when quite boy. He said
that he believed that if he had been pu'
into dark room with any other boy and
that had they swspsd coats q dozen times
Jim would have made money every time
We talked about him as peddler and
some one told how he offered goods to
merchants in q certain town at prices
lower than they could buy them in the
cities. but they would not buy from him.
and how he then suctioned out his goods
at lower prices than the merchants paid
for theirs and how he returned every
few months to tie same town and 80
stocked it and the community with goods
that some of the merchants had 10 qui:
business.
We talked about him and bis cheating
operations against the government by
supplying blockade runners with goods
for the rebels. The rebels are response
bic for developing much good and q great
deal of bad. Jim vas one of the bad
things that they brought out. If the rebels
had not Of kicked up a row. Jim Fisk
would yet be driving peddler wagon.
and there wonld'nt now be fellow in
Jail for numbering him. We talked
about his getting into the Eric Railroad
as director. and how he got $50. 900 ille-
gal shares of stock issued, and how, when
the fraud was about getting him into
trouble in New York, he carted the books
of the company over to New Jersey
where the courts of New York could Int
reach him, and then waited till the New
York Legislature met, and then went
and spent among the member half mil
lion of dollars to get the Legislature to
lrgalize the Issuing Of the $4,000 of
stock.
We talked about lis sharp work with
old Vanderbilt. about his theatres, about
bis hotel, his horses, and his carriages,
and his regiment. But o shades of An
dy Jackson. how We talked when we
got the part that the woman played, that
caused Jim's murder. Some of our fel.
lows talked as if such carryings OH be.
tween men and women only happened in
New York, and really believe some are
so innocent as to hold just that notion -
IF they do. they're fooled. sure. Nearly
every community bas its sets that cut
just auch shines, leaving out the murder
ing part; but not being acquainted much
outside Of their towns or townships, why
If course the matter is not much talked
of
You know the three great things that
a man can't get along i'll this world with
out are religion, politics, and women
These are the necessary elements Of this
world. 1t couldn't exist year without
them. l don't know which would be
missed the quickest. l don't know that
Andy jackson said anything in regard to
that score. To the eternal honor of old
Andy it cannot be said that he cut any
bad shines with women and no man went
to greater length than he did to vindicate
her honor He was a church-going
but you know that he cut off
The eocial intercourse that be had with o
favorite preacher and quit going to his
church. all on account Of woman. Mrs
Eaton was the woman that was the cause
of Andy's religious devotions coming to
an end in that particular church. She
had been bright maiden, and was the
daughter of a man that kept tavern near
Washington. One of them fancy chaps
that are always in the Navy fell in love
with her. He got awful sick. as young
fellows do, and aeked her to marry him.
She did, and after awhile when he was
off sailing in his ship away over near
Italy. he shot himself, on purpose. After
a respectable season Of widowhood the
lady was wooed and won by Mr.. Eaton
who became q member of Andy Jack
sons Cabinet, and it was soon circulated
about Washington that old Andy was
again to have Mrs. Eaton to do the
honors of the white House." and that
got up an awful hill of billow among
he fair ladies and gentlemen at Wash.
ugton. They talked bad things about
Mrs. Eaton. They thought that Andy
would hear the stories and put her out
He did hear, but he did not mind. They
thought that they would have to make
hem palmer, and that be must be told
hat there was q great feeling against