Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1874-09-19
DIR NEW YORK LETTER.
The Last Fraud-ReaI Estate--Beer-
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A NEW FRAUD.

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lonest employment half the shrewdness
hey do to their swindling schemes, they
would be the richest men in the world.
For certainly the genious wasted in rogue
", that always ends badly, could not
but pay largely in any legitimate busi-
ness. The last dodge in thieYery has
lust been unearthed, and most ingen-
ous dodge it is. A scOundrel sailing uh-
Ter the alias of Walker, few monins
ago. went to work and deliberately forged
of real estate belonging to
a man who had been dead hVe years.
He made deeds from Isaac Young, |
the aforesaid deceased, 10 himself, OF
land worth $4,000, and went with
them to the Register office and had
them recorded OF course this was all |
regular, for the registry clerks have no
means of knowing whether Isaac Young
is alive or dead man. The conveyance
put upon record, Walker takes them
and goes into the street to negotiate a
loan upon them. He finds man who
has money to loan upon real estate. The
Registers books are examined, the con-
veyancs are all clear, the money is loan
ed. Walker disappears. OF course the
fraud is discovered after the lapse of
week or two, and Walker is arrested, and
will go to Sing Sing. Now, it strikes
me that mind capable of cOuceiving and
executing SO magnificent piece ofvillainy
ought to know that legitimate business is
its proper field. What combinations
could not such genius effect IN dry
goOdsl
Ii tnat young man had to be rogue,
why did he not go to Wall street, or get
into politics in this city
These are safe fields ior such geniuses,
where there is ample scope for scOundrel-
ism without risk. But they never do it.
When Walker gets out of Sing Sing
he will get into similar transaction in
week, and go up again. Such men only
keep ont of prison few weeks at IA time
When in quod, they devise schemes, that
invariably take them back again. Speak
ing of
REAL ESTATE,
Some of ii in New York has value des-
pite the terrible depression. Mr. R. A.
Witthaus has sold to the Union Dime
Saving Bank, for $4,000, the plot of
land on the southerly side of Thirty Sec
Ond street, between Broadway and sixth
avenue. The buildings are of little value,
and formed no part of the value. The
lots front on the triangular public place at
the intersection of Broadway and Sixth
avenue, 42 feet on Broadway. 40 feet on
Sixth avenue, and about 100 feet on Thir-
ty second street. The price is at the rate
of $175, 900 for lot of the usual size.-
Mr. Witthaus paid $45,OOO for the prop
erty about twenty years ago. At this
rate what is New York worth
BEER.
The Germans are up and in arms
Wednesday last three thousand saloon
keepers met in council, and resolved that
the license laws must be repealed, and
that the traffic in beer must be treated
the same as any other business, and also
that this question must go into politics,
and be made an issue. The beer inter-
est in New York is one that has positive
power, and of course politicians will be
found who will recognize it. The Ger
man element is immensely strong here,
and on the question of free beer and the
right to drink it Sundays as well as 9TH
er days it is almost an unit They do
not like to be driven out of the city for
their Sunday recreations, and they will
make vigorous fight for what to them
is a vital matter. This question is one of
the disturbers thai come up every little
while 10 vex the souls of politicians. The
American religious element is infexibly
opp Osed to the violation of the Sabbath,
the German is as infexibly determined
to spend it as he pleases. Imaginge the
perplexity of the ambitious politician in
whose district these elements are about
event
EXPENSIVE FUNERALS.
Under the present system, it costs from
$50, to $3.50 to bury corpse in the most
modest way. The most exorbilant prices
are charged for coffins and the accOmpa-
niments, all of which are paid without
a question, for no man can ask prices
over the dead body of one loved and
lost. Then comes carriages, price of lot,
etc, all of which makes sum that is
oppressive 10 poor man or one even
in moderate circumstances. The Ger
mans have a society for doing away with,
all this. They have taken up the idea of
cremation, and propose TO bring it into
vogue. They are building a hall 6Ox40
feet, fitted with an altar at which relig-
ious ceremonies may be had. Back of
this altar is to. be a furnace capable of
being heated to 1 900 deg. which melts
soft plates in the metal coffin enclosing
the remains. which heat will reduce the
remains to ashes in an hour and a half
And all this can be done for So, which is
bringing burial expenses within reach of
the poorest. The Germans will take this
idea and act upon it, for this people have
not the reverence for ancient forms that
the Americans possess, and the form of
disposing ofremains is IN entire conso-
nance with their idea of the fitness of
things And who knows but after it has
become a common practice among the
Germans it may be adopted by the rest
of mankind
BEECHER-TILToN.
Tilton's last statement, which appear
ed Friday has stirred up this mess once
more. Public opinion in this city has
once more veered TO Tilton, and it will
probably stay there till Beecher makes
statement, when it may shift TO him.
Tilton gives the world nothing new in
the matter, but he explains the why of
very much of it. For instance, in answer
to the question why, after permitting his
wifes infiGelity to remain secret with
him for four years, he gave it to the
world, he says that had Elizabeth remain.
ed with him, and ifthe church had let her
alone, he never should have divulged it.
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