Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1874-02-07
OUR NEW YORK LETTER.
4 Couple Of Ssoind2es The Society Of A(ur
observation-disclosures IN Religion
BUSINESS, etc.
sWuNDELEs.

BUSINESS, etc.
sWIHDELEs.
Out of the million of people who make
up the population of this great Babel,
fully oae hundred thousand live on the
labor OF others-that is to say, are thieves
of one sort or another The worst of
these are the advertising thieves, for while
they steal they do it in such an ingenious
way as to escape the penalties of the law.
The history of one or two of them may
not be uninteresting.
"G. R. Murry & Co.," Is good name.
Well G. R. N. & Co., advertise that they
possess 81 100000 of watches, pianoes and
jewelTy, which they will distribute" by
lot at one dollar for each ticket. You are
invited to send twenty five cents to these
benevolent gentlemen. receiving therefor
ticket which describes the prize you
are entitled to. You send your twenty
five cents and you do get a ticket like
this:
MERCANTILE PRIZE ASSOCIATION.
Certificate No. % 7S3.
"This Certificate when accompanied by
one dollar, land fifty cents for packing)
entities the holder to one ver-Hunting
Watch. OalUed at $15 State how you wish
it sent"
Now send $3.50 and what happens ?
Nothing. You never hear off again.
And as these fellows get letters by the
bushel, every one of which contains mon
ey, it is not difficult to suppose that they
live in clover. Their Office is, in one ad-
Vertisement, in one place in another, an
other, so that victims in search of them
never find them. The police gets after
them, but they change their style so
frequently that it is impossible to catch
them.
The fellows who are doing business
over the name G.. R. Murray & Co,
have within year been known as the
United States Tontine Association of %
Park Row /; as Norton & Quinn & Co.,
Of 212 Broadway as Holiday, Lewis &
Co., of 5S Park Row as Walter B. Tur-
ner & Co., of 746 Broadway as H. H.
Briddle & Co., of 80 Broad street; as Ches-
ter Dudley & Co., of "a New street as
AlVah Young, of2O5 Broadway as Ed
ward Scoville 6 Co., of "a New street :;
as Oswell West s. Co., of 46 Bread street
as s. Solomon 6 CO., of 1874 Nassau street;
and as Gilbert Pullman & Co., of "a Broad
way. But ingenious as these gentlemen
are the last two months have developed a
more
GORGEOUS sCoUNDRELIsM
The only expense attending these swim
dlers is the advertising, and how to dodge
that has been the question with them.
wo of these thieves assumed the name
of "Kirkwood & Beach, Advertising
Agents" and issued an order to the
newspapers of bogus articles, under a
dozen or more different names, the price
of which was always to Be sent 6y mail
to tae p o. Boz designated. To seduce the
publishers of the country these villains
boldly referred to A. T. Stewart, C. A.
Dana, and Jas. Gordon Bennett, of New
York, to Mr.. Halstead, of the Cincinnati
Commercial, and D. R. Locke, of the To-
tedo Blade. As these offers to the papers
were liberal, and their references unex-
ceptionable, hundreds of papers published
their advertisements, and immediately
cords of letters came to different parties
named, all of which Kirkwood s. Beach
took out of the Post Office and appropri-
atcd, of course.
AS matter of course the newspapers
publishing the advertisements will never
get a cent; those who send money to the
various addresses will meyer get what thew
send for in short the only people who
get anything are the ingenious scround-
rels who assume the firm name OF Kirk.
wood & Beach," When will people
earn wisdomi When will people learn
that dollar is dollar, and, when a man
proposes to give two dollars for one, that
he means swindle and there is swim.
die under it. May impress on your
readers this important maxim: Never
send money to any person whom you do
not know. 1t is medical prodigy? There
is no physician in the great cities who
knows particle more than your own
practitioners. Is it piano, watch or
diamond distribution These goods
have fixed value in the market, and
ii any one has them there is no earth.
ly use Of making a sacrifice to dispose of
them. In short, little common sense is
all that is necessary to protect person
from these swindlers. Do, good people,
who read these lines, use little common
sense and save your money.
A CURIOUS SOCIETY.
II has been discovered that the upper
crust criminals in the tombs have organ
lied a society for mutual defence. BY up.
per crust mean the big thieves, the bur
glars, the forgers and murderers. They
contribute so much each to a fund for |
defending each in his turn, and fixed |
sum which goes 10 the family Ol the one |
convicted and sentenced. This is coop.
Grafton in a new direction. But why not9
Crime is a regular trade with all the rulrs
and regulations Tint other trades have.
POLITICAL INCIDENTS
The Democracy of Brnn'llyn mr., mndr
of the same material as their brethren II,
New York. At II primary meeting in the
Nineteenth Ward, return was handed
in signed by man named Cunningham,