Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1875-10-08
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Meyer WAS this text better illustrated
than in this city last Thursday morning,
"a the death Of Edward o'Baldwin, the
Irish pugilist.
Mr.. Ned O'Baldwin was an lrishman,
who was blest by nature with frame six
feet seven inches in height, and cores
spondingly broad. He would haYe made
a magnificent discher, superb truckman
or splendid 'longshoremsn But Mr..
O'Bsldwin being pugnaciously inclined,
and having met with much success in
punching heads in q private way, bios
somed out into professional, and follow
ed his countrymen to New York, where
he became most exasperating nuisance.
BE. was a blatherskite. cowardly, ruf-
hanly fellow, who became the centre of
gang Of rufians, all as bad as himself,
except in the matter ofihehes and pounds
He fought prize fights; he was used In
elections by the Democracy-in short he
became a brave of the same type as
those used by demagogues in Italy, only
4 u
For time Mr.. O'BaldWin hourished
like green bay tree. he was the pet of
the short-haired fraternity. and the DISC
lutte women of the town laVished their
smiles upon him, and life was, In fever
ish way, rose tinted as possible. But the
dark days came. The populace tired OF
him, and dissipation weakened his huge
carcass SO that plenty Of younger men
could bang him around. Then Mr.. O.
Baldwin, to furnish bread for himself and
10 get his liquor at Wholesale prices,
opened bar-rOom with another Irishman
named Finnell The speculation did not
paw, for some reason. Probably Mr.. 0.
BIS whisky was excep tionally bad, or
possibly those who would have other
wise have been customers, feared him
when in his cups and wisely kept away.
Be il as it may, Mr.. O'Baldwin. Wednes-
day night, appeared to Mr.. Finnell. and
abruptly announced that he should quit
the place. Mr.. Finnell's hot celtic blood
rose at this summary dissolution, and, as
If determined that il should be complete,
drewhis pistol and planted two balls in
O'BaldwIn's body. As either would have
finished the giant, there was a waste OF
one cartridge, which ] regret, for it is
pity that it could not hsve missed its aim
and killed some one else in the room.
But we can't have everything TO suit US.
Mr.. OBaldWin was carried out, and after
lingering twentyfour hours in great ago
ny, died. Mr.. Finnell gave himself up
the next day, and as he does not appear
to have much influence among the Democ-
raey Che had Just started his rum MILL,
there is cheerful prospect that he will
be hung, It's rather expensive business,
hanging these fellows, but in the long
run it pays.
And speaking of the
LAST END OF PUGILIsTs,
none OF them eyer died happy or in COM
fort Yankee Sullivan cut his throat in
San Francisco to avoid hanging; Tom
Hyer died miserably of consumption; Bill
Pool was stabbed; Geoghegan keeps a
miserab lie rum shop; Tom Allen ditto
in short, go through the whole list, and |
scarcely one can be found who did not die !
of violence, or if he escaped that, of ex-
treme poverty. John Morrissey, it is |
true is apparently fourishing, put his |
time is not yet. There will come turn
to him one of these days that will bring |
him TO the bottom of the cup. Decency,
my young friends, is as mnch the best
policy as honesty. The man who lives |
long or very pleasant life.
may put in here that O'Baldwin, who |
has had as good time as any of them,
served two years in the Massachusetts |
penItentiary, as much more in the Moya- |
mensing Prison, Philadelphia, to say /
nothing of innumerable sixty-day terms
in jails and prisons in various cities.
POLITICS.
The Republican State Central Commit
tee of New York have some hopes of |
carrying the State, though I fail to see |
upon what they base it. The Committee |
are zealously at work, they are determin'
ed to secure the legislature even, though |
Tifden, kf virtue of the fraudulent vote |
always to be expected in the city, carries /
the State. The best Democrats of this city /
are hoping for the defeat Of the /
democracy in Ohio and Pennsylva
MA, for they foresee trouble that will |
certainly come upon the coutry in
in the event of the success Of the party |
in thUse States upon imitation platforms.
If Ohio and Pennsylvania 20 Democratic |
this fall, nothing under heaven can
prevent the next national Democratic
convention from making imitation and
reputation the chief plank in its plat
form. Hence, the Democratic business
men of the city desire Republican sue
cess in those States.
The action of the Republicans in Mas
sachusetts gives general satisfaction to
the Republicans here. The ticket is
sound and the platform splendid. With
Massachusetts, Ohio, and Pennsylvania
in line, the question as to which party
will elect the next President is settled.
The Republicans of New York feel very
confident that as against imitation and
reputation, they can carry even New
York easily. Consequently, they are in
good spirits, and will so continue, even
though slippery Tilden slides into the
gubernstorial chair this fall.
CRUELTY TO CHILDREN
Henry Bergh, who has for so long q
time stood between brutal men and their
brute victims, has organized society for
the prevention of cruelty to children, and
heaven knows there was need enough
for it1 There are tho ousands upon thous-
ands Of children in the city whose drunk
en- parents or grasping guardians treat
them more cruelty than they would
brutes. AS for instance Nellie Boyle,
who lived with her uncle, slept tor two
years on the floor, Without covering of
any kind, and was every day kicked and
beaten in the most inhnman manner.
The unele's faVorite amusement was to
beat her with barrel hoop with the
nails in. Joseph Petrez, an orRan-grind-
er, hired little girl Of her mother for
81 per week, to sing and dance on the
street. He required her to bring him o
fixed sum of money every night, IN de-
fault of which she was beaten almost to
death. When rescued from the grasp of
the brute she was one mass of bruises.
One man made his step-son walk up and
down o room and cali every hour Of the
night, from p. m. TO a. m, for five
weeks. During this time the child was
allowed a slice of bread and o glass of
water each day. Once, after the starving
boy, in desperation, had helped himself
from the pantry, the beast manacled him,
and nailed him to the floor in kneeling
position, with dish of savory food just
out of his reach, and kept him there
eleven hours.
But the worst case that has been de-
Veloped is that of Henry A. Henken, q
boy Of sixteen, in Brooklyn. His mother
had been dead several years, and year
ago his father died. leaving him entirely
alone in the world with fortune of $40,
900. He fell into the hands of woman
named Kate Cooney, who took him to
i've with her, and trained him systemati-