The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1875-12-24
NEW YORK, DEC. u, 1879.

is the testimony of one of the first ply
sicians of the city, DIR. Elisha Harris.
who declared that the increase of clim-
inals in this city in the past few years
was greater in proportion than the in
crease Ia population from births and in
migrants together.
DR.. Willard Parker, an authority of
equal standing, said that liquor was the
chief cause of the vice, crime, idiocy and
insanity in the country. All who have
looked into the cause and cure of crime
agree that the vicious classes must be
made to work harder. 1t is a notorious
and patent fact that with all the in
crease of wages and regulation of hours
in the last ten years, the condition of
the lower classes does not seem to be the
better for the change. The complaint
is made by all employers that there is
very little, almost no fair return made
| for the wages paid, no matter how lib
eral these may be. The average of
work done in a day with all the labor
saving helps of the time, is hardly half
what it used to be in the old times.
Now, that there is such an outcry for
work, employers bethink themselves
whether they cannot obtain their own
right of days work for a days pay.
The fact has rather been lost sight of,
that employers had any rights beyond
that of paying the most wages for the
least that stupid and idle help chose to
do. Now that the cry for bread comes
so urgent there is a chance to find
whether the poor are willing to work for
their money. rather than starve. Those
of experience among the lower classes
of New York, are not wanting who do
not hesitate to say that these had rather
starve than work hard. Certainly they
will all beg, loaf, or cheat in mild way,
sooner than to stir themselves to do a
brisk days work.
THE DISTRESS OF THE POOR.
Curious incidents come up among the
labors for the poor. One woman was
found with her five children in the sixth
story of a wretched tenement house,
where she made a miserable living by
washing. Her children were without
shoes in bitter weather, and kind mer-
chant sent supply all round. The old
est girl objected to them because they
were laced with shoestrings, and button
boots were the style. The same family
lost their father, a miserable wretch,
who drank himself to death, and were
Obliged to ask for charity to bury him.
The teachers of the mission school who
helped them before, agreed to bear the
expenses, whereupon the old woman
went out and ordered a hearse, with
plumes, TO attend the funeral of the de-
parted sot. A member of the city au-
thorities told of poor fellow who had
seen better days, who cume 60 him for
help, as he was without position or
- Il a, \ l..
dollar bill, which he could spare none toe
well himself, but he was rather sorry for
it, when he found the first use The fellow
made of it was to go to the marEet and
order pair of ducks for dinner, ticking
most of the money which might haze
kept the family in food for a week.
This may be considered apropos of
the study of crime, for such thriftlsss
ness is crime not of the least dimen-
sions. 1t ought to count heavily against
the laboring men of this and other cities,
that with the high wages of the last ten
years, very few of them have saved
money. The idea at the time was to
make money, not to save it, and to make
* in many ways beside working for it.
ONE A WEEK.
A murder a week seems the regular
allowance, not counting hoInicides of
less degree. The last sad and shocking {,
tragedy is that of Il young Hebrew girl
who has not been long in this country,
and who was brutally killed by her be-
trayer last Sunday night. The parties
both have the reputation of being eX-
ceptionally religious, and careful in OBJ
serving all therites of their Church, and
the girl was much beloved by the family
of the murderer. While a servant in
the family she nuised him through a
long illness, and he seems to have really
loved her in return, But his wife was
coming over from the old country and
there was trouble ahead, and no way
presented itself out of the difficulty, but
murder. So he tCok the girl TO walk
with him in the lonely outskirts of East
New York, and stabbed l.er, kneeIing at
his feet for mercy. He betrayed himself
by his anxiety to show how impossible it
was that he should have killed girl to
whom he was so purely attached.
And speaking of murders, there are at ]
this time four men under sentence to be
hanged, and over thirty in the various
prisons are waiting trial for the same
offense The bloody villain Dolan, who
killed Noe, will probably escape the
hanging he so richly deserves. The
politicians are moving heaven and earth |
to clear him, and as they have succ, eded |
in obtaining two reepites he will doubt |
less slide out all together. There are in |
the same prison three negroes convicted |
of killing a Jew pedder ON no stronger |
evidence than that against Dolan, but
no one thinks of moving a respita for
them. And willie L am Oh this subject,
THE SYMPATHY
shown for murderers is something cur
Gus. was at the prison, the other day,
and saw broiled chickens, wine, rich
cakes aud confectionery, the choicest |
cigars that had been sent in to comfort
these miserable murdereIs The low
browed brutes are living better now than
they ever did in their lives, and they
seem to expect it, They growl, and COZ
slider themselves ill use1, if they do not
get these things every day. 1t is a nice
thing to be murderer for a little while.
FEMININE DEVOTION.
1t is a thousand pities that the heroic
devotion shown by women in humble
stations of life could not find worthier
objects. There is a young woman dying
in hospital Of wounds given by her lover
in drunken fit, in which he twisted her
arm till he broke it. Yet the girl stead
lastly refused to speak about the quar-
rel for fear of making trouble for him.
IL she dies without giving her testimony
he cannot be convicted, as she was tie
)nly witness. There was good blood in
hat girl, no matter what she was, and a
tout heart better worth song and story
han any we read about this year. The
brute goes out without trouble, through
he devotion OF the girl; but all the
anne, he leaves her to die miserably in
/ hospital.
THE SHOP GIRL QUESTION
The shop girls are moving for their
lights. 1t appears that they are COM
'elled to report for duty at s A. NJ, and I
tay till p. NJ, with an hour for lunch ,
t noon. What they complain of now
5 the regulation that is made in all the
torres, from Stewards down, that they '
annot sit Gown during trade hours. No
natter whether there be customers or Y
ot, no matter if there be not sole in
he store, the poor girl must stand on
er feet till the welcome stroke of {
welve gives her an hours respite. And | q
hen from one to seven she stands again,
i'll worn out with fatigue she crawls to Z.
er wretched lodging, only to go
hrough the same torture the next day. a
! number of influential ladies, the most s.
rominent In fashionable circles in the | q