The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1875-12-23

array, but left them untouched an
carried off plate of cold meat scraps
The wine-decanter was on the man
tel, but Instead Of using the glasse
beside il, the bottle was carried 4
the kitchen and the wine drank fror
tin cup. Nothing else was disturb
ed, showing that starvation mus, hav
led to the deed. A respectable me
chauic was arrested the other day 70
stealing something outside Of s'or
to get his wife aud three children
food to eat, as he had been unable t
get work for weeks. The bricklay
ers' association have peti,ioned tn
Common Council to give them worl
to keep their families from starving
and the Department of Public Work
is to push ahead all enterprise posi-
BILE 10 afford this relief
BARNyM's SALES.
How many of your readers did Sc,
Barnum's great hippodrome, either
last season or the season before
Not many, warrant. Well. tn,
great show has come to an end, it.
glory is departed and the "mammotl
aggregation" is dispersed.
The entire concern was closed ou
at auction, last week, which was The
occasion Of heavy groans from the
great Snowman. Barnum always
dealt fairly with he people, and wher
he advertised English race-horses,
that was the kind he gave them
He imported thirty Of the best blood
ed racers in England, and it was alb.
surd the prices they brought. Web
ster, an English thoroughbred, which
cost Barnum 5000, brought only $50,
and the Others went Mt about tht
same price. One, only, went up as
high as $50. The highest price
paid for his magnificent draughl
horses was 1920 for one team, III.
others going as low as $50. There
were lG2 horses sold, good bad and
Indifferent, including the trick and
ring horses, and all they brought was
$40, ,OoO-not tenth Of what Barnum
paid for them two years ago. The
tact is, running horses have no value
in this country. because the trot is
the only gait recognized as valuable.
Were Webster as good trotter as
he is runner, he would have brought
$4,000. BArnum would have made
money had he shipped the horses all
back to England. His other show
property went quite as ruinous sac
rlfce. The suits of armnr worn IN
the pagexnts, which cost $3.50 each
in London, went for s.. Almost
anybody might 60 into the show bu>i-
ness on these terms. But Barnum is
rich and he doesn't mind it. He will
do the same thing over IN two years.
THE ESCAPE OF BOSS TWEED
Has been nine days wonder, and
is almost forgotten. 1t was no escape
at all-hls prison doors we're opened
by the officials whose duty it was to
keep him in custody, and he walked
off. He could have gone any time
the last three years-he went when
he did, doubtless by the advice Of
his lawyers. The prosecutions the
city was pressing against him were
closing abou, him.-the most import.
ant were to come on in few days,
and the Boss, realized that he had nc
hope, walked out through the door
he had always kept open, and vanish
ed. The Democratic sheriff and his
assistants are responsible for his es-
cape, and Gov. Tllden will be forced
to hold them to an account. But as
they have all been doubtless paid
heavily, little do they care.
Ever since the great chief has been
in Ludlow street Jail, he has been
permitted to go out whenever he
chose, with deputy 0, two, and he
has lived more of the time at his
home on Madison avenue, and the
uptown hotels, than he has in his
prison quarters. When his time
came to run, he went out as usual,
with two deputies he went in a car
riage to his house-the Deputies
stayed in the carriage in the most
accommodating way, till-he didn't
return. Then these innocen, fellows,
after waiting two hours and search
ing the house which they knew he
was not in, which consumed another
honr-raised the alarm. ln the
meantime, a steam yacht was lying
in the East River, coaled and provis
ioned. Doubtless the Boss walked
through his own house into the stree,
beyond, got into carriage in wait
ing was driven to his yacht and in
three hours was decently out on the
bosom of the ocean. Or, he had
plenty Of time to set into secure hid
ing in the city, from which he can
take his departure at his convenience.
The police demonstrated once more
their inefficiency or corruption, by
finding no trace of him the sheriff {
officials are even worse -one half the
Democscy grin ill-concealed delgh,
at their chiefs escape, and the Others
are vexed as they think of the politi-
cal capital this escape furnishes
against them.
| predict that the Boss will never
be taken. Those assisted in his es.
cape, don't wan, him TO come back te
claim any of the property they have
got their claws upon. The miserable
old man is abroad, by this time, and
he will probably stay there till ht
dies-the companion Of Sweeny, Con
molly and Genet, his accomplices
Would that some of the present Off
cials would 60 and do likewise, be
fore they have qaite bankrupted th'
city.
1t is said, that David Dudley
Field, lawyer of the Boss, advised hi
fight. The bondsmen of the sheriff
are shivering in their shoes, for tn,
CITY will at once proceed against
them. Conner expects, of course, t,
be removed.
BUSINESS
Is dullness itself, and the weather i
fearful. PIETRo.
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