Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1875-10-15
OUR NEW YORKLETTER.

any benefit therefrom or not, they may
be benefited by reading somewhat of his
history. Last Thursday "Dr." Helmboid
was, for the fourth time, incarcerated in a
lunatic asylum, where he will probably
stay the remainder of his life.
Henry T. Eelmbold commenced life
as a druggists clerk in Philadelphia pro-
crossing by the help of a brother, TO the
proprietorship of small drug store. He
conc eived the idea of putting up Buchu
in the form since so well known, twenty
years ago, and after various ups and
downs-he failed three times-succeeded
in establishing it as a standard patent
medicine, and received from its sale an
income of hundreds of thousands OF dol
lars Der annum But the doctor coul
not stand prosperity. The more ms
goods sold the more eXtraVagant he pc
came. He commenced life of the Wild
est excess in point of expenditure ever
known in this city. He had one six-lE-
hand team, six horses costing him mol
less than $4,000. The drag 10 which
they were driven was the most expen-
siye and elegant ever imported TO Amer
lea. Then he had a score or more oi
other horses for every purpose that horse
flesh is used Of course he was compel
ed 10 have large and elegant stables, and
an army of people to care for and man
age his equine interests. His principal
coachman was paid salary of $3,OOO
per annum, with rooms and suolslence
added. The doctor was not badly OF 10
places TO live. He had a house IN New
York. mansion al Long Branch, and
the most expensive apartments IN the
most expensive hotels in the country
shelterd him at tunes. He seemed TO
have an itch for throwing away money.
1t was nothing for him to take his six
horse drag, with his coachman and out
riders, with full retinue of sevants, to
Baltimore or Boston, engage the most
sumptuous apartments and astonish the
natives by display such as they had
never seen before. The little fellow
would get into that immense drag all
alone, with coachman SIX feet six on
the box, and two footmen OF the same
proportions on behind, all dressed in
white liverv, and would be driven in
solitary grandeur all over the city, bow
ing at every manifestation, as pleased as
a child with new toy. The mock eulo-
gies of interested newspapers he took for
honest tributes, and the hattrry of
hungry sycophants he swallowed as
sweet morsels.
He believed himself to be really great
man, and nothing could be too gross for
him to believe of himself, consequently
=, od nj
asites who traded fiattery for money.
These fellows absolutely got the little
man 10 actually believe that he could be
President, and he spent great deal OF
money to bring himself before the peo
pie.
And with all his vanity and insanity,
be was in many respects shrewd busi
ness man. He was the boldest adYer-
tiser that ever lived, and so far as his
legitimate business was concerned, it
was well and shrewdly done. He had
the trick of startling the public into buy
ing his medicines, and he was the closest
and shrewdest man in the business in
dealing with newspapers. He never
threw away any money in his business.
Could he have managed outside as well
as inside, he would have been worth So,
100000 to-day. 1t,was nothing uncom-
mon for him to contract 100000 to $500,
900 for advertising at a single stroke.
He made contracts to the amount of
S175 900 for advertising his "Catawba
Pills" before a single box had been put
up.
But wine, gambling, horses, pimps and
parasites did their work at last, and three
years ago Henry HelmDold slipped
away to Europe pauper. A dozen for
tunes had slipped through his fingers,
and he was compelled to live on the con
tinent on the charity of a brother.
His magnificent stores in New York and
Philadelphia, his horses, his carriages,
everything went under the hammer, leaV
ing nothing but what would not sell. His
friends" all left him of course, and when
be returned few months ago he was as
/ loon. His wife was COMPEL ed to send
him TO an asylum where he will probab-
y die. Yale. Helmbold. The only use
he ever was to the world that endured
him was to point moral. There wasn't
enough of him to adorp tale.
BUSINESS
continues fairly good, though not brisk.
There have heen some heavy movements
If dry goods of a forced nature, and
something is doing in other goods, but it
S far from satisfactory. One OF the largest
ca houses in the city told me that the
month of September was the worst
month they had since they had bee n
n trade, and that October promised
nothing better The fact Is there is
horrible lack of confidence that restricts
buyers to just what thew can get on with
Ind the initiation movement in Ohio and
Pennsylvania has increased the feeling
# uncertainty. After the election -
when the lnflationists in those States are
lead and buried-it is hoped there will
,e revival. But trade cannot poss ibly
et into regular channel this year, and
BUSINESS men are taking in sail &C
Ordingly.
THE SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF
CRUELTY TO CHILDREN
nds its hands full in its terribly needed
york. At the last meeting the society's
ttorn9y reported list of convictions |
nough TO sicken the heart of any who
eads them; most of the cases I men, |
oned IN my last. A man arrested |
" beating little niece eight years old |
18th hoop studded with nails, gets ten
avs in the city prison. The child every /
ne will pc glad to learn, has been tax en-
ut OF his hands and placed in a protec-
Dry. A father, for beating his son nine
ears old over the head with a shovel
cts th rec months Imprisonment. A wo-
ian, for cruelty beating q child which
le tired to run of with, has six months.
he Italian organ grinders find their
ade OF taking children out to beg, sadly
tetered with, and the parents who
t out children for this purpose are fined
|O. The most pitiful is that of German
~ OF seventeen, of whom I wrote last I
eek, whose mother dying suddeEly
ithout will, left him in unrestra1ned
of a handsome property, to J
in which, one of the lowest of low wO-
en- used her arts over the boy, keepip o
m under her influence, hopeless' -
unk for months, till he was red0oS n
loecility The society has taken him
I'm the harpy's hands, aud had a respon-
,Ie guardian over him. The b'ov is re-
Vellng' ana u is b.Cped by thrs time he
: " age 10 WIZ Ds able to have charge
THE FASHIONS.
Last advices from abroad, say that the |
ost elegant wearers of dress have aban
med tournures, and hoops entirely, and
ant dresses made graceful by drapery
avn about themin close, wrinkled fold
lieVe both the eye and the purse. This
ode, the most ambitious of our ladies
we made haste to adopt: and before
ring the manufacturers OF crinoline,
III have to confine themselves to max
2 the old fashioned hair cloth skirts,