The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1876-03-10
THE BELKNAP DISGRACE-THE EPIDEMIC
OF THE SEASON = POLITICAL - THE
BUSINESS OF THE wEEK-THE LABOR
IARKET-HOw THE RICH ANIUSE THEM
SELVFS-LENT.
NEW YORK, Mar. s. 1876.

IL. her dresses were IIle most gorgeous,
her equipages were the.Inost costly, and
she was surrounded with servants of the
most expensive nature. II was given
out in Washington that she did not de-
pend on the Secre5ary'S Salary-he had
no means beyond tiitJ-lr;,t thai she had
an inherited wealth, the ;.com- Of which
was sufficient to justify ail this extrava-
gance. at her home tile story was that
the Secretary had made some lucky
speculations before lie went into the
cabinet, which accounted for it all where
the inheritance story would not go down.
All this time they were selling trader
ships, and spending the proceeds in this
foolish way. There Can be no doubt
that the woman had the man completely
under her tlIumb-that so infatuated
was he with her that he would have
stolen ten times the amount, had she
desired it. The man was doubtles hon
est, originally, but oh, how weak. The
merchants of New York suffered severe
ly by this exposure. 1t is rumored that
Mrs. Belknap owes vast sums of money
to the fashionable dry Goods men and
jewelers. here, which, as the Belkuaps
have spent all their stealings, they will
lose.
THE Epidemic OF THE SEASON.
Malaria and ignorance of ventilation
will soon make New York no fit place
for white people to live in. If fever and
ague, diptheria, scarlet fever and small
pox hold their own a very few years
longer, as they are doing now, the city
will soon be as nntenable as Staten
Island, where rich people are deserving
their villas, because the place is so dead
ly with agnes. This month the fashion
able epidemic is a malignant influenza,
which visits human kind as it did horses
two years ago. The doctors call il by no
fancy name, only ''plain cold" and the
Madison Avenue prescription for its
treatment is-neither belladonna, nor
internal exhibition Of aconite, or any
other high sounding-drug, but equally
plain catnip tea, made doubly strong,
which is administered not more for the
sake of breaking up the cold, by good
sweat. as for its valuable and recently
discovered properties i'll quietiug the
nerves. Fancy bow! of Lady Wash
ington china breathing the soothing in
cense of balm tea, administered to an
interesting invalid, wrapped in an azure
blanket, soft as velvet, and you have
the elegance of influenza. But for real
virtues, prefer the old style; q cracked
blue bowl, stepped in generations of
teas, with quart of deep brown liquid
smoking hot, to be taken in three
gulps,-Ugh! the stOutest cold fed
affrighted at the thought of second
dose. But talk of plain colds the new
variety successfully combines the horrors
of neuralgia, rheumatism, lumbago, Ca
tarrh, everand ague, and getting drunk,
and one crawls out of an attack feeling
like a cabinet officer just investigated.
POLITICAL.
The local politicians of New York are
making Il stir for Conkling's nomination
for the Presidency, but il does not make
much headway. There are many excel
lent men ia the city who would be glad
to see Conkling in the Presidential chair,
and there are a great many who would
not. But there are thousand or more
political buInmers, who would support
anybody whose friends will "put up"
and this class are unfortunately all for
Conkling, he being the first New Yorker
mentioned for the place. Kbey are Or
ganizing ''Conkling Clubs, " all over the
city, and are making great deal of |
noise, but l am happy to say that they
all have hungry look. They are not |
getting the rations they expected, nor |
will they. Senator Conkiing is gentle |
man, and a pure man. He would, of |
course, like to be President-I wouldn't |
mind it myself-but he never did dirty |
thing, and lie never will He will never
pay bummers, he will never support
body of mercenaries, nor will he use un-
dne influence. The bumlners who are /
shouting ConIlling at this time are doing
it at their own expense, and they are
getting sick. The supplies don't come,
and these fellows never do anything at
their own charges-that is for any length
of time. Consequently their zeal will
very soon abate. The fact is New York
isn't very anxious to have a candidate.
There are two or three different factions
in the city, and they are Inortally afraid
of each other. They would all rather
have a new man rather than have any
one who las ever mixed in city or state
politics. The Democracy are hardly any
better off. Tilden cannot get the undi-
vided support of the party in the city,
and for that matter no one can. So far
as New York is concerned it will not
make much of shadow of influence in
either convention. The Liberals, what
is left of them, are waiting for the high
est bidder, but there are so few of them
that no one considers them worth a bid.
THE BUSINESS OF THE wREK.
The list of failures this week. foot up
nearly one hundred, and they embrace
almost all varieties of business. The
smashed parties generally offer 25 cents
OH the dollar, that being the regular fig
lre. So common have failures become
that they excite no more surprise. The
oldest and strongest houses iii the city
ire going, and no one knows to day who
S going tomorrow. Rents are still sink
ng, and the nearer May approaches, the
more the landlords tremble. Their ex-
,ensive stores on Broadway are being
-acated, and applications for them are
rare as hens teeth. / know of one
tor, that four years ago was in demand
It SIS, 900 per year, that is now being
occupied at Sc 600. and the tenants are
living it up. for they can get better one
{ $1,000. The truth is business men
an hardly afford to pay any rent, for
here is DO profit whatever in business.
he shrinkage iD value is going on stead
". and no one can see the end. Relief