Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1876-02-12
OUR NEW YORK LETTER.
Crime-Political-2he Spring Trade
The Galc--P00r-INe Hippotir0nle.

Crtme-f'0tittcdt- Spring Trade
The Gale-Poor-We Hppodrome.
TERRIBLE CRIMES.
There has been an epidemic of erin
within the past week, the prevailiu
characteristics of each case being coll
T blooded cruelty. The city was shocke
by the murder of ayoung girl by the Jew
Rubenstein, under peculiarly revoltin
circumstances, which was followed i
the slaughter of Simmons by Fuch
This case is the most horrible on recorl
The murdered man was made drunk, S
drunk as to be unconscious. Then HI
murderer deliberately chopped his hea
of, and, cutting his body into sma
pieces, baked the most of 1t in coo
stove till it could not be distinguish
from any other meat. He had got til
body almost finished when he was inter
rupted. The head and one leg remain
cd, and by these the crime was discover
cd. The only motive for this horribl
crime was the displacement Of the mul
derer by the murdered man from situa
ton worth $3.50 per day. Fuchs, tn
murderer, is low German, and as com
plete brute as was ever suffered to live
He manifests no feelings in the matter
and does not seem to realize that he ha
done anything especially wrong. o.
the contrary, he was rather pleased whel
taken to Jail to find himself the object o
so much notice. Close on the heels 0
this atrocity was the more than tcrribl,
murder of an entire family on Long Is
land. An old man named Skidmore
with three others, laborers, ETC., livet
in an out-of-the-way place. Near Deer
Park one night last week the house was
burned down, and in the morning the
charred remains OF the four were found
in the ruins. There can be no reason
able doubt but that the inmates were
murdered, and the house fired to hide the
atrocity and what adds horror to the
fime is tolerably well-supported con-
xiction that the deed was done by very
near relatives of the old man, He was
31uarrelsome man, very fond of litiga-
ton, and was at feud with all his sons.
The testimony taken at the inquest points
towards these sons as the criminals. But
the witnes ses We're the lowest of the low
so low, indeed, that nothing they could
say would be taken in court of justice.
What is the cause of this Niagara Of
crime at this timeP The hard times can
not be charged with it, for in all these
cases the motives were not gain. Among
the classes far removed from want crime
follows crime in rapid succession, and
every case seems to be more horrible than
is predecessor. Where is the scientist
Who can give an explanation Of the caus-
= and can suggest cure9
tes8N POLITICAL.
] The Liberal Republicans of the city
ontinue to meet every few days, and re-
olive that they will continue to labor for
he publication of the Government, and
he restoration of integrity of officials.
from the length Of their resolutions, and
he loudness of their below, those who
lid not know might suppose that there
vas actually such party as the "Liber-
i Republican," and might suppose that
had vitality. Don't Jet it alarm you.
When Gen. John Cochrane walks down
he street, it is customary to observe
there goes the Liberal Republican par
y" Gen. John, and about dozen 9TH
rs are all that are left of the men who
Tiled poor old Horace Greeley, and they
you'd not be left if they were of suffi-
lent Importance to give I'm office, or any
osition of honor, in the Republican par
y to. They meet and resolve, and bel
ow, and have their speeches reported,
S means of advertising that they are
till alive,-and in the market. They
re trying to create the impression that
ley are strong enough to be worth buy
lg and are horribly disappointed that
either of the dominant parties will put
/ bid for them. 1t is noticeable fact
lat after the Greeley tiasco the Liberals
,ifl continued to believe that the Govern
lent needed purifying, but that it would
ave to be done through the old parties.
is equally noticeable that each individ-
al Liberal, quite as firmly believed that
le party that could best rescue the Gov
'nment from ruin was the one that could
I'd would give him good, warm place.
he was in a Republican district he be-
eyed tho Republican party to be the sal
alton of the country, and if in Demo-
attic district, vice-uersa. And in either
Use if he got his place, he subsidized into
good a partizan as you ever saw. All
at these blatherers want is recognition,
hich is exactly what they will not get.
hey are not worth it.
THE DEMOCRACY
New York are in bad way. A por- l
IN of them want Tilden for the Presi- u
ncy, on a hard-money platform, but
they feel that in the West
ere is strong party in favor Of intla-
IN, which would never forget the part
took lsst fall against Allen, or rather I
g part he didn't take. He did not OPP ,
Sc Allen, but he was cold toward him Il
at he did him more damage than if he a
d actively opposed him. Still, the De- Il
ocracy of New York will present Til "
n, and trust to the power of party drill II
whip in the malcontents in the West u
d South. Tlden will go into the DEM 81
ratio Convention with more money be- II
I'd him than any candidate yet spoken II
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