The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1876-02-11
OUR NEW YORK LETTER.
CRIME -POLITICAL-TRE SPRING TRADE
-FAILURES-THE GALE-SSOW-POOR
THE HIPPODROME.
NEW YORK, Feb. 8, 1876.
TERRTpTE CDTNrEz

by the murder or young girl by the
Jew, Rubenstein, under peculiarly re-
voting circumstances, which was fol-
lowed by the slaughter of Simmons by
EIchs. This case is the most horrible
on record. The murdered man was
made drunk, so drunk as to be uncon-
scious. Then his murderer deliberately
chopped his head OFF, and, cutting his
body into small pieces, baked the most
of it in a cook stove till it could not be
distinguished from any other meat. He
had got the body almost finished when
he was interrupted. The head and one
leg remained, and by these the crime
was discovered. The only motive for
this horrible crime was the displacement
of the murderer by the murdered man
from a situation worth $50 per day.
Fuchs, the murderer, is low German,
and as complete brute as was ever suf-
fered to live. He manifests no feeling
in the matter, and does not seem TO
realize that he has done anything espe-
cially wrong. On the contrary, he was
rather pleased when taken TO jail to find
himself the object of so much notice.
Close on the heels of this atrocity was
the more than terrible murder of an en-
tire family on Long Island. An old
man named Skidmore, with three Others,
10 nta of rlr.a,
place. Near Deer-Par 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 reasonable doubt bat that the
inmates were murdered, and the house
fired to hide the atrocity; and what adds
horror to the crime is a tolerably we'll
supported conviction that the deed was
done by very near relatives of the old
man. He was quarrelsome man, very
fondsof litigation, and was at feud with
all his sons. The testimony taken at
the inquest points towards these sons as
the criminals. But the witnesses were
the lowest of the low-so low, indeed,
that nothing they could say would be
taken in a court of justice.
What is the cause of this Niagara of
crime at this time? 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 its predecessor. Where is the
scientist who can give an explanation
of the causes and can suggest cure?
POLITICAL.
The Liberal Republicans of the city
continue to meet every few days, and
resolve that they will continue to labor
for the publication of the Government,
and the restoration of integrity in ofii-
cials. From the length of their resolu-
tions, and the loudness of their below,
those who did not know might suppose
that there was actually such party as
the Liberal Republican" and might
suppose that it had vitality. Don't let
it alarm you. When General John
Cochrane walks down the street, it is
customary to observe ''there goes the
Liberal Republican party" Gen. John,
and about dozen Others are all that
are left of the men who killed poor old
Horace Greeley, and they would not be
eft if they were of sufficient Importance
to give an Office, or any position of
honor, in the Republican party to.
They meet and resolve, and below, and
have their speeches reported, as means
of advertising that they are still alive
and in the market. They are trying to
create the impression that they are
strong enough to be worth buying and
are horribly disappointed that neither
of the dominant parties will put in bid
for them. 1t is a noticeable fact that
after the Greeley fiasco the Liberals still
continued to believe that the Govern
biiftt IL
would have to be done through the old
parties. 1t is equally noticeable that
each individual Liberal quite as firmly
believed that the party that could best
rescue the Government from ruin was
the one that could and would give him
good, warm place. If he was in a
Republican district he believed the Re-
publican party to be the salvation of the
country, and if in a Democratic district,
0ice UersG. And in either case il he got
his place, he subsided into as good a
partizan as you ever saw. All that these
blatherers want is recognition, which is
exactly what they will not get. They
are not worth it.
THE DEMOCRACY
OF New York are in bad way. \ por-
ton of them want Tilden for the Presi-
dency, on hard-money platform, but
unfortunately they feel that in the West
there is a strong party in favor of infia-
ton, which would never forget the part
he took last fall against Allen, or rather
the part he didn't take He did not OF
pose Allen. but he was so cold toward
hiin that H. ,iid him more damage than
if he had actively opposed him. Still,
the Democracy of New York viii present
Tilden, and trust to the power of party
drill to whip in the malcontents in the
West and South. Tilden will go into
the Democratic Convention with more
money behind him than any candidate
yet spoken of, and we all know what
money means in Democratic conven-
ton. But he will not be nominated.
The Democracy of the rural districts are
suspicious of the money power of New
York, as they have a right to be.
THE REPUBLICANS
Of the city were in favor, very strongly,
Of Roscoe Conklin. But of late very
strong feeling is showing itself for Bris- |
tow, the Secretary of the Treasury.
Bristow is making hosts of friends by |
his vigorous prosecution of the whisky |
'windlers, and every conviction that is
procured sweeps him so much closer to
he Presidential chair. II he is the level |
headed man that his friends say he is,
le stands very close to the head. 1t |
would be grateful to the staunch Repub-
leans of Kentucky to have one of their
lumber so honored, and as the Secre-
airy is showing his fitness to rule over a