Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1876-02-11
OUR NEW YORK LETTER.
--FAILURES-THE GALE sNOw-PooR
THE HIPPODROME.
NEW YORK, Feb. s, 1876.
TERRIBLE GRIMES,

There has been an epidemic Of crime
within the past week. the prevailing char
acteristics of each case being cold-bloOded
cruelty. The city was shocked by the
murder OF a young girl by the Jew, Ruben
stein, under peculiarly revolving circum-
stances, which was followed by the saugh-
| ter OF Simmons by Fuchs. This case is
the most horrible on record. The murder
ed man was made drunk, so drunk as 10 be
unconscious. Then his murderer dcliber-
ately 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 dis
tinguished from any other meat. He had
got the body almost finished when he was
interrupted. The head and one leg re-
mained, and oy these the crime was dis
covered. The only motive for this hOrri-
BILE crime was the displacement of the mur
derer by the murdered uan FROM siLua-
ton worth 81. 50 per day. Fuchs, the MUIR
derer, is low German, and rs complete
brute as was ever suffered TO live. He
manifests no feeling in the matter, and
does not seem 10 realize that he has done
| anything especially wrong. On the con-
trary, 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
entire family on Long Island. An old
man named SkidmOre, with TIN ee others,
laborers. etc, lived in an out Of.the-way
place. Near Dear 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 reasonable doubt but that the inmates
were murdered and the house fired to hide
the atrocity and what adds horrer to the
crime is IA toerably well-suppOrted cOnyic-
tion that the deed was done by very near
relatives of the old man. He was a guar
relsome man, very fond OF litigation, and
was at fcud with all his sons. The tesii-
money taken at the inquest points towards
these sons as the criminals. But the wit
Desses were 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 time The hard times can
not be charged with it, for in all these cases
the motives were not gain. Among the
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 con-
tinue to meet every few days, and resolve
that they will continue to labor for the pur
itication of the Government, and the res
toration of integrity IN officials. From the
length of their resolutions, and the loud
ness of their below, those who did not
know might suppose that there was actual
ly such party as the Liberal Republican,
and might suppose that it had vitality.
Don't let it alarm you. When Gen. John
Cochrane walks down, the street, it is Gus
tomary to observe There goes the Liberal
Republican party" Gen. John, and about
n dozen others are all that are left of the
men who killed poor old Horace Greeley,
and they would not be left if they were of
sufficient Importance to give an office, or
any position of honor, in the Republican
party too. They meet and resolve and
below, ard have their speeches reported, as
a means of advertising that they ale still
alive-and in the market. They are try
ing to create the impression that they are
strong enough to be worth buying and are