Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1876-02-11
nrR KEH YORK LETTRR.
orine-PelitIcaI-The spring TRADE
Faliures-TheGale Hip
pesrome.
rERRIBLE CRIMES,

There hiss been an. epidemic Of crime
wi,hi6 the past week, ihs preFeiling
chsracteristics Of each case being cold
blooded cruelty. The city was shocked
by the murder of young girl by the
Jew. Rub-nstein, under peculiarly re-
yolting circumstances. which was follow
ed by the slaughter of Simmons by
Fuchs. This case is the most horrible on
record. The murdered man was made
drunk, So drunk as TO be unc InsciOus
Ther his murderer deliberately chopped
his head of, and, cutting bis body into
small pieces, baked the most of it in q
cook stove till il could not be distinguish
ed from any other meat. He had got the
body almost finished when he was in
terrupted. The head and one leg re-
mained, and by these the crims was dis
covered. The only motive for this hor-
rible crime was the dis2 laeement of the
murderer by the murdered man from
situation worth sI-5O per day. Fuchs.
the nm rderer, IS low German, and as
complete brute as was ever suffered to
live. BE manifests no feeling in the mat
ter, aud does not seem to realize that he
has done anything especially wrong
Close on the heels of This atrocity was the
more than terrible murder of an entire
family on Long Island An old man
uamed Skidmore, with three others. Ia
borers, etc, lived in an out-oi-the-waY
place. Near Deer Park one night last
week the house was burned down, aud
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
fsed to hide the atrocity and what adds
horror TO the crime is toler4bly we'll
supported conviction that the deed was
done by very near relatives of the old
man. He was quarrelsOme man, very
fond of litigation. and was at feud with
ell 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 court of justice.
What is the cause of this Niagara OF
crime at this timer Where is the scient-
list 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 re,
solve that they will continue to labor
for the purifcalion Of the Governmen I,
and the restoration Ofintegrity in officials.
From the length of their resolutions, aud
the Ioudness of their below. those who
did not know might suppose that there
was actually such party as the "Lioer
al Republican" and might suppose that
it had vitality. Don't let it alarm you
When Gen. John Cochrane walks down
the street, 1t is customary to observe
.there goes the Liberal Republican par
tY." Gen. John, and about 6 dozen
Others are ell that are left Of the men
who killed poor old Horace Greeley,
and they would not be left il they were
Of sufficient importance 70 give an ONCE,
or any position of honor, in the Republi-
can party to. They meet and resolve,
and below, and have their speeches re-
ported, as q means OF advertising that
they are sti1l aliye,--and in the mark
ct. They are trying to ere ate the i'm
preston that they are strong enough to
be worth buying and are horribly dis
appointed that neither OF the dominant
parties will put in bid for them. 1t is
a noticeable fact that after the Greeley
iasco theaiberals still continued to be-
lleve thar the Cover nment needed puri-
fying, but that it " ould have 10 be done
through the old parties. It 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. Ii
he was ia Republican district he be-
lieyed the Republican party TO be The
salvation of the country, and if in
Democratic district, Vies Cersa. And in
either case if he got his. place, he subsid
ed into as good partizan as you ever
saw. Al that these blatherers want is
recognition, which is exactly what they
will not get They are not worth it.
iea THE DEMOCRACY iHf
OF New York are in bad way. A por
ton of them want Tilden for the PresI-
deney, on a hard money platform, but
unfortunately they feel that in the West
there is strong party in favor Of inf1s-
ton, which would never forget the part
he took last fail against Allen, or rather
the part he didn't take. lie did not op-
pose Allen, but he was SO cold toward
him that he did him more damage than
if he had actively op posed him. Still,
the Democracy of New York will pres
ent Tf3den, 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 cam
didate yet spoken of. and we all know
what money means in Democratic con-
vention. But he viii not be nominated.
The Democracy OF the rural d istricts are
suspicious of the money power Of New
York, as they have right to be.
THE BEPuBLI6ANs
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. Bris-
tow is making hosts of friends by his Wig
orous prosecution of the whisky swiad-
Iers, and every conviction that is proeur-
ed sweeps him 90 much closer to the
chair If he is the level
headed man that his friends say he is, be
stands very close to the head. It would
be very grstefnl to the stRunch Republic
cans OF Kentucky TO have one of their
number SO honored, and as the Secre tary
is showing his fitness to rule over few
things, it is not improbable that he may
be called to rale over many.
TIE SPRING TRADE.
The Spring trade in this city is already
open. though the snow which put in a
tardy appearance last night has given
the fur-dealers few days of grace. The
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