Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1877-12-06
OUR NEW YORK LETTER.
Thanksgiving-Polit In
surance and Sing Sins-The Baby Show.
The Temperance War.

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Thanksgiving-Politi In
surance and Sing sine-The Baby Show
The Temperance War.
New York Nov so, 1877
THANKSGIVING.
New York is about as much OF a
New England city as Boston, and
Thanksgiving,the Presidents Sunday
is as religiously observed. Business
of every kind was suspended, except
the up town drinking places which
did bigger business than usual.
There were thousands of turkies con
sumed, acres of pumpkin pies, barrels
of cider, and the day was given over
to mirth and jollity. The charities all
gave their benefciaries a turkey din
ner. The Newsboys Home fec over
two thousand waits on turkey and
mince pies, and a pleasant sight it
was to see the homeless and hungry
take square meal, something they
won't get again till next thanksgiving.
The churches were more usually
crowded, and altogether the day was
success.
Political.
There is no question but that Til
den has arranged bold stroke for
the Presidency. If Patterson and
Conover stay with the Democracy,
giving them control of the Senate. he
expects TO have both Houses declare
him the legally elected President, and
be inaugurated. Then he will have
both Houses recognize him, and thus
elbow Hayes out of the way. Of
course this would precipitate civil
war, bat little does Tilden care for
that. He spent FIVE millions to buy
the Presidency and he has no more
idea of giving up the chase than he
had last October. 1t is the ambition
of his life, the one thing he has lived
for, and this is his last chance. The
Democracy will never nominate him
again and it is now or never. But
outside Of the desperate politicians,
who consider themselves defrauded
out of places, the scheme does not
meet with favor. The respectable
portion of the party in this city be-
lieve in the honesty and integrity of
President Hayes, and they know the
effect his policy has had upon trade.
The Southern trade has more than
doubled since last March, and it is in
creasing daily. The South is peace
full and quiet, both races uniting in an
offer to repair the ravages of war,
and restore it to more than its old
time prosperity. The South is earn
ing something and has surplus.
Hayes did what Tilden could not have
done, and the merchants of New
York realize it, The scheme of the
great fraud will find no encourage
ment here.
| Silver.
Silver is so plenty as to become a
nuisance. 1t is only worth 90 cents
on the dollar, and the retailers, restau-
rant keepers and others are taking ad
vantage of it. You go into restau-
rant and tender S. greenback and
you will get back So in silver dollars.
AS these people pay 50 cents for
them, they make seven cents every
time they can do this, which is very
handsome addition to their profits.
The places of amusement buy silver
regularly to give out in change, and
the result is, silver is the circulating
medium. If the Bland bill should
pass, it would drive out gold and pa.
per.money altogether. The 'dollar OF
our daddies" is getting as plenty as
biackberries.
Life Insurance and Sing Sing.
The scoundreIly President of the
Security Life Insurance Company
who swore to a surplus of about a
quarter of a million, when it hadn't
a dollar, and who did all sorts oil
things in a most irregular way, has
been sentenced TO five years in the
penitentiary to hard labor. This is
well. Case was man of large prop
erty, and one of the class known as
"eminently respectable" He stood
high in the church and in society, and
it is probable, didn't realize that in
plundering vast number of people
by means of life insurance he was
doing any wrong. 1t it fashionable
kind of stealing, this life insurance
and savings bank swindling, and the
respectable Case was an astonished
man when he was pulled up to an
swer. Such thing had never hap
pened before and be could not
believe that anything serious
could come of it. He protested
tested that he had never examined
the condition of the company-thst
the statement was brought to him
and be swore to it, without knowing
what it was. But the Judge held
that President who received S10,-
900 per annum to manage the inter
ests of twenty thousand widows and
orphans ought to know something
about it, and so be- sends him up for
| five years, despite his responsibility.
DIR. am0ert, the president of the
swindling American popular will go
next, ard the law is reaching for
Fgrber, the president of the North
American. A life insurance nresi-
dent in striped clothes is q cheerful
and improving sight,and there ought
to be more of them. The good COM
panies in the city have been largely
instrumental in bringing about this
most excellent result, for the reason
that the companies that expect to
pay losses have had hard tine
competing with the swinols shops
that were organized to fail when
when they could mako more money