The Newtown bee., 1880-01-21

according to my own private opinion, if Is not much of world, but then 1t is the hest we have at present -and we know pretty well what it is--and we don't know much about that other plaee-and just think what time fellow could hisveon three hundred. and twenty dollars Corey Island next summer, with all the modern prospective walking for future O'LearyS or Astley uclts; Pinafole; the Princess Toto and the Pirates Of Penzance; oysters at Dor Ions and patte ne f0t gras at Delmoni- eos; lemonade, with q stick in it, at the sum.ler gardens ico cream and drives in the parll5-therc is no end to the good things that those three hundred and wenty dollars would have brought, which now is lost to humanity forever ill that financial Golgotha the pound of the Pub lie Administrator. o foolish German How could you do it? Why could you not have seht the three hundred to Broadhriu, and reserved the odd twenty for your fuaeral expense5-German philosupy, bah Y. the man who could be guilty of such H foolish thing as that i5 not worth um obituary notice.
 Supr. fine scoundrels are not, by any mrans, rare in New York or elsewhere. The crop Is always about equal to the demand, and indeed it is frequently largely in excess of the reasonable wants of an intelligent and euIigl ened com munity. Now comes J. Lloyd Iaigh into Cyurt--and by way of elrenthesis re- mark that l have particular affection for any man who splits Lis name in the miIdle-well, Mr. J. Lloyd Haiyh, as 1 said, comes into Court, and for double distilled, dyed cd-in-the-wood ruscality, l think he can double discount any swim
 llrr and villain that we have lately had anything do with, and then beat him d hundred points i'll the game. He was a church trustee, shiuing light in the Sunday school and a perfect bonanza to ull sorts of charitable associations he used to kiss all the pretty girls in hls class, made love to all the teachers, and US 6 fitting climax to moral life, mar ried four wives in succession, one Ui hom being Miss Jennie Hughes, the -pariliHg queen of Il variety show. How hc escaped an indictment for bigumy it $ now impossible 10 tell. That l @ did not marry a half dozen more was not his fault; for d number of his matrimonial ventures were frustrated by the sudden appearance of wife No. l, who appears to have been his averaging Nemesis. He if nally, by an adroit swindling operation, in sub Stituting the wire of another nlanu- facturer for his own, got tEe contract for furnishing the wire for the great suspen- sion bridge between Brooklyn and New York; helc he attempted to ruin the great work by the substituting of inferior wire, and when detected he was brought before the Board of Trustees and asked il he would like to know the Board s opinion of him! He said he would; they then told kim that they regarded him as a rascal, witt. big D. He quietly turn e around and said, Gentlemen, I was really afraid of that It was discovered his week that he had forged paper to the amount Of SIPS. GOO, pulling down in his fall the GrOccTS Bank, and Iuining a large number of poor and worthy peo- pie. It is no use to moraliZe on this mau'o downfall: he is but one of d large army, who have used religion as a cloak, uud for which Christianity or the church. is no more responsible than it is for the acts of the devil himself. l hope to be able 10 record good long term ill States prison for J. Lloyd Haigh, from which, trust, no mistaken executive may relieve him.
 An amusing circumstance occurred il one of our street cars last week. Tn, day was stormy, and, as usual, the cal
 was crowded, more than half tho passen. gers standing, ana among them diotin SuIshed looking foreigner, evidently al Engliehman, done up in a magnificent ulster Just as the car was passing the 1 Cooper Institute, a tall, gaunt, severe | looking woman rushed out, and elbowe( ] Ser way Into the car besiGe the distin gUished stranger. She, too, was done 1 up ill an ulster similar to the English
 mans, and reaching up 10th hands, sh,
 caught hold of q strap on each side | Suddenly it occurred to her that her pock l et-hook was ill the pocket of her ulster
 containing S2.75 ill cash, and the receip
 for shawl at the dyer's; quick as light
 ming ehe dived for her pocket, and th'
 Englishman's hand was iu it. Sh, 1 squeezed the guilty williams hand, ant l looked him sternly in the face, but th'
 rascal only smiled, and never said ;
 word. At last, flesh and blood could stan'
 no longer, and giving his hand q terribl twist, she said; Sir you have you hand in my pocket" Excuse me, mad
 am" said the Englishman, cool as a GU cumber, but you have your hand ill ] pocket" which was in fact the case
 The strong minded woman nearly fain
 ted, but recovering quickly, made
 bound from the car amid the shouts o the passengers. The Englishman turne
 to a gentleman near him and said: "'po ne life, l thought it was extraordinary but l did not know but perhaps it lnigl
 be the custom of the country" *.*
 WASHINGTON LETTER.
 We have got Congress back again nov
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