, 1880-02-07
BROADBRIM'S NEW YORK LETTER.
z aD-9enI3og1lf5 No. 40.

year. Inc countryman was right who
said ''citY folks have no business with
they don't know how to use it."
We have no use for it here 10 New York,
where 1t only serves to make the detesta.
bic streets more execrable still. Just be.
fore noon of the 3lst. the snow began to
fall, late in the afternoon it changed to a
sort of driving sleet, and by night the
streets were one vast glaze Of ice, render
ing locomotion dangerous if not impossible.
Falling horses and som rsaulting pedes'
TRANS crowded all the great avenues, add
Jog TO the general confusion ; and, / regret
to say, that Notwithstanding the sacred
associations OF this holiday time, profanity
with . big D and q huge g was by no
means uncommon; but as the travellers
legs few from under him on the unstable
treacherous pavement, the command to
''swear not at oil" was forgotten for the
nonce, and the most powerful forms of
obiurgatiou, though sandwiched with for
chile and profane adjectives, afforded only
temporary relief for sore heads and bruised
limbs. 10 spite Of the dreadful character
OF the travel. the streets were crowded
with people making purchases of presents
for the new year. Our old friend Santa
Claus had not quite found the bottom of
their purses, but n little still remained to
make the hearts of their friends and rela-
tions glad. New Years was o general
holiday, open house was kept by the ma
jority of the householdere, while the great
officials, as we'll as those who expect to be
great. 10 prospective, dispensed q most
generous and lavish hospitality. Friday
brought with it the usual number of
aching heads and repentant DRINKS,
and it is to be hoped that before 1880 ex.
pires, some Of the victims may seek
safety in a blue ribbon, under the general.
ship of Francis Murphy, and that the New
Xear's OF 1881 may find them uttering the
prayer-'Lead us not into temptation"
TOLD you so, / told you SO! Six of the
swlndling stock firms have come to grief,
that have been flooding the country with
ebieying advertisements, and there is o rod
10 pickle, Tor more of them. For months
I have sounded the alarm through YOUR
columns. but it was only this week that
The great New York dailies awoke to the
fact that o band of organized pirates In
Wall.st. were robbing the people oil over
4he u. S. OF millions and millions oil dollars.
All of you have seen the advertisements of
Lawrence & Co., where SIS or $40, nut up
on stock margin. in thirty days would
realize a 500. Did it ever occur to the
fats that if the chances of gain were SO
tempting and sure, Lawrence & Co. would
be more than mortal if they did not keep
it themselves, but the owners of over a
100000 In sums varying from SIS to
500, seemed to think that Lawrence e. Co.
were q sort of good genii, who gave new
lamps tor old ones, and whose special
mission it was to give SIS gold coins TO
poor people at IS cents apiece. When
will people learn common sense. When.
ever you see an advertisement 10 the paper
where Q mar proposes to give you five or
ten times the worth of your money. YOU
may be sure that that men ia a liar and a
thief. Thanks. to Anthony Comstock, it
looks as ii those ~vagabords would have
their swindliDg business broken up for the
present ; but you may be sure that it will
only be for Q little while, for the profits
are so large and gulls are 30 plenty, that
it will not be long before they turn up
with some pew scheme, Of which I will
try and give you timely warning.
A pleasant piece Of intelligence
from the report Of the morgue, Of 500 men
and women missing during the past wear
how many dropped out Of sight for whom
no one inquired, and of whom no record
remains, will never he knou,n coxh.n.