Rensselaer Union, Volume 5, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 February 1873 — Borrowers in New York. [ARTICLE]

Borrowers in New York.

It would seem as if the city had been districted by borrowers, each district having its infesters. The leading hotels, or rather their patrons, are laid under contribution by these financial pests, who take their position at stated hours, and ply their trade perseveringly from season to season. These are toe fellows who, having exhausted the metropolitan mine, are following the stronger lode. They are better acquainted with the arrivals in town than the drummers themselves. They scan the registers as antiquarians would a mouldering Inscription, and greet with fulsome flattery and cordial handshaking mry provincialist they have ever encountered. Their accidents are chronic; their misfortunes unvarying. They have always lost their pocket-book, or left it at home; they hare been suddenly called out of town, or have received & dispatch requiring immediate answer. They have failed to receive an expected remittance; their wife is very ill, or their child has just died; they must have money or go mad. (It may be noted here that they rarely go half so mad as the credulous creatures do after lending them.) A gentleman blessed with s good memory, and cursed with frequent approaches of petitioners for call-loans. declares that one of these tricksters hat been bereaved daring the past six months of offspring to the number of ninety-eight, and has become a widower not less than sixty times. Who can regard without profoundest pity a mortal struggling under auch aa accumulation of sorrows, and hot respond pecuniarily? Like rhetorical questions are put by the borrower. He who answers them with his pocket-book may charge its contents perpetually to Profit and Loss. New York has thousands of regular borrowers, end volunteers are entering the strategic army daily and hourly. The ranks are always full to overflowing, and masterly advances are constantly making on the foe,Who is hoodwinked by the pretext that be is a friend. The fee is any gull or generous fallow who hates to say no, or gives to hit persecutor the benefit of the doubt. The sea euni wl* Mas glory by resistance; his wisest coarse is retreat, and he Is apt to do ad finally, though not before his porteaeowaaiebean many humiliating aya-Vwww &nry Brvwne, in Scribner't fbe February. --■■■■* - Thh New York World makes the serious charge that a few days ago not less than twenty oar loads or diseased Westate sheep arrived in that city from Chiqagn, and many of them were killed ua quickly as possible and sold to orasumars. The senders were immediately telegraphed to, and warned that If any more diseased sheep were shipped they would be immediately returned or seised by .toe proper authorities. Sheep whose ftseoe showed It waa found could be detected by ooatpetent butchers aftw permeated theayataie, to tor HMhiin «f the general leanness and toman of the mutton. ,