Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 November 1876 — Thievery at the Exposition—Sham Bijouterie. [ARTICLE]

Thievery at the Exposition— Sham Bijouterie.

• It is stated that the attendants in the Oriental bazars at the Philadelphia Exhibition were so quick to accuse individuals inspecting their articles of thievish intentions, that persons of the highest character were dragged out under attest On the other hand, Mr. Edward King, df the Bos. ton Journal writes: It must be allowed, howeter, tiwt nsmbers of respectable pCople lmve account&bly prompted, heaven only knows by what side of their nature, to, petty larceny in these bazars and m ■nWofe‘ departments of the Main building. Several persons whose connections are of the veiy hisrhest respectability, and whose previous conduct has been in every irreproachable. are now held to bail is answer to the charge of theft In general, the articles taken are of the smallest and most trivial description; insignificant bits of jewelry or bric-a-brac; sometimes nothing but fragile toy*. Tie persten inculpated are from all parte of the country, North, West, Booth, East But these exception! cases have not justified the Orientals in their demand for wholesale arrests. Nor have they done touch except call attention to the fact that toe Orientals have been guilty of the greatest totemy themselves. Hey brought with than a certain number of bra* Ate curidsities, and were astonished to find thatthey wwerold in a few weeks- H , These cunning nocals therefore went to work to secure imitations of the real goods

which they, had brought over, and they succeeded. They found , sneehs in th(s country who would manufacture them, and also Wloceeded In gel*dg’« Mrge quantity of the olerec imitations ilifcich are madain Faria. subtle JUrieaMwta taught the other day in the very act ot unloading from hi* voluminous garments a host of those worthless gegaws, which he bad brought thus concealed info’ the Exhibition. Some of these'venders‘deserve the horse-pond.