Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1873-07-26

to be settled by the contingencies OF the future
There is cause for apprehension, at least, that
this absence may be but the breaking of the
bonds that have held the family, here. This
separation, therefore, is a somewhat sad one
TO many who have enjoyed the acquaintance
and society of the WATSON family. Should
this apprehension be realized, AshtaLula and
its society will have occasion to regret the
loss, for no one family has done SO much for
the welfare OF this community, and none, per-
haps will leave such void by withdrawing
from it. Our kindcst wishes, therefore will
follow this traveller over the trackless deep,
and we may be permitted 10 trustiully hope for
the safe return ofhersclf and daughter to join
the family circle in their Ashtabua home-lhe
scene OF SO much generous hospitality aud So
cal happiness
A respectable and responsible citizen of an
adjacent town sends us the following commu-
cation for appearance in the Telegraph. Due
reflection has led tp some delay in putting it
in print--not that we are at all disposed to
boggle over the handling of the subject of
temperance, but that in the manner OF hand
ling it, we do have some preference. The ar
ticle in question is open to the criticism of be-
ing little rough, and, therefore, unpalatabie !;
but whether it will be Improbable, even at
ourselves us others see," after all, is the point
for us to settle Ii the character of our village
is such as is represented, in the view OF out
sidcrs-in the county, no rcticence on our part
will avail TO make us APPEAR any better than
we are; and if there is nothing gained in the
way of policy, the question hecomes peril
nent one--may not the shocking of our sensi.
bilities provoke an effort, if not of absolute
reform, at least in making the foundation of
the evi! little less bold, our deiormities, less
hideous, and these scathing admonitions some
what less severe and hard TO Tear Ours is
rather the latter view of the matter and there
fore we haYe yielded to the wish of the writer
to print his article, advising those whose equa-
nimity is easily disturbed, 10 lOregO the reading
following the even tenor of their ways with
out contemplation or acquaintance with
these alleged evils, or the grounds, more or
less real, upon which they rest ..i
AUsTINBURG, July 9th, '73
Editor IeLegrdph--Please insert tue follow
ing in your paper, and oblige the friends of
humanity;
Last winter while In Cleveland, heard the
following remark: "Ashlabula is fast becom.
ing the hardest place on the whole line from
Buffalo to Chicago, Though small town,
there is more drinking and fighting and row.
dyism than in any other Town on the route"
Do facts prove the truth of that assertion /?
Let us look and see Some slrang rs who
were there on the 4th, said "almost every other
house seemed to be whisky sAloon' OF
course that is not literally tru". But if the
village OF Ashtabula contains even ten of these
"little hells," there are good grounds for be-
lieving that the streams of fire issuing there
from are enough TO backen and consume the
healthy, moral sentiment OF not only the viii
lage, but the destroying influence is lelt for
miles around.
A little over year ago, young man, with
bottles filled from one Of these "hells," called
saloons, was, while under the Influence of the
spirit imbibed from the same, thrown from his
carriage and killed. Who killed that young
mans The keeper of the saloon, in Ashtabula,
killed him. Again, that poor, miserable faml-
ly of Sylvias. Who killed that manf The
person who sold him the whisky. Who SEM
that woman, Sylvia, to States prisonp The
saloon keepers of Ashtabula. Who cost the
State hundreds of dollars in prosecuting the
| parties The village of Ashlabula, through
its agents, The yenders of whisky. to whom Ii.
cense is given thus TO slay and destroy. L
was reported that child in the township was
killed the same year, by father or guardian
while under the influence of whisky if so
there would be three deaths directly in one
year, or three direct murders by the saloon
keepers Of Ashtabula-these same murderers
licensed and protected by authority existing
somewhere. Can any one tell whereH
A week or two since, noticed a paragraph
from an Ashtabula newspaper correspondent
to this effect; Saturday, the railroad men had
a general drunk but the wretches were taken
to the lookup and the city government reaped
quite pecuniuy harvest" do not give the
language precisely. but the ideas.
Now, there can be no objection to the term
"wretches,' but in this case there is certainly
a total misapplication of the term. The ven
ders of whisky, whether in the doggery, the
saloon, behind the counter, or In the "cily
government" are the men who earn the epi
thet "wTetches."
Notice was given Of celebration of the 4th
Names of respectable men as readers, orators
etc., headed the programme; and it was re
ported that the ''Iittle heils" were TO be close,
for the day. What are the factsH Report say
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