Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1874-08-22

money in day. At one hotel In the up
per part of the city, at which great ma
ny rich men board, the ladies made a
game in which each lady put in 800
each time. One lady won that day nearly
$4,000, which was lucky thing for her,
as she was in debt, and wanted it. But
how was it with the losers, who probably,
were also in debt, and wanted it like
wise?
EMIGRATION.
Many good people have felt some
alarm at the vast number of foreign-born
citizens who, this season, have gone
back to their former homes, suppOsing
that the panic and the-consequenl search
ty of labor had driven them back to Eu-
rope. All these fears are groundless-
The fact is the dullness of trade has told
terribly upon the steamship lines, and all
Of them have been running at loss. To
get as much business as possible, they
all put down the rates ofpassage to very
small sum to induce travel. Thousands
upon thousands of well-to-do Irishmen,
Germans, and Frenchmen have taken ad-
vantage of reduction TO revisit their old
homes, and that is all there is of it. They
will all return in the fall and bring others
with them, who will be attracted by what
they say of the "land of the Free" but
more, by the evident prosperity of those
who return.
Emigration is not as brisk as in former
years, for the simple reason that there is
but little work now But emigrants are
coming every day. nevertheless. The
farm laborers of England who are out of
work in consequence of the great strike
are coming. Indeed, one hundred of
them landed here last week, and took
the trouble to see them. They are gener-
ally good people, though lamentably ig-
nOrant. They lived the life of animals,
almost, on the great estates that held
them, with no earthly opportunities for
developement in any direction. One of
them told me that his entire family con-
sisting of his wife and eight children,
lived in a cottage" of two rooms, in
which there were no floors, the entire
family sleeping togetherer IN one room
In this mans family was one rather pref
ty girl of eighteen, who every year had to
go away to work, living with her fellow
laborer in precisely the same wayi The
condition of things on those estates may
be imagined. The wages paid to labor
ers in this country seemed to them enor-
nous, and they were anxious TO go West
and get at it.
"Why," said one of them TO me, "they
say We'll get never less than four shillin,
day At that 1 can earn house for my
SELF"
Some day that man will not only own
house, but it will stand in the centre of
100 acres of Kansas land.
oLEoMARGARINE
has gone up. You remember it. 1t was
process of making butter out of
grease. For time it created sensation
here. Samples of butter made in this
way were shown, and they were good.
Well, they ought to be, for they were
actually butter. The "inYentor" of the
butter kept up the STIR till he sold the
patent for the Pacific States, to verdant
Californian, who did actually pay $1,000
down and gave his notes for $65,000.
A company was organized in San Fran
cisco, and $4,000 worth ofstock was act
ually disposed Of when the inventor sp-
peared and wanted the remaining $65, 1000,
there was an explosion. The process
was tried and found to be entirely worth
less, and The rumpus that ensued was
something terrific. The antecedenis of
the Inventor" were looked up, and it was
discovered that he was an old speculator
In this style of enterprise, and that "Ole
margarine" was neither his first nor his
worst swindle. Exit grease butter The
cows are reinstaied.
BEECHER- -TILToN,
Once more l am compelled 10 write
these names, around which there is pile
of fnastiness already mountain high, and
growing daily. viii you forgive me if
venture upon the subject little more !?
The trouble in this whole matter is this
The Committee of Plymouth Church,
whose business is TO get the truth, are not
attempting anything of the sort. They
are trying Beecher for charges preferred
against him; they are trying their level
best, as the boys say to clear him. Iti
not jury that is trying this case. The
committee go about 1t as though eac
member was Mr.. Beecher's attorney,
whose business 1t was 10 bring In the great
preacher mot guilty" at all hazardsi
ana Beecher is fighting the matter as
hilgant, who does not hesitate TO use eve.
ry bubble TO gain his case. no matter
what the facts may be. What does Hen.
ry Ward Beecher, charged with adultery
want of lawyer before church com.
miltees He did or did not commit the