Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1874-03-28

I Up at SiEg Sing -Stokes- Hdrd Worked
. Merchahts--SO -SOeiety-- Temper0ace--Ez
trdUaganoe-T PatTIc.s day dGd the
LriSh--Street 1u,deians
SING e-sING-sToEEs
Yonr r.aders huv mostly forgotten
Stokes, and with him, Jim Fisk. Well,
such is life A hero of to-day is forgotten
tn morrow. Fisk lis in his bloodv grave
al Baltlrboro, Stokes is in Sing Sing
prison, bur no one mentions them now.
ran up to Sing Sing the other day, and
saw Stokes. He is employed in the pris-
un as hook keeper for the great boot and
shoe manufacturing house of Melins,
Trask 6 Ripley, of this city, who employ
The labor of an immense number OF con-
yicls Stokes ienaciously clings to the
account he gave as Il witness in his own
helInIf during the trial. H contends that
mis- meeting with Fisk at the Grand Cen
ral Hotel was owing to accident and not
10 any premeilitated design to encounter
his enemy and shOnt him as the prose
cuIinn claimed. Stokes said that when
he caught sight of Fisk the latter was ap-
preaching him with speed. He added
Thai he SAW him pull his pistol, and it was
owing to the impulse OF the moment
The instinct of srlfpersevation-that he
drew his own weapon and fred. After
lischarging mis- revolver, he jumped out
of range, and gave the alarm 10 the at
laches of the hotel. He is well treated.
and does not complain, but il is evident
that the cnangefrom tn life of excite
ment in the city 10 the routine life he is
| comp, He'd To l. ad is telling upon hln
He said to Mr.. Trask, of the firm IN
whose service he is for the nOnce, thai
hr would like to change places with him
You are as well off as you are" said
the philosophic merchant. Indeed
your SITUATION is pr ierable to mine
Ypu work so many hours and gel ex-
c lIent food and comfortable clothing
The change in fashion ton'I affect you yo''
have no cares on your mind.~yo work
at and sleep. That is all l get for near
ly twicr as many hours labor and mil
lion times more worry" ..-A g.i
And speaking OF -iil
HARD WORKED MEN,
there are no men IN the world who la
Dor SO hard as the merchan OF New
York. The life of the average is moi as
pleasant as that of the dray-horse, fol
he has more physical Labor, aud the men
Ial worry thrown in. With expenses
running into the thousands per week
with an interest account of Bropindigna
eian proportions, with the capital scat
tered all over the United States, aud his
solveuey depending entirely on the sol
vrncy of and promptness of ten thousand
other mrm, some of whom are four thou
sand miles away, the trouble surrounding
him is perpetual. He is COMPELLED to III
in his Counting room at eight A. NJ, anC
| rom that on till night it is one perpetun
strain. Ev,ry nerve in him is strung ,iC
the utmost tension, for mistake or neg
lrcl in the smrllrst matter may bring up
on him ruin. They grow premature y
gray and nine lenIhs of them die before
their time. And The trouble is That GU
of every hundred, ninety five end theil
business career with nothing. Il is TWEEN
iy five years of labor and trouble anC
orry, only To go out finally in panic
which they had nothing to do with, anc
which they could not prevent or provide
against. ....-.