The Vinton record. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1866-1891, 1874-12-24

IL cOulu mol u6 SnuuI6u. N
business that could be trans
acted on the premises coull
pay tins rent, and house afie
house went down IN the vail
end ,avOr. The landlords woulC
not reduce, Tor hey had taitl
If Smith wouldn't keep th,
store Jones would be glad /,
take it, and as they had he
come accustomed TO living il
the style of $4,000 rerls they
did not like to come do3n.-
But smith either quit bust,
ness or ne went over 10 some
Of the side streets, and Jones
knew too much to 60 into ruin
bllndlold, and so the stores are
empty. This is as il should be,
There is no reason in keeping g
up 10 war prices in anything
and rents ought 10 be the first
to come down. True, it depre
clates real estate; but why
should ii nO9 There is moth
ing made by calling fifty cents
a dollar. Men can not labor
forever for landlords.
And, by the way, speaking
OF "coming down." there has
been and is being
CONSIDERABLE ECONOMY
practiced at this time. Gentle.
men who, year ago were in
the habit OF stepping INTO their
fashionable Broadway tailors
and paying 500 orSl5O for an
OverGOat without asking the
price, are not doing it 10 any
alarming extent. They 60 into
the Bowery and The other
cheap streets, and Luy for $50
10 $50 what they would have
to pay SIS to 500 Tor on
Broadway. AND they find
hat a pair OF boots made on
a cheap street for $40 looks
just as well and wears juS ST as
long as the PAIR that the pre-,
lenllous Broadway maker cool
ly asks, and gets, SIS lor. This
style cl ecOE0mIzlng is get
ting to be very popular. Men
joke about il and take a pride
In 1t. And, TO the disgust ol
the high-prlced bars, thousands
OF Them have changed their
drinking places. They gel
their modest quenches or their
stiff lnvigorators at the quiet
places around the corner,
where 10 cents does as much
toward sending them into IA
drunkard's grave as 25 or 80
would at the fashionable bars.
Oh course there are plenty of
noodles who still submit TO be
heeced as of yore, but the
numter Is growing smaller
every day. Let US hope that
it will continue until we gel
down to ante-war prices. That
is what the country wants. Ii
is impossible 10 hold up to the
old key, and the sooner we all
drop the better.
NEW YORK AND TRADE.
New York Is being exercised
once more about losing a por
tion of its trade. 1t is IA fact
that the grain trade is going
to Boston and Baltimore very
rapidly, and that the prospec
is good that The remainder will
go 10 those cities. New York
has depended so long upon her.
natural advantages has SO
long believedthat theContinenl
must come TO her, that she has
got arrogant and lazy as well.
She is content to have grain
t AIKEN out of cars and car,ed
to vessels, and TO have a horde
of leeches tasten upon every
bushel and suck the Lille out OF
it. In the meantime, Balli
more, which, by The way. is
nearer tO Toledo and the other
grain centres, BULLS splendid
elevators, which she can ham
die grain at nominal cost,
and Boston does the same. The
Baltimore aud Ohio Road,
whose arms cover all The ter
ritory that produces anything,
refuses to 60 into combinations,
and the result is, that this i'm.
portanl traffic goes there. Bal
limore has captured the coffee