Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1874-04-04

JSr Easter-- Bonaets-ths cost of taoo
Hens
TEMPERANCE.
The rum cyclone has struck New York
at last. In Brooklyn it came with all
the force of a hurricane, and it is rival
ling the Western movement so far as
power is concerned. The drinking pla-
ces in New York, by which saloons and
groceries, in which liquor is the principal
article dealt in, IS meant, number 1914;
one to every 1873 of the population. This
is exclusive of ofdruggists, cIub-hOuses and
places of that class which dispense IL
quOrs quite freely as the -prOfessea
dealers.
These furnish facilities enough for
drinking in all conscience. Wall street
is full of drinking places, many of them
furnished without reference TO cost, for
gambling in stocks and gold is busi
ness so exciting as 10 require stimulants
to enable the gambler to sustain the dram
upon him. The Astor House, bar does
an enormous business. From early morn
until ~ at night the long bar is crowded
with ieverish looking individuals who keep
the cool and self possessed dispensers busy.
One thousand dollars day for liquor
alone is not big days work at the As
tor. Delmonico's Broadway palace is
another famous place. then the Brandreth
House, St. Nicholas, Grand Central, New
York Hotel, and so on up, on the west
side. The east side has quite as many
The regular thing for the regular drink
er who is in business down town, is to
walk TO his home, up above goth street,
and he is very apt to stop at every one
OF these places and drink. .z.
Just at this time a series of meeting $
is being held in all the churches, and
most of the halls, the object being to ere
ate sentiment against the traffic and
use ofliqner, aud to 50 unite the people
oppused TO it that raid will have some
effect. The clergy are all in it, and many
of the leading business men have come
out and announced their willingness to.
give the movement all the aid in their
power. s 1.u. .a
DIO LEWIS f.-
is here with his Western laurels fresh
upon him. and the ranks are closing for
a big movement in -,iiciia usaf
BROOKLYN if. ed ,HiIi
the women have taken the field with some
prospect of success. Oae ,shrewd saloon
man took advantage OfIhe excitement t.
post bills all over the city, in the name oil
the Women's Committee, stating that a
PRAYER meeting would b. held in his sa-
,oon a given. evening. OF course his sa-
loon was crowded from early in the
evening till after 9o'clOek. Then, as no
women came, it creIt through the wool
of the thirsty crowd present, that the
saloon man had made nice thing by at
.iracting them to his den. The unscrupu-
Ious fellow made several hundred dollars
by his shrewd dodge. s. ~ a.t
THE WOMEN r-....-.s..
of Brooklyn, did, however, organize, and
are now on the war path, Last Monday
they formed praying bands and visited
several saloons, in which they held ser
vices. These agencies can be used in
Brooklyn as we'll as in the West, fol
BroOklyn is. city of residences a very
religious city But they met with, bu'
little SUCCESS. The salUOn keepers wert
obdurate, and no results followed. They
propose 10 keep it up, however, ill they
have crushed out the evil in Brooklyn al
least. 80 is''.-. t.' ''
A NRw HORSE DISEASE. I.yl.
A new disease has broken out among
the horses in the city, which, it moi
| checked, will create as much trouble NJ
the epizbolic OftwO years ago. Ills
complaint entirely different from any
that has appeared. Some horse doctor.
declare thar the disease is Ol mild type
runs its course in very few days, never
kills, and the horse does mol suffer at all
that ii merely feels dull, languid undei
the weather. rather sleepy, rather dispiril.
ed, like ward polllician 'betweeu
elections" OLner doctors insit that thl
horse suffers intensely with an aching
pain alternating with collie spasms, auu
lnal ii has proved in many instances Ia
la. Que horse doctor Insists lhaL III,
disease is a form OF lung fever. Another
is certain lbal II is case OF ,calarrnal
lever Tnis latter option is rapidly gain
ing ground, aud fluids many advocates
among tue Owners vi the horses affected
VINO are having h,ir hOrses treated p i0I
THIS complaint 81.
In ali Ine large stables the disease,
whatever IL Is, has run through all In,
horses In the stables 5l7 washington "
slrerl, personal case nus occurred. a
horse Was attacked Dy Ine disorder WIN
IN tnO weeks. Ine lrsI tImc he Wa;
SICK DIX days. line second tune The a..
tack Iasled haJ ttat period. The horsi
seemed to suffer as II affected win III,
B..
quIuzy sore throat. He refused tood
avOlded water, Out did mol lose flesh. l.
every case Lut IuIs Inc animal Lecam'
Inin, DuI in This Instance the morse Was
alter the SECOND attack, even hfsnlel
than al first His Joints, however, Decam'
sun he was unable TO move, as ii he ha'
The rheumatism. He did not seem 10 SUI
Ter any, Uul MAS As IuanImale as u los
Tue horse the diy or 1ht bciore,r !
perleclly. well when the next ieedlng
Time Genes lie will not eat; lie viii no
drink his lUins Contract and the disUr
der is In Iull IOrce, I'LL III last il ceases u
suddenly anu as causGlrsslY as il appear
ed. Que fact has been verified by expc
Iience; the disorder only attacks horse
OI certain age. Young horses aud nor
ses below 3 Or 9 years are unaffected U.
il, and females are less susceptible to
than males. The disease is spreading
rapidly and 50 far NO remedies have beel
found for it. fjIJ Hnt s,-a.r}
TEE CHARITIES. .i.d .a,n
A number of the pros .essional phiIan
Ihropists OF the city enraged at jaime
Gordon Bennett, because he preferred t
disburse his money himself, instead
putting it in their hands attacked hin
roughly, aud Bennett in turn, has subject