Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1874-05-02


York on this matter. The question is an
important one, aud will show Itself in
next falrs elections.
"a CREMATION.
The idea of burning the bodies of the
dead instead of buryina them is gaining
tavor Hapidly. sThe matter is being dis
enssed every dsy inAall the psprrsi the
churches ravr been appealed 70 for their
opinion; in short, there is great deal of
genuine feeling on the subject And the
feeling is all IN favor of it. The idea Of
avoiding the decomposition of the dead
of reducing the mortal remains to ashes,
and preserving the ashes, strike the peO-
pie as something OF an Improvement. The
clergymep have given it as their opinion
that it in no way crosses the dogmas Of
the church, and everybody seem 10 faycr
ii-but the underlakers. Il would be
hard on them. Thy see IN this move
ment an abolition Of the ugly coffin with
It's sickly smell of the gorgeous hrarsF,
with its ghastly trappings, of carriages
and all the absurd and costly accompany
ings of funerals. Instead OF all this, a
dead. body resolved into the elements in a
simple way by the action OF fire, and lhe
r.mains, handful of whitish gray ashes,
placed reverentiy in an urn, and kept asa
sncred household treasure. Is not this
better than burying? l think so; and so
does almost all of New York. Indeed, n
society has been formed to introduce it
the Numbers binding themselves to dir, CT
in their wills that their bodies shall be
burned instead of buried. Il already num-
bers eight hundrrd.
CALVIN,
convicted of the robbery of jewelry
store on Ninth Avenue, and sentenced to
twenty years in the penitenliary, was very
recently a keeper in The fombsl 1 men
iinn this to show the style ofmen who at
tain place under the City Government,
This mans character was as well known
before his appointment as it is now; in
fact it was, probably, his character that
gave him the appointment. A robber, an
Official in a prison Is it any wonder
that great criminals have cared nothing
for Imprisonment or conviction? All
they had TO do was to stake" such "a
k, eper as Calvin and the doors would fly
open.
How many Galvins are yet in these
places? The Democracy are in control Of
the city; the same, kind of men that put
Calvin in his place have yet the appoint
ing power New York Is IL bad way.
. MOCK AUCTIONS
The mock auction business, which the
authorities got under some years ago. has
broken out afresh within a few months.
The Bowery is lull of them. Stores fillcd
with tue vilest pol-mrtal jewrlry, with the
tongueist of auctioneers and the usual as
sortment of r.pers-in and bidders at the
door, are becoming as plenty as in the old
days before the police killed them out.
The young man from the country is
roprd in; the genuine gold watch" is
put up; he buys ii; and while the guar
anty" is being made out it is adroIIly
changed, and he finds when away that he
has paid $40, $50 or $50 for a concern
that would he dear at five dollars busiel.
Ii is a fact that respectable jewellers have
been driven out of localities by these
Peter Funk concerns. Rascalily is ire
pressible; hold ii in in one way and it will
br,ak out in another.
FEMALE DocToRs.
There is very much that is bad in New
York, and a great deal that is good One
of the best of the good things is the idea
OF the female physician. There are over
fifty regullr practising physicians in the
city of the sofer sex-women who have
Lone through regular course OF study
aud hospital practice. Aud they have
practice, too. Few of them have an in
come of less than $4,000 per annum, and
numbrr of them earn as much as $lO,-
OOO. Their practice is, Of course, entirely
among women and children. and II is
claimed by thuse who employ them that
they are more successful than physicians
of the other sex There is reason for
this The invalid woman can confde
more fully in woman than she can in
man, and it is more fitting that woman
should stand at the bedside of woman.
There are four colleges in the city de
voted to the training of women for this
wide field of usefulness. Their cannot be
too many of them.
BUSINESS AND RUM.
Business has been dull. fiat and un..