Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1874-10-17

and crowded into doorways for safety
Finally the herd became separated. and
one by one the furious beasts were cap-
tured But they made it lively while
they were about it. To have sixty wild
steers, mad and blind with rage, charge
through street crowded with vehicles.
and men, women, and children, is any.
thing but joke. 1t is a wonder that no
lives were lost and that so few were IN
jured.
SOME CRIMINAL STATISTICS.
The annual inventory of the criminal
situation has been taken, and the figures
given are startling. For instance, the
cost of caring for the dangerous classes,
courts, police and prisoners, ioots up So
100000 annually. The arrests PEI year
amount to 10000, and the criminals, that
is to say, the people who live by viola
ting laws, number $4,000. There are in
the city $4,000 actual prostitutes, known
and open in their pursuits, and prob
ably as many more who live by prostitu-
ton, but who carry on their nefarious
business quietly and not in public way.
There are three thousand known pick
pockets plying their. trades all the time,
then there are six thousand thieves who
have no speciality, but who steal any,
thing that comes in their way. There
are 1000 female shop-liters who make
their living by plundering stores, and
there are 900 fences, or to use English,
receivers of stolen goods. When put
the number of criminals at $4,000, do
not, of course, include the Democratic
politicians. Add that class to the esti-
mate and the number would be swelled
at once to 75 thousand But the show is
sufficiently frigh tful without adding this
most dangerous of all these classes.
BEEC4ER-TILToN.
At last this matter has come to head.
Beecher has commenced suit against Til
ton and Moulton for libel, and the mas
tiness will go to the courts for final ad-
judication. This is where it should have
gone at the beg inning. In the courts
the facts in the case will be brought out
for there can be no suppression of evil
dence and no lodging. II Tilton and
MOulton have conspired to ruin an inno-
cent man, the fact will be made apparent,
and if on the 9th er hand the mar is not
innocent, it will be so shown. But right
in the midst OF the satisfaction that this
terrible trouble will be settled by the
Courts, comes one terrible draw back,
which goes to show that human felicity
cannot be perfect. The bitter drop in
the cup is, Mrs. Tilton is going to make
a statement She has got to have her
innings. Tilton has ma de two, Beecher
one, MOulton one, Miss Catharine Beech
er one, almost everybody else one or two
and now Elizabeth is going to rush into
print to tell what she knows about it.
Will she tell it all /? All, that's the rub.
She knowns as much about the matter as
any one, but will she tell all she knows
And if she does, will it be believed
Like the rest of them, it is to her "pain-
ful duty" but she feels it a duty, and
she is going to do it. For your sakes
Messrs. Editors, 1 pray she may be more
economical of words than the rest Of
them have been. May she keep within
thirty ordinary newspaper columns But
there is no telling. The people concern.
ed in this quarrel have passion for six
syllabled words, and most exasperating
number of them they have heaved upon
the world. fear the gentle Elizabeth
will not prove an exception to the rule.
MAKING MONEY.
The individual who supposes that to
get very rich it is only necessary to come
to New York and ego into business" la
bors under fearful delusion. Not one in
hun dred who goes into business in this
city retires with competency or any
thing like it. You see when you pay $15.-
900 year rent, when you pay clerk hire,
commissions for the business you do
and when the simple item of gas amounts
to 1000 year, you have got to sell a
great many goods and do great deal of
business to get anything ahead. The
curse of New York is expenses. Nothing
is done for love or friendship-money
enters into everything, and the money
question is so prominent, so ever present,
that he who makes any Of it in business
has go. to have an extraordinary capaci-
ty for business combination, and enor-
nous capital on which to make money.
The most money that has been made here
for years has been in real estate. The
enormous appreciation of real estate up
town has made everybody rich who was
lucky enough TO secure any considerable
amount. Lots on Broadway, near goth
street which few years ago were sold for
81 800, have advanced in value to as high
as $4,000. The immense increase in
population and business in the city has
made property up town very valuable,
and has made great fortunes for the
shrewd or the lucky. But the business
man labors and sweats for his lucky fel-
lows. A store on lot which is valued
at $75, 900, has to pay interest on that
sum, and when the unfortunate occupant
has paid that rent, he has very little left
for himself Oh, ye dwellers in the
country, keep out of Gotham. If you
have a good square living aud a fair bust
ness, stick to it, for it is a thousand
times better than anything you will gel
here There is great deal of glitter and
show, but it is all plated. Stick to youl
own place and be happy. PrETRo.
New York, Oct 10, 1874.
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