Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1874-12-26

tioners in and about the custom HOUSE.
and has seriously injured the importing
business here, but it has saved the west
hundreds of thousands OF dollars. There
is no reason Why the cities of the West
sho,,ld not have all the facilities for inn
norsing that the Atlantic cities possess,
nor can there be any good reason given
for giving three or four cities monopo-
". Look out, gentlemen ofthe West, for
the New York importers IN Congress this
winter.
POLITICS
in the city are mixed. The Democracy
are fighting over the spoils, and the Re-
publicans are lying back-waiting for
events. The Democracy have never yet
profited by a victory, for The fact is their
political ventures are all for spoils. They
win a victory and Immediately spoil the
effect OF il, by not knowing how. TO i'm
prove it, or rather, not caring. They will
plumber the city and State right and left
for year, and then the people will rise
and oust them. The Republicans have
sure thing on the State, in the long rum
so long as the Democracy are controilea
by the men who now hold the power IN
that organization. To succeed, they
have 10 promise plunder, and those 10
whom they promise are very sure that
,be promises are fulfilled. Then the peO-
nile. when they get tired of being plum
dered, dethrone the thieves, who stay out
till the people get careless again.
You may look for a reaction next fall.
Iprophesy it.
HOW THE THING IS DONE.
l attended funeral yesterday. 1t was
the last Office I could perform for a
young man who was, in his life, friend
of mine, and as friend, followed him
TO his grave in Greenwood. He had only
reached twenty-eight years when he died,
but such years as he had livedl Pardon
me, if 1 give some space 10 the history OF
one who is a representative of class that
is, unfortunately. too numerous now, and
is daily getting more so. My friend was
born rich. His father was originally
farmer, and by long course of honora-
BILE industry and good management, ac-
cumulated wealth-great wealth. DE
died dozen years ago. worth a million
or more, leaving one sonny friend
and three daughters. The young man re-
ceived collegiate education, and, gradu+
aling, came back TO New York to live.
Life wes 10 him as rose-tinted as possible.
Oceans of money, excellent society,
splendid home, everything, in short, that
a man could have TO enjoy life and be
happy. He Joined clubs, of course; he
instituted a stable, of course. Re. pro-
posed to live, and be did live. He made
the acquaintance of all the men who live,
and he found plenty of them willing to
help him. He had no business to do, for
why should young man with million
do business, or bother about it? His
ather had made the money for him o
enjoy, and he intended to enjoy it. His
life was routine very easy TO describe.
The mornings at his clubs-drink. The
afternoons in all sorts of places-drink.
The early evenings in the theatres-drink.
The latter part of the mig ht in gambling
helIs and places of just.as bad nature
drink. Drink in the morning TO tone him
up for dissipation later in the day. Drink
to drown remorse-drink, drink, drink.
And at twenty-eight. the poor fellow, born
with splendid possibilities, and with cap
pabililies for all sorts of good, sank into
a drunkard's grave, with no good deed
left behind him TO signalize his life, or to
mark the fact that he had lived. He died
of being left a fortune, instead of having
been compelled TO make one.
This is brief history, but there are one
hundred thousand young men in this city
repeating it at this moment. Are there
not similar cases in your localityH
THE SUNDAY QUESTION
assumes more importance every day. The
German and French back up the sacred
theatres, and the Americans gen.
orally support those endeavoring to crush |
hem out. And the fight is waxing warm. |
The BowerY Theatre was open last Sun |
lay night, with their CHASTITY melo-dra
mas, as usual. and the old place was JAM
ned with people, of the class who do go |
% the theatre week day nights-half |
grown boys and girls. 1t was a wild
light they made of it. II seemed as
hough the fact that their amusement was
Illegal and likely to be interrupted, gave
IN additional zest to it, for never in the
history of the place were peanuts so lib
'rallY masticated, or applause so freely
md boisterously given. 1t was a pande-
nonium frd the rising of the curtain to
he going down of the same
The beer-gardens and "COncert Sa-
oons" were in full blast, the police not
having been instructed TO make raids up
IN them. 1t is singular that the work
lid not commence with them, tor if the
heatres are, as Talmadge styles them
the vestibules of hell" these places are
n the exact centre. They are the resort
f the lowest, Vilest men and women that
he Almighty for some, to US unknown,
permits to exist, and the orgies
lightly held in them would put debas-
d FIJI Islander to blush. But somehow
be police pass them by without an effort
} break them up.
BUSINESS
! improving steadily in many of its
ranches. The strikes are all over, and
lOugh laborers are on short time and re-
uced pay, they are squeezing through
luch better than was anticipated. The
oming of the holidays has put great
cal of money into active circulation, and
here is a briskness which, if it be spas /
lodic, is pleasant. The weather is pleas
at and bracing, and the health of the
ty vastly improved. May the good we
ave be increased. PIETRo.
Natu Ynrk Dec 01st 1874