Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1874-05-09
oUR NEW YORkLErTER.
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THE WEATHER AND SUICIDE.

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QGrIns- Busness- The Cost of Lfripa.
THE WEATHER AND SUICIDE.
D 1t would he curious to trace the connec.
tion between the weather and suicide. The
moon rules the tides and affects potatoes
and man, To such an extent, she gives the
name of lunacy to the crazinrss she is be.
lieyed to cause, and why should not the
weather of the last ten days drive perplex.
ed and sensitive natur-s 10 dispair and
death? Seven New YOrkers, of high and
low degree, suicided-to use the new
wOrd-last week, and The weather was
bad enough to account for it. There may
he no new thing under the sun. hut we ar.
getting the old constantly done over witt
surprising variations, as was shown by ont
of these InfOriunates, who hunted up II
newspaper repOrt'r r. asking him TO accom-
pany him to a certain hntel on Staten Is
lard, where he would find a sensation.
passed a merry evening with him. and r'
firing for the night, drank his last dram
from bottle of lnudanum, and sGppli,
his newspaper friend with II capital news
item In the morning, rs lie lay cnmpuscdly
stark and stiff in death. One would lik,
10 think that the favored reporter would
have saved the victim had he anticipated
his intentions; let us btlieve he would.
although newspaper rivalry runs high
and if 1 really wanted To be stopped from
doing any sensational deed. should moi
select the alert reporter 10 do it,
NEWSPAPER BUILDINGS.
The rivalry of the leading Journals OF
his city. and elsewhere. shows itself ia
the fine and costly buildings they have
got into the WAY of erecting for their own
use The Times, The Herald, the Stats
Zeitung, the Express. are housed in mag
ni6cenI siructurts of lh' ir own; the Tn
buRe is erecting one equal to the best, and
the venerable EOeRihg Post, propOs To
emerge from the slraiiened facilities OF
| Nassau street. and sit cnnspicuOusly down
on Broadway. All this OsientatiOn costs
money, which must cume nut of the earn
ings OF the journals, unless th'.y rent the
space they don't use at a profit; and il
really makes little or no difference to Il
reader of any newspaper what sort of a
building il is issued from. The London |
Times occupies dingy quarters an an alley !
aud who cares for tIlaty The grand esspn- |
Iial % newspaper nowadays, is news. |
and plenty of it. A Michigan weekly has
in
who undertak to supply that commod-
iIy to It's columns. This is one of his re-
Cent Items:
The canpOnitorS o. carbarets, in Calls
burg. was visited last week by Mrs R
Ransom and Mrs. A. H. Proctor, in the
interest of tenn erance. They had an
ell ,ngaied noncupative inlerparlence with
D Harris, who met their appreciation
with approving sentiment Mr.. Harris
thinks they are ladies of urbanily and pull
chrytude, and he likes to exchange his
facts with them"
AL journals cannot expect such beau
tiful style of correspondence as this, but
should do the best they can.
oLEOMARGARINE
Is what they Gail il. Ii is made from any
lat or grease one has handy, into substi-
tute for the genuine old-fashioned butter.
ThllOw will do. also suct, and goodness
knows what sides. Not only is an imi-
tation butter made out of this stuff in full,
but it is being used to adulterate honest
butter, and manufactures of il bnldly an
nOunce that il is healthier and better ar
ticle than the real thing furnished from the
sincere milk of the COW
''Cow Combroch is a very good COW,
She has always been true to the pail"
and is she To be driven out of The market
with her golden butter by the refus,- of .
the slaughter house? II is moi likely. Peo-
pie will continue to prefer lying down 10
final rest under the green c0verlet of The
churchysrd grass in spite of cremation,
and will still look TO the kindly cow for
butler. despite OIrnmargarine. What a
word Pahi ''The gorge rises at ItT
BUSINESS
in the various departments of city trade
continues dull, with it'll. prosp Ct of i'm |
mediate improvement. II was supposed |
that when Congress shDull take action on |
the financial bill, that, whatever that ac-
tim might he, business would revive be-
cqusr the country would DE done looking c
tn Hercules tor help, and each man would d
pui his own should, to the wheel. Wei
n, l. l.. eI,,
id Mt. wisely, say many; badly say some.
One thing remains certain SD far Trade
IIas not received an imp"tus from this ac-
lion, and the season is SO tar advanced
lha little improvement is expected hefnre
fall. A good many bOusr-s will have hard
work To pull through, and the coming
summer will irV the bottom of sfaunch
firms. Meantime, money accumulatps in
1ur banks, lying idle and tinlitlly lnoking
or safe and prOftabl,' investments, and TO
/, much great"r extent than is known, the
money of the country hanks Is used here
in buy ing business pap instead OF ac-
their customers at home.
THE COST OF LIVING
is abuut as high as ever; in fact, what
family must have TO live casts almost as
much rs when gold was 200 per cent The
b, st beelsIeak costs at retail 35 cents per
lOund. An average business suit, 800 .
,',st in London, $25-a fashionable male a
lai, 50; ditto, f male. $50. These are war L
Dricps, and yet gold is only ~ per crnt C.
3ood private board before the war could :
De had IN this city and Brooklyn for man
lnl wife al $l2 per week. AS good now a
costs at least $50. don't believe all this lC
,an become righied without a tumble of n
prices, and that of radical and thorough =
urt Ii IS all Very well TO have curren- ST
" rs good as gold, but not if gold dol n
ar won't buy any more than paper dol u u
ar did when it took two Of them TO be b,
worth gold one II is true that prices b
lave not declined as our money became d.
more valuable, rs they should do and =
must do. But how and when! :
The almanac says May, but the weather
,nvS March, PIETRO. 4,