Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1875-08-27

the name of Christian, was never
done in our cities. 1t is much the
fashion to pity dwellers in large and
crowded cities, but if interior towns
would take the idea of similar sani-
tary measures, it would tell greatly
on the epidemics Which are increas-
ing weekly this fatal season. There
is better chance for the poor in New
York, Boston and Philadelphia to-
day, with the close inspection of
health officers and sanitary rules,
than in the undrained, INTENDED
outskirts of manufacturing village,
in shanties sandwiched between the
wash of a stream, which is the COM
mon sewer of township, and litter
ed streets, odorous with garbage
and jamestown weed. By the way,
it would have perceptible effect on
the fever and ague and the typhoid,
that hold carnival this rainy year, if
there were a general moving of herb
age, and clearing up of streets, and
waste places in rural towns. These
things poisons whole neighbor-
hoods.
HOME AGAIN.
The railroads are crowded with
visitors to the summer resorts, driv-
en- home by the wet, chilly weather.
There is no fun sitting on wet YER
andahs in the evening with a blan-
ket shawl and overcoat, or shivering
in vast damp drawing-roOms, and
dressing by fires while the rain pours
against the windows. rheumatism
is too dear, at $3.50 day. The
great desideratum, as the school
ma'ams off duty always say, it is
not so much a cool place as a dry
one, and sunny one. The present
is not cheerful season, looked at
from any point. The cold spring
killed the cherries and small fruits.
1t is hot and rainy in town; cold
and rainy in the country. The news
in business circles is of such a ma
ture as to call for courage to open
the evening paper, and the widest
prophet had rather bet on Tice's
cold Christmas and October earth
quake than venture to guess when
trade will be better.
woMEN's DRESS.
The difference in women's dress Is
a striking comment on the hardness
of the times. The trim figures in
debege and plaid Oxford ginghamS
that fill the promenade offer few Of
those gorgeous exceptions in the
lace and ruffied silk that used tC
make gay the pavement before the
Fifth Avenue Hotel afternoons
Money buys three times as much as
it used to, but where is the money
Women look as pretty as they uset
to, even prettier. The substance o
the late extravagant styles of hair
dressing and panier reveals the fac
that they were originally made witt
some attention to the lines of grace
But the heavy silks and oVer-dress
of lace, the costly bonnets of mana
bout and tulle, and wonderful com
binations of train oversHrt, and pou
that struck wonder to the heart O
bystanders, are known no more, anC
as a result dressmakers are going
out of business by the score.
TELEGRAPHY MONOPOLY.
Jay Gould, having gobbled tn,
Union Pacific Road and the Pacifi,
Mail, has swallowed up the WesterI
Union Telegraph Company, and il
paving the way to take in with i
the Atlantic and Pacific, its only ri
val. The times we shall have will
our dispatches, when the wires in tn,
country are under the control of tn,
most unscrupulous man in the coun
try! Heavens! how he will fay us
Now, with the lines in active rivalry.
telegraphing is to some points no
more than four times what it shoulC
be, but when the opposition is re
moved by consolidation, up goes tn
rates to Just whatever point will sat
isfy the cormorant. There is but
one remedy for this, and that is tn
placing of the telegraph in the hand
of the Postal Department, just a.
the transmission of letters is ant
always has been. When Mr.. Could
plans mature, and he puts the screw
on a little, possibly the peOpl
will see it, and instruct tn
representatives SO plainly to do ii
that Gould and his ring will not b
able to buy them. There can be jus
as many reasons given why the Gov
ernment should not carry letters a
why it should not send TELEGRAPH
dispatches.
is still wretchedly dull, and ther
are no signs of its being any bette
in the fall. In fact, business mel
have given up the idea of any decid
ed change till next year, or at leas
till after the present crop is harvest
ed and marketed. By that tim,
they believe the stocks on hand will
be exhausted and that exchange
must commence again. They ar
encouraged somewhat by the latte
reports from the country. Despit
the terrible rains, the average pro
duction will be good, and there vii
be a fair European demand for il
So buoyed up by hope, they are al
taking in sail by reducing their ez
penses and holding on till the goo
times, so long looked for, come t.
them again. Heaven send that the,
NAV not be too long in coming, 70
a most terrible experience the busi
Mss of the country has gone threug
for three long, dreary years.
THE BEECHER-TILToN CASE
remains in stata quo. Tilton is g
ing for Beecher once more, but tn
announcement makes no sem Bation.-
The public here have lost all inte
est in the sorrows of The odore, an
l doubt if anything can. galvanii
the corpse into life. w henever Il
name of either of the p; 4rties is me
toned, people simply hold the
noses and don't sto p to discu:
Consequently if the trial ever tax
place it will be of very short dur
tion. 1t was tho inter est the publ