Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1875-07-30

Il
and the Chinese, TO New York. Am 1
glad to get back Yes, and no ! With
the thermometer standi ng at 100 deg. 1
sigh for the delicious, GOODNESS of San
Francisco; but then whenI I look out on
the great, grand city, the city that is
destined to be the first IN the world, 1 am
glad to be back to her. New York has
a myriad of faults, but il has also mYr-
| lad of virtues, and to take 1t by and large
! 1 want no better place to live in. He
was an astute Bostonian who said he
| should always live in Boston, for the
reason that when he tired of Boston he
could go to New York.
HOT WEATHER AND CRIME.
Is there any connection between hot
we ather and crime Does the sun breed
contention and give men thirst for
| blood? II would seem so. Since the
heated term commenced there has been
in New York. t.
A CARNIVAL OF BLOOD.
Last Sunday a negro quarreled with
others over the gambling table and killed
three men with knife before he was
secured. The same day son shot his
father, q W oman was killed by her hus-
band, and the police reports showed in
the morning no less than eighteen as
saulls with deadly weapons. Hot weather
seems to make rum more effective for
evil. And speaking Of
GAMBLING AMONG NEGROES,
it is ,gOnderful what hold the passion
has upon them. Talk of the Chinese
The negro, that is TO say the low, unedu-
Gated negro, viii discount them most
furious course. just now
SPANISH MONTE
is the rage. 1t was brought here from
the South, and every negro who CANDLES
at all stays by it as 10 ng as he can raise
a nickel. It was over a game of Spanish
monte that the trou BILE originated last
Sunday. The game is very simple. The
dealer deals two ca rds from the bottom
Of the pack, and lays them on the table
face upwards, say q ten and deuce,
then the betting begins. The betters lay
their money on whichever card they
choose, and when all have bet who want
to, the dealer tur rs the pack face up
wards and goes on. The first card he
lays next to himself and the next the
other side of the table, and so on. Very
good. Now the first ten decides the fate
of that nickel. If it comes on the pile
ext the dealer he gobbles tiff on the
other pile, he pays you an equal amount.
1t is kind of simplified faro. But the
darkeys are playing it everywhere, with
all the ardor THAT belongs to that most
excitable of II the races.
BOSS TWEED
is slowly working his way toward liber-
ty, and there is a strong probability that
few more mon tbs will see the old vii
lain at large, W ith his head up as proud
ly as ever. The result is foreshadowed
by the recent proceedings before Judge
Donohue. I will not weary your rea-
ders with dry detail, but suffice it to say
that in the suit against him for $6000,-
600, the Judge has taken advantag of
every possible legal technicality to stave
off proceedings against him, and finally
defeat the city. For instence, the Judge
decided in such way that to make the ]
city successful, 1t will have to produce
141 vouchers which were known TO have
been stolen and destroyed years ago.
The books, still IN e xistence show that
all the vouchers could, but the Judge in
sists upon the destroyed papers. Of
course Donohue is a Tamm any demo-
crat. It seems hard that known thief
cannot be punished. But the affair car
ries with it moral which I commend
to the Republicans in the States holding
elections this fall, which is, don't let the
democracy get their Tweeds into office
at all. 1t is fearful task to get rid of
tn EN- when they are once solidly fixed.
HARD TIMES.
You OF the country may, and doubt
less do, growl of hard times, but you
don't know the meaning of those terri
BILE words. We know all aboutit in New
York, for business is at an entire stand
still. There is no business to speak of.
There is little furry in the grain mar
ket, and the drinking houses are busy,
but this is all. There are no goods sell
ling-nO real estate being transferred, in
short, no nothing. Stagnation is the |
rule. Now, in the country, where ex-
penses are light, this condition of sffairs |
can be borne for time with some de-
gree Of patience, but not here. You pay |
here $12 900 per annum for a store-you |
have your army of statesmen and clerks |
on hand, and you must keep them-and |
this enormous expenditure eats and eats |
into capital at a fearful rate. And the |
trouble with us is, that there is no reason |
10 believe that the fall trade will be any |
better. The merchants see no indications |
of anything like even q respectable fall |
season. The people do not seem to be |
buying of the retailers, and per conse- |
quence, their stocks are comparatively |
heavy. Purchases are being made with |
great caution, and in the smallest posi- |
BILE quantities. This condition of things |
may be charge able partially TO be hard |
times, but have an idea that the trade |
that New York is now suffering for the |
want of, she will never get again. Bos- |
fO Ia OoffinO mart Of Do e4;u Il
more, and Chicago, Toledo, st. Louis |
Cincinnati. Louisville and other Inland |
points are doubling and quadrupline |
their business. 1t is possible that New |
York is absolutely oVergrown, and that |
its sceptre has departed. No matter |
what the cause, the merchants are as. |
blue as indigo, an are likely to keep so |
TIE TRADE ooK SALE
is about the only sensation in the CITY at
thi time. The publishers and book-sel- |
ter of the United States formed an asso.
ciat ion last year, the object being an an
nual fair, where the manufacturers could |
meet the dealers. This is the first and
it is pronounced success. All the pub |
fishers are represented, and booksellers |
are here from almost every city and town
in the country. Each publisher has his
stand on which he displays samples of
his publications. It surprised me to
know that in that hall we're tbirky-tIoO
thousand different books, published in this
county the most of them having been
issued within the past two years. What
an immense amount of paper and ink
must haYe been consumed, and what an
lmm ense amount of thought expended
to produce this vast mass. The trade,
as in other departments of business, is
very dull. Buyers are cautious and sell
lers are eager. 1857 -.
THE POLICE
are being hauled ov er the Goals by the
committee appointed by the Legislature
Some very curious developments are be-
ing made. The panel ouse business
came up incide ntally, and what panel
house really is was made known 10 the
legislative Solons. A suite OF rooms are
fitted up with doors that resemble pam
els-that is the room is papered in pan
els-one panel, however, at the foot of
the bed, being door that slides noise
lessly. II takes two persons, man and
a woman, to play the game. The woman
goes on the street, and picks up a verdsnt
countryman, who, to make it perfectly
safe, ou ght to be half full of rum, and
takes b i'm TO her room. He goes to sleep
leaving his clothes on chair that is plac-
ed close to the concealed door. When
once asleep, the man in the next room
slides the DAnal cant1ras the clothes.