Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1875-09-10

titles, $500, 900, assets not vet known. But
1t is to the credit OF. our business men.
that they are doing every thing in their
poWor to raise the fallen firm, and set it
on It's feet again. The publishers in New
YORK, who are the principal creditors,
say to them, PAY what you can and 90
on" which they will do. This is what
honesty and integrity Is worth. Lee s.
Shepard failed from no fault of their own.
and they struggled desperately for
three years before they went down. They
lost $225, 900, in good hard-earned money.
in the Boston fire, and the depression in
business, and the shrinkage. in values, f.
nally brought them 10 their knees. The
thousands of people Whoreaas Oliver 0p-
tic, and the other auth0rs they have
brought out, will be glad to know that
they will probably resume in ten days.
Such men cannot long be kept DOWN
Friend Pitts, the well-known1 Broadway
ladies' furnishing goods man, went by
the board Wednesday, and Thursday,
Union Adams, the better-kRoWn mems
furnisher, followed suit. These are the
best known, but there are a dozen day
in the city. y.5 -.
But despite this business men feel a
slight REVIVAL of their hopes. Whether
1t Will last, remains to be seen. but it is
certain that there is an increase in
business for the last week. There. are g.
great many merchants in the city, and
they are buying, though not extensively.
They seem TO be "sorting up" rather than
buying full stocks, but even that is better
than nothing. The wheels move If they.
do cTeak. --- 7. = =, =,
But not do believe that New York will
ever again have the trade it once held
IT COSTS TO MUCH
TO come 10 New York to do business; and
for part of their loss of trade the mer-
chants may charge the hotels and the
parasites that hang upon them. For. i'm
stance, il q country merchant comes here
he wants TO and should bring his wife.
At any hotel he would care to stop at,
the rate per day is $4.50-S9.0O for the
two-and as he can't get waiter to do
any thing decent for him with out fee,
his daily expenses will be quite S12.
If be wants to go TO theatre he is swim
died out of $3.50 for each ticket, and as
for hack to go to the Park, So Is the
lowest, and $40 and $40 are common.
In short, ten days stay viii use up the
but-end of $3.50, to say nothing of the x
penses of coming and going. Every one
digs into him, for they never expect to see
him again. @ 10 l7s b.
&! or course they can't afford, it and of
course they don't. They go to Chicago,
st. Louis, Cincinnati, Toledo, and heoth-
er big points In the interior, where $50
will go farther than $3.50 here. The ho-
tel land restaurant keepers don't SCENE
to realize thai the war Is over, for they
are charging war prices for everything :.
Tomatoes are not worth twenty five cents
bushel 10 the markets; but at first
class restanr ant you arc made to pay for
" cents a. plate for sliced tomatoes. Beef
as cheap as dirt, but nevertheless de-
cent steak at as restaurant eost5 yodfrom
80 cents to $1,75, and The propBietoTs
never blush. bNew Yorko.Nxilt sueVeF get
her trade again till all these things are re-.
formed - jgss -sFs-iai
- CRIME. 81 30 .,-sseii--isa.
The records of the week rea d. Iil,a ann
long list of horrors. Burglary murder.
and suicide follow each other So ranidiv
that 1t needs strong nerves TO read tbe
dailies with their lists of woe. Since
New York abolished the system of Me-
tropolitian Police, appointed by a board
controlled by the State Legislature Al AL
DanY, TOO Tar on to be influenced by small
loca al interests, and put its safety into the
hands OF the low ward politicians, who
control present police appointments. that
saIety Is not much better than that of an
elent Sodom-not wishing to speak harsh
~ Oh those that have suffered their fate.
mentioned few weeks ago, this Incl
Gent: on rainy evening not long since
gentleman walking down Lexington Ave
nue., one of the quietests streets in town.
was set upon by two roughs, one of
whom snatched his handsome watch and
chain worth five or six hundred dollars.
The gentleman seized the thief and was
getting the better of him, when the police
man OF the beat came up to the help of
the thieves, and began thumping him
over the head with his club, till he was
forced to let go his holt of the robber,
who fed with his booty The gentleme
made his way downtown and entered
his club, covered with blood, his head
cut open by the policeman's blows, a
pretty picture for the centre of ciyiliza-
ton IN the nineteenth century. When
+. he went TO the inspector of police for re-
I dress, he was called on to identity the DO
llceman bat as that, worthy had been
wrapped in tHaVelock and waterproof,
It was impossible 20 detect him, and all
the comfort the complainant got was a
JeerIng laugh from the inspector, and
the brutal answer that he must have been
too drunk that night to take care of his
own watch, and lost it. PIETRo.
New York, Sept. 9Th, 1875. p q H-l