Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1876-01-28

half ounce doubled the postage. and
nsariy ruined the propristors. I know
of one of the largest and most popular
newspapers in the country. whose in.
crease of postage by this Infamous bill
was $4,000. and there are plenty more
to tell similar story.
Ifsny one labors under the delusion
that the express co mpanies need the pro-
lection Of. high postage, let them come
10 New York and see the magnificent
buildings they do business in, the pala-
tial houses they live in, and the enor :
nous salaries the officials vote them
selves. Let it be understood thatthe pro-
iis of these monopolies do not show IN
their statements. It was urged in Wash
ington that they were making only a
moderate profit on their capital. but they
did not explain that they were using
M their profits IN $50 900 salaries, and
that every stOck-holder quartered on tn 6
company every relative he had in the
world.
| eERFANT GIRLS.
In this city it frequently happens that
servants sue their employers for wages.
II is "a Thing they are fond of; if they
have any small grudge to pay of,
they take the time when must in
convenient to demand the money, and
ifit is not forthcoming at once, to enter
suit for the sake Of seeing delica te mis-
tress obliged TO 60 to hideous police
court, among vagrants and reprobates.
The last case is that OF millionaire who
was sued by glrl for her wages, as ser :
want at his house in the country. He
put in the very just defence that she..was
under contract to stay certain time but
left before it was up hence. he refused
to pay her. He would have hal justice,
bad he rested his defence there, but e
added bill ofthe expense it cost to get
the girl, including fare to New York, and
board for him self and wife. at hotel in
telligence Office fees, journey 70 the girls
home in Connecticut, her fare out and
back, which amounted to nearly $40,
which the court stupidity refused to con
slider as anything but joke, though the
employers who have the same frequent
trouble to get servant and have her
leave when she is fairly OF use to them,
are not inc lined to SO I AXE the decision.
This case will probable haFe sn effect in
decidedly sbAt ing the serVant-girlnuis-
ance, by the ventilation which il win
cause to the employees side of the sub
ject, for many who hire servants will
not be slow to make the masters case
theiI ow in this instance. &
THE cEETENNIAL.
Are you all coming to the Centennial ?
The railroads running into New York
have decided to reduce the fare so that
the people may come 10 New York first,
and see the metropolis as well as the
great show at Philadelphia. The hotels
have meeting next week but whether it is
to reduce the rates or decide how much
additional skinDing thepeople will stand
1 don't know. Probably the latter For
hotel keeper in this city never had
conscience, and very little business sens e !.
New York. Jan %. 1876. PrETRo.
That the House, so largely demo-
cratic, should have adjourned over,
the 9Th of January, without the
slightest reference to HOld Hickory"
and the victory at New Orleans, has
excited wide surprise, and much un-
favorable comment among northern
democrats. But things arn't run
nova days by the democracy. as
they "used to was been."- Said a
New Hampshire democrat, who has
been here looking for a House posi-
ton, ''no one could have made me
believe, and Wouldn't have believ-
ed it, if I had read it ID democratic
newspaper-that our northern demo-
Gratis are Just as abject now to the
southern 6re-eaters as ever before
the war But I've been here and
seen for myself that they are Just as
powerless as ever, before them"
There can beno further Disgusting
of the determination of these exycon-
federates to regain by politics that
supremacy of political power they
lost by the sword, and to do this,
they count upon the abiect submis
sion as well as alliance, of the north
ern democracy. L.sl.
Nor7eath Gnzette