Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1876-11-10

which is pretty well for a village fless
than 5000 people. We shall know more
about business next week.
THE LIQUOR QUESTION.
The liquor dealers are taking new de-
parture. The law of 1869 provides that
licenses shall not be granted except to res
taurants having accommodations for man
and beasts Consequently, all licenses
that have been thus far granted, are illegal.
The dealers are pushing this matter with
the idea Of making the law so Odious that
all laws will be repealed, and free trade IN
liquor allowed. From the crowds l have
seen in the saloons, l should say that the
law was being fulfilled in the particular of
having abundant accommodations for
beasts. 1t makes mighty little difference
what the law IS, liquor is sold openly, Sun
days, week days, day and night Occa-
sionally there is a squirt of opposition to
selling on Sundays, and spasmodic efforts
are made to stop it, but they seldom last
over one Sunday.
STOKES.
I saw the murderer of Jim Fisk on the
street yesterday. The last time saw him
he was in the prisoners dock, strong,
dark-haired, defiant young man, who look
ed as though nothing earthly could break
him. But his years of Imprisonment have
changed him sadly. His hair is gray. his
form has lost the elasticity that made him
an observed man on the streets. and he
looks twenty years older than he did five
years ago. He has not had much work to
do, and had as good fare in his prisons as
though Delmonico had supplied his table.
But confinement, the worry and fret of
prison life has broken him, and it is doubt
full if he ever 'regains his impaired man
hood. Still, he is as gamey as man can
be. He proposes to go into business at
once. and rebuild his shattered fortunes.
While in Sing Sing he purchased the right
to manufacture an asphaltum pavement.
which he believes to be necessity in all
large cities, and he has already commenced
1OSSlDlX
he may yet ride the city as successfully as
Tweed did. 1t cost him $500, 900 to escape
the gallOws, which stripped him entirely.
His career makes a very pretty moral les
son for young men. His illicit attachment
for depraved woman cost him the murder
of man and every dollar of large for
tune, and leaves him in middle life naked.
with broken constitution and reputa-
ton that will bar every effort he can make
among good men. Stokes has paid very
dearly for his whistle.
INSURANCE.
The Continental has gone up hopelessly.
and as matter of course all the insurance
companies are feeling the effect of it.
Sharpers are taking advantage of the nerv-
BUSINESS of policy holders to blackmail the |
other companies, and to some extent they |
succeed, but in others they don't. The |
United States met them at the threshold. |
and answered them by publishing to the
world their regular statement, and not only |
refused to pay dollar, but demanded the |
most rigid investigation of their affairs.
Other sound Companies did the same thing,
and the result is the scare is nearly over.
Life Insurance is so widely diffused, and is
of so much Importance to all classes of peo-
pie, that the man who would deliberately
for his own purposes get up a foundation
less panic ought to be hung TO the nearest
lamp-post. There are a large number of
shaky companies that never had any claim
to public confidence that these times will
take under, and they ought to go under,
but the deserving, honestly managed, sound
companies, ought to be stood by all the
closer.
BRIDES OUTFIT.
A fashionable dressmaker in this city is
now furnishing the bridal outfit for a Mich
igan girl, which is something worth seeing
these hard times. Of course papa is a very
rich man, and so he can afford his daugh-
ter, on the occasion of her wedding, seven
teen dresses; the one she is to be married in
is of heavy white silk, embroidered with
white jet, and decorated with fringes of
orange blossoms. Then there are mantles,
and opera cloaks, and all that sort of thing,
to say nothing of the under clothing which
rivals the dress for elegance Nothing less
expensive than silk is used, and the under .
down to the stockings and shoes,
are made to match the dresses. The cost
Of the entire ontft is-hold your breath
S38, 900! 1 hope the girl is happy and will
continue to be so; but the probability is
that she will be wanting to find purchaser
for those clothes in less than five years It's
rather too much capital to lock up these
days.
THE BARRIERS
are the last tradesmen to be exercised. The
dull times have driven thousands in from
the country, and they are shaving for five
cents. The regulars who have forgotten
that the war is over, and are still charging
fifteen and twenty, object, and they are
combining against them. Whenever they
find one of the five-cent fellows, they start
a shop next door to him and shave for moth
ing till he is starved out. The people can
all afford clean faces now. Their meeting
was the most odorous gathering I have at
tended for some time. PIETRO.
An UnansWerable Argument.
The strongest argument which can be urg-
ed against the advisability of administering
such corrosive and nerve-destroying poisons
as arsenic and quinine for intermittent and |
fevers, is the vastly superior |
success In the prevention and cure Of such |
diseases of a medicine which is the very an
npode of the above named drugs both in re- |
spect to its composition and the results
wrought by it. Such a medicine is Hostel |
yer stomach Bitters, a purely vegetable pre-
paratlOn, which not only eradicates with .
wonderful 1,rOD1 rfitrda o,yar,- 1900 ~ fa,-ar