Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1876-08-04

THitOn FamIIy-StOkes In AuDurn-
Health.
DRY WEATHER.
1t has been fearful dry in the city all
summer, so much so that serious fears
were at one time entertained that the wa
ter supply of the city might fail. New
York is supplied from one source, Croton
River, and the water for the entire city is
brought in one pipe. Imagine the distress
that would be occasioned if, by any acci-
dent, that pipe should be destroyed! I'M
agine million of people without water!
But, as dry as it has been in the city. it is
nothing to what our neighbors in New
Jersey have suffered. The whole State is
as dry as a powder horn, and the loss to the
farmers and gardeners will be immense. The
vegetable crop is nearly total loss, the
berries dried up on the bushes, and the ap-
pies are falling from the trees. In parts
water has been procured for house purpos-
es with difficulty, and stock has suffered
terribly. So hot and dry a season has not
been known for eighty years.
THE BUSINESS OUTLOOK.
Business is as dull as ever, but some of
the merchants are hoping that with the
fall there will come a revival. They argue
that prices having got down to something
near the bottom, merchants from the ipte-
rior will come to New York and buy,
and that they will buy more literally.
Then they count on the low cost Of passage
and freight to attract buyers to this market.
insist that they are wrong. The jobbing
trade is lost to New York forever. The
merchants of Chicago, Cincinnati, st. Lou
| is, Toledo, and the other wholsaleing
points in the west can buy of the manufac
turers Just as cheaply as can the New York
merchant, and they can do business at half
the cost. They can undersell the New
York jobber in all American goods, and
thank heaven, American goods are the
goods Americans are mostly using now;
besides it costs less to go to any of these
points than it does to New York, and
freights are less. New York will always
be the financial and importing centre of
the continent, but nothing else. The
great city has seen its best days, and if it
holds its own it is more than 1 expect for
it. There are thousands of empty stores
in the city, and tens of thousands of empty
dwellings. And the end is not yet. Rents
have shrunk two-thirds, and there has
been depreciation in real estate such as
this country never saw. 1 do not count
much on New York. The West holds the
key to the position, and it always will.
SAMUEL J. TILDEN.
Tilden, the Democratic nominee for
President, is probably the most unfit man
for that position that could have been Sc
lected. He is born aristocrat, and is
in sympathy with no human being except
Sam. Tilden. He lives in one of the most
gorgeous mansions in New York, and, more
than any one man in the city, keeps up the
style of the European nabob. His as
sociates are the kid-glove Democracy
Of the Manhattan Club, and he never
would have been a Democrat, only that
for the reason that through his money he
could control the lower classes, whom
he dispises as heartily as man can. He
has two qualities-greed for money and
ambition for political prominence. And
there is nothing under Heaven that he will
not do to attain these ends. He was the
trusted counselor of Tweed, so long as he
could share his robberies, and he only turn
ed against him when further associations
would have damaged his other aspirations.
He did not preserve faith with that gang
even. He took their money and deserted
them when they were in danger. He was
the hired partner and retainer in the most
gigantic railroad swindle of the age, and
lions bya the operations, he was strong
enough financially to buy up a Democratic
Convention, and he is working his cam
-paign by the same agency. He is buying
up his opponents, with money he is silenc-
ing those who are dangerous to him, and
with money he is organizing that vast mass
Of dangerous voters, the purely venal.
There are men at work for Tilden in this
city handling thousands, who never saw
ten dollars of their own money. There are
thousands of small Democratic papers pay
ing off their little mortgages, and the starv-
ing Independent press all over the country,
are supporting Tilden, and their editors,
for the first time in their lives are wearing
decent clothes Sam. Tilden is fc first
man who has ever attempted to B1y him
self into the Presidency. Should he by
any accident be elected, his administration
will be the most corrupt that the country
has ever been cursed with. Only think of
the National Government controlled by
John Morrisey and Boss KelleyI The Re
publican who fails to do his whole duty
this fall, don't deserve the name.
THE HEATED NIGHTS.
To the poor who are crowded into the
miserable tenements in the lower parts of
the city, the hot nights of the past month
have been terrible. To stay in their miser-
ably ventilated rooms was to smother, and
SO they took the streets for it, where it was
trihe better. AS eSrly as nine o'clock.
thousands upon thousands Of the poor men.
women and children were out on the side
walks, getting ready for sleep. They
brought out with them such blankets and
bed-ticks as they possessed-tHolsands