Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1876-03-10


The list 81 failures this week, foot a.
nearly one hundred. aud they embrae
al6ast all sarieiies of ausi4rss. Tia
smashed parties Eenvra.l pfc f25 cen
or he dollar, tilat beias she regular
figure. So common have failures become,
that they excite no more surprise. The
oldest, strongest housps in the city are
going, an NJ one knows to-day who is
going tomorrow. Rents are still sink
ing, and The nearer the first of Axy ap=
pFoaches, the more the landlords Irem-
bic Their expensive stores on Broad
way are being vacated, and applications
for them are as rare as hens teeth. I
know of one store that four years ago
was in demand at slsCO0 per year. that
is now being oc cupied al 5000. and the
tenants are giving il up for they can gel
a better one at $4,000. The ruth is busi
ness men can hardly afford to psy any
rent. for there is 10 profit whatever ii
business. The shrinkage in value is
going on stea Oily. and no ope can see the
end. Relief must come from some source,
or bankruptcy will be the rule. and sol
yency the exception. New York is very
sick. i,iff
THE HIPPoDRoME MEETTNGss
Are still wonderfully filed. aHd il is
as unfashionable not 70 go and bear Mr.
Sankey sing as not to hear Titiens or
Won Bulow, or any other light of the
musical or dramatic world. The Hip
podrone is still packed al midday and
evening, and the religious movement is
treated with the greatest respect by the
papers. But wish to the meetings con-
Yinces a candid person, that the reason
OF the great audiences drawn together Is
not Mr. Moody's eArnestness, or Mr.
Sankey's sing ing, of which he has grow .
as chary of late as pet tenor in opera,
but the number who take serious in
tercst in religion There are thousands
Of genuinely good people in the city,
who believe that religion out weighs all
other interests, and are drawn 10 these
meeting, hoping for good. The populari-
~ Of Moody and Sankey in Great Britain
is easily understood il was their Anmerl
canism attracted the crowd. just as any
thing distinctively American attracts I
English attention. like the jubilee sin
gers, Artemas Ward and Mark Twain
and Brete Harte's stories, whose popu !
larity abroad out runs what they have at
home. One can imagine what CON
hasi MI. Mood Us curt, utterly encon-
venlionAl manner, his homely illusira-l
tiens, must have been to the formal Eng
lish way of doing things, and it is no
wonder he took the rather heavy Brit
tons by storm, Here. he can never make
the same impression ON cultivated ps0-
pie that he did abroad The big clergy
of New York sit up in the preachers
pen at the meeti ngs, aud laugh over Mr.
Moody's apt hits, in the way of iIldstra
ton, as they would q: excellent jokes,
and the evangelist runs OIL abiAt saIvt-
ton, very much in tho way a -Chicago
business man talks insurance, or rail-
roads,wIth the same earuestnsss, but not 8
with whit more feeling or reverence. His
whole m amer. is that OF finished auc-
tioneer, whois ready to knock down
saiYa;l on to the highest bidder without
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seem ina. tnls srsee "ouiu oe lae nrst
% iail ON. Out u Is NOT So AaA' uaoS Is
just as Dr'sk as ever. fnas ensri'ies are
Oh course CROWDED WIN tne hungry ahu
nakeu' ana me societies ior supplying
fring TAX cd away beyond iheir capacity.
If tn ere ever was a time when spring was
anxioasIy looked for, it IS now. II is q
blessing that the winter has been SO mild.
But the lookout for the summer Is
dreary enough. A visit to the princi-
pal architects showed that scarcely any
building was contemplated FOR the en-
suing season, aud what the laborers are
to do during, the summer is q query.
They can live on less than in the winter.
but they must have something and thai
something il very remote
HOW TER R1f,E A,fIisr :, rEp,lsr1yrs =
While The Moor are = stsrv;oo The rich
are amusInc themselves % tbev olwav.
viii The Iast form, If fssbionobls amnss-
ment Il. barseback no rtieo. Cooonan; es
assemble AT comfortable r,dinc-scbools
ladies and pentlemenl and train their
horses to 90 through the.fi0ures Of dan
ces, precisely a. though thew were IN a
ballroom. Think Of the Vjrgin,a- .reel
on horseback Yet; thew do II and thew.
tag .'aiust as thew used TO when tbev were
children and their f.tl,ars9 wars I,,,s,,,o,s