Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1876-03-31


that is gone with the rest
TIE oE11ing AWAY or JUDGE BARRETT
is the senatson of the week. The Judge
wss one of the most prominent lawyers N
the eitv and was supposed to be very rich.
R,,t alas last Tuesday he sailed for Eu-
rone. and it was Immediately discovered
that he had converted everything convert
ible into money, and had taken it with him,
forgetting to pay an enormous load Of in
debtedness. His affairs were found to be
in such muddle that nothing can be made
out of them and in brief, ii is ruin all
around. There is no woman in this case
speculation and high living did the work.
RENTS.
The question of rent is very serious one
in New York. Upon the avenues first
class house is worth--or rather was worth
$12, 900 year, and running from that all
the way down to 5000. The "Freneh
fat" system is coming into vogue for faIni-
lies who desire to live in something like
elegance but cannot afford a whole house.
A fiat has in it about eight rooms, that IS
to Say it is one floor, through from front to
rear, fitted up into rooms. The parlor,
sitting-room and bedrooms are elegant, and
the kitchen and eellArage are not only
roomy. but commodious These apart
ments rent for from 5000 per year, down
to $1,000. The poorer people get smaller
flats higher up from $500 down to $500,
though at the latter figure they go up a
long way, and in very mean part of the
city. You will see from these figures that
rent is a very important item in living in
the city-that it is. the cancer that eats out
income at a fearful rate. Take what a
man has to pay for house to live in, and
a store 10 do business in, and there is NIGH
ty little left. Nowadays if he gets out
even he is doing exceedingly well.
POLITICAL.
The action of the Syracuse eonyentionin in
instrueting for Senator Conklin does not
strike the Republicans of the city fayora-
bly,. While Conklin is popular, and while
possibly the majority would prefer him,
the coolest heads see that this is no time to
push favorites, or consider sections. What
is wanted is to bold the Government in the
hands of the Republican party, and they
feel it best to go to Cincinnati unpledged,
that the best man may be put in nomina-
ton. Pledged or unpledged, Secretary
Bristow holds very high place in the af-
fections of the Republicans of New York.
The shysters in the party don't ike him,
but the solid men do. They want just such
man, and when Conklin's friends find
that he cannot be nominated they viii sup
port the honest Kentuckian with hurrah.
He has done his whole. duty, and is very
strong here. Mark this, New York is go
ing to press him in spite of instructions.
There is an Overwhelming sentiment in his
favor, now, and it is growing.
A CENTENNIAL BLUNDER.
An.sorts Of schemes are on foot to raise
money for the centennial. There is to be
a great ball the 25th of next month for the
purpose Of getting few thousands. By
the reports from the committee of the CEN
tennial, it seems as if the women of Amer
lea were not to have anything to show ex-
cept pictures. There viii not be wall space
enough for all that are sent. All right.
Mrs. Washington spun and woye cotton
dresses striped with silk raveled from old
stockings for her family; and the WinsloW
women, who are justly entitled to be called
the first ladies of the country, as they came
over among the first to Massachusetts,, were
clever at embroidery and bead work, but
their descendants have no such skill to dis.
play, sor are not to be allowed to display it.
All that the executive committee of the
centennial want to encourage in women is
| the ability to sculp and paint. Now q
plain man may be excused for putting il
a word here. 1 believe that l speak the
sentiments of good many people of tht
best class in saying that visitors to the cen
tennial would be greatly interested to see al
departments of women's work represented
there. They would like to see such relic.
of needlework as were left by women O
revolutionary times, who were notabll
house-keepers, and boasted skill with theil
needles that will show creditably at ever
this lapse of time. There is not an ole
family in the country which has not treas
ures boarded up of lace and sampler work
knitting and embroidery-that is, pictures
by the needle, and fancy work-whos'
name is legion. We staid, conservative
people would like to refresh our ideas. o.
old times by comparing these dainty rem
iniscenees with what outright clever daugh
ters and sisters can do. We would like t.
see the finest evidences of skill in ever
department of woman's labor exhibited, t,
the credit and encouragement of the indus
tricus as well as the glorifcation of thu
gifted. There is too much Of a notion
abroad that it is unbecoming to be exper
at housekeeping, that all a young woman
ito think fit to devote herself to is musi,
or art, forgetting thatnot one in Thousand
has talent enough in either direction to b
worth training, but that all women can b
taught to be good house7keepers and good
dressers-to appear well themselves and tc
make others comfortable about them. The
highest ladies in England-the Princess
Louise and the Princess Christian among
them-haye instituted school of fine
needle-work IN London, towhich no woman
has the honor Of admittance unless she is
Of noble birth. An exhibition of ancient
works Of the needle was held some years
ago at the South Kensington Museum, the
effect Of which was to revive the taste for
embroidery to such degree that it has set
the fashion of two or three years past.
Dresses and furniture of the richest sor-
are now SO layishly decorated with embroidt
cry as to .ereatea new branch of trade and
give employment to reduced gentlewomen,
many Of whom we're amateur artists of no
mean talent, but who chose to express itby
the needle instead of the brush. Perhaps
you donot know, young woman, who may
be readingthis article, that the fashion of
your brocaded or damasked woob dress, at
adOllar ayard, was taken from the old
fashioned lstuffs at this exhibition, which
awoke such an admiration for the old style
that manufacturers were obliged to initiate
it in woven goods Of all classes. Iquote
this to show the influence judicious en-