Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1876-02-04

mist, now in luuaiic asylum in Stock
bridge, Mass, has been pronuuced hope
lessly insane. and in danger OF dying
anv minute. Poor Fox He has delight
ed more people than any man living.
and this is his endl He labored for the
public all his life. and he dies in an asy-
lum, without dollar, his family depend
ing for their subsistence on the charity
of the profession, the memb ers of which
are generally almost as poor as himself.
This is the regular en- ding of an actor.
A miserable, starved life, and death in an
alms-house or an asylum. Edward Ed
dy, an actor of as much reputation as
Edwin Forrest twenty years ago, was
buried last Sunday bY tue Masons, ana
Al their expense. His family have not
a dollar TO live on and they are eating
The bread of charity. 1t pays better TO
dehauch the people than it does TO either
amuse or instruct them. The actor dies
door. the teacher starVes on a salary of
5000 per year, the author lives in gar
rel, but the W hIsky-seller, the gambler.
and the keeper o f prostitutes roll in car
riages, and are clad in purple and fine
linen. The tim es are never too hard TO
support vice. When times are close,
men stop their newspa pers, but were the
times ever so hard as to compel them to
quit whisky and tobacco Not much.
No matter what 9th er business languish-
es, the bars thrive.
DEFALcATIoNs.
Defa lcations are as common as paving
stones WinsIow ran away from Boston
with 100000 of other peoples money,
Babbitfs cashier. steals $500 900, and
now a young banker absconds with all
his customers money. This last case is
a little peculiar. The young man squan-
dered it ali upon woman, but whe do
you suppose that woman was? Why
his own mother ! She is very hand
some widow, fn rty, who has passion
for fashionable life. The young man, her
soH, is weak, good fellow. who loves
his moiher-as very few sons do, and
can refuse her nothing. w hen he went
into business for. himself, she emerged
from the humble boardi ng-bouse where
they had lived, nd took an elegant
house uptown, and commenced, liv ing
in the style of wealthy people. She sci
up a carriage, ,--she had the no use full OF
servan ts,-sbe gave elegant entertain
m ents,-she bought diamonds. and cam
y hair shawls, and, in short, she lived
at rate that made all her old friends
turn green with envy. The son, all this
tim e was furnishing her with the means
for all this extravaganza, knowing that
The end was ruin, but bis mother lik' d
it and be was too weak to say no. She
probably knew that she was living be-
yound his means, but :he madness was
on her, aud she could no I stop. The end
came last week. The young man and
his moth er sailed for Rotterdam, taking
with them every dollar that was in the
concern and all that could be borro we d,
begged or stolen. It is supposed that
the abscon ding. like all the rest of it,
was the inspiration of the mother. tor all
who know " the young man believe him
to be honest, if left TO himsel f The loss
10 depositors win foot 100000, ane
there is as much mere owing on notes on
the streets. This vast sum of money has
been pene within five years, and that il
was spent there can be no doubt, for as
near as can be asceriained they had |
mighty little to take away with them
The fRe house was disma ntled. though
they hatl sold quietly, all that they could
without exciting suspicion. Curious easel
Men have been ruined by women, times
enough, but who ever heard before of
that woman's being ones own mother.
BUSINESS
Is looking up little, and appearances
Indicate permanent Money is getting
plentier at the West. and the merchants
are buying little more freely.
New York. Feb, 1st, 1876 PIETRo.