Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1877-04-27
it and care less, and so the merchants
and manufacturers suffer.
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ever was perpetrated, was done IN
this city last week. Up in Twenty
third street is a house of assignation
frequented only by the very bluest-
blOOded- of the aristoeracy. If
married lady from Murray Hill goes
beyond moral limits, it is at this
house that she meets her lover, and
if rich man has an unlawful love
it is at this house that he meets
her. 1t is so quiet and so safe
that none of its frequeuters ever
had the slightest fear of
being disturbed, by the police or
any one else. Last Friday night
the house was full, when, to the
horror of the eminently respectable
sinners the police surrounded it, and
the occupants were marched out of
their rooms into the grand parlors,
where the sergeant of the squad re-
viewed them. OF course every one
saw every other one, and quite a
number of surprises were the conse-
quence. The parties were all so re-
spectacle that the sergeant let them
off with a modicum of good advice,
and they departed considering
themselves lucky at escaping SO
easily. Alas! For those highly re-
spectacle peoplel They had little
difficulty in recognizing each other,
except three gentlemen who were
strangers to all the rest. The next
day one of the respectables was call
ed upon by one of the three unknown
men. They recognized each other
and smiled CHASTITY grin. "Rath-
er ugly thing, that last night" said
unknown. "Indeed it was' replied
the respectable. 'eThe idea of bring
ing us all together in the parlor,
where every one prese Mt might and
did see every other one!' said un-
known. at was outrageous" re-
piled respectable, ''but each one will
be compelled to keep it a secret for
his own sake" eyes" replied the
unknown significantly, ''unless there
might have been one or two prese Mt
who had as soon be known as, not,
having nothing to lose. By the
way, Mr., 1 have. a note for
$4,000 to pay this afternoon, and l
am short; will you be good enough
to accommodate me with the amount
for few daYs?" Mr.--lo looked
at the stranger for a minute-the
smiled, Mn saw the
character of the man, and without
another word wrote a cheque for
the amount. And as every one OF
the respectables received a call, the
object OF which was the same, from
one of the three unknown, it is evil
dent enough that the three were in
collusion with the police, and possi-
bly, with the keeper of the house,
and that it was a very pretty scheme
of bIackmailing most audaciously
devised and skiilfully carried out.
The ladies present that night were
also visited, either by note or in per-
son, and they are paying handsomely
that their guilt may not find them
out. Moral-be virtuous, and you
may bid the black-mailers defiance.
RUM.
There is trouble among the rum
sellers. A strict Interpretation of
the laws makes it impossible for the
excise commissioners to grant licen-
ses to any except tavern keepers,
and the commissioners in New York
and Brooklyn have resolved to ad-
here to the law, and prosecute all
others selling. Already several hum
dred suits have been commenced
against liquor dealers who do not
according to the law keep inns or
5averns. The law is that licenses
shall not be granted to any one who
does not keep three spare beds, with
proper bedding, for the accommoda-
ion of guests, which of course none
If the saloons or bars pretend to.
Fhe law officers will push it, for
hey can get their costs and fees,
md consequently there will be trou-
bic. The temperance associations
zee in this an opportunity for new
crusade upon rum, and the dealers
ire girding up their loins for Wig |
'rous defense of what they consider |
heir rights. There will be a. vast
mount of speech-making. And
asst number of arrests, but it will
Il amount to nothing. Liquor sell
ng cannot be restricted in a popu-
alton like that of New York, where
large majority of the people drink,
nd where rum is an element in
olitics and makes and unmakes
oliticians. Rum can elect whoever
chooses, for that interest is solid,
lille the opposition to it is always
ivided. But there will be a lively
zirmage over it.
POLITICS.
President Hayes is gaining ground
| this city every day. Business
len f all parties are wheeling into
ne in his support. while they are
ivided somewhat as to the wisdom
: his southern policy they are will
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