Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1877-11-02
DIR NEW YORK LETTER.
The Cigar makers-An Old S"IndIe-
The Temperance MOVement-FoIlu-
HeaI-The Cost Of SIrIkes-The Grain
Frade-The Meat Trade.
THE CIGAR MAKERS.

THE CIGAR MAKERS.
The cigars makers have shown more ousl-
ness capacity than is common among labor
ing people who strike for what they eonsid-
er their rights. They have completed their
organization, have raised a very large fund,
and have organized provision kitchen, "
from which the needy strikers will be fed.
The provisions are bought at the lowest
wholesale price, and are distributed in such
quantities as will keep the strikers in good
condition. They have also secured the SER
vices Ofphysicians to attend the members
of the strikers families, and, in short have
gone into the business in thoroughly sys-
tematic way.
AN OLD swNDLE REVIVED.
A sharper under the name of Evans is
flooding the country with this letter.
New York City.
6. W. Green, Esq.
Your ticket, 9,45O, has drawn
a house and lot in Jamaica, Queens Co., N.
Y, valued by commissioner of taxes at
matter, died at Savannah with yellow fe-
yer. I will upon the receipt Of $40 addI-
tional have the property conveyed to you
by county clerk The amount Is topay the
clerk for his services. Z. Il. Evans.
A great many smart greenies, who know
they have no right to the property mention
ed, but who are willing to take advantage
of what they consider the mistake of the
careless Mr.. Evans, send $40, which is the
last of it. 1t is curious that people will al
low themselves to be taken in by devices so
transparent.
THE TEMPERANCE MOVEMENT
Is still progressing, though it has not made
The headway that its projectors hoped. 1t
is very hard to keep the attention of New
Workers to anything but their business for
any length of time, and then think what an
enormous thing the rum interest is to fight.
Yet the league are working away as earn
estly as though they we're in possession of
the enemy's outworks. They have collected
some interesting figures to show what tip
pling houses cost the city. They charge
four-ffths of Une expenses for police, char
tiles for criminals, pauperS, or $4,000, 900,
to them; to this must be added $1,000, 900
for salaries to extra employees in Judicial
and other departments; donations to char
liable institutions, $500, 900, or a total of
So, 100000. To offset this there is $500, 900
collected from license fees. These figures
are significant. Mrs. Lille Devereaux
Blake made a temperance speech, in the
course of which she said that between 1870
and 1875 forty-two women were killed in
this city by. drunken men--most of them
kicked to death.
POLITICAL.
The contest, this fall, in the city, will be
between Tammsny on the one hand, and !
the combined Republicans and Anti-Tam-
many Democrats on the other. Contrary
to the usual practice, the Democratic busi--
ness men have taken hold of the matter,
and if they make fight in dead earnest,
they may accomplish something. The re-
spectacle element of the American Demo-
,racy, aided by the German vote, which is
always uncomfortable in any organization
which includes the Irish, and the entire Re
publican party, ought to carry the city, and
relieve it from the dead weight of John
Kelly Tammanyism. But am not very
'anguine. The leaders of Tammany know
heir power They have the revenues of
! vast city at their control, and they know
hat great many men have their price.
When the forces are all ready for action,
md it is known who the workers are, Kelly
will swoop down with his money and his
places, and then whether it is a success or
lot, will depend entirely on how many of .
hem he can buy. To succeed, the respect
ble Democrats, and the Independent Ger
mans must draw out of the Democratic
anks quite thirty thousand votes, and with
7ammany charging through their lines, it
very doubtful. And then the Rochester T
onvention so divided the Republican party
hat it is doubtful whether action can be
lken which will insure full Republican
ote. have no faith whatever in the move g..
rent, but do most ardently hope 1 may
e disappointed. ,
THE COST OF STRIKES.
The cost of the service of the State mill 4
a during the strikes of last summertime, a
~ one week-foot up nearly $275, 900. It {
rather an expensive way of obtaining in
rease of pay. Probably the cost of the a
rikes in the State, counting destruction a
nd detention, loss of time and everything l
Sc, will foot up $500, 100000. And it all "
mounted to nothing except to give lot of ii
like Schwab and Swinton no. C
,riety. They are trying the same thing t
rer again and may possibly succeed. Il
THE GRAIN TRADE. .
The papers are exercised over the fact o
at New York has not had very large d
crease Of receipts of grain, while Phila- u
.lphia, Boston and Baltimore have. It's = =
sy to understand why this is so. New r
ork has laid down upon her natural ad I
ntages," and has failed to coneiliste the
tside world. The railroads running into ;,
w York are managed in the interest of
e familY-those running into the other
les are managed in the interest of the
les. The point of the New York mag V
te is to see how much he can skin out ofa
shell of grain-the other cities strive to :
at how little they can do the business 81
d live. We have no terminal facilities
re, while Baltimore and Philadelphia C
We. The trade will keep going till this ID
EALL. 1877.
H.. D.