The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1877-01-04

President, Hayes. They have quit
drinking blood, and as an easy was
OF letting themselves down, talk
mysteriously Of an appeal to the
courts. Nothing will come Of it
They have lost the game, and have
made up their minds to grin and
bear it. The men of money will
not RESPOND to the invitation to the
tented field, for fighting means
money, and the merchant who has
n regular business has not the in
te,cst in putting Brown, the ward
striker, into sinecure in the Gus
tom house that Brown has. Consc-
quently he don't want to 60 to war
for Browns sake, and Brown has
not been able to stir him up to it as
yet. The editorial mill is still
sending out its ready-made intel
lcct, but there arc evidences that it
will clssc next week. Uncle Sam
ucl has bled many millions and he
has got tired Of it, especially as he
is certain to be beaten in the end,
and the fact of the election of
Hayes is showing itself more and
more. Gold is down to u, making
it possible to resume specie pay
ment at any time. While business
is dull, everybody feels hopeful
that that the spring will bring a
revival, and business men arc con-
tent to wait till the matter is set
tied beyond reradventurc.
BUSINESS.
New York has received another
offset. The grain trade has been
gradually leaving the city for Bos-
ton, Philadelphia and Baltimore.
Vanderbilt made an effort to get it
back by cutting freight in favor of
New York, but the other lines have
finally beaten him. The Baltimore
and Ohio brought him down, and
the New York Central has in the
new arrangement raised its rates,
so that Baltimore has very heavy
per cent. over New York. The
wholesale merchants arc feeling
ugly over this surrender ofVander-
bilt, for goods arc very largely
bought where grain is sold. All
this is bad for New York, but it is
well for the interior cities and the
producer. There arc 10 facilities
in New York for handling grain,
and it costs altogether too much
to get it through the city and OH
shipboard. Chicago, Toledo and
Milwaukee are shipping heavily to
Baltimore, and the dry goods and
grocery trade is following it. The
elder Vanderbilt is still on his bed,
and his son William does not seem
to have the acutcncss ofhis father.
At all events Garrett has beaten
him badly, and New York suffers.
The Vanderbilts control too much
railroad. MIR. Garrett works
his road in the interest Of his city,
and its management has always
been liberal. Between the Balti-
more and Ohio and the Pcnnsyl-
vania Central, New York has conc
to grief. Take this diversion and
the fact that the lake cities arc
shipping direct to Montreal
ans supplying New England direct,
and it is easy enough to sec that
the prestige ofNcw York rs a com
mcrcial centre is in danger.
FIRE ESCAPES.
The Brooklyn horror has served
one good purpose. The authorities
have inspected every theatre in the
city, and arc compelling the man
ayers to make them safe. They
arc cutting doors for escape, and
are laying water pipes in every di-
rcction, so as to flow the stage in
the event of fire. One theatre was
compelled to suspend till this was
done, and the people who crowd
them breathe more freely. The
churches arc to be ovcrhauled next
and then the factories and large
buildings in which people work six
stories up, after. The effect of il
all is, to make life tolerably safe
from fire. There are buildings in
the lower wards; which shelter
nightly from two to three thousand
people, six stories in height, with
only one staircase, and that q very
narrow one. In the even. of a fire
in one of them, the unfortunate &C.
cupants would burn like rats, fol
escape would be virtually impossi
bic. All of these are to be gone
through with, and the owners com
PEELED to make them safe,
TEMPERANCE.
Five thousand ladies' of the "firs
families have signed an agrccmcn
not to offer Intoxicating liquors t.
their callers OIL New Years Day
There will be a less number Of well
dressed drunken young men on thu
streets next New Years than usual
The big temperance demonstration.
will commence Immediately aftcl
New Years, and will be kept NJ
just as long as any feeling is shown
Boston aid Philadelphia are to joir
with them, working the same way
the speakers changing about so as to
always have something new and at
tractive. 1t is hoped by the origi
majors to get up feeling that viii
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