Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1877-08-24

man element we'll organized and well in
hand. When the strike is declared he
says they will turn out to a man.
THE STORM YEAR.
This season has been made memorable
by the number and severity of the storm
that have swept over this coast. Never in
the history of the city has there been so
many or so violent. Last Sunday night,
Coney Island. on which at the time there
were more than $50, 900 visitors, was swept
| by storm that was as severe, as 1t was un-
expected Bathing houses were taken up
and carried bodily quarter of mile in
land. tables on the piazzas were swept
away. and men and women sitting at them
were hurled violently against the walls of
the building. Fortunately the hotels were
sufficiently strong to resist the beating of
the winds, else there would have been ter
rible loss of life. There is a thunder
storm or two every day, and the nights are
made lively by the same agency. 1t was
amusing last Sunday on the boats that
carry New York out to get breath of
fresh air on the water. On the boat To
Fire Island there were seven hundred pass
engers. a furious storm came up, and every
one of the seven hundred were sea-sick
The sight of seven hundred people vnmit-
ing at once is not often youchsafed, and it
would have been amusing had not the be-
holder been too busy with his own individ-
ual sickness to enjoy that of others.
THE BIG CAMP-MEETNG
At Ocean Grove, New Jersey, is in active
operation. At this now famous place there
are substantial cottages that shelter resi-
dent population of 1000, who stay there
all summer, and the tents accommodate as
many more. The place is owned by an as
sociation. who enforce the most ultra reli-
gious rules. Intoxicating drinks cannot
be had for love nor money, boating and all
classes of amusements are prohibited on
the Sabbath. Aside from the printed reg
ulatiOns there is a moral influence that
makes it extremely difficult for a sinner to
be comfortable in the prosecution of any
| kind of semi-sinful or even trivalous
amusement. The business of the place is
religion, and it is very closely followed.
There are meetings at daylight, and then
all the day, with intervals Of rest, and till
ten o'clock at night. Mrs. Lizzie Cook is
there exhorting a dozen times day, as
well as Mrs. Van Cott, and all the noted re-
vivalists. The singing and praying is of
the emotional kind, the end being to get
up as much religious fervor and feeling as
possible. Bishops Simpson and Peck have
charge of the exercises. 1t is an immense
success this year.
WALL STREET.
Not since the summer of 1873 has there
been such "grip" acquired by tie obulls"
on the whole front of Wall street market.
as now exists.
A great "bull" combination led by Keene
the heavy operator from ''Frisco," Russell
Sage, the man who ''sat down" on Milwau-
kee and St. Paul for so long time, D. P.
Morgan, Sam Mills, .Orsborn and others,
assisted by Vanderbilt, and also by sever
al banks, who are interested in floating the
wreck of the North West & Rock Island R,
R. stocks made by Traey's failure are now
manipulating for higher market, the con-
trolling part of the stocks of railroad and
telegraph companies representing capi-
! tai Of not less than three hundred
millions of dollars.
Their argument is, that in the general
depression of trade-now slowly improving
and in the liquidations which have been
going on, railroad stocks fell below their
trade value; and, second, that the great
crops Of the country will be carried over
the roads this fall, and the war, giving
good market at good prices, will stimulate
the entire business Of the country, and the
roads, having already effected great econo
my in running expenses, will show a large
increase in earnings, and at paying rates
for all, and investors and speculators
will then buy stocks at advanced prices.
There are those who de not take this
rOseate view, and Jay Gould is one of
them. This clique have demonstrated
their positive strength by advancing the
whole hne in the face of the recent labor
strike, and its attendant destruction of
railroad property, so that during the ten
days OF its continuance, the stocks in their
hands marked in quoted sales an increas-
ed value of eight million dollars, Jay
Gould takes no hand on that side at pres
ent, but last week, in the telegraph stocks,
Keene and Gould executed a ''pas de
deux" in which J. g. showed the most leg,
and left Keene and his confrere sage, load
ed with few millions of the Atlantic and
Pacific stock and with the reflection that
''for ways that are dark, and tricks
that are vain, Wall street is certainly Pc
culiar. Gould is playing clone hand"
and seems to rely on the general opportu-
nifty which comes for breaking so long a
line, and-Fhen the clique get all they can
carry he will assault their weak points.
In the mean time there viii be great ad-
vance In stocks, no matter what follows.
One house on New street is carrying over
three millions of New York Central Stock,
which they fondly expect to sell at par or
higher, and Vanderbilt will take care of
twenty millions of Lake Shore stock.
Wall street will again be the great gaming
centre, and this fall will see many for.
| times there lost an yyon
CIRCUMsTANeIAL EVIDENCE.
About a year ago, Rubenstein, Polish
Jew, was arrested, tried and found guilty
of the murder Of Sarah Alexander. a Jew
ess. A post mortem examination showed
the girltto be pregnant, and the theory
was that there had been criminal intimacy
between the two, and that Reubenstein
had killed her to conceal it, He was sem
fenced to be hung, and protesting his in
nocence, starved himself to death, The
case was a peculiar one, and there were
not wanting those who believed In his pro-
testations Of innocence. But he died all
the same, and his old mother and ia the
also died Of grief, and the Rubensteln
family was ruined. And now comes a
man naned Huber who eonfesses that it
,,,s he ,vho killed the Alevandar s,;rl and