Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1877-05-25
THE CARNIVAL,

THE CARNIVAL.
Carnivals even in Europe are going into
disuse as too frivolous. In New Orleans
and the southern cities they are in vogue
and are successful, forthe people are of the
temperament to enjoy fooling at wholesale.
| Their procession Of masked mummers. re-
presenting everything that is absurd, fits
The lazy southerner who wants amusement.
and isn't particular as to what it is. It
was thought it could be done in New York,
the managers plastered the country with
/ advertisements, promising an enormous
| daylight parade, and a still more enormous
one in the evening, and all sorts of other
amusements. So loud were the promises
that the trains were crowded with people.
They came from the east, west, north and
south, and the streets were never so crowd
ed as on that day. Anxiously they waited
for the procession and finally it came, A
more humiliating failure was never seen.
1t was nothing more than half hundred
advertising wagons, of brewers, patent
medicines, and all sorts of things which
strive to catch the public eye. There were
a few attempts at fun, but they were of
CHASTITY nature. The night procession was
only better, because it could not be seen.
There were a dozen wagons, on which were
nv "oAASAA anu luMbI llblls uIbSstu III NdIl-
GUS costumes, but as they rode along in
solemn silence and the densest darkness,
nobody saw or knew anything about them.
The ball at Gilmore's Garden was even
more dismal failure. A rich brewer paid
$4,000 for the privilege of personating the
liking Of the Carnival" and as he kept
drunk all the day it is to be presumed that
he got the worth of his money.
And now it has transpired that the
scheme was the work Of couple of frauds
from New Orleans. They charged SIS
each for the advertising wagons, they sold
the privilege" of riding in the procession
as Dukes, "Earls, &C., for large money
sums, they sold the privileges of the bars, |
stands and coat rooms, at Gilmore's garden |
Tor great deal Of money and they collect |
ed large sums from the hotels and other |
Piaces OF public resort. They got eVrry- |
lhlhg on credit, those from whom they got |
supplies supposing that reputable citizens
were al the head Of it, and as thev maid
nothing, they made good thing of If II
Is estimated that they cleared not Iass 49,
$4,000 by the operation. The Ioss s'-';n IN
money is the least of it. It cost the oit,,
one entire days business and was NM
sance, worry, and vexation from first
to last.
SUICIDES.
There seems to be an epidemic of sui-
cides with the approach of not weather
One yonng man came down from Orange
county to get work, but was disappointed.
He had a watch which he intended to pawn
to live on till he could get something to do,
but it was stolen from him the night Of the
carnival and he went to his room and
shot himself The police recovered the
watch two hours after A woman hung
herself in Macdougal street, because her
husband ran away from her, and wealthy
man named Adams, took poison, because
there was so much worry in taking careAf
MS estate. A merchant was found dead
IN the basement of his store on Broadway,
leaving note stating thai his trade had
let5 MN, and he saw no hopes Of revival,
alla young man cut his throat, because
ne could not get an appointment In the
f9st oiilce. All these, with dozen Others
VINO stepped out without giving reason,