Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1877-02-09

Fully Q ought to be
the prof, goes to feed
the vanity On ~-vse who attend it;
that is they contribute fifty cents to
their own vanity, and fifty cents to
the poor. Perhaps it is well enough
to get fifty cents on the dollar out
of them. But the ball itself is a
gorgeous affair. When people dance
for charity they go prepared to do
it. No woman of fashion appeared
last night with less than $4,000 of
diamonds on her person, and the
cost of some of the toilets ran up
a long way into the thousands.
The ball cost the people who attend
ed it probably s25O,OOO, and the net
result to the charity was something
like $4,000. 1892 900 for the world
and $4,000 for the poor.
CASE OF SERIOUS TROUBLE.
A very curious incident occurred,
eliminated last week. A young
swell belonging to one of the rich
families was engaged to be married
to a young lady who possesses more
beauty and brains than money. The
young fellow is fool, as is the case
with the most of the young fellows
who have money in the city, but the
girl accepted him, all the same, be-
cause he was reputed to have an in
come of $35, 900 per annum. 1t was
rather comfortable thing to have
a rich fool for a husband, for while
he could pay the bills, and keep her
in diamonds and all sorts of things
pleasant to the feminine mind, he
would not be in the way Of her en-
joying herself as she chose. The
wedding was to have taken place
last week, but it was unaccountably
postponed. Finally the cause tran
spired, the young mans income came
entirely from real estate, mostly on
Broadway, and the young lady had
very prudently been making inquir-
les. One store which had rented
for $4,000, was empty, and there
was no prospect of its being Oceu-
pied for some time; another was Oc-
cupied at a reduction of seventy-five
per cent, and to sum it all up, the
income of $4,000 had shrunk to
less than $4,000. She promptly de-
cllned to enter into the marriage
state on any such money, and noti
fed the groom in expectation, that
the nuptials would be postponed till
the odd $25, 900 could be made up.
The young man was in despair.
There was no use of trying to do
anything with real estate, for that is
a drug, and so, between desperation
and brandy, he raised money by
mortgage, and went into Wall
street. Need 1 detail the result?
He came out of that place plucked
clean as pigeon, for he bought on
a falling market and sold on a rising
one, as all such fellows do, and from
an income of $4,000 he was a young
man about the town with no income
whatever to speak Of He threw
himself upon her mercy but he Jared
worse with the adamantine young
woman of the world than he did in
Wall street. She declined to see
him, and forthwith engaged herself
to another fool whose father was
smart enough to put his money into
gas stocks, which never can depre-
ciate, having a city to swlndle. And
the discarded lover is wandering
about the city accepting invitations
to drink from those who knew him
in his better days. Moral-for the
benefit of your sons invest in gas
stocks.
BUSIN ESS
is, as usual, as dull as possible.
There was a faint show of revival
when the passage of the Electoral
Bill was announced, but it died out
in a day. The political compliea-
tion did not make the hard times,
nor can the settlement thereof un-
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