Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1877-11-30

style, it must be elegantly shaped. smooth
ly and nicely finished. and there is no rea-
son why woman's taste and dexterity
should not be utilized in this as in other
workmanship requiring similar qualities
The eiesrs are mostly made at the work
mans home. So much ''fller" and 30
much wrapper" is weighed out to the
workman, who is required to deliver so
many cigars of q prescribed size and
weight. The manufacturers own tene-
ment houses, which they rent to their en-
ployees, and in this way the work, while it
is done without factory, is practically un-
der the supervision of the employer. The
manufacturers are now sjeeting the striking
tenants, who of course have not paid rent,
and each ejeetment is made the occasion
of g demonstration. While the furniture
is being loaded on carts, the strikers cheer
for the elected. and groan for the sjsctor,
and the load, decorated with flags, moves
away to the music Of an improvised band.
1t will end in the men returning to their
work, with the loss of months time, and
some experience. The sgitstors are the
only ones who make anything by these
movements. Swinton howls and Schwao
sells beer, ncomfort, but the deluded WORK
men starye. Strikes are expensive lu1urles'
THE WAR AGAINST Rum
ooss on with varying success. a large
1nmber of low groggeries have been fined
over and over again during the week. and
a few of them have thrown up the sponge
and quit in disgust. The big hotels close
on Sundays, and serve liquors at tables In
their restaurants which the law can't take
hold Of For other violations they pay
their fines quietly and go right along. The
''The law and order league" are deter
mined to at least check the traffic, and
they will. if they do not get to quarreling
among themselves. One faction wants
the effort to be made against the low buck
ct shops alone,-the other insists that the
fashionable bars need shutting up as we'll.
But. divided as they are, ! am glad to say
some impression is being made upon the
trade. The city is cursed with over 5000
rum mills of all kinds, and it is too heavy
tax to bear. But for these crime factor
les, the police force could be reduced a
half, and the criminal courts would have
nothing to do. Judge DAILY remarked the
other day that SO per cent. Of the criminal
cases that came before him could be traced
directly to rum.
TmToN.
There is no truth whatever in the story
that is being circulated that Theodore Til
ton and his wife are to shortly come to-
gether again. Tilton believes that his wife
was false to him, and Mrs. Tilton believes
that her husband has been false to her, and
they both prefer to live alone, or, rather,
not live with each other. Theodore called
upon her on his return from Europe to in
form her as to the condition of her daugh-
ters, whom he left in Europe, but the in
terview was confined strictly to that busi-
ness. She is living quietly in Brooklyn,
and he is living quietly in 20 Avenue. And
the story that Tilton and Moulton had
quarreled is equally untrue. They are as
fast friends as ever, and hate Beecher as
cordially as ever.
| BUSINESS
is not so brisk as last week. The uncer-
tainty as to the silver bill has had de-
pressing effect, for no one knows what the
condition of things will be if it passes. 1t
would be blessed thing for the country if
the currency tinkers would let it alone,
and let it regulate itself. Medicine kills
more than it cures, and there is nothing so
terrible as uncertainty, for 1t checks busi-
ness, while expenses go on just the same.
New York, Nov. 81, 1877. PIETRo.