Year: 1877

, self with any thing less than importe,
Havanas, that cost fifty cents and up
wards, each, and he consumed
great many of them. But he di,
quit, and he did give his wife eacl
day precisely what his cigar bill ha,
been, and he kept it up faithfully
About month ago, Mr.. Abbey wen


under, and he was very sore about it


lie had neglected the usual precau


tlons such people take, aud the hous,


he lived in was taken out from undeI


him, as well as all the pleasant ac


cumulations of a lifetime. Mr.. Abbey


last Monday, morning, was an asst on,


lshed man; for Mrs. Abbey, took hin


out of the cheap hotel in which they


mad taken refuge, and conducted him


to very neat and comfortably fur.


nished house on Goth street, with every


thing in readiness to go to living, and


all hers She had saved the money


he had given her, she had invested it,


and turned it over and over, until it


had amounted to enough to pay for a


delightful home, not much inferior to


the one he had lost and this was in


his wlte's name and could not be


taken from her, and from this want
age point, MIR. Abbey feels quite
confident that he can go out, and re-
gain his lost position. He saved his
health By quitting tobacco-his wife
SO managed as to give him IL new
start. A very comfortable wife to
have is Mrs. Abbey.


The Erie canal is, practically, o
national work, and it is thousand
pities that it is not under the control
OF the general government. 1t is the
only safeguard the people have against
rapacions railroad combinations, and
the farmer of Iowa is just as much
Interested in it as the merchant of
New York. The railroads did their
level best to keep mp the tolls, that the
carrying of the grains should be forced
into their hands. Despite their eff
forts, the tolls were lowered, and the
good effect wasapparent. The amount
OF grain carried was largely increased,
and the canal assumed somewhat the
appearance of former years. Another
movement in the right direction is
being made. 1t is to close out, once
for all all the lateral canals that do
not pay expenses, and make the Erie
free of tolls. If this is done, and as
an additional measure the canal is
enlarged SO as to pass larger boat,
the city will recover it's lost trade,
and New York will be again, what it |
was, the great exporting point of the |
country. The Canadians are enlarg-
ing the Welland canal so as to admit
large vessels, and Montreal is work
ing with all its might to make itself |
the point of export and import. New
York has got to do something to head
her off. The Erie canal is the way,
and New York sees it. A free canal
aud larger one is what New York
needs, and the agitation of the ques-
ton shows an increasing tendency to
labor in that direction.


The dreadful list of scoundrels has
this week taken ON two new names,
Gilman and Lyman; the first, one of
the saints We are getting accustomed
to, who within the church rob the
brethren aud outside world alike.
His acts will he familiar to your read
BIS before this letter reaches them.
md they will learn that he was kind
father and true friend-sensitive,
aesthetic, intellectual, domestic and
pions to degree. Who can be trusted,
IS the perpetually recurring cOnun-
lrum. Not in the case of I,man,
however, who has before done the
State some service in Sing Sing, but
lis case is striking in this, that a
Known jail bird could go on SO long
n successful forgery.


Except in Wall street, business is
every day. The merchants
rom the interior are finally convinced
hat the bottom has been reached, and
Ire buying liberally. The city is full
If strangers, and every body is feeling
we'll. There is no question that bust
less men are satisfied that from this
ime ont, there will be an improve
nent in values, that goods can not
20 below the present point. and that
cal estate from this date must i'm
prove. Tenants recognize the i'm
proved lock of things, and are prepar-
ng to submit to an increase in the
pring; and, in short, everybody is