Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1859-06-25

OF SeptemDer, as the days Tor holulng tner
second annual Fair
A ride to Jefferson the fore part Of the week,
presented sorry exhibition Of the grape vines
Scarcely an unsheiered vine is TO be seen, with
the least evidence Of life, so far us foliage is con-
cerned. With us il is different About the
village, some are TO be found uninjured and the
worst but partially.
Although the court is in session, and His
Honor, Judge WILDER, calm as summers
morning, occupies the tribunal of justice, bear
ing with commendabe patience and endurance
the bumdrum routine of forensic inaction, and
bevies of barristers I'll the green baize circle,
with gravity and thoughtfulness Of manner,
that would do credit to q sacredotal convoca-
ton, charged with the settlement of the imma-
culate conception dogma, there seems to be but
a moderate show Of animation, and dullness
except in the Treasury Department and at the
table of Honest JOHN Thomson, seemed SEN
sibly present
Prosecuting Attorney HALL, is present from his
contemplated home near Laughing Waters with
ready palm, friendly greeting, looking as if health
and physical enjoyment were not possessions of
a secondary consideration in this world. The
most active parsonage about the court room, is
its ndeiatigable Clerk. His promptness aud
cearness in business matters does not pass un-
noticed, or uncommended. Sheriff HENDRY,
moves about in so comfortable a manner that
it would scarcely be supposed that he was con-
scious of the fact that the good behaviour and
decorum of Ashtabula couuty rested upon his
shoulders. Judge PLUMB, whose precarious
state Of health has been such as to lead to a
well grounded apprehension that his hold upon
life was feeble aud brief one, u.s. we were as
assured in an improving condition. and change
for the better was at least perceptibe. Audi
tor BUSHNELL with bis usual urbanity Of man
ner and attentiveness to business, draws his Or
ders upon the County exchequer, which are
very good evidences of debt, but they lack all
the essential requisites of circulating medium,
and fail to find their way over the Treasury
Counter in the liquidation of Taxes. They pro-
ddce no more impression upon that mperturba-
BILE countenance of Treasurer FRENCH, than if
reputation had become a northern virtue
When asked by the perplexed straight driven
tax payer, if he has no "bowels of compassion" Z"
his cool response is, mary bowel" Those Of
our citizens who have sent in their orders in the
fond hope that they would "go," will be apt to
learn that it is mo 60" Two or three pateu-
tees of Moving Machines have decorated the
Court House yard with samples of their mowers,
and knot of the Yeomonry of the County,
were discussing the merits of the respective
machines The "Old Jug" as it is familiarly
called, because, we suppose the handles are all
on the outside is without tenant, and the
sheriffs family rejoicing in the relief afford.
ed from such a state of things ALLEN that
Prince of Merchants, loses no opportunity to
keep his wares before the people, and his over
lures to meet your every bodily and mental
want, meet you at every turn, so that there is
no room left for saying you forgot" to call
upon him. Brother ALLEN of the Reporter,
we found upon the ground, ready TO share the
honors of the occasion with us. Advantage
was taken of this opportunity by an introduc-
tion, to enable our better half to form an opin-
ion of the relative merits of two out of the
three county editors-brother HowELLs having
gone to take week or twos rustcation at Co.
lumbus-and the opinion arrived at without
hesitation, was, that we were decidedly the best
looking man.