Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1870-07-09

For Treasurer 8. BIssRLL Of Pittsburgh.
Amer having appointed the necessary working CON
mittcca the principal Office Of the Company for the time
being was established at Ashtabula. The Committees
were instructed proceed without delay to the peform
snce Of several duties This enterprise thus nau
gurated under favorable auspices and in charge of eci
esi men, augurs early completion OF the Ashtabu.a
Youngstown & Pittsburgh Rail Road.
Miss LIKE SMITH will accept our thanks
for Complimentary cards of admission to the
concert OF herself and pupils, at Geneva, July
18th. Her concerts are well spoken Of
THE Census man we see is around. MIR. IL.
III. HUNT is at work in this township, but has
not yet undertaken the village.
Mr.. JOSEPH CAREw, the sculptor, who
made the monument to Joshua r Gddings,
died, at his residence near Boston, on Wednes-
day the 22nd after short Illness.
THE warm weather is very pleasantly al
ternated with rain, and the season that began
SO auspiciously, continues in the same happy
temper and aspect, and the crops generally
are full of promise or fruition. The wheat
and hay harvest iiaTe both begun.
SUGGESTION is offered in the Sentinel for
the consj Iteration of the County Commission
ers--it is the cutting of about three miles of
road from SHEIDoNs mill in Jefferson, East
ward, for the purpose of securing much shor-
ter route to Pierpont, and the opening and
clearing of tract Of country for improve
ment and settlement.
THE Sentinel speaks of the "Fremens Cele-
bration." in terms that are very pleasing to the
ALERT's, who got up the affair as a celebra
tion of their first Anniversary. Their energy
and mature and we'll considered arrangements
for carrying this matter through, is an earnest
of their capacity for the discharge of duty in
any other direction.
THE Summer meeting and Excursion of the
Ohio State Horticultural Society FOR the in
speetion of Vineyards and Orchards, will take
place at and from Berlin Heights and Vermil-
lion, Erie Co. on Wednesday and Thursday,
August 10th aud nth.
Members of the State Society and visitors
will confer favor on the local committee of
arrangements by making little inquiry and
sending word respecting the number likely to
attend from their neighborhoods, and the route
by which they will come, addressed TO j. p.
LESLIE, Berlin Hights.
BUSINESS IN THE REcoRDER's OFFICE.-Re-
corder REEVE furnishes the SeatiaeI the fol-
lowing memoranda of the business transacted
in his Office during the year ending with June,
No of Deeds Recorded. d..-............. 1888
No of Leases Recorded ..... 90
No of Mortgages. Observation-Disclosures. 514
Amount of money secured by Mort
cages. .........-......., .,......- SOlo ouu
REV. G. w, COLLIER. Chaplain-in- Chief of
the Grand Army of the Republic, will address
the Soldiers of the late War, and the citizens
generally. at the Town Hall at Rock Creek, on
Tuesday evening, July 18th, inst An admiss-
ion will be taken for the benefit Of the Relief
fund of Hoyt Post for the assistance of the
Soldiers widows and orphans of the county.
VIM FoLLIoTT, the last of the Skinner mur.
derers at Independence in the fall of 1868, has
recently been arrested at Chicago, by a Cleve
land detective and returned to Cleveland fUl
trial. BE had been heard of at different times
at Omaha, in Canada, and other places, bui
managed to elude pursuers, until his where
abouts was made known TO the officer by
another penitentisry bird, arrested few days
since in Cleveland.
THF Horse FAIR proved au almost entire
failure on account of the heavy and continued
rains that set in on the second day, and con
tinued over the third. We believe there wer
some competing in the class of carriage hors
es, but little was done. and so little, that W
suppose Secretary Jennings has not thought
worth while to send in report. The 2Sll
and 29th inst, have been fixed upon as lii
time for holding the fair, by pOsiponement
THADDEUs HoYT and WILLIAM LATIMET
who died at Morgan on the t7th ult, til
former eighty three and the latter sevent
years of age were among the pioneers
Morgan Township, and identified with its Lo
Cabins and Wood Paths The place of the
early trial was their home through life.
They helped to organize the NJ. L. Churcl
Jat Rock Creek village, with which they wei
connected, the 6fst for 40 and the other fC
only two years less than half a century. Th
funerals were attended at the same time an
were made the more impressive by commo
service.
Llr oUT.-A chap calling himself II.
BABcooK, came ino the village some fou
months since, and formed millinery fir
with lady OF the place, under the style
BI6cock & Stafford. aud started in the millil
cry business in the HENDRY store. His good
about as fast as made were run off TO a dep
in Cleveland, and when he had got pret
well involved in debt, and his tether SCENE
capable of little further distention, toe
French leave on Sunday last not even thin
sng of his rent, board, or printers bills.
THE product of our East Village cheese ia
tory stands the seVerest test of its qualities.
liberal chunk of one of the heaviest found
way the other day to the Editors larder, al
cfcourse was not long in finding its furth
way to the keen and appreciative palates
the household. Its merits were sufficient
confrmed by the common response of pleasu
and satisfaction that followed, and the graf
ful invocation of blessing and prosperity up
those who are contributing to the sum of b
man health and happiness by the dispensati'
Of SO grateful and wholesome an article
food.