Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1871-07-26
Orwell Correspondence.

DEAR CHRONICLE Matters and
things in this far inland town are
particularly animated just now, from
several causes. First, the harvest is
glorious, making glad the heart Of the
husbandman. Everything is in album
dance-hay, oats, wheat, corn, pOta-
toes, c~hildren-and Of the best quail
ity, though the last mentioned arti-
cles viii, like a locomotive, bear an
occasional Switching of, whether they
have q tender behind or not.
Secondly, we have vivid antieipa-
tons Of a railroad, q veritable road Of
iron, and not Of wind and talk. The
President, Mr.. McCreafy, of the Ash
tabula, Youngstown and Pittsburg
Railroad Company, has really been
here, and we have had q look at Mr..
Randall, the contractor, both lions in
their way, and they have told US II
we do our duty they viii do theirs,
and that in twelve months from Aug
ust first we shall be in railroad COM
munication with all creation and a
part Of Pennsylvania, "a eOnsumma-
ton devoutly to be wished" Yet
after seventeen years delay-years Of
anxious hopes, and doubts and fears
we hardly dare lay the "fattering
JUNCTION to our sOulsp that we shall
ever be able to visit Warren or see the
blue waters Of Lake Erie in one short
] hours ride We have a mind to The
Uork and are trying to raise our pro-
portion Of the stock. In the mean
time we wait in q state OF glorious
uncertainty the snort Of the iron horse
and the first instalment Of free ~
passes, enabling US, from the " old
/ est inhabitant' 70 the youngest BARN,
to do patriotic honor to this happy
linking OF the Mahoning Valley to
Ashtabula harbOr. Then, and not till
then, shall benighted Ashtabuls, in
/ Guiding the third rdnQe,n emerge
into the full light Of the civilization
of the nineteenth century. So mote
q be.
Again, a fine dining hall, twenty
feet by forty, attached to the boarding
hall built some three years ago, has
lust been completed, and before the
commencement Of the fall term Of the
Institute, will be neatly furnished.
From this time forward, persons de-
string to enter the Students Union
will be furnished first class table
board at from Sl.75 TO $22 per week,
whether the railroad goes on or not.
Rooms for study and other necessary
purposes, can readily be obtained al
very reasonable rates.
Then again, the hammer Of the
carpenter, the brush Of the painter
and the hand Of the paperhanger, arr
busy on hall and Institute, putting
everything in order for the campaign
OF 1STIJ72. Theschosl is already fur
nished with a very fine Apparatus
and Cabinet, and there have recently
been ordered q large astronomical tel
escope and 3 superior leeturing sci
Of apparatus in electrO-mRgnettsm
With the utmost frankness, in view
of our facilities, we appeal to the pub
lie for our share Of school-going pat
ronage, where academic or norma
advantages are desired. To the indus
trious we warrant success; the adzy
{ here as elsewhere, win do nothing.
Matters in political circles are be
coming somewhat active, judging
: from the number Of very Rfiable look
/. ing gentlemen quietly gliding about
The dear people have some twelve o
fourteen Offices to give away in thi
= county, and there z aspirants 70
them all-men willing to sit any
wherein the bench Of the Court o
Common Pleas, or on the body 0
/" One more unfortunate" Well, III
isreal aud life Is earnest, as most Q
the thirty or forty who ere looking {
: these choice gifts will find August j
Z and Is; but as I've q previous engage
ment for those days, / shall not "b
there TO see'i how the cases are ad
justed.
July, 1871. HUI.