Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1872-10-05

WEEKLY TELEGRAPH
BY JANIS REED.
Two Dollars a Year invaribIy In Advance.
Local & Miscellaneous.
blanks orsIi kinds for sale AT this ONCE.
snrTu, the Photographer has the exclusive right to
make the charming MeEzotint.
Oystersi Oystersi-A iull supply at the Ashla
bula Bakery.
Dress MAKINo.-MIss DENisoNs Dress
Making Rooms are over the PeopIe's St0ye
The Lady Of the editorial bungalo would
acknowledge a very rich and beautifully nr.
Saybrook.
Our young, entcrprisng and good looking
foreman says he is very fond of flowers
JAMES LYNCH, is supposed to have fallen
from the Pier into the Lake in a state of intox.
ication, on Thursday night of last week, and
his body was found the next day.
Bloomfield had cheering meeting and pole
raising ON Tuesday afternoon last. There is
not Dolly Warden to be found within the
boundaries of the township.
The question in one of our Sabbath schools
was asked, so a teacher informs US, How can
man deceive himself2" A little fellow
promptly answered, "By voting for Greeley.
L. G. WADE, Esq, is doing yeoman's service
in tho N lie al,
~ bring out ull houses and hearty accents OF
approval.
Ill. B. WOODBURY., Is also making himself
emnently useful and speaking in various parts
of the county. The Republicans of the coun-
ty are gathering themselves for election day
Our absconding friend, Bob ALLCocK, il is
understood has turned up in Columbus, where
he has opened a saloon and refreshments for
the thirsty and furnishing.
Pressed Brick company with capital of
S5O0,O00 has been formed in Conneaut-so
says the Citizen. The farm of T. L. WOOD,
east of the creek, has been purchased for the
clay bed. The company is to run two ma
chimes with capacity OF $4,000 brick day
HEAVY YIELD OF WHEAf-Messrs Austin
IL Vrooman threshed for H. Z. Cotton, of Per-
ry, says the Madison Press, PIG bushels of
Tredwell wheat, grown on four acres of
ground, making an average of 81 bushels to
the acre. We have the bona tide word of the
threshers, to this statement.
THE Eamcs ami Hall meeting at Eist vii
lage ON Saturday evening last was n lull and
enthusiastic one, and though we were not
present, e,are informed that both speakers
acquitted themselves with much credit Tue
Wide-awakes in torch-li5h procession march,
cd over in good style.
SMITH, THE PHOToGRAPHER, is doing some
superb work by process Of which he has the
right, called Mezzoiint. lie has laid upon
our desk The picture of a neighUor as IA sprci-
men, which cannot be excelcd. H. proposes
to entrap the village editor in his den, and add
his shadow To his unsurpassed collection.
Some idea of the immense business done on
the Lake Shore railroad line may be formed
from the following item clipped from the
gainesville journal:
On Tuesday last there passed over the L. S.
d Nj. S. Il. r., by actual count II total of ,O03
cars, between the hours of 2 A. Nj. and 81 z.
nj. or these 35S were lrcigh, cars going eas .
~ passenger cars going east, 5S7 freight cars
going west, and IL passenger cars going west.
WIDE-AwAKE CLUB has been formed in
Kingsvilie, with JAMES GLEASON Capt, and
ii. l.. DAVIS, Lieutenant. The number is
wholesome, and the enthusiasm upon the high
pressure gauge. A gathering of the several
Clubs OF the region on Friday evening next at
the Garfield meeting, will make show worth
s.eing. The light of such gathering of
torches will set OF the pallid faces OF Chapa-
quacks TO admiration.
The next meeting of the "Vulunteers, Free
Homestead Colony" will be held at the Grand
Army Hall, Geneva, OLio, ON Monday, Oct. 7,
1872, at two O'Clock p. m, when agents will bc
elected by the members to locate the lands.
AL persons interested should m Ike IA special
effort TO be present at that meeting. Persons
esirng TO join the Colony Can do so then, or
at any time by sending their name and $200
TO J. l. PINNEY, Secretary of the Colony, at
Geneva, Ohio.
In MEMoRIAM.-For the purpose of pcrpet-
uating the names OF the soldiers who so nobly
fell in the great shareholders rebellion, the
town Of Madison has adopted very happy
thought and design. Each soldier who enlist
ed from that township and died in the service
has a marble tablet neatly framed, and set in
the walls Of the Town Hall, with his name
and place of death cut thereon. The total
number is 81, making two rows of 1S tablets
each, extending clear across the end of the
room, with the odd oae above the rows, in the
center.
Mr.. Editer-One evening last week, an er-
rand took me up town in company with a
friend, and having reached the centre of the
Park we stumbled over an object which prov
ed to be the body of a drunken Irishman,
whose boon companions were seated in the
vicinity of the Pagoda, jesing in a free and
vulgar manner To say that we were fright
ened is too simple an expression-we were IN
digRdnt! The idea that such a city as this ,
can't support one lamp in the density and
darkness OF four truly beautiful Park, is absurd
and II there are moi men enough in town to