Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1872-01-13
s,ypnoox. Jan. 9Th. 1871

Editor Tslsgrqph
very pleasant affair passed Of last New
Years evening nj the residence of Mr ELISHA
BEcKwgEsI w the shape Of Crystal Wedding.
A large company, some eighty, were present
TO cOngratu ate Mr., aud Mrs. Bcckwilh upon
having passed fifteen years Of happy welded
life Enough glass ware was presented to
stock n small store. Rev. ELISHA BABcUCK
performed again the marriage ceremony that
he performcd ffecp yeGgs before, IN very
happy manner, aud cxpresaed a desire To- per.
form II again in another fifteen years, and
guaranteed that the guests also would be glad
to bo present aud drink again to their health
in the five or six dozen goblcts presented to
them.
The Congregational and Methodist churches
are holding union services this week, it being
the week of prayer, aud meet at each church
in altcrnatiQp.
In the communication from Justice" to
your paper, he mentions several times u 10.
caii,y he calls 'Ku KluX Corners" suppose
he means the Depot Corners, as that is the
only place in town where any violence or out.
RACES have beeu attempted. A prominent cti-
zen was rcturaing to his home from the Depot
in the evening, short time since, and when
near the bridge just east of the station, two
men on horse back passed him moying rapidly
Upon reaching the bridge he saw or thought
he saw the two horses hitchcd 10 the fence
just before him also, he saw or thought be
SAW man approaching him and turning he
SAW another behind him, both apparently in.
tent upon violence Being unarmcd lie Aed
into the Il Ids and crawed upon his hands and
knees through the rushcs and tall grass and
escaped to the house pf u relative near by,
where he remained until morning, and r, solved
never TO venture out again in that locality
without his revolver, The morning revealed
two innocent stumps where the horses were
| supposed to he hilched, and the men wore
probably town house ghosts out looking for q
location, and wanted to "coHsuts" him abou.it.
Perhaps Justice can remember" who that
citizen is. | have just heard that Moses' oxen
haye been engaged to remove those stumps.
In the last commqnicatiqp of Justice" he
spread himself muchly doubtless exhausted
himself qs he bids me an aifcclionate farewell
for the present; ! qm rather sorry that you,
eGitorally, gall hiS attention TO propriety o!
language, rs you in effect shut him out o
your columns by SO doing, because he does
not seem capable of using many words with
out "slopping over" and saying things that
decent people turn FROM in disgust.
Whatever have said heretofore, haYe sns
deayorcd 10 state nothing but fact, aud in the
! future shall do the same, hoping that Justice"
will keep US near the mark as possible for one
| with 80 short memory. To attempt to reply
10 all that he has written would require II vol.
ume as he is wonderful wordy, and 10 correct
his many nlistatemenls would be To deny the
most of them in TOO
Ii Justice is anxious 10 know of any
of the opposition living east of the cenir
who were notified otlhe meeting on the 10Th i
June, I can ina second, refer to several and to
some who were at the meeting. But really
the opposition were few in numbers then-arc
not in Il majority now, aud their numb !
are decreasing daily as the facts bccomc known,
aud were it not Tor Il few malcunlents who
have axes to grind we should hear less Of
We'll show you in the spring" or We'll sell
that one and build one ut Smith Walkers Cor
ners, or at the Depot, or anywhere, good Lord
bu, at them Cqrncrs. South Ridge" AYERS
that the present location will accommodate
more people, more times than any other loca,
tion cgn.
1t is true that there was lease made to the
township of school house No. 4, in lS+Q, in
consideration Of forty dollars paid by thp
township, but that lease has long since gone
where ile woe4hipe IwiHeth," aud neither
party have been bound 10y il, for many years
and the township have occupied it 9nly by
the sufferance Of the Board of Education
The lease stipulated that the town should bt
10 no expense Tor repairs, and in case it shQplt
be destroyed, the township should have th'
same right in u new one, should one be built
as in that one, for ten gears from the date o
the lease, Now, the township has b1en to eX
pense for repairs aud Justice" may hunt
week for the house mentioned in the lease ans
he will fad nothing saye perhaps the frame
and that moved 10 another site. l suppose
he thinks it is the sang old jack knife still, al
belt the blade and handle have been each re
newed several times Yours, etc,
SouTu RIDGE.
AUsTINRuRG Ian Ard 1872