Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1873-12-13
WITHIN THE STATE.
BEING Neaos Notes contributed By our
Special Correspondents and gathered from
oar Exchanges.

BEING NelgS Notes contributed ty our
Special Correspondents and gathered from
our Exchanges.
LAKE CoUNTY-Our correspondent sc.
So writes as follows from Perry, under
date of the 1st inst. The letter was intend
ed for publication last week, but, in COM
mon with other matter was crowded out
to make room for the Presidents Message:
The project of singing school is being
pushed ahead and it is said that MIR. Mer-
rill of Painesville is to give instruction.
The district school has recommended at
the centre.
An oyster supper was given at Mr.. j ohm
Thompson's last Tuesday evening. the
proceeds to be given to the NJ f. Church.
Rev. Mr.. Webster held Thanksgiving
services at the NJ. E. Church.
We are under Obligations to Mr.. w. A.
Blair who left huge Bramah at our Office
| on Thanksgiving day. zei
From the Madison Gazette: l.
The Winter term of Madison Seminary
openea on Tuesday the 25th nit. About
sixty students are enrolled. :.
Mr.. John Blair fell, a few days ago, and
| broke one of his ribs. He will be unable
| to work for some time. = -
Rev. J. FL. Laird, pastor Of the Congre-
| gational church in this place, has accepted
| the position of principal of the preparatory
| department of Oberlin College. and will
! enter upon the discharge of the duties of
| that Office some time during the month of
! February.
| We are again reminded that death is
rapidly thinning the ranks Of those who
Ewere thespioneers of our towns by the de-
| crease of Mrs. Orinda X. Sweet, a former
| resident and one of the earliest inhabi-
tants of our town, who died in Van Vert,
o., Nov. %, 1868, nearly Il years of age.
Mrs. Sweet was well known by the early
inhabitants of the town, and but few are
now living who Outrank her in the date of
their first settlement here. Her parents
and their family moved from Ringe, n. III .,
and settled in Madison ,~in 1872, upwards
| dence here until 1854, when with her fami-
| ly she removed to Van Vert, when she
| again renewed many of the experiences OF
pioneer life.
AsHTABuLA OoUNTY.-Frcm the Gene
va Times
The PLACE made vacant in the Disciple
Society of Geneva, by the resignation OF
| Ed. f. ii. Moore, has been filled by ED.
W ALA ce, recently of Mentor =
There3are butthree issues more Of our
paper, after this current issue, for the
| year 1873. In the meantime you will be
ing year, and you will be solicited on all
| sides to take papers and publications
printed in New York. Boston, Fhiladel-
phia, Cleveland, Cincinnati, etc. and that
| TOO by your neighborS, who seek to turn
all honest penny by way of commissions,
and they will urge their papers upon you,
because they are large and cheap. While
listening to their solicitors, ana making
your selections, we ask you to consider
4 first of all your own home. paper--theg pa
per that is and always mas been the warm
| and active friend of your county ami local
interests. Bear in mind that paper pub
| lished in New York or Cleveland has
| no sympathy or interest in your affairs,
and during a whele year Will hardly men,
| tion your town or in any way regOniZe the
| fact that you live. move or have "a heing,
/ either as individuals or community.
Ifyou seek miscellany, foreign news, the
tedious details of oflegislative proceedings,
and specuiations, long drawn out, on alb
stract questions and theories, you will
find all in these foreign papers,. But they
| certainly come last and not first on your
list. This is emphatically reading com
munity and we are proud of the fact. We
trust you may be able to go over wide
| field in your selections, but we are conf
dent, taking the year through, that you
will find no paper to take the place of your
own local journal.
| GEAUGA CoUTY..0ur correspondent
fLeX" writes us from HuntshurG as fol-
| lows:
The appalling gloom that mantles all ma
| ture, conterminous upon the sad and
dreary aspect that it imparts, inspires us
| with a melancholy that constantly en-
hances by the reflection that it Is certain
| to continue until the drearv distorted ap-
| pearance now worn by creation shall be
disrobed OF its horror by the approxima
tiOn OF yernal fueuces.snCan these ayo
ttaries of science recently assemb led in q
| distant city of Europe, in the wild specu-
lati0ns of their peculiar philosophy, fur
nishs US with o. cause OF the marvellous
jschange Wrought by time In the Seasons
| without attributing il to defective Laws
that govern the Iuminary of the firma.
ment, the inYocations. of ,remedled justice
by earthly sufferers, would implOre the
| legislature of the sun to withhold, having
executive sessions and bestow warmth
upon a cold. cheerless, frozen earth
Grateful recipients like the Peruvian In
dians, might hestew and pay alteration in
iveneration, for fayors, rather. than the
blind follies OF antiquity. But, notwith-
standing the unfayorable weather, the en-
ergy that prompted the building of the P.
& Y.R, r., has not, and does not abate,
but is living il tl ever renewing effort
that looks to its completion. Those eter-
nal contemnners of public enterprise that
shielded themselves behind theslnock hu-
manity that buraened them. actuated
by pecuniary impulse that robs men OF
humanity under the repulsive garb of av-
erice, have so far elongated themselves by
timely compulsion, as to acknowledge that
railroads are a benefit to community. The
apparent reluctance of the admission
gives it the COLOR of extortiop. Freight
trains come down to East GIaridon to re-
ceive the products of hitherto, obs curere-
! gions, now on the advancement to en-.
Gghtened civilization, wrought by the ac.
commodation of railroads. While we sad.
nit the advantages they confer, we feel
tdoubly grateful for the generosity eyfnced
. by liberal contributions that built the
road, and simultaneously we object to
paying our subscription, because the
company did net fulfill their part of the
contract in completing the road by the
first of September. We are always any.
, iOus to enjoy privileges conferred upon us
. by the money of others; 81 are clamorous
! in our concentrations of munificence that
does not cost us anything. But conven
: ienoe, honesty and accommodation should
out fndulging the Thought of resorting tc
!, litigation TO, resist the payment of the
, amount subscribed. But such is the in
, fluence of ayarice and long cultivated i'm
! probity. that favorable opportunities how
: ever base and unjust, should be taken ad
vantage of. An appeal to modern honor
f is as barren of an effect as would be an at
! tempt to exact sympathy from n granite
, rock forced honesty revealed clandestine
; ly, is eifectuai for the purpose of, eStah
fishing precedent In the career of sordid
RI men whose motiYee are profit and gain
, irrespective Of the means employed to Oh
tain it. When shall we inyoka the penal
+ ty of retributive Justice as castigatior
! transactions of meu that appropriate pc
riod of time, wantonly deferred until the
| generations Of men are extinct.
MAHoN!NG CoUNTY.-From the foungs
town Register: ~ aAFA&
The Eastern Ohio Poultry Association
exhibition iu this city, promises to be al
extensive affair.". Many special premiums
have been offered, and the competition
: will be large, The exhibition commences
, on the 18th inst.
The amount Of pig iron, tile product O
the eight blast furnaces in Tfsinibuil Co.
l for 1S72is givensin n statistical table pub
lished in the Pittsburgh American Manu-
: faeturer ns iallows:
No. No.
Furnaces. Tons.
Hubbard, Andrews X Hitchcock 9 l5,ss9
! Girard, Girard Iron Co ............. 1874
, Mineral Ridge, J. w arner. s,s161
Niles, j. Ward Il &Co................ ! S,3QSi
Niles. W. Ward y ca. ..9,s... a,S{4t
2 Warren, VIM. Richards 4 SON.. 1 9,i70a
Totalproduct in 1872 .. g.. = 5 81 1874