Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1873-06-28

DuI Nlllhkt uct w hh OcchbiDuhi anu tpecihl
correspondent to your paper thought |
would Ike to try 1t myself With my offer TO
do ~ you seemed well pleased
do not expect TO be able 10 write much, !
and probably what do write will not be very
interesting. No doubt my pen will a, times
seem dell but hope 10 be- able 10 apologize
for II as the knight did for his slow pacing
b horse-"It Ia a right good creature, and travels
over the ground most faithfully" In what /
M ay offer from time TO time, ] " i'll nothing ex-
tenuale, nor aught set down 10 malice.
In entering upon this work am aciuated,
first, by the interest ! feel In your paper. Sec
ond, by a d, sire to do something for the bene-
fit o ( our town and lis surroundings II Is
only since The opening Of our railroad that
have paid any attention 10 your paper. On
m aking its acquaintance am much pleased
with it'll like It's tone and the manner IN
" bich II is conducted and think 1t will not
fail TO do good wherever II is read. II stands
second TO no other journal in the county
am glad that your subscription list Is rapidly
enlnrging.
think that villages and towns. like indvid.
casi onal hints and suggestions. II made in
proper spirit, may be productive Of good.
| There are various elements in every neirhbor-
hood which are always nj work for good OF for
evil. Now, u strikes me. p local correspond.
ent should have nm eye 10 these he shonld
watch their workings, rs manifested in their
fruits around him. In giving items of news,
| l. 81, loy IN thair
Facts are valuable only as they stimulate
thought. and rs they are made useful in the
vigorous exercise Of the mind in seeking out
their cause, tracing their steps Of progress and
in hooking forward with prophetic eye 10 the
results.
NV first item Of ncws is ihnt some evil dis
posed person put an end TO Mr. Wilcox's dog,
by poisoning. "Burncv." for such think wac
the dogs namo. was very large fellow, gen.
orally. l believe, quite peacpable and was a
great favoriie with the fomily. Mr.. Wilcox
has owned him nhont nine years he was &C.
cus,omed 10 90 his daily rounds in the vii
Ia rc-pnr'iculnrly,i the vicinity Of the m"a'-
market, and always moved with very drlib-
crate and independent hearing. Well, there
are those who dislike to see even a peaceful
and good na'ured dog enjoy himself
During the last week. a billard-room has
h. cen opened in our vilare-I think it is The
first one we have ever had Il is very donb''
f,l in nv mind ne 10 It's ever being any benefit
to the place--I never could soe any special
good connected With. l.. think it encourages
idlcness and loaferism. If it does, am sure
we have no need of it here-oul village Is
plenti(uIlv supplied with loafprs. Perhaps
thov ere no, 80 numerous as they are in some
places, hut they are verv eminFnt! However
time. the great arhiter OF all things, will tell III
, to the practical effects of this TO us, new insti
tuition.
, AT the Conrre Caionnl' meeting house, las
: Sunday forenoon, Mr. CHATTER preached me
, the hest of sermons His text was "God is
Spirit. and they that worship him must wor
shin him in spirit and IN truth" He handled
the subject in mastery manner; his annal
ysis of the nature of man, and his classification
of his distinctive powers, was philosophical
and Grand He showed that the exercise ant
qualification OF the animal powers, the cult
walton of the intellect, and even the improve
ment of our moral faculties, if divorced irop
the proper exercise of ouI spiritua! nature
lett us very imperfect beings, and without tn
true and proper element of religion hop
the people will sustain him, that his healt
will improve and make his brain vigorous
and that this community will long he blesse
with his labors.
Mr.. Fl. r Latimer's store, now in process
erection, is progressing slowly hut surei!
The masons are now laying up the outsid
brick. The town is indebted some to Mr.. La
s inner for his bold enterprise in erecting ne
10 buildings.
/ One of my neighbors has been experimen
T. ing with the Colorado potato bug. He mike
~ some Paris Green with water, in the propos
III tions recommended by scientific men. n
u being quite satisfedwith the results in appl
ing it to the vines, he caught some OF the ou
lu and put them into the solution. AFTER keepir
~ them there six or eight hours-iong enoug
n certainly, to test their powers of endurance
il he found them unhurt and apparently vel
90 happy. The theory is that Paris Green W
st kin these pests. Here is fact which contr
tl diets the theory. 1t may be that some oil o
lh modern scientist will initiate one OF their
dS lustrious predecessors, who, when 1t was 2
he served to him that facts were at variance WI
nd a hypothcses which he had announced. he
cd plicd Indignantly, so much the worse Tor |
,d facts" -
IN, A stock of very handsome paper decoi