Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1874-02-21
JEFFERSON ITEMS.


A change has ACQUIRED in the Board OF
directors OF The Second National Bank.
Mr.. Talcult retires and Mr.. c. E. Warner
is appointed in his place
A contract has been made, we learn
by the first congregational church Of
Wayne, for a Church building, on the site
ofthe one recently destroyed by fire, tor
5000 above the foundation.
William Henry Jones, cOlored boy,
son of Jourdon Jones of this town, who
left home early in the war, along with the
10Th Ohio, and was supposed lost, is
now a member of the Legislature of Mis-
sissippi
Hon. NJ. c. Garfield, our Common
Pleas Judge is still at the Thompson
House, confined TO his room, but able TO
see his friends He thinks be is imprOV-
ing and expects to return home on Fri
day.
The Directors of the County Agricul-
tural Society met on last Friday at the
Secretary's Office. They fixed on the 9th,
10, and IIlh. of September as the time Of
holding the next Fair.
The following managers were chosen.
Manager OF Grounds.-E. o. Peck,
Richmond.
Hail.. R. Grif1s and S. A. North
way
Horses.-E G. Hurlburt.
Cattle.-Henry Bowman.
Sheep, swine and poultry.--J. ].
Dodge.
Vegetables and Farm implements
Ezra Rawson and T. E. Yates.
AccIDENT.-Mr Babcock of Wayne,
informs US that on Saturday morning
last, Mr.. Philemon Mathews was found
lying on his barn floor, in an insensible
state, where he had probably lain all
night. Medical aid was called, when il
was concluded. that his skull was frac
tured, and that there was little hope OF
his recovery. On Sunday, however he
rallied sufficiently to Say that he fell from
the scaffold TO the floor Whether he will
recover Is not yet known.
The Ashtabula Nstos is provoked by the
paragraph in our Orwell correspondence,
as to which paper gives the most reading
matter. and asserts that the Nelos contains
"A feet of columns of reading. That may
be. as it is made up. We notice that the
inside of the Nelcs is what is called pat
ent inside, made up and printed some
where else. Usually, these patent insides
are made up of some advertisements and
some reading matter. on which the prin-
ter of the inside gets his profits; but by a
special arrangement, they will leave out
the advertisements at times, and give all
reading matter. The last Netcs inside is
so made up; and thus the A feet are
given. But take the outside OF the NeDs,
the part that is bona fde the AShtdbulG
Meas, and how much reading matter is
there? About II feet. But if we take
look at the inside of his paper, or its ap-
plication to Ashtabula interests, OF Ohio
business or poliucs, the selection of the
matter and the suIting of it to his readers
and their purposes, Mr.. Sperry has no
more to do with 1t than he has with
the New York Tribune. As TO the read
ing thus furnished, he might as we'll give
his subscribers so much each week, of the
American Tract SocietY's publications or
any other cheap reading, and make his
own paper half the size.
If the object is merely to make up re-
port of the local news, a very small space
suffices, for there is usually very little
worth reporting and that being all, the
rest can be filled up with anything, and
may as well be printed on one side of the
sheet in Chicago as not. But if 1t is any
object to make weekly paper which
shall be unit in character and purpose,
for the entertainment of the family into
which it is taken, it is necessary that 1t
shall be whelly edited and printed under
the direction of one mind. AS an instance
OF the little value of the "filling up" that is
furnished in these patent in or Outsides,
we might cite the fact that the Ne1oS of
February, 11th, brings up the Congression-
al Summary to the Sd only. The Enter
prise in the same manner gave the Presi-
dents message when it was more than
month old. You can fill sheet in this
way, but you cannot edit it. Those who
like such paper may prefer these patent
sides; and the man who is content to edit
such reservoir, we shall not grumble at.
For our part, we should as soon edit Bill
Posters Board, as one of them; and we
presume that our readers have the discrlm-
ination 10 understand the difference be-
tween paper made up as ours is, and
patent inside.