Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1874-09-19

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stock from this county Mr.. Calvin
Dodge, of New Lyme, sent up an import
ed two year old, short-horn bull, on Sat
urday last-an imported animal. which
was beauty. His name is Royal George,
weighs $40 pounds, is of the dark, devon
color, symmetrical in form, with fore
leg tapeFing from the swell, or calf, to the
small ankle, with all the grace of the best
formed human, a true line along the back,
and tail not larger than small sized
broom stick-all the markes and evidences
of .he full blooded animal
Mr.. s. G. Smith, who has one of the
bes: small herds of short horns in the
county-description of which have been
given in these columns, as they have been
added-carred twenty head-all but two
of the whole uumber-on Monday In
bulls, of which be has a two and three
year old, heifers and milch cows, these
specimens will be hard to heat These are
all the blooded cattle that we have heard
of as going from this county.
The Cleveland papers invIegh against
the undue use of the steam whistle, which
had become such a nuisance that the
! council passed an ordinance to regulate
and restrain the annoyance. In the face
of this ordinance, however, the Herald
says, Locomotives still whistle, tugs
shrek, propellers scream, factories pipe,
and the steam devil" oyer among the
oil refDeries bellows its dreadful morn
ing greeting, just as If no ordinance had
ever been passed"
We sometimes think the amusement of
playing with the whistle is q favorite one
with engineers, and that our tympanums
have to do world of unnecessary vibra-
ton, even here in Ashtabula. That branch
of the whistlIng business done at the har-
bor, which floats up to the village in the
subdued and subduing cadences of dis
tance, accompanied by the putting and
cooing of tugs, Is not only free from
the objections of the village whistling,
but is really musical, and falls graciously
upon the ear.
A LAMENTABLE ACCIDENT occurred on
Friday night last, by which STELLA, aged
%, daughter of Mr. Bridgeman, one of
Fisk, Silllman & Co.'s millers, lost her
life. Being somewhat indisposed, the de-
ceased was under the treatment of DR..
Bartlett, and her mother, after being IN
with her until midnight, retired at Stellas
request, supposing that she would be able
to get through the night without assist
ance. The parents both dropped to sleep
and did not wake until five in the morn
ing. On going to the sick one, she could
not be found. After considerable search,
the body was found in about four feet of
water, but few feet from the shore of the
mill pond in the rear Of the house. which
stands on the brink of the bank, at the
head of Mill Hill. She appears to have
arisen in her hight clothes, gone into the
yard, and probably made a miss-step off
| the precipitous bank in the rear, and such
being the abruptness of the descent, prob.
ably did not stop until within few feet
of the water. The ruggedness of the de-
scent is indicated by the bruises and
scratches upon the body, face and limbs.
A track was left of her bare feet on the
edge Of the water, but whether stunned
disabled, or had temporarily lost her men
tai balance, is not known. The body was
found by Hank Mennell by wading into
the turbid water and feeling the body
With his feet. The deceased had been an
invalid for years from spinal affection, but
year or so back had recovered the use of
her limbs, and has since been enabled 70
walk about comfortably. She was an
only child and the comfort of her parents
Her loss, of course, in this sudden man
ner, is an afiictoR to them, and one il
which the community deeply sympathize