Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1874-01-03

From Perry, our correspondent &C. s."
writes as follows. under date Of dec. 10th:
MANY thanks for the beautiful Christ
mas number.
Christmas bells their notes are peeling,
sound and clear the echoes rang,
softly on the bfeeZeS stealing,
Comes the song the Angels Sing:
Hark! It sounds through rolling ages.
shepherds sang the wondrous story.
Written was the same by sages,
Christ is born the King of Glory.
THE .Bap ptist people bad an arch in their |
Church instead of u tree on which to place |
Christmas gifts. Dr.J. E. Jewett person.
ated Santa Claus and we looked III upon
as happy a group as one needs to see.
THE Methodists had two trees between
which was "Fairy Ship laden with
"Christmas Stockings in the distribution
of which the children and a few sages
shared.
p THE exercises of the concert were we'll
rendered although some parts were omit
ed on account of the absence OF some of
the members of the school, one OF whom
(Jay st. john is lying very near deaths
door.
THERE win be no singing schools during
the month of January, but a series Of
meetings will be held at the NJ. e. Church
commencing on New Years eve.
THE third lecture of the course being
given under the management of the ladies
of the Methodist Church will be given on
the 9th inst, by DIR. j. H. Vincent.
MATT Persons minstrels. advertised to
appear here last week, were hardly sue
cess. They .stood Off their printer for
their bills and on the evening of their first
entertainment, "beat" the few who had
ventured in, by ''sIiding Out'' and giving
the audience. hotels and hall keepers 'the
shake'-all of which was very wrong, es-
pecially in those $50 young"
TWAS the night before Christmas when
a young man from near Willoughby came
to the Stockwell House, in company with
a young lady. The next morning, this
young man from near Willoughby. in COM
pany with the young lady, visited Squire
Huntington and there pledged himself to
be good husband and to do the best he
could for the companion OF his future life.
But man Is frail and prone to error. In
the afternoon this young man from near
Willoughby forgot himself and got drunk
i'm the evening went TO the dance at
Childs' Hall-and on the following morn
ing, after putting his wife's and his own
baggage into his overcoat pocket, walked
away without paying his hotel bill and,
worse than that, without going back to see,
Esquire Huntington, as he had promised to
do. to pay balance OF thirty-five cents,
due that worthy officer for services rem
dered.
ONE of our most reliable contemporaries
recently published the statement that the
supply of gas in the well put down for d.
T. Easement is rapidly failing. With the
exception that no such mishap ever oc-
CURED, the item approximates correctness.
On Thursday evening the Wass brothers
told us that new vein had been struck at
a depth OF 572 feet, which was one of the
most abundant ever found in the vicinity,
and that the supply was far in advance of
any demand that could be made for any
one dwelling at least.
GEAUGA CoUNTY.-Our correspondent
| 'Lex" writes from Huntsburg under date
| OF the 9th:
| withstanding bare ground and rough tray-
elling.
Our citizens opened Christmas in be-
| coming manner by Christmas tree.
| An old pioneer Of our township, Joseph
| Clark has dropped away at the ripe age OF
eighty years, resident of our township
| for over fifty years. AS we look to the
| improvements of the present and the al
toll, the hardships, the labor, the self de-
| nial of the pioneers of our land, we should
| revere and honor them with a sanctitude
little less than veneration.
| The moderate weather of late has dis
PEELED the fears of our farmers who truly
lentertained the apprehension that Sc
we're winter would deprive them of their
| stock for want of keeping. Some however,
took the precaution to guard against inn
pending alarm by taking their stock to
central Ohio to winter. The month of Oc-
tober furnished an admonition that was
needed. The effect of the late and now
prevailing panic is apparent in the cavil-
ing of farmers whose only reliance for
money depends upon the sale of cheese
which is retarded somewhat by the scare
ity of money. The commission merchants
are competed to wait from thirty to sixty
days to make returns on their consign-
ments. But omens of better days will
soon dawn and then the thoughtless
world will consign the past to oblivion
and move around with the accustomed ce-
lerity, scarcely recognizing the misfor-
| finn of q it,t OFT MI
ures OF the present; taking no text from
the chapters on panics to discourse upon.
How obliyious we become when cured of
disasters; how readily we annul forebod-
ings OF evil when surrounded with safety.
THE Madison Gazette says that Mr.. w.
! H. Wheeler, of Unionville, owns q COW
| which, from the middle of last February,
up till the 10th of December, produced $50
tpounds of butter:
Our correspondent "Acta" writes from
Thompson under dateof the 10Th ult.:
1t has been some time since l have
troubled you with jottiugs from this OBJ
scure corner of old Geauga; nothing hav-
ing occurred for many months that seemed
to me to be of general interest. and indeed
there are no incidents transpiring here
worth chronicling, and no topic of discus
j sion sufficiently interesting TO inspire even
a mild article, if I except the mighty
movement sweeping o'er the land, known
| as the "Grange Movement or the organ
, iZation of the s'PatronS of Husbandry.--
Union Grange No, 81, p. of H., was or
ganized in this place on May 30th, and is.
L believe, the oldest Grange in Northern
Ohio. 1t has slowly but steadily increas-
ed its membership until now it numbers
among its members majority of the lead
ing agricu1turalists and horticuIturalists
of the township. The founders of this
Grange have endeavored' to procure a
good membership rather than large one
and hence its councils have been eharac
terized by singular unanimity of opinion