Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1874-03-07

SEfkAL parties nave aIreauy Deeii iHdue
up to visit some uususpecting and unpro-
tected ..sugar.caInp- SO soon as the wealth
er will permit.
THE Literary Club have decided to give
the one of last year, at Child's Hall, on
the evening of April 81.
AT the regular quarterly meeting Of
County Commissioners ON Monday. moth
ing OF any Importance was transacted
the only business being the auditing of a
few claims.
FARMERS say that these are good days
for sap, but bumners say that these are
bad days for sap-which shows how differ
emily the same things appear from differ
ent stand points.
WE have lately received several CON-
munications which we shall publish at
our earliest convenience. Correspondents
must wait as patiently as possible until
their favors can be reached.
THE American Express Co. advertise a
sale of unclaimed packages, to take place
on the 18th inst. In the list we notice sew
eral addressed to parties here, but which
have been returned as unclaimed.
THE Carman Family OF Norwalk have
been engaged by the Y. NJ. q. A. to give
concert in this city some time this month.
They are said to have given great satisfac-
tion wherever they have appeared.
EXCELLENT as has been the course of
lectures given this season, under the
management of the ladies of the Metho-
dist Church, it is already announced that
a much better series will be presented
the coming winter.
WE had sspluck'' illustrated Thursday
on Main Street by driver trying to man.
age pair of fiery steeds which were de-
termined to get away from him. Either
by his powerful lungs or muscles they
were, however, brought under control.
In Russell, on Thursday, Feb. 26th, Mr..
H. M. Isham met with a severe accident,
breaking his leg between the knee and an
kle while saving wood with a machine.
Under the care of DIR. Stannard Mr.. Ish-
am is doing as well as can be expected.
REPRESENTATIVE Tryon presented a Pc
tition last week from the citizens of this
county praying for the protection of suit
ors-at-law against the influence OF secret
oath bound societies. The Hon. 81. Il. was
in town Saturday attending the meeting
OF the Board of Agriculture.
MR.. BATEHAM has some valuable infor-
nation, in regard to last years potato
growing in this section, in :" Field and
Garden" for this week. Our readers will
find this department uniformly valuable
and interesting, and the number in this
issue fully up to the usual standard of ex-
cellence.
A NEW sewing machine agent has late
ly made his appearance, and Frank re-
joiceth in an heir to the house of Barker.
Those who wondered, on Monday last, at
the frantic appearance of the manager OF
the "Howe' can now understand how
such things effect people when they hap
pen for the first time.
On MoRday last someone sent postal
cards to all the saloon-keepers in town
warning them that unless they should
close their places they would be visited by
a "Band of Prayer on the following day.
The hoax was a senseless one and was
evidently perpetrated to bring the coming
move into disrepute.
PEPPER PODs.-At the lecture on We'd
nesday night we noticed several young
ladies remove their eyeglasses, in order
to be able to see the experiments. :. The
young man who was put out of the hall for
insulting Prof. Pepper, says if any person
thinks he was drunk they labored under
an " optical delusion.'
AS was announced in the JOURNAL OF
last week, the clergymen of this place
are to deliver temperance SER
mems in all the churches on Sunday. In
addition to these morning discourses, and
as it were, supplementing them, a union
meeting is to be held at the CongregatIon-
al Church in the evening.
IN consequence of publishing the con-
Guiding chapters of our serial "Alwyn's
First Wife," we have been unable to give
as much space as usual to the digest OF
general news as contained in d" Record o
the Week. Fortunately, however, there
has been a comparative dearth of impor.
portant news since our last issue.
AT the Council meeting on Monday eve.
ming, claims aggregating $393.64 were Or
dered paid, as follows: Gas Co., $I56; d
| c. Wilson, $6S.90; A. W. Young, slips; S
A. Tisdel, 80 cents; Northern Ohio Jour.
nal, $4.75; A. W. Stocking, $9.75; Dickin.
son & Allen, SIT. %; T. C. Radcliffe. $50
Jas. Creden, $3.50; o. Rogers, $50.
| SNOW and ice have alternated with day:
| of comparative warmth. the past week
| and the first Irregularities of spring arr
upon us. The only trouble is, they have
somehow been with us all winter and ART
becoming just little monotonous-jusi
enough so in fact to make one anxioLsly
watch for the coming OF settled weather
and the delights of early summer.
A MOTION was made and carried by ac
clamation at the meeting of the Agricul
tural Board last Saturday, that no premi
um would be offered for wine. The com
mittees were all appointed and arrange
ments made to repair the Fair grount
fences and put the premises in order. 1
is contemplated to change the time of tn
next Lake County Fair so as not to inter
fere with the Northern Ohio Fair.
| EXCHANGES are publishing yarIou
methods of driving away "borers," VIII
come to prey on papers that belong to tn
Editor. The best plan we have found wa
to hand out s'patent outside" to the gen
tie visitant. The first one is general
read,-the second one glanced at only t
discover discouraging similarity to th
one just perused-the third one merel
read as to the head-and the fourth hasti
ly put aside without even murmur. i
never takes more than four ap plication
to cure the worst cases.
PROF. Pepper was greeted with larg
audiences on both evenings that he al
peared in this place. His lectures wer
rather interesting from the experiment
introduced than valuable for the numbe
of dry scientific facts placed before hi
hearers. We have not room to recount al
the wonderful delusions in optics or th
stranger results in light that he produce
and the lecture itself was but little NOR
than thread upon which to string hi
pearls of experiments. These lecture
may safely be considered as the best. pei
haps because differing SO greatly, of tn