Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1874-06-06
EUROPEAN oORREsPONDENCE.

EUROPEAN CORRESPONDENCE
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND, May l6, IA
II Dear Ar. Rsed-It has been in my mind
for many weeks TO write you to ask you to
+. change the address of the Telegraph, which
+ comes TO us regularly each week. and
which we should sadly miss, were it to
b fail but see no reason why it, like or
e binary tourists, should stop in Paris. Let
E ii come direct TO this little Independent:
RepublIc-where the air is SO delightfully."-
pure and sweet that one is tempted to do
, nothing but inhale it.
During the six weeks that we have been
: here, have had little taste for writing, or
any other employment. The blue waters
of the lake which lie spread out before
me, wherever look from my window
, we selected apartments with especial re-
ference to the view-are lovely to look
upon; while beyond, the landscape which
stretches away from the lake to the foot
of the mountains, is very picturesque,
with its pretty villas here and there-half
hidden by the .luxuriant foliage of trees,
shrubs and vines. If one is not too fasci-
mated by this charming picture to look
up, the reward is sure. for there, in the
distance, is Mont Blanc. Seen through
thin mist, one might mistake it for those
lovely, white clouds, sometimes seen Just
above the horizon, while on clear day,
it looks like-itself. with its everlasting
wraps" of snow but too see it in its glo-
nv, when, by no stretch of the imsgina-
ton can it be compared to any other
earthly object, one should see it with the
setting sun shining upon it. Were l
doomed to live anywhere out of my own
country-ifI might choose where to rest
I should fix my abode here in this beauti-
full valley, beside the clear waters of this
lake, under the shadow of San Pierre-the
old cathedral in which Calvin thundered
| forth his awful DEGREES, which have caus-
ed many a poor sinner to tremble.
took my pen to write my address, and
this is what has come of it.
All, well; suppose may as well go |
on and fill this page about the weather,
which had quite forgotten. The first
four weeks we were here, it was delight
full, but for the past two weeks it has been
cold and raining, the sun scarcely shining
at all-the sides of the mountains covered
with snow, while in the market are ripe
straw berries, and cherries, fresh and nice;
Straw berries, four francs a quart-rather
dear-but then one can look at them for
nothing-the bright, scarlet berries and
now covered mountains R,R.w.
THE ANNUAL MEETING of the A, Y. &
P. stockholders was held in this place on
Wednesday last, and the following gen.
tlemen were elected directors for the.pr
ent year. President McCreery declined
to serve any longer IN the Office which he
has so ably filed. No election was held
as the board had not organized. Mr.. Nc
Creery made short report, but we do not
learn that there was anything developed,
but what is already pretty well known:
DIRECTORS.
H. Hubbard, F. Harrington,
A. e. Fisk Warren Packard,
c. D. Wick, K. +. Smith,
VIM. Thaw, N. ID. Barnes,
T. D. Messler, W. z. Shinn,
W. Harbaugh, VIM. McCreary.
9The following preamble and resolutions
were passed:
WHEREAS, The stockholders at their
special meeting, held April 22d, 1878, did q
authorize an issue of second mortgage '
bonds, bearing interest at 7per cent,
gold-secured by a mortgage on the road e
and property OF the Company; and
WHEREAS, 1t is for the interest Of the t
Company that the SAID second mortgage 4
bonds be made second mortgage Income !
Bonds-the interest thereon being paya- il
BILE only when earned; therefore, tT
Res0E0ed That in lieu of the bonds au Ii
thorized by the resolution of stockholders O
of April 22d, 1873, there be created, to Il
pay for work done in the construction of
the road and docks, and to pay the exist
ing Indebtedness of the Company, an is e
sue of $500,000 second mortgage Income I
Bonds, payable in thirty years from 1874, O
bearing interest at z per cent. per annum, !,
payable when earned, out of the surplus u
after payment of the expenses b
operating and maintaining the road, all b
taxes, interest and sinking fund on the s
First Mortgage Bonds, and the expense of !
the Company's organization, L
with z per cent. interest thereon until Il
paid; and that mortgage be made to
- and - upon the road and proper r
ty of the Company, to secure the payment
Of said bonds at maturity, with the un-
paid interest thereon,
ResolUed That said bonds be registered, b
with interest payable only to the register q
ed holder, and the bonds transferable only 4
in the bonds of the Company. !
A vote of thanks was passed to Mr.. Nc. =,
Creery, for the able and efficient manner
IN which he had presided over the inter- 3,
ssts of the Company. =
OUR NEW YORK LETTER.
The Stage DriOers' Stribe-WhGt Ut IS about il