Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1875-02-19

rine as well as mercantile, for the fol-
lowing statistics of the commercial ac-
tivities of that point for the season OF
1874 The statements are mostly drawn
from official sources:
Iron Ore receipis-tons. .. $4,000
Salt receipls-bbls. .. $4,000
-pine-receipis III. IT,. 1,5OO,OO
Lime Stone rtceips-cords. -. 1000
Hydarulic Crm.nt-bbIs 7l9
Calcined and Other plaster, ,hbls. 6O
Coal sbinped-ions'. 10000
Slaves 21S,O0t
Domestic lumber shipped-m- 357 900
The vessels that entered the Harbor
during The season. excluding steamers
that came in for cOaling, and vessels that
ran in for a lee. number-as taken from
the books of the custom hOuse-2S0-tOn-s
mage, rs, ,O8O Cleared, 275, tonnage a.
s87
In this connection. we repuhlish the L.
S. shipments OF freight for same time
81 900 tons. and The rect ipts, 95, ,366 tons
For the purpose of showing more clear
ly the entire business of this place, We
would like TO add the freight traffic ofthe
A., Y. & P. Co.. but upon application we
found that their mode of keeping the ac-
counts did not enable them TO give the
weight of freight shipped and received.
The statistics given, however, enable
us TO catch some glimpses ofthe amount
OF business actually done. and the
ground of expectations for the future.
Complaint is made by the editor of the
Times, of the careless manner of putting
the mails on and of at that place The
statement is made, that in six years,
there have been some twenty mail bags
dropped upon the track and torn to
pieces, and the contents badly injured or
destroyed. But few days ago, the bag
containing the western distribution of the
Times suffered in this way. The cause of
this treatment OF the mails seems to arise
fjOm the fact that the express trains. that
carry the mails, do not stop there, and
the pouches being TOO heavy to be thrown
with safety into the moving cars, fall un-
der them. The Company should provide
against such evils, as they are too serious
TO be borne
To Book BINDERs.-We have hereto
fore alluded 10 this subject, and think it
of importance enough to call attention to
it again-that this is one of the best
points along the south shore for the loca-
ton of competent book binder. We
have no such institution in the county,
and the nearest poiut at which one Can
be reached, is PainesVille, on the west,
and Erie on the east. Inquiry is fre
quent for information about the execu-
ton of this kind of work. The demand
for blank work is increasing, and when
left at this office for printing, is sent to
Cleveland. Will not some young, COM
petent and enterprising binder, whose
eye may fall upon this, give it favorable
consideratIcn-such at least as to inquire
into the demand for such an enterprise
among us, and the probabilities held
out for making such concern a success.
A few moments in the Sentinel Office,
the other day, showed it TO be busy
place, and raised the question, how
much enjoyment of life IS there for the
man who has the double duty to perform
of running post Office and printing Of
fee at the same timef 1t seems to come
about as near as anything we can think
of, TO a tosd's life under a harrow. And
yet our friend JOSEPH attends to both
of these, and throws in a notion store
business. In this latter, he has large
stock, and does a lively business, and
makes money. How this latter end is
reached, with the range of nominal prices
al which he sells, is not easy to be seen.
He is remarkable man, and although we
can beat him out of sight in editing pa
per, We are compelled to acknowledge
that his versatility and tact in half doz-
en- other departments of usefulness, puts
him out of the range of rivalry.
THE SCARLET FEVER continues its
work in town. John Ducro informs US
that his children are all down with II,
and W. q. Williamson has had two chill
dren also down with it, while Dick Rad
ford also has one or two recovering
having lost one, and little son of A. A.
Amsden, is just getting up from run of
it. These are all we have in mind at
present, but 1t by no means tells the
whole story.
On Wednesday morning, appearances
seemed 10 warrant apprehension that
the little son of George Stevens was about
TO be added to the victims OF scarlet fe-
yer.
Miss Carry King, daughter of DR..
King, who has been taken down with
succession of attacks of hemorrhage, is
thought to have passed the crisis and on
the way OF Improvement.
We also learn that Mrs. Sullivan WHO
fell and fractured leg, as mentioned last
week, is having a pretty severe time of it,
as the ragged character OF the fracture has
irrltated the parts to such an extent MS
to cause slOughing of and require the
use of the instruments.
G. R. Institute will close its Winter ses-
sion on Thursday, the twenty fifth of this
month. Orations, Declarations and Es-
says interspersed with music, in the day
time, and exhibition in the evening by
the seniors and delegations from the Lit
erary societies.
APPOINTMENT OF Mr.. LEE.-News
reac he'd US on Saturday from Columbus
announcing the appointment by the Gov