Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1875-11-26

ample grounds, Iastefully laid out Belle
fontaine and Urbana have gained noto-
rieiy not only for mob violence-by the
hy, the UrbanItes left their tree standing
in front of the court house-on which
they hung culprt-but a notoriety
also for type of female beauty unsur-
passed by any town IN the State. If You
doubt this, Mr.. Editor-as you have an
"eye for beauty"-just take a ramble
through the streets of these towns on
fine afternoon, and you will coincide
with this statement of the facts in the
case, and you will go back thinking Ash
Iabula is not the centre of attraction, nor
gravItation, in this particular. Maybe
some of the nice young men and old
bachelors of Ashtabula will be induced,
by this allusion, to make days pilgrim
Gge to this favored land, which event
might result greatly TO the disadvantage
of the anxious and marketable wearers
nf pin -'em-ba in benighted Ashta-
bula-especially those who have been
accustomed to singing. "This is the way
1 long have sought"
Leaving Urbana by the Panhandle R.
R., via. West Liberty and Milford, 1
passed through one Of the best sections
of wheat lands in the Stafe-though it
will produce immense corn and oat
crops. The black soil is nearly three #.
deep, and underlying it is the best Of
gravel, suitable for roads-and if there is
any one thing for which the people Of
this section are cheerfully taxing them
selves it is for good roads-pIkes-and
none in the State are fner-smooIh as
floor
Ten miles north of Milford, on the c..
C., c. 6 L railway, is MarYsville, coun-
seat of Union Co., town of 800 10 70
1000. 1t is a centre of a good trade, has
many fine business blocks, but wOful-
Iy poor court house Seventeen miles
north of MarYsville is Delaware, county
seat of Delaware Co., located on the Olen-
tangy River, mainly on the west bank,
On a gently rolling site, almost amphi-
theatre shaped. the business portion N
the centre, and the Liberty Institute and
public buildings, and residences on the
slopes and crests. There is a populati on
of nearly 5000 1t is an old town. and
was not remarkable for growth until OF
late it has made rapid strides toward city
SEPARATIONS and proportions. In 1852 1
Fzr,N1 1r1rs
intervening years there has been great
changes, marked improvements and rap
ID growth. Whilst strolling about the
town to-day. 1 was surprised at the num-
Der of buildings in process of erection or
completed this season, and so many OF
them large, elegant and costly residences
and this town can boast of many such.
There are more, real. substantial i'm
prove ments being made in this city than
IN any other town have visited the past
year.
Few towns in the State have better
| educational facilities, or better institu-
iions of learning. At the south part of
the town, on a fine elevation, stands
the Ohio Wesleyan University buildings,
four IN number, in the centre of an ex
tensiVe Campus" There are profes-
sors and $50 to 400 students To the
south west are located the fine residences
OF the professors. To the west on the
hill, is located the Ohio Wesleyan Fe-
male College, very large and fa3
three-story brick structure, surrounded
with beautiful grounds, at the head of
one of the prettiesi streets in the city.
There are $50 Enthusiastically $50
perhaps the panic affects school attend
anee a. we'll as business matters.
Just TO the right of the entrance Of the
college grounds, stands the elegant, taste
ful, ivy-covered, castle-like residence of
Mr. Campbell. che originator of that su-
| perb, delicious gEape-the Delaware
whose praise should be on the lips Of ev-
cry lover of this delicious fruit-and no
doubt thousands offer fervent thanks
givings TO him daily for so rich gift.
The whole eastern slope Of his grounds
are given to the culture OF his faVorite
vines and fruits; and many are the hot
houses also filled with the rare, choice
and less hardy European varieties. He
has been a most successful cultiVator and
prOpagator of choice fruits.
Just to the north of the business por-
ton, on fine eleyation on the west side
of Sandusky street, as the court house,
built four years ago, at g cost Of s75 900.
1t is built of brick, with stone trimmings,
plain, two-story structure, but subsian.
tial. But pepper-b or chicken coop
arrangement on the top greatly detrscts
from the symmetry and beauty Of the
building-another of the many monu-
ments of architectural folly and bad
/ teste-"puiting bis foot in it, at the very
last and spelling it all On the top Of
This unique, quadrangular supersructure
stands colossal figure of "Justicia."
saudusky street is the fnest-an at
tempt at Euclid AVense style in some
articulars-terraced, beautiful lawns,
fenceless grounds, strips of green swArd
on either side of the sidewalks, and the
not-to-be-forgotten shade .reesL A few
years will render this charming resort
and drive for the elite of the city.
There is not much manufact uring.-
There is an oil-miE, ssx-seed, manufae-
turing $50 gallons per days nax ana
jute factory, turning out 800 yard per
day of bagging for the southern market
1t employs 70 men, and chair factory,
also employing 75 men.
This is, as you doubtless are aware,
the centre-the hub of Meihodism. and
you vail think so when tell you there
are six Methodist churches here, besides
the University chapel, at which there
are services also. FhsR there are six
others, viz, Welsh, Congregational, EpiB-
copal, German Lutheran, Presbyterian
and Catholic, Surely, II churches are an
index, this must, or ought to be, very
molal, upright and religious people. But
as in Brooklyn, the "city ofchurches,"
things are sometimes badly mixed, so
that in passing Judgment thereon, lone
cannot almost always, sometimes, tell
which predominates, the good or the evil