Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1875-06-11
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{. Max Adler writes as follows:
Some of our Methodist brethren
down here are a good deal bothered.
They sold the sight on which they
had their meeting house and bought
a better one up street a. The
building was a large frame edifice,
and they determined to move it
So they put rollers under it and
worked it out into the street, isndas
soon as it was off the ground, the.
purchaser of the lot began to build
"a dwelling house on the site. 1t
was slow Work pushing the church
along the street, and before. they got
far somebodyldiseoyered that thesti-i
tie ofthe new site was not good, and
SO the bargain was annulled. The
next day the brethren were eplHnging
around town trying to buy another.
site, but nobody would sell them
one. and on the following morning
the Supervisors got an order from
the Court requiring that. meeting
house to be removed from the pubs.
lie street within "a hours. The
brethren were nearly all wild about
it, ard they begged old Bfindlg to
let them run the concern on q va.
cant lot temporarily until they could
look around. But Brindly is a
Baptist, and he said he felt it would
be wrong for him to do anything to
promote church that believed in
sprinkling. They then ran the.
Westinghouse on the turnpike be-
'yond the town whereupon the turn
pike company notified them that It's
charges would be So day for toll.
So they hauled it back again, and
while going down the hill it broke
loose, plunged through the fence of
DR.. MackeY's garden and brought
up on top Of his asparagus bed. He
is an Episcopalian, and he sued the
meeting for damages, and the Sher-
if levied upon the Westinghouse.
The brethren paid the bill and drag
ed the building out again. They
wanted to put it in the courthouse
yard, but the judge, who isfa Pres
byterian. thought, after examin-
ing the statutes carefully, he could
find no law allowing a Methodist
Westinghouse to be located on that
place. In despair the brethren ran
the building down to the river shore
and fitted it on a huge raft of logs,
concluding to tie it to the wharf UNI
til they could buy a lot. But as the
owner of the wharf handed them on.
the third day a billof $50 for wharf
age, they ran the building out and
anchored it in the stream. That night
a tug. boat coming up the. river in
the dark, ran half way through the
Sunday school room, and Dutch
brig came into collision with it and
was drawn up with the pulpit and
three front pews dangling from the
bowsprit. The owners of both yes.
sells sued for damages, and the Unit
ed States authorities talked of con-
fscating the Westinghouse as an
obstruction to navigation, but a few
DAYS afterward the ice gorge sent
a flood down the river and broke the
building loose from its anchor
It was subsequently, washed ashore
on Keyser's farm, and he said he
was willing to let it stay. there at
81 day rent until he was ready to
plow for corn. And there it is yet.
The brethren are uncertain what
they will do in the future. There is
some talk of hitching tie meeting
house to several balloons andfoating
it above town, but the plan has not |
yet been decided on positively. It |
occurs to the brethren that the Cos
pei is having a pretty hard time of
it in New Castle county and moth
ing but desire to reform the NOR
ais of fsuch a community prevents
Them from taking that meeting
house apart in sections. and shipping
t to the heather of Terra del Fue-
90, or some place where they are
Tot so ridieulously particular about
| few square feet of land when reli-
ZION and truth are at stake. ''' l