Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1875-02-05
JEFFERSON.

Ed. TsI.-It was quite impossible for
your Hub" Correspondent to send you
anything from the County Capitol, last
week, owing to pressure of other busi-
ness which had to be attended 10. We
humbly beg pardon for the omission, and
ifin the future we should fail to send you
an item each week, you may take it for
| granted that the time-whicb is not al
ways our owns being occupied in at
tending TO other duties. This Jefferson
correspondence may not prove advanta-
geous to you in increasing your list of
subscribers in this locality, but we are
positive that we have conYe rted one-nO
less than the venerable parsonage who
figured SO conspicuously in our last arti-
Gle. We say, he is a new acquisition to
your subscription list. We think 80, as
we saw him last week with a copy of the
Telegraph in his horny palm, looking, as
he said, for the "man that wrote that
piece" At last accounts he was still
charging around in his war paint evil
IDENTIFY intent upon decorating his person
with the scalp of your contributor. The
old gentleman will not do any harm at
present, except to harrow up the sensitive
feelings ofan innocent, but mortal home
ly fellow "who looks like me" and who /,
we understand, has been, for the past ten
days, sitting nervously upon "the ragged
edge of dispair," and when not otherwise
employed, viciously repeating the famil-
lar verse
"Oh, wouldn't like to catch him
Whoever he might be,
Oh wouldn't give him particular fits
That fellow that looks like me"
Catching comes before killing, and we
await the result with breathless anxiety.
Nothing of much Importance or great
interest has transpired here of late. Our
town is about to make some advance
ment in the way of building up, during
the coming spring and summer. Messrs.
Henry Bailey. Geo. Wetherstone and
Frank Payne have purchased lot just
south and west of the depot grounds, on
Jefferson street, and propose to build a
steam Touring mill thereon, which, when
completed, will be second to none in
Northern Ohio, and will not only be in
valuable to the community, but will
speak well for the energy and enterprise
of the parties concerned. We hope they
may reap rich reward.
We had the pleasure of attending an
exhibition at the Union School building,
last week. The order of exercises con-
sisted of music, declamations, reheTsals
and orations, and considering the very
short time for preparation, the exercises
reflected much credit upon the perform
ers. The house was crowded, and the
receipts must haYe been quite large, and
are to be expended in buying an organ
for the school.
The spelling school contagion has
reached US, and we can now boast of one
of these memorable events, which took
place last Friday evening. The prize for
spelling the company down was awarded
to Miss Lucy Curtiss, and consisted of an
elegantly bound copy of TennYson's Po-
ems.
Many of the young people attended a
Masquerade Dance, at Union Hall, on the
evening of the Goth. Smiths Band fur
nished the music, and the gay dancers
tripped the light fantastic until the small
hours,
The warm sunshine of to-day, seems to
indicate that the fine sleighing is about to
be dissolved. which is a very reasonable
excuse for the pleasure seekers to come
out In full force, and enjoy the beautiful
snow" while they can. The streets have
been filed nearly the whole day with
stylish rigs, whose fortunate passengers
seemed to bear evidences of much en-
joyment and happiness.
Perhaps the merriest group we saw,
was quarto of young ladies, who had
chartered Thomrson's nobbish turnout
for the occasion, and were comfortably
seated in the spacious sleigh, quietly ad-
vising the young gentleman who held the
reins oyer the coal black steeds, where to
drive them, and putting in the balance of
the time in being gay aud happy"
Doubtless "Candlemas Day." 1875, will be
long and agreeably remembered by the
party.
The Ladies' Society of the COng'l CHI,
have q soclable at the residence Of q. s.
Simonds, this week Thursday evening.
Jefferson, Feb. 2, 1875. H.