Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1875-07-23


aN1AeARA FAILS EXCURSION. Tbs
foregoing heading has appeared in the
columns of our contemporaries until it
seems as though every perscn within the
borders of our State had visited the Falls
snd bebeld its wonders. But still thers
Il one more announced, this time, from
EIvra, on the 18th of August.
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In the case of the State Of Ohio vs..
DR.. George Brown, permission has been
granted to hle a writ of error in the So
preme Court and sentence ordered sus-
pended until the proceedings in error
are finally disposed Of We learn tha;
the Doctor has been in very poor health
until lately, but now is improving
The Circular for 1875. of the Jefferson
Polytechnic School, printed at the SsHti-
mel Office, has been received. 1t is a good
specimen of workmanship, and shows
quite an array of ability in, tbe Faculty.
w. N Wight, Esq, hlIs tie place Of
Principal, while his lady as gracefully
holds that Of Preceptress. jefferson has
reason to be proud Of her schools, as we'll
as her school architecture.
The cigar makers ofAmboy complain
that the times are hard indeed-it being
next TO impossible to collect. To make
The matter worse, sharper has been
around Lmong them, and sums ranging
from $75 to 800 have been swindled
out of some three, at least of the con-.
Germs of that locality, which IN a small
business, affording but a narrow margin,
Is not contemplate loss.
The Fifth Annual catalogue of the Or
well Normal Institute, from the Sentinel
Press, has been received The number
Of Students in attendance Is perhaps a
fair index of the merits offhe institution.
The whole number in regular attendance
is gentlemen 106-ladIes 75-182. By
session 265. Prof, johnson, is an expert
enced and successful educator and the
prosperity here indicated is well. earned
and deserved.
Having made pretty good Job of the
Round Head Road, so far as he has been
allowed to go, Comm. Starkweather has,
with the approval of the street com, tax
en- hold of Main street, northerly from
the lookup, which has been looking
earnestly as If a strong hand was needed
for its improvement If carried out as
qegun, this thoroughfare through the
heart Of the village viii compare favora-
bly, with the best streets of the corpora
ton.
TIE RACES AT CLEVELAND will take !
place next week beginning with Tues /
day the 9th, and running through four
days and closing with Friday. The pre- 1
niums amount to Ss5, 900, and range in /
distribution from $3.6OO-SS, ,000-S9. 900
81 ,sO0-S1 goo, &C. Almost all the
noted horses OF the country are to be
present Among them Judge Fullerton,
Red Cloud, Bodine. Occident, and others.
All the interest of horse men will be
enlisted.
oATs.-Ashtabula cOun ty presents an
unusually broad acreage, the present sea-
son, Of oats, and the crop is uniformly
rank and heavy. Unless the crop suffers
from getting down, as is the case already
with some fields, the supply viii be large
and abundant We dare not hope that
the price will be regulated by this fact,
as, for the last two years, the crop has
been more than usually good, and yet the
price went steadily up from the harvest
TO the coming in of its successor.
The Tuller House. we found the other
day IN all its glory and attrac tiveness,
the Landlady running the institution,
while the male head was absent on a trip
West. Though we missed the roIickihg
iolity of the inimitsble Tom, the better
half of the federsi head was duly watch.
iul and mindful of the essential elements
Of happiness and home enIoymeuts. Mr..
Beebe of Hudson, lady and family we're
guests of the house, having sought It's
proximity TO the lake for healthiui rest
and recuperation.
Ford Bros saddIery and harness shop
IS largely stocked with variety of styles
Of harnesses, from which it would not be
difficult to select anything wanted in the
ine, from light, tasteful single or double
to the heavier sort of team and
iraa harness. They have also large
'upply Of hlankests, mats, nets, haIters,
larry combs. brushes, and indeed almost
everything that becomes and pertains to
'uch an establishment. An establish
nent of such extent is worthy of pat
ronage on somewhat the same scale.
That 9th of July committee have been
On the ragged edge of despair" and we
suppose like their great Brooklyn pre-
cursor and prototype, wished they
we're dead" But the poignancY of grief
inds relief in time, and we understand |
hey feel better. Perhaps the next thin |
We shall know, their faces will be all |
adiant with smiles, and we shall hear |
hem, each saying-"I am the happiest
nan in tho world" We trust they will
hardly take the next step in the drama