Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1876-12-29

The additions to the tax duplicate of
Ashtabula county for the year 1876, in the
way of new structures, are as follows.
LIS Dwellings. - 5S0.00
Z Machine shops and Factories -. $4,000
f9 Stores, Shops, &c. .....-.-..-.-...... 39S3.0O
Public Hall. 400.00
90 Barns. ..........-...-.-. S,5SOOO
TotRl.......--..- ..-.-.- .---.----.--sa 30, ,iS5OO
Landlords Brennan's effort to give
grand ball and supper at the Ashtabula
House, last Friday evening, was. apparent
ly, not appreciated by our citizens. An
excellent bill Of fare was gotten up, the
ball room was beautifully trimmed with
flags and evergreens, and every effort was
made to make the affair a grand success;
but the dancers came not, only about twen-
ty couples being present. Dancing seems
to be at discount here this winter.
Last Saturday was day to be remem-
bered by our citizens, for the excellent
sleighing, and the large number of people
in town. Main street was pretty much fill
ed with vehicles, and the stores-particu-
larry the toy and fancy sUOres-were, some
of them at least, crowded with eager Gus
toners throughout the day and evening.
Sales must have been large and receipts
comfortable.
Last Monday morning an eastern
bound passenger train on the Cleveland,
Columbus, Cincinnati & Indianapolis R.
s--'.iss.s--aOar- BviI1lOnIaine, o., was
thrown from the track by broken rail;
one passenger car, containing about 20
persons, was upset and all the passengers
were more or less injured, but none fatal
ly. The telegram mentions the name of
Miss Rogers, of Ashtabula, as one of the
injured passengers-a sister, we learn, of
Mr.. J. w Rogers.
Conductor Tommy Adams of the Ash
tabula & Oil City R. R., was the recipient
last Monday of a valuable meerschaum pipe
"a Christmas gift from the engineers of
this road. The pipe, which is beautiful
piece of meerSchaum, was purchased in
New York by Mr.. Geo. W. Dickinson. Con-
ductOr Adams is one of the most pleasant,
faithful and Obliging employees of the L. S.
& NJ. S. Company, and is general favor
ite among his many friends and acquaint-
ances.
The Windsor folks are out with a call
for a railroad meeting at that place, the
object being, as we are told, to favor the
project of narrow gauge line to the lake.
at Geneva or Painesville. Though this is
all well enough, the project that seems to
strike the public mind with the most force
is four miles road to connect the mex
haustible quarries of excellent sandstone
OF that township with the A., Y. & P. road
at Orwell, which would furnish freight
traffic of considerable amount in addition
to that Of passenger traffic, to give sus-
tanning patronage to the enterprise. The
county is destitute of building stone, ex-
cept that hauled over this four mile route,
or that brought from Berea on the Lake
Shore. The demand for this stone is great,
and will increase with the facilities for OBJ
tanning it. Why this is not the first and
all important railroad accommodation
thought of, it is difficult to see.
The papers we called upon week or
two ago for their respective practices in the
publications of Resolutions of Respect,
have replied, with the exception of the
Se7t''4l which, we understand, has been
IN the haGt of asking ST. The Reporter
makes regular charge of one dollar; the
Gazette has done f gratuitously. The TEL
egraph, too, has generally inserted these
resolutions without pay, for the reason
that there was no uniforIAity of action
among the papers of the couniz and some
Of them were doing the work for potbing
/ But while doing it, we have felt very nneb
as the editor of the Times expresses IEn,-
self in reference to it, in the following pal
agraph:
We have never been in the habit of
charging anything for such articles: but
/ for the life of us we cannot tell Wby we are
not entitled to receive remuneration for
| them as well as for any other special notice.
A merchant will charge something for the
/ smallest article in his store; therefore whv
| should not publisher receive pay for the
use of his paper in this respect, especially
"hel ne nlmseI could probably find mat
ter that would be of much more interest to
the general reader?
The Painesville Telegraph takes up our
query and makes the following sensible al
lusion, which we heartily endorse:
And we wish that every responsible pa
per in the country would abandon and
shut down on this ''gratuity" of publishing
notices. We do not allude especially to
Resolutions of Respect referred to in the
above-yet why even they should be gra-
| tuitous any more than the undertaker's bill
or other funeral expenses, we are not able
to see-but to the constant flow of notices
"hlch publishers are asked to print with
out pay, nine out of every ten of which
are calculated for the benefit of individuals
or associations in which only a small por-
ton OF the public have any interest.
We would like to see some uniformity in
this business among our eotemporaries.
and therefore take the liberty of falling in
With the Sentinel and Reporter in fixing
/ lie compensation at 81. At anv rate. we
propose to adopt this course in the TELE-
GRAPH, and make the charge regular one
! of one dollar.