Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1876-10-27

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Advertisers riH find 1t 70 their iHteresi
TO bear these facts IN mind.
LOCAL NE w s.
Auditor CrOwell and Clerk Lamb have
been visiting the Centennial.
Next Wednesday evening there viii he
regular meeting of the Council
Teachers examination at jefferson,
Tuesday, Oct. S1st.
1t is expected that the steamer Metrop-
oils viii make this harbor he- headquarters
next season.
The County Teachers Institute, viii be
held st Conneaat during the week begin
ming With Nov. Goth. 1876.
The pontOon bridge at the Harbor is
again in place and in use, but at this writ
ing not complete.
Our citizens will be glad to know that
our Council are moving in the matter of
numbering the houses, etc, in the corpora
ton.
Conductor Johnny Lane, of the Come
aut Accommodation, has gone to the Cen
tennial- Conductor Hunt now fills lis
place.
-The co1ddetors of the T. s. & Il. S.
Ry. trains wear badges of mourning in
honor to the memory of conductor With
eral.
All the through trains from the cast
are now running in sections, owing to the
large amount Of travel. None of them ar
rn-e on. time.
Sen. Garfield has been laboring down
among the New Workers. lie was at James
town on Wednesday evening, and at Mead
vile on Thursday evening,
Go to the Grand Central Hotel, New
York. It is the only first calss hotel that
has had the courage to reduce the rates
from $4OO to $3.50 and $500 per day.
Mrs. Prosser's store presented a very
neat. varied and rich appearance on Tees
day last, for the fall opening, and the nov
city repaid the visits Of those who availed
themselves Of the opportunity of a call.
The Republicans Of New Lyme will
hold meeting in the Loomis school house
either on Saturday or Monday evening.
November 4th or 9th. A notice definitely
fixing the time and speaker will ,e given
next week.
Il special dispatch from Washington
tells of sad af1fiction to General Garfield
in the death Of his youngest child, Eddie.
The Generals many warm friends in this
vicinity will fully sympatbize with him in
his great sorrow.
The foundation for the new water
tank at the L. S. & N. S. depot has been
laid, and the tinbers prepared. 1t is
to hold $4,000 gallons and viii be one of
the largest on the line.
-Seribner's Monthly for Nov, opens
with capital article on the Charter Oak
city, written by Geo. Il. Clark, and hand
sOmely illustrated. THIS number COM
menees a new volume of this excellent
monthly.
Our young stnmper-Thorpe-was at
Rock Greek last Saturday evening. He
paid his respects to the DeaocMtic plat
form, it being read off to him, one Tesolu-
ton at time-seriatum. He gave general
satisfaction.
No private or public duty should inter-
fere with the sacred duty Of voting, Eve
~ man at his post of duty on the eth of
November. The absence of a single voter
may imperil the safety of State. Be on
hand ;let not vote be lost.
Our citizens will do well to see that
their houses and stores are properly locked
these nights. There is an unusual amount
of thieving going on in the cities near us,
sud we may soon expect Ashtabula to get
her share Of these visitors.
The Nineteenth is the banner RepubH-
can District. Gen. Garheld's official ma
jority S,66s, which is larger by nearly
thousand votes than the majority Of any
other Congressman in this State. Where
is Little Jack, and his home vote?
"A. vote taken on the Toledo aecommo-
dation train last Wednesday gave Hayes
and Wheeler 50 votes, Tilden and Hen
dricks 80, and Cooper and Cary 8. The
ladies vote gave Hayes 45 and Tilden %.
Coming events cast their shadows before
them" 3 s.
"A. B. Luce, the Prince of Kingsville
merchants, it will be seen, has been renew
ing his adv. in the TELEGRAPH. His fall
purchases have been pretty free in amount,
and the low range of prices never heard Of
since the,breakiRg loose of rebeldom, give
his numerous custOmeFs a glorious oppor-
Gunity for bargains.
9I-Wm. Seymour & Son are putting the
old Armory building on Center street in
fine shape for -four and feed mill. 1t
has been raised about five feet, and sub
stantial stone foundation placed under it,
rev floors laid, and,a brick engine house
built. We are glad to see the Buslness Of
this new firm has warranted these improve
ments.
The mildness of the weather for sever
al days of last week and the first of this.
had the effect to start the buds quite per
ceptably, and if the storm that set in on
Sunday sight clears away with a freeze,
there win be some reason to fear, that so
far as they haYe been started, they may be
destroyed, and the fruit crop affected for
the next season.
Capt. Large thinks he was not dealt
fairly with, in the notice of last week. He
assures rs that there was no row at his sa-
loon. oAe Of the sailors Of the barge Cat
lin, attempted to strike another with a
chair, which he pEeFspted, and in some un-
known way the strikers leg was broken.
The parties were just rising from the re-
fFeshment table.
The little McNutt engine and boiler re-
Gently put Ia the Sentinel Office at Jeffer-
son, is giving excellent satisfaction; beside
cunning the machinery of the establish