Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1876-08-04

The person who said Lt. baruetts
sweIled head was the result Of q eJmbat
with the bay horse cavalry is mistaken.
It's only boil
.We believe the custom Of horse racing
to be q great damage to the community"
How shout providing brain pabulurh for
the week, on Sundays?
VIII Eames is reading law in the law
Office of Sherman & Lee, and young man
named Calvin, from Pennsylvania, IS en-
gagged in the same way.
Justice Richards has been indulgingi ia
a trip around the lakes to Chicago, and
comes back with his physical appear
ance decidedly improved.
Miss Ada Sutherland, Of Youngstown,
O., who has been spending the Summer st
the Lake Side, at the Hsrbor, left for the
Centennial last Thursday morning.
The Ashtsbuls Light Guards have ac-
cepted the invitation to participate in the
Madison Encampment. This makes the
seventh organization that has accepted.
MIR. Charles Watson, now of Rochester,
NY, is home on vacation from hisslaW-
readings. His "physical appearance
has very little in harmony with the
popular theory Of human infrmity.
Mr.. W. F. Richards, of Conneaut who
has been recently employed in the TELE-
GRAPH job department, has gone to Clarks-
burg, W. Va, with his brother, to publish
the Clsrksburg Telegram. They have our
best wishes.
Ashtabuia BOy-Haskelrs horse --got
home from his Cleveland visit on Tuesday
last. He attracted some attention for his
fine trotting. and could have been sold for
$4,000, which was deemed much below his
value, and Of course declined.
Smith & Strong are making their
harness hlacking tell. They have any
quantity Of the best and strongest testimo-
mails that could be asked for, and the preju-
dice with which it was first met is being
overcome, and the article is finding nu-
merous new friends.
The aquatic excursion from Conneant
upon the lake that was to have come Of on
Thursdayof this week. failed on account Of
the unavoidable detention of the John
Sherman at Buffalo until "a hour toe late
to make the trip. It is therefore-we learn
-ebandoned altogether.
"A writer in the Leader gives Mr..
NorthWay twenty-seven ont of the forty
nine votes Of this county Our figures
allow him but twenty-One, at the outside,
and if COnneaut agrees, as proposed, to
divide its delegation and avoid a fight,
nineteen is probably the outside figure.
Mr.. P. W. Strader, of Cincinnati, who
hos been spending the Summer with his
family here, received telegram from the
Chief Of Police Of that city last Tuesday,
stating that his residence there had been
entered by burglars, Mr.. Strader left for
his home the same evening TO ascertain the
amount Of bis loss.
A 4sngthy obituary Of Miss Betsey NJ.
Cowles who died last week at Austinbnrg,
appeared in the Cleveland Leader Of Mon
day last, but 1t came into our hands rather
late for this number, and we have there
fore concluded, rather than attempt tomake
an abstract Of it for this paper, to give it
sRtire IN the outside Of the next.
--At.the regular meeting Of the Board Of
Education on Monday evening last, posi-
itions we're offered to Miss Fannie Dickin-
son, as teacher in the G Primary Depart
ment, to Miss Dora Sullivan, as assistant
in the Primary Department, at the same
salary-$2s month, each, and to Miss
Hattie Brockett, of SaybrOOk, in the D
Primary ct salary of $500 per snnum.
Spring Street, between F4ller's stable
aud Main, is undergoing the grading pro-
cess and is to be given decline Of one foot
in q hundred from Main street. The sur
face water win, therefore, run of the bank.
The intention is to put in sewer sufficient
to convey the water and collections from
Main street. The intelligence and impor-
tanee otthis arrangement can hardly be
ever estimated,
-aeaHss B. Nsttlstan hitehed horse
hooked TO phsston-at his barn door,
on Thursday morning, when some of those
little yellow jaekets-that Josh BILLINGS
says are always mad-showed their bad
temper by stinging the horse, and the horse
showed his impatience Of such familiari-
ties by breaking away and dashing the
pheaton to kindings. Mr.. n. Says that
800 wiz probably make it all right.
Deb Sweet has finished his contract Of
passing the cid Foundry buildings, on
Spring street, in the oearse of adapting
them to the use Of armoEies. The eotling
9f q building up fifteen feet into the air, as
gne Of them had to be, was something
unusual in building raising in this region.
Under the labOrs Of d. B. Castle these
buildings have been brought into line, and
viii make both spacious and substantial
ene, for the purpose designed.
The following card is issued by the old
99th Regiment.
Akoon, O.. July nth, 1878.
Dear DQmrades-0ur Regiment, the
Seth Q: Y. Y. I, VIII csmR out at Madison,
Lake COUNTY, Ohio, (COl. Fitch residenee,l
on the 18th, nth snd 18th Of August, 1875.
Bring your blankets. Rations will be
Supplied hy the good people of Madison.
ne want big tara a1t this year, and
Col. Fitch specially desires to have the
boys on hand the first dsy.
We expect the gallant old 7tb Reqiment
viii he With Us aud bring their tents
f'FoFWsFd, MaFohI"
]. 3. sToRER, Secretary.
The marriage Of Mr.. Frank P. Hood,
Of Girard, o., to Miss Carrie L. Adams,
daughter Of H. S. Adams, of the Lake
Side House at Ashtabula Harbor, took
place last Wednesday. There was
large number Of their friends present
at the ceremony. The happy couple left
for the Centennial and other places of in
tsrest in the'East, with the best wishes of
al. The typos Of the TELEGRAPH Office
wish to tend their thanks for q large and
beautiful cake. The manner in which our
little devil got outside of several large piec-
as would have surpFised an sIlioator