Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1877-10-26
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Teachers Examination at Geneva next
week Tuesday.
Legal cap paper for sale at the TELE
eRyPH Office very cheap.
Lake Shore stock is dropping down
again, and at noon on the oath stood at
6s1S.
-Chestnuts are being sold and shipped
from Western Pennsylvania for sl,OO per
busheI.
-Bieder, the baker, has removed his
bakery TO the building second door south
Of Farmers National Bank.
Geo. J. Record, hardware man, Of
Conneaut, lost some $500 worth of cutlery
and silverware by burglars.
Insects have been at work in some
sections upon the early sown wheat and
injury has been suffered to the crop.
Our clubbing list for 1873 is not yet
completed, but We intend to club with all
the leading publications as heretofore.
Hall Brothers intend to move their
present Office, and install themselves in
their own building over Bieder the baker
We'll, Painesville is to have another pa
per-the fourth-to be started soon by C.
S. Durham, as a catholic temperance pa
per.
-Four carloads of iron for the new
bridge over Ashtabula creek on the L. S.
&M. S. BY. were received here last Satur-
day.
The new Democratic paper has located
in Smiths block on Centre Street. The
first number will be issued about Nov. IS,
as a seven column folio. .
-Chestnuts, like most other nuts, are
very plenty, and our merchants are buying
them for s1.5O bushel. Riddell has some
sixty or seventy bushels.
Mr. N. G. Dick has returned from a
trip of couple of weeks 20 Washington
and New York. He was present at the'or-
ganizstion Of the House.
The brick work on the new Catholic
school house is completed: it is large,
well constructed building and is a credit
to the builder Mr.. J. A. Rough.
The best of winter apples are plenty at
seventy-five cents a bushel, They con
tinue-some varieties more than others
and especially greenings-tO rot badly.
The Keckley-Crosby case opened up
again in the Common Pleas Court last
Monday, and is still in progress. Large
numbers of witnesses went over on the
morning trains every day since.
The cold rain storm which commenced
themiddle of last week passed away on
Sunday, and was succeeded by bright,
mild sunshine, giving us another spell of
our delicious sutumnal weather.
The new extension of the Ashtabula
House is making some headway, the brick
is being laid by that master mason George
Brake. The dimensions of the house on
Spring street front viii be somewhat form
idabls.
Savage Brothers have opened up a fine
line of plain and fancy confectionery of
Whitman's celebraeed manufacture. A
large and beautiful new show case has
also been added in which the goods are
displayed.
We are in receipt of the Chicago Spec
linen, published by Messrs. Marder, Luce
& Co., type founders and dealers in print
ing material. For typographical beauty
it equals, if not excells, any publication of
the kind we receive.
Some complaints are heard from our
citizens about the slovenly condition of the
cutters of Main Street. They give express
sion to the thought that our reform Coun-
ell are not acquitting themselves in this
matter in the measure of expectation.
Duck hunting at the west end of the
lake is becoming quite popular. Mr.. q.
n. Ficdnger, train dispatcher on the Ash
tabula and Oil City road left the early
part of the week with party of seven, for
a weeks hunt in the vicinity Of Port
Chester.
-Mr. Geo. Frazine, engineer on the
Ashtabula 6 Oil City road, and delegate
to the convention of Brotherhood of Loco
motive Engineers at Boston, will accept
our thanks for a copy of the Evening
Journal, containing the address of Grand
Chief Engineer Arthur.
Our friend Spencer can't understand
that allusion to the Infrmary Director
matter. Well, its not very surprising, We
have known such fellows to be overtaken
that way before. It's sort Of mental and
moral vertigo to which people with ''crook-
ed hair" are frequently more or less ex-
posed.
The medical profession Of the village
has an addition to its numbers in the per-
son of DR.. ]. P. Pease, late of N. Y. City.
He has taken rooms on the second floor
rear OF NJ. q. Haskell's block. His
manner and address lead US to think he
will fill the bill, and therefore commend
him to a share Of the public patronage.
Our neighbor Young of the Center St.
station, says he didn't put that AZ pound
pumpkin upon us, but the responsible
ty rests upon one or more of the citizens
of New Lyme. He was only the channel
of communication, but if his inquiries are
successful, in finding out who the party
was, he shall-he says-be duly exposed.
in another column on this page will
be seen department for cheap advertising
which viii undoubtedly be appreciated by
our patrons. Short advertisements such as
wants, for sale, found, etc.. Of not more
than five lines viii be inserted under ap-
propriste heads for one week for the low
price Of 25.cents; each additional line will
be charged five cents.
Our nsighbor Prosser, sends US the
first number Of new daily paper that
made its appearance in Utica, N. Y. on
Monday morning last-full of snap, and
does not dodge a good word for Conkling
and the Rochester convention. Friend P.
we thus judge is on his winding way, and
finds encouragement for the ''V iotor Wash
board, whose sponsor he is.