Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1877-03-30
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LOCAL n e w s
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COIe-nS " Inc Aul4D1AAAS VI
Why don't some of our enterprising
hardware firms get on stock Of blue
glass
Large quantities of coal and crude oil
are being carried over the Franklin Divis-
ION of the L. S. & NJ. S. Ry.
The L. S. 6 N. S. pay car was here
last Tuesday, and its many employees here
wore smiling eountenanees as result.
p. G. Watmough, Collector at Cleve-
land, Of this district, we learn. is to be fol-
lowed in Office by Wm- P. Fogg, Of crock
cry fame.
The effort to form an Infantry Com
pany at jefferson promises to be a success.
The minimum number-4S-is now nearly
complete.
The Harbor annexation question viii
soon again be up. The indications are
that there win be little if any opposition
to the movement.
The Council meets in regular session
next Wednesday evening, at which time
the new members are sworn in and the old
members slide out.
Mr.. G. NJ. Henderson Of the Central
News Room has sold 545 TELEeRAPHs dur
ing the past thirteen weeks, an average of
42 papers each week.
The Spring adv. of the old and reliable
firm of Storrs, Harrison s. Co., nurserymen
and florists, Of Painesville, appears in this
issue Of the TELEGRAPH.
The numbers have been assigned and
placed on the buildings on Main street
Some of our property owners are to num-
Der their houses in an ornamental manner.
The list Of names Of the signers Of the
pledge in Morgan, runs upon capitals so
extensively as to prevent the setting up Of
any considerable list of proper names for
any other purpose.
DIR. D. S. Hall, we learn, has consent
ed to dispose of his farm and homestead to
Mr.. Geo. Metcalf-the price having been
advanced upon the previous negotiations.
It now stands at ss, 200.
Candidates for municipal offices are
not backward this spring. We hear Of no
less than five anxious ones for the Office of
Solicitor, and those for Street Commission
er are still more numerous.
If our sidewalk Comm. viii take the
trouble to wslk down Centre Street in the
vicinity Of the railroad crossings some dark
night they viii appreciate the necessity of
some extensive repairs in that locality.
The Ashtabula House under the man
agement of P. J. Brennan is doing a very
successful business, and the army of well
fed boarders carry a smile of satisfaction
as theyma to and from his well supplied
tables.
The soft and gentle zephyr Of Spring
that played around this region during the
past and present weeks. pierced the cuticle
giving the surface of a nutmeg crater.
Sugar-malzing is suspended, and the note
of the robin is lonely, dolorous and sad.
The leasing of the seats Of the Congre-
gatioual Church noticed last week has been
put off until next Tuesday afternoon and
evening, commencing at o'clock. The
''Latlies Society" give their usual Social in
the lecture room-Supper from 6 to u
O'Clock.
Citizens Of Ashtabula, who wish for
the selection, and election, of officers to
look after our village interest-men Of
character and practical intelligence and eff
fciency-should not neglect the primary
meetings. Some of the principles of the
civil service reform may be wholesome and
salutary for home use.
We are indebted to the Secretary of
the Morgan Temperance Union-Mr. Vii
cox-for a prepared copy-in alphabetical
order-of those who have taken the pledge
in that place since the work began. The
length of the list viii show how much in
earnest are the good people Of that place
in this work.
Mrs. A. A. Southwick, accompanied
by Mrs. Senator Plumb, arrived home from
their Washington trip on Saturday last
having witnessed the Inauguration eeremo-
nies, and made good use of their time and
faculties for doing the Capitol and famil-
iarizing themselves with its many objects
of deep and abiding interest.
-Onr readers will be panied to hear of
the sudden death Of Mrs. Barnard Nellis,
which occurred last Sunday evening. The
funeral Of her husband occurred only the
day previous, he having died on Wednes-
day of last week. Pneumonia was the
cause Of their deaths. Mrs. Nellis' funeral
was held last Wednesday morning.
in consequence of the appearance of
the Morgan list of pledge signers, this
week, we are constrained to omit the Ash
tabula list. This we do not so much re-
gret now, because the number of signers
are much less than at the beginning, when
we had the whole community to draw
from. We shall bring up again next week.
The signers range at about thirty at ea ch
meeting.
Geo. Lewis. President of the Bay City
Bank, and assignee of the firm of II Wat
rous & Sons, has been in town for the last
two or three days, attending to the sale of
property and other matters of the concern.
The farm of 20 acres, opposite that Of
the J. B. Watrous farm, was taken by Mr..
A. L. Rogers for a small sum above a
mortgage held by him-amounting to $9,-
700. Eight acres in one parcel was taken
By Vim. Humphrey, at SIS an acre.
Real estate is selling just now at very
low rates.
Last Tuesday about midnight the fam
ily Of Mr.. Richard Rowland, living on
Camp ST., was aroused from their slumbers
by Mr. W. ]. Richmond, an occupant of the
same house, who informed Rowland that
there was man in his kitchen. On going
to that part Of the house man was found
lying on the floor dead drunk The fel-
low was rolling mill hand, and was taken
to his boarding house. The kitchen door
had been left unfastened during the even
ing and the fellow had entered to warm
himself
The following items of exDense Of Fl Q