Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1877-02-09
LOCAL n e w s
Lent begins next Wednesday.

lucA9J HHuhg.
Vessel men expect marine business viii
be better the coming season than it was
last.
The Council met last Wednesday eve
ming. The proceedings are published in
another column.
1t is rumored that the Grand Jury are
make it lively for some of the saloon keep
ers of this place.
The grounding did not see his shad-
ow last Friday, 60 now we shall have six
weeks clear weather.
-Kinsman O., was the boyhood home
of the noted singer, P. P. Bliss, who per-
ished at Ashtabula bridge.
We hear the Neacs is to remove its Of
fee to Smiths Block, opposite the Fisk
House, by the 1st of April.
The gun carriages and caissons of the
Ashtabula Light Artillery are to be treated
to fresh coat of paint and vaEnish.
Rev. Mr.. M'Cleary. of the Methodist
church, will preach a sermon TO the young
men of this place on Sunday evening next.
Mr.. John Granger and lady arrived
home from their trip t. England Wednes-
day morning, all in good health and con-
dition.
Mr.. ]. R. Stamford, mail agent on
the A., J. & F. road, who has been absent
for some time on account Of the illness
and death of his brother, is back a. his old
post again.
Henry Ward Beecher lectured in Cleve-
land on Wednesday evening on "Hard
TIMES" If the hard times referred to the
way of the transgressor, we cannot say but
the subject was well chosen.
j. D. Laying, general manager of the
Pennsylvania Co. came up from Pittsburgh
last week Tuesday and remained until Fri
day night as a witness in the case of Warm
ington vs.. the a., Y. & P. R. R., before
the Common Pleas Court.
Beside the regular daily evening meet
ings at some Of our churches, noticed last
week, the Baptist church has found en-
couragement to continue the meetings of
the week Of prayer, and we understand
that they are still sustained by full and in
terested audiences.
Wednesday afternoon, Henry Clark.
engineer of the locomotive Eagle, made the
run from jamestown to Ashtabula-36
miles-in 80 minutes, including two stops.
Considering the rough condition of the
track, that is not very slow time.
Ira Judson BeIknap, who, for half
dozen years or more has built up very
commendable record as freight conductor
on the A, J. & F. road, has resigned his
position and removed to Burr Oak, Mich,
with the expectation of going into the lum-
Der business.
Mr.. Tomlinson, a victim of the bridge
disaster, who found quarters at the house
of Mayor Hepburn, and whose condition
has been of somewhat variable character,
is not rallying from his injuries with the
hopefulness at first indicated. Some ap-
prehension is felt for the result.
Winter has relented, and put on bet
ter and more comfortable mood. Much of
the snow that was whirled upon US with
such fierceness- blockading quantity
and foree-has mostly been carried off by
the genial warmth of the sun and the tenn
perate southern breezes.
An ordinance to clear sidewalks of
snow and ice seems TO be among the mat
ters loudly called for. Then if our street
committee would see that the eross-walks
were attended to, the heads of the village
fathers would be crowned with halo of
glory by every peripatetic citizen.
The democratic delegation from this
State, were particularly spiteful towards
Mr. Garfield as one of the caucus candi-
dates for the high joint commission, and
very generally voted against him. How
natural it is in degraded human nature, to
hate the excellence it cannot reach.
1t seems to be the opinion over in Con-
neaut, that they've got an editor there,
now, who win take ''no lip" from any Of
the county press. His sanguinary proper
tions seem to command Difference and re-
speet at first sight, from the rolcing, Jest
ing and tantalizing herd of scriblers in the
county.
There was an ice gorge in the Mahon-
ing, at Warren, on Sunday, the 4th; south
of the canal the city was flooded several
feet in depth. There were five feet upon
the track of the A., Y & P, which it was
expected would suspend transportation for
day or Two at least. Considerable loss
was sustained.
Prices Of oil having begun to take the
descending scale, there followed a
holding up of the work of refining. The
Standard Oil Company at Cleveland, has
shut down, and reduced its working force
from 5000 to 1000, and the same ratio of
suspension has taken place among the re-
fneries in the oil regions. When a corner
age has been brought about, so as to re-
turn prices to a satisfactory standard, bus
iness viii no doubt go on again.
-0n Friday morning last, about four
o'clock-as we learn from the Warren
ChrOnicLe-the house Of the Rev. DR.. Bal
ley, Of that city, was entered by burglar.
and although the Doctor was awakened
when his room was entered, the burglar
got away with gold watch. We take it
that the Doctor is not the man to draw tile
bed-elothes over his head and let the spoil
er have his own way; we should rather
think that if he had laid his hand upon
him, it might not have been in exactly the
apostolic way, and yet hardly less credita-
BILE to muscular divinity, for whieh.he has
established well merited reputation.
The Lake Erie; Alliance & Wheeling
railroad we find, by carefully watching tie
various notices of our exchanges, will be,
when completed, direct route between
Fairport, on Lake Fire, and Wheeling. W.
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