Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1877-07-20
LOCAL n e w y.

AO StoS1As tHSA a. NV A-'-- -
business good.
The court Of Common Pleas adj urn
ed last Monday.
Last Sunday the thermometer reached
94o in the shade.
"A regular meeting Of the Council last
Wednesday evening.
New potatoes are plentiful and good
at 40 cents bushel.
summer bOarders continue to arrive at
the Lake Side House.
The levy for school purposes is 315
mills upon the dollar.
Two hundred pounds Of butter in p
weeks from one COW, is reported by Mr.. r..
H. Campbell, of Plymouth.
The ice business has so increased that
the Spring Water Ice Co. are about to
put another wagon on the road.
There was a very large feet Of iron ore
vessels in the harbor last SuDday. The
creek was nearly filed with them.
"A change has been made in the owner
ship OF the Painesville Telegraph, Mr.. SEQ
deld having purchased the interest Of Mr..
Merrill.
That new fence Of Contractor M'Ken-
kie is now up, and only awaits coat Of
paint to appear in all its ehasteness and
beauty.
"A correspondent in every township
and hamlet in the county is wanted, and
favors of this kind will receive proper at
tention.
Capt. Wright's HarbOr line has met
with little competition in second line,
which has within a few days come into
operation.
The furniture establishment Of Mr.. T.
J. Wood has been closed for a few days, on
account of-as is stated-business embar-
rassments.
Mayor Hepburn has found a claimant
for the watch found by him at Ashtabula
bridge among the relatives of the late DIR.
Washburn.
The Reporter says that a crop of grass
in that township cut "a tons to the acre.
Mr.. Reporter don't that smack a little Of
the Clydesdale order?
An Evening Daily has made its appear
ance in Youngstown, by the Youngstown
News Co. 1t is very creditable affair in
every respect-S5 a year.
Mr.. Moody says-three thousand Sun
day-schools contributed to the monument
erected az Rome, Penn, over the remains
of P. P. Bliss and his wife.
"A well brushed, but rather brown and
napless plug hat, and well polished and
well worn pair of boots, are evidences Of
tidiness and taste for gentility.
The two new cranes on the A, Y. & P.
docks are now hard at work. The compa-
ny now have six in operation, the new
ones being located near the bridge.
The amount Of ore that has been re-
ceived up 10 July l, 1877, is 1882 gross
tons; 615 N lumber; LOGO NJ shingles;
3s2 NJ lath; 1000 cedar posts; 10 cords
stone.
That irrepressible rag-baby has taken
into its mouth that silver dollar that dad
gave it as play-thing. Should it swal-
low it, what fellow can tell whether it
would pass?
-Skutt, the photographer, has placed in
the postoffice large frame containing a
number of fine photographs of his produc-
tion. We have seen no city work that sur
passes them.
We have new correspondent at the
Hub, who starts off with an observant eye
and a clear, concise and epigramatic hand
qualities that are essential in a model
correspondent.
Seven car loads of stone have been de-
Hvered on the rolling mill premises to be
used in building vault for the family of
Mr. Chas. Collins, deceased, in Chestnut
Grove Cemetery.
The Torrent Force Pump grows stead
lily in favor and meets with no step back
ward. When they become general, what
will our insurance agents do? Othello's oc-
cnpation will be gone.
Our fishermen at the Harbor are now
having very good success catching white
fish. The fish appeared here about one
week ago, and the daily catch is now sew
erai hundred pounds for each boat.
Some scamp, says the Gazette, has
poisoned eight head of cattle belonging to
Mr.. L. R. Silverthorn, of Madison. One of
them is already dead, two more will proba-
bly, die, and the balance may survive.
The papers of this county have been
bidding for the job of printing $500 one
half sheet supplements containing the
county fair premium list and advertise
ments. The bids ranged from $50 to SO
Hardy, Shaw & Lockwood are engaged
in trundling the old Firemen's Hall to its
new location; $50 of the $1OO-the cost OF
moving-is to be paid by Dick Radford,
and the township trustees pay two-fifths
more.
Cashier Southwick has, we hear, con,
cluded his negotiation for the Capt. Hum
phrey sorrel gelding. 1925 is the pric,
named. His development of speed has
made the purchase of the colt, year or Sc
ago at $75, rather lucky one.
Col. Blunt, of the Harbor depart
ment of engineering, has been found let.
ting contracts, without due advertising at
exhorbitant rates, and the presumption is
raised that there is colIusion, yet nothing
criminal has been brought to light.
The schr. John Martin is one of tn,
finest built and best fitted out vessels that
comes to this Harbor, and will carry /. SOC
gross tons of ore, from Escanaba on L
feet of water. She brought from Mar
quette 1888 tons on 70 feet inches.
There has been a large number of yes
sells in during the past week, as will b
seen by examining our marine list. Man,
of the largest vessels in the iron ore trade
such as the schooners John Martin, Of l. .4Ol
tons, L. Hanna, 1000, and F. A. Morse
1000.
Wick, the prince Of florists and seeds
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