Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1877-10-12


The new advertisement Of Il. J. ToPk
in this paper should be read by all.
"A regular meeting Of the Council vii
be held next week Wednesday evening.
The call for the election of two justices
fixes Tuesday, the sOth inst, IS the time
The annual renting of seats of the NJ
E. church will take place next week Tues
day.
We are in receipt of a fine specimen
Of printing from IngersOll & Harris
Elyria.
Mayor Hepburn started for New YOrl
last Tuesday morning to be gone sbou
ten days.
Since the rolling mill has been idle
brass box, valued at $1S was stolen from
one of the rolls.
-Wm. M. Eames, Jr., started for New
York last Tuesday, where he is to attend
Columbia law college.
AIR. Il. Il. Perry has returned from
his eastern trip looking as fat aud happy
as an oyster-stuffed Yankee.
Judge c. E. Glidden is at Boston,
where he will remain while to receive the
benefit of a medical treatment.
The managers of the new proposed
Democratic paper have been seeking a
&. proper room to locate their Office.
-Sterratt's Livery Stable in Erie, Pa,
was destroyed by fire last Monday. Thir-
teen horses perished in the flames.
1T took about a dozen roosters in
Wednesdays Plain Dealer to do the nee
essary amount of growing over the. result
of the election.
BY recruiting seven more men the Ash
tabula Light Artillery will have the mini
mum number of members requisite for a
four gun battery.
Gold on Saturday touched again 1925.
and stocks of all kinds were higher than
they had been for many mozth-Eake
Shore reached 7214.
Ii is rumored that the o. S. railway
postal clerks are to be uniformed by the
1st CT January. The suit spoken Of is to
be Of dark blue cloth.
Goods to the amount of about $500
were burglariouus taken from the tailor
shop sndclothing store of John Porter, on
Thnrsdav niobt of last week
w. S. Burnham has purchased the
grocery store of A. Yale, and will continue
to run it as branch Of his downtown
store, with Mr.. Yale at its head.
There viii bea public reception given
Rev. E. a. Yingling and family at the par
lors of the NJ. E. church on Friday eve
ming. Acordial invitation is extended to
ell.
Our old friend Lyman Hogle met with
a serious injury from fall from an apple
tree, on Wednesday last, making COM
pound fracture of his collar bone, and 9TH
erwise being injured.
Mr.. S. C. Smith, of the Bunker Hill
stock farm, lost one of his valuable cows
last week, from choking. His herd is un-
surpassed by any in the county, and this
COW was one of his best.
The field and forest nut crop is report
ed abundant this season in this sec
ton of the country. In some localities
the hickory, beech and chestnut trees are
said to be almost overladen.
The Board of Health met last Monday
evening but no business Of general interest
was transacted. The regular meetings in
the future will be held on the evening of
the second Monday of each month.
Some poor fellow by the name of Sar-
gent, claiming to be from Ashtabula-so
says the Leader of Tuesday last-was ar
rested in Cleveland as a suspicious eharac-
ter, and carrying concealed weapons.
The formidable addition to the Ashta-
bula House has so far progressed as to
have the frame up and most of the inside
sheathing on, 50 that it is nearly ready for
the brick veneering which is to follow.
The assignee of George W. Waite, has
disposed of Mr.. WIS interest in the store
recently occupied by him, to VIM. Humph-
rey, and the stock of goods remaining un-
sold to Messrs. Humphrey & Baldwin.
Dickinson the jeweler has been adding
a new McNutt upright engine to his estab-
lshment, similar to the one in use in this
Office, and large boiler for furnishing
steam for the engine and heating his store.
The old Stephen Hall store, has been
extended in front, having been brought in
to line with lower story extension with
the buildings on the south, and Bieder the
Baker is to enter into the occupancy at once,
The new brick school house on the
cornerof N. Ridge and Round-head Road
approaches its elevation. The second sto-
~ is 50 far up as to enable rs to catch its
fne proportions, and generally attractive
appearance.
The iron work for the new bridge Of
the L. S. & NJ. S. Ry. over the Ashtsbula
creek has not yet arrived, but is expected
at an early day. Everything is in readiness
here to push the work to completion as
soon as it is received.
"A party Of Nimrods, consisting of DR..
Henry H. Bartlett and Robert Sander
son leave the early part Of next week for
duck hunt on the western shore OF the
lake. The samefparty went last wear and
met with good success,
From the enterprise Of the Warren
Chronicle, its readers were treated with
six column daily during the fair week
Enterprise with tact and ability combine
to make the Chronicle one of the very best
papers that come to our sanctum.
The annexation Of the Harbor to the
corporation, and the placing of a police
force at that point has been great check
to the lawlessness and disorder for which
it had gained such a reputation. Every
day rows are now thing Of the past.