Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1877-11-30
Thanksgiving Turkeys were plentiful
enough for 10 and u cents pound.

enough Tor lU ana II cents pound.
DIR L. B. Bartlett has reopened the old
homeopathic Office 179 Main Street. His
business card is published on this page.
About 121 dog licenses have been is
sued up to the present time. There must
be about 400 more in town to be heard from.
The marriage of Mr.. C. Emir Allen to
Miss Tuckerman, daughter of Prof. ].
Tuckerman of Austinburg, took place in
that town last Wednesday.
The special train that passed over the
A. Y. and P. Road last Monday morning,
containing Thos. A Scott and party, went
through town at lightning speed.
Mr.. and Mrs. L. W. Smith left for the
great metropolis, on Thursday of this week
and an avalanche Of new Holiday Goods
may be looked for as a consequence of the
trip.
Postmaster Pifer, at Rock Greek, will
receive subscriptions for the TELEGRAPH
club now being made up there, to begin
Immediately, or at any time before The
close of the year.
The gobble of the Thanksgiving tur-
key, has tone Of melancholy about it
which might produce sadness if it were not
for the inspiring hope of at least one
square meal during the year.
Prof. King and troupe will bring out
the oratorio of Esther in the town hall,
at Conneaut on the evening of Dec. 6. The
preparation has been such that no warrant
for the rendering can be required.
We put it on record as an evidence of
the mildness Of the autumn, thas on the
s5th day Of Nov. 1877, we picked from
the vine several clusters of Iona grapes de-
iciously sweet, and uninjured from frost,
or freezing.
The fine three master-Thomas GAVIN
was caught in the late blow on Lake Huron
and was stripped of her sails and spars and
has been towed to Cleveland. The GAVIN
was in the ore trade, but whether loaded or
not, is not stated.
"A Neweastle-Pa-papern notes the feat
of one of its citizens carrying half barrel
of beer half mile in fifteen minutes, as some
thing surprising. We have any quantity of
chaps here who will carry that much all day
long, every day of their lives.
Our friends at Rome, may leave their
subscriptions with postmaster Decker,
near the station-at Orwell, with postmas-
ter Stone-at New Lyme Center, with
postmaster Miller, and at South New
Lyme, with postmaster Hyde.
Typhoid feyerfis quite prevalent in Ash
tabula at the present time Mr.. b. J.
Blair, living on Lake Street mas four chill
dren all of whom are sick with this disease
also the whole family of Mr.. Geo. Brockle-
hurst, consisting of himself, wife and three
children.
Mr.. J. ". Morgan of Plymouth, found
deer among his sheep last week, and got
out his rifle and made one Intellectual shot
at it without starting it. The second
brought him down for his temerity and re-
posing undue confidence in the humanities
of civilization.
"A chester white Pig, purchased last
spring by A. F. Hubbard of Capt Bartlett
"a good man at the wheel-was made to
weigh 490 pounds. From the first of Nav
--as is stated in the Standard its average
increase, on meal and milk, was just two
pounds day!
Thomas A. Scott, King of the Penn
sylvania Rail Road Co. arrived in Ashta-
bula last Monday morning in special
train from Cleveland. He visited the Har-
Dor and examined the improvements there,
after which he went south, probably to
Pittsburgh, over the A. Y and P. R. R.
Our friend, Prof. NJ Brettell, is lectur-
ingO Phrenology, at Newcastle, Pa. Large
and attentive audiences flock together To
bear him. His examinations and discrip-
tiOns Of character, the local paper says, are
very accurate and excite general admira-
tion. The. Professor has been good stu
dent of his profession, and few are as well
posted.
The abstract Of Rev. Mr.. Hickok's let
ter giving his impression Of his new home,
sent Us by our KingsviIle correspondent. is
necessarily laid over for another week in
the general effort to get out early enoueb
for the enjoyment OF a Thanksgiving dinner
The numerous friends and old Pensioners
of the writer viii be interested with the
perusal even after weeks delay.
The Chardon Republican says we now
have fair promise of new railroad. A
corps Of engineers viii complete, this week,
survey of the proposed route of the Saline
vile, Salem, Newton Falls & Cleveland
road, from Troy up the Cuyahoga valley,
vio Burton to Chardon, and thence via
Willoughby and Euclid to Cleveland, a
most feasible route, and one which will, we
think be adopted.