Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1877-05-25


The Common Pleas court opened iasl
Monday.
An kinds Of tablet work executed at
this Office.
We may expect some competition IN
the ice trade, this season.
-Remember the military base ball
match tomorrow afternoon.
The new telegraph line to the Hsrbol
will be in full operation this week.
Miss Rose Clifford has added a stock Of
fine stationery to her news depot.
JIM. Faulkner's new residence is tn,
finest wood structure on Park street.
The ARTILLERY and Guards meet fol
another game Of ball tO-POrOw-satur-
day.
. The Council met last Friday evening,
but adjourned without transacting any
business.
Soda water. drawn from Tufts eele-
brated arctic fountain, is ~ be found at
Newberry's.
Don't forget the Murphy oanee. at
Smiths Opera House, next Wednesday eve
ming, May sOth.
If brother Lee Of the Gazette win drop
in on US some fine day we win show him
how to catch bass in lake Erie.
We hear favorable accounts of the
Murphy movement in nSbeffield-thst about
twO-thirds Of the people have taken the
pledge.
Residents on Station and Depot streets
are anxious for sewer. Indications are,
that their desire VIII be sustained BY the
Council.
A roller was broken st the rolling mill
of Cornell. Dienst & Co. last week, which
will cause the mill to lie idle for q couple
of weeks.
"A man was found drunk lying by the
side of the Ashtabula, Youngstown & Pitts
burgh R. R. nesr Centre street, last Tues
day night.
Mr.. A. S. Bouker has found job at
the Stewart quarries, in Windsor, where
Mr.. Stewart is doing aconsiderable amount
of building.
"A large amount of new type suitable
for the various kinds of job printing, is
among the recent additions to our popular
job department.
That luxuriant crop of grass which is
to follow the removal of the trees from
north park is to be further hastened by a
top dressing Of gravel.
The next regular meeting Of the Coun-
Gil win be held Wednesday evening. June
9th. All bills against the city should be
placed on file by the 5th.
Coal and ore freights remain about the
same; vessels are chartering for coal from
Cleveland to Duluth at 6Oc free, and re-
turn with ore from EAnse to Ashtabuls
$40.
"A st. Catharine's paper from our
Murphy friend-J. NJ. Dayidson-informs
Us that he is laboring with gratifying sue
cess among the Csnucks. Mr.. Davidson's
efforts are spoken of very hatteringly.
The potato bug, that we had so fondly
hoped had left the country for the coun-
try's good, as we had seen but one or two
this spring, is, we are told, himself again,
in all his glory and sanguinary destructive
ness.
George Russell comes out with COM
plste ice wagon for supplying his custom
ers. The scratching and cutting imple-
ment, weighing and handling apparatus,
are more complete than anything that has
preceded them.
The Rev. Mr.. Peet has pretty much
determined to publish in book form an ac-
count of the antiquities OF Ashtabula Co.,
and will be pleased to hear from those who
are able to furnish any material, or refer
enees to those where such material may be
obtained.
The fires in the forests Of New England
are extending, and the damage, not only to
the timber. but to villages and factories Of
various kinds, is already enormous. 1t is
feared many lives have been lost. De-
structive fires are also reported in the for
ssts of the Northwest.
Parties in need Of fine papetries should
call at this Office and examine car stock.
We have about fifty boxes left that viii be
sold at n. 7. wholesale prices to close out.
They range in price from Is to 30 cents.
These sre sbOnt One-half the prce usually
charged for these goods.
Some Of our carpenters are figuring
on the contract for putting up the Infrm-
ary barns. AS the main building is to be
put upon the old octagonal foundations
which cost some s1sOOO-more than COM
mon elearness is called into exercise for
making a safe estimate.
The house Of P. F. Good, on Prospect
Street, begins to show some Of its proper
tions and style Of finish. 1t is of large size
and loftiness Of appearance. and viii fill
an important place in neighborhood,
where several good residences are already
to be found. Its architectural design is
rather agreeable.
The tFiennial eOnclave Of Masonic
Knights Templar to be held in Cleveland
August 2Sth and the sur succeeding days
will be one Of the sis IS Of a life time.
One hundred and six delss tons have al
ready notifsd the Cleveland local commit
tee Of their coming, and many more will
undoubtedly be present.
Mr.. A. R. Garfield met with a serious
accident al a saw mill in the south part
Of Orwell, on Wednesday Of last week. A
heavy muley saw fell from its upright pO-
sition and srraak him diagonally across
the thigh, driving two or three teeth
through the flesh, and into the bone. He
was attended by DR.. - of Orwell, and
is getting along favorably.
MIR. Geo. B. Ely, who has been con.
nected with the Cleveland, Paipesville
Ashtsbula, with the Cleveland and Toledo,
and with the L. s. & NJ. S. company, in
the various capacities Of secretary and
treasurer, President and director, for some
twenty-five years, and in each regarded al
man Of business purity and sagacity, died