Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1877-04-27
LOCAL n e w s.


the lake at this place. 1t is soft and viii
soon disappear.
Hon. J. B. Burrows is to deliver the
Decoration Day address at this place. II
Will be ornate and able, without doubt
Mr.. Field is doing his level best in
finishing the track on his farm. ANY one
with spare team can materially assist by
putting them at work there as once.
Call at the TELEGRAPH Office and SCI
how cheap you can get all kinds fob print,
ing. We use the best Of stock, and all worE
is done with neatness and promptness.
Locomotive No. IA, of the Ashtabula,
Youngstown & Pittsburgh R. R., jumped
the track while running Hitchcoek's
siding on Centre street, last Friday after
noon.
Further additions-three-Eere made
to the Baptist church on Sunday evening
last. making some thirty in all since the
opening Of the year.
"A Post Of the Grand army Of the Re
public was organized in this place on Fri
day evening. There were present com
rades from Conneaut, Kingsville and Ge-
neva. Mr. Sperry, Of the Bes0s, was elected
commander.
Ann Eliza Young, Brigham's nine
teenth wife lectured at Austinburg last
Wednesday evening to a small audience.
There were number Of persons from Ash
tabula in the audience.
The L. Hanna left light for Escanaba
last Thursday, and the scoW Vampire, al
so light, for Chicago. The L. c. Wood
ruff is at the docks and is taking on coal
for Chicago, for Andrews, Hitchcock & Co.
-Scribner's Monthly for May abounds
in good strations-Scribner's strong
point. DR.. Hollands story Nicholas
Minturn" is continued, and THAT Lass o
Lowries" is concluded. The other articles
are as varied in character and interest as
usual.
The number Of drummers seen upon
the street, with their loaded satchels, would
carry the idea that business is moving
Thst this class of gentlemen move with
considerable celebrity and cheerfulness of
expression, is at least an index that it is
not done without an object.
j. F. Blair having disposed Of his old
horse, has supplied his place with one Of
the finest large horses to be met with in a
summer days travel. He is broad and
strongly built, of half Blazing Star strain,
dapple-brown, full main and tail; weight,
81, 400. His action is free and graceful,
and as nimble as & sheep. He is just the
horse for work OF farm stock.
Old Dave Hill, the horse that has done
so much to improve the equine stock of
this and Trumbull county, may be seen up
on our streets taking his daily exercise.
His quietness of manner, and his power
snd stsadiness Of purpose in action, makes
him valuable exampler and companion
of BARRIERS chestnut six-year old, with
whom he takes his regular airing.
Murphy, the temperance worker, made
flying visit to Pittsburgh Saturday eve
ming last and addressed very large meet
ing. He is meeting with success in Phila-
dslphia. This presence of the great apos-
tie Of temperance in the smoky city, is the
reason why the temperance folk of this
place were deprived of the pleasure OF a vis-
It from Bro. John Laying, as had been
promised.
"A record is made by the Cleveland
Herald of the last trip of the White Line
steamer Germania, from Queenstown, to
New York in days, II hours and 81 min
utes-the shortest passage on record. The
average daily run was $685. miles. A con-
signment of steel wire for a Cleveland
firm was transferred to road, and reached
its destination in IL days, hour and 80
minutes from the time Of leaving Liver
pool.
The Campfire meeting at the armory,
which was to have taken place on the 25th
inst, has been postponed to Friday even
ing-the 9th, at which free lecture will
be given, by the Rev. Vim. Earnshaw,
Dept Commander. The subject of the
lecture viii be-the work, history and aims
Of the order of the G. A. R. After the
lecture, refreshments will be served, con-
sisting Of army faEe-pork and beans,
bareback, &C., to the old soldiers present.
The members of Hamilton's Circus
from this place, left last Thursday morn
ing on the A., Y. & P. R. R. for Wind
sor Corners, Ashtabula Co., where they
viii join the circus. De. r. W. ScOville
is the leader of the band, and will be as
sisted ia part by O. E. Richardson, ",
E. Reeves. A. q. Knoll and A. J. Ban
croft. W. q. Phelps is to handle the rib
bons on the band wagon as well as take the
part of ring master. A. D. Gates is to
ride long cared quadruped in the open
ing, play the small drum in the band and
make himself generally useful. The tents
aEe first to be pitched at Windsor Corners
to-morrog, after which the troupe will
work into the sil regions.
-KnoKing-no donbt-pRr partiality
for the flavor of musk-some anknown
hiend has been 80 generous as to send US
through the post Office, ina neat package
"a muskrat's tail, cut of close up, OF
shed n the regular line Of evolutionary
progression. This is not clear, but in either
case, It may be well enough to be a little
guarded about the manner of sitting down,
IL it is an object to eyoi9 fathering the
coke, The receipt, and the thoaghtfnlness
that prompted it, are duly acknowledged,
and the economy of havoring in this form
freely admitted, vet our preference is still
for the extract, or essential oil form. II,
therefore, our good friend YOU'D put his
favor into the most appreciabie Snaps, be
wiQ please call and take the unetious
thing and put it through a process Of dis
tillatioR, and return US the concentrated
oil. he viii then have the pleasure Of
finding US ''Perfnmad like milliner, and
he shall be allowed ''tO eoms between the
wind and our nobility"