Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1877-07-27

Gil will be held Wednesday evening Aug
1st.
-Atelegrsm received at Ashtabula on
Thursday says the strike on the Erie Rail
way has ended.
Capt. Hardy and company made II
mistake in moving the lookup and stood it
fail TO. to the street.
Happy Cal Wagner's Minstrels are to
play at the opera House next Monday eve
ring. This is first class troupe.
The gross receipts of tine entertain
ment given last Wednesday evening for
the benefit of the new band were $51.
Thus far, but one price for hay has
been heard about here-that is $40 per ton,
and this commands the very best quality
The Jefferson races will be held next
week Thursday and Friday. The associa-
ton will accept our thanks for compliment
taries.
The schr. Volunteer. belonging TO Star
kew. Crosby, Blyth & Co., has been sold and
removed to Black River Consideration not
named.
The news dealers here have been reap
ing harvest since the strike commenced.
No less than 700 Cleveland papers have
been sold daily.
We notice that Mr.. P. W. Strader, the
recent purchaser of the Nettleton mansion
on Prospect street, now offers that fine
property for sale.
The man who is so busy that he can
not bring in a stick of wood or carry a pail
of water for his,wife, can be seen watching
every match game of ball with the greatest
interest.
The suspension by the strike of freight
ing, is having its effect upon the stocks of
some Of our merchants. With goods or
dered. and upon the road, they find certain
Glasses running to their lees
The competing Harbor lines came into
actual collision the other day. Blake Of the
the line lost wheel in attempting to pass
the old line, and there was slight drop
ping down and holding on for repairs.
"A new war map from Rand, M'Nally
s. Co., Chicago, has reached us, which for
comprehensiveness and accuracy surpasses
any of the newspaper maps we have seen.
1t Is prepaid and sent by mail for twenty
five cents.
The Ashtabula Light Artillery has re-
ceiyed a sample coat such as they are re-
quired to wear by the new law; 1t is a
blouse, of navy blue and buttons closely
about the neck. It is very dressy and viii
be a great improvement over the old jacket.
Civil Engineer Sloan, who is equally
at home in the science of architecture, fur
nishes the plans and specifications for the
new school building to be erected on the
Guy lot. opposite the Maj. Prentice place.
recently purchased by the Board of Educa-
tiOn.
Burglars entered the house Of Mr.. Ed.
Willard, on Friday night last, through an
upper window, and did the second story
pretty thoroughly, but obtained only $40 in
cash and some S5 more in other booty, the
property of Mrs, Brown, mother of Mrs.
Willard.
The law requires that legal ADVERTISE
ments shall be published in papers having
ga general circulation" in the county in
which they are published. A paper which
has no general circulation outside of its
own village has no right to legal advertis-
ing at any price,
After the ball match last Monday eve
ming two of Geneva's citizens were arrested
for insulting ladies on the streets, and were
brought before the Mayor and fined 81 and
cost each. They gave their names as Cum
ings and Humphrey, but these were un-
doubtedly fictitious.
The hard timeAhave shown themselves
upon the gates of Warren, according to the
Tribune. They are so generally broken
from their hinges. as to give that village a
dilapidated appearance. They are generally
seen in front of houses where attractive
daughters are found.
The jefferson Driving Club are ar
ranging the programme for a gay time at
their meeting on the I'd and Sd prox. The
reader should notice their adv. elsewhere
in this paper, and prepare himself for an
afternoons enjOyment-ifh he has any equine
admiration in his heart.
James Woodruff, the geneva Times
says. had an acre of fine spring wheat, but
the geasshoppers visited it with evil inten-
tions, and it was entirely destroyed. These
little varmints-the same authority says
the vegetation and the fences are fairly
black, them in the vicinity of Geneva.
Two boys named Rivers and Munger,
dropped into Root alley last Friday night
to settle little misunderstanding, and to
avoid any interference by the police. The
first round was no more than commenced
before Officer Scoville pounced upon them.
Their fines and cost amounted to So each.
The present season promises to be an
exception to any previous one for years, in
respect to the crop of plums. We do not
recollect of raising but single mature
plum for the last fifteen or twenty wears,
while the promise now is, that this fine
fruit, the present season, will be more OIL
less abundant.
The lightning rod man has been round
and made raid upon the editor of tht
Chardon Republican. The editor was bold
couldn't be fooled into anything of the
kind. But he listened, softened, caved
The house was rodded and the editor wa.
left to the mortifying confession that vir
tue is powerless before valubility and
cheek.
We have very pleasant article in ref
ersnee to the dramatic entertainment las
week. which we very much regret came t,
hand too late for this number of the TELE
GRAPH. We, however, think it will los
very little of its freshness by awaiting tn
appearance Of another issue, when its pc
Fnsal will no doubt be enjoyed by most O
our readers.
The weight of opinion on the subiec
of the cause Of dusty hay, seems to be tina
the dust is raked up with the hay by tn
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