Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1877-02-16
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ed of again Tuesday morning, to Marcus
A Hanna for $4S.O5O.
Among our list Of patents published
this week we notice one for R. Murray Of
Ashtabula, for rein holder.
The examination of witnesses before
the Coroners jury was adjourned from
Monday morning to the 10Th inst.
Our neighbor Rieg. of the Reporter,
has, we understand, had an attack of hem
orrhage, and has been quite indisposed.
-Quartsly meeting at NE. church,
Feb. Gath, s5th. The Elder win be present
on Saturday evening and Sabbath morning
An exchange says: Throw brick at
an ulster overcost and there is no telling
what kind Of a man you may scare out of
it.
The appearance of the artillery COM
pany's gun carriages and eaissOns is great
iy improved since they have been re-paint-
ed.
"A lodge Of Good Templsrs has Just
been organized at North Kingsville with 40
members. and another at EagleTille, with
19 members.
-Tressel No. 6, between jefferson and
Plymouth, on the Ashtabula & Oil City
Read, has been replaced by Howe truss
bridge Of wood.
Mr.. Ira W. Amidon was in Ashtabula
last Tuesday. BE still holds position Of
salesman in ]. Mansfield & Cos clothing
store in Cleveland.
The ladies Of the NJ. E. church will
give sn old folks supper at their lecture
room, Friday evening. Feb. 2Sd. All are
cordially invited to attend.
"A dispatch from New Haven, Ct, says
that the L. S. & NJ. S. Co. has settled with
the widow Of L. C. Crane, killed at the
nridge calamity, for S., ,175.
Councilman Manning has a relic from
the disaster that is quite curiosity. 1t
is small English coin, and is dated 1853,
which makes it ia years old.
Relic hunters have done their share
towards clearing up the debris of the wreck.
Hardly person visits the place without
carrying of some part Of car or the
bridge.
The Sentinel and Gazette continue to
publish long ads of Holloway's pills and
ointment. We wonder if the proprietor,
J. Haydock, lives up to his contract with
these papers.
Mr.. Stephen Newell, of Pine Woods,
lost an eye on Tuesday last by the flying
up of a stick, while chopping. The hu-
mors ran out. The other eye is affected
from sympathy.
We learn that the work done at the
office of the Western Union Telegraph for
the month Of January, was heavier than
any thing that had preceded it-amount-
ing to some s., 900.
Another windmill has found its way
into Ashtsbula and been erected upon the
farm of H. ]. Nettleton. It was a surprise
to US, though its novelty may have worn off
to those more frequently passing that way.
Evidences as well as the facilities of
growth at the Harbor are seen in new
planning mill, recently erected by a Mr..
Schuyler, of Western New York. Mr.. s.,
we learn, is an energetic mechanie-a build
er, and his work is of the best kind.
The esgerness of the world for change
was rather strikingly shown by the impa-
thence so commonly felt for the winding up
of the long run of splendid sleighing. The
monotony was shown in the haste to return
to wheels. The change was an evident re-
lief.
-Ex-V. P. Colfax is in the neighbor-
hood again, treating the Warren eommu-
nifty with his highly recommended lecture,
abraham Lincoln" Something has been
said in seasons past about securing its de-
livery in this village-who viii move in
the matter?
Our correspondents viii please leave
weather observations for Us to look after,
because, you see, if each Of them give us a
disquisition On that subject, we get more
weather than is meet. One article of this
kind being sufficient, it had better be left
for the one who balances up these matters.
The reception given at the Presb. chap
el on Tuesday evening was a very pleasant
affair. The entertainment was varied with
music of a superior character, social inter
course, and charsde. The refreshments
were of superior delicacy and richness, the
attendance good, and the receipts equal to
expectation.
"A car of 16 horses was shipped from
Conneaut on Monday last by Ingalls, &
Bailey, for eastern markets. The Reporter
says they were very fine, but does not tell
US wherther there was any Clydesdale
stock among them.
Payne Bailey also shipped a fine lot of
sheep, to eastern markets.
The bright and balmy weather of Sun
day last, which made the snow run in riv-
ulets through the streets, wound up term
of something like week of bright and
beautiful days, which reminded us of
spring and maple sugar. A shower on Mon
day morning closed up with west wind,
a crisp temperature and furry of snow;
but on Tuesday morning all was clear and
bright again.
1t does seem that this ground hog nom
sense had become so much of a nuisance.
that it would be suffered to pass quietly in
to oblivion. Its annual recurrenee-goinr
over the same ideas, in all their staleness.
inanity and senselessness, is such, that we
had hoped to be spared another repetition
Of it. If, however, this is unreasonable
and impossible, why all there is about it,
we suppose, is to endure.
Gates, the builder, is fixing up the
store recently bought by Miss ConkIin,
making a comfortable and rather neat
store, already taken by Mr.. C. W. Cham.
berlain, Of Geneva, at 8 rental of $500,
who will fit it up with stock of boots and
shoes. A room in the rear and those in
the second story are to be occupied b.
Miss Conklin, herself. Ashtabula can have
no better citizens than those who como