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

good neighbor. as well as the practice Of
the qualities OF good neighborhood. over
there.
in Grass Valley, Cal, there is snake
lying aroudd loose which Is 40 feet long.
The editor of. the loca. paper there was in
formed that this snake with one stroke OF
its ponderous tail. smashed large New
foundland dog into jelly. That rather
beats the Harbor varmint Of last year
which, if we recollect, was only about 81
feet, running measure
James smith. tramp. Was on drunk
last Tuesday. and was arrested for insult
inc citizens. etc. He was brought before
the Mayor on Wednesday morning and was
ordered TO leave town in two hours; if
found after that time be WAS TO be fined
S25 and costs and imprisonment ten days.
When last seen he was on a double quick
for the corporation limits.
The Schr Col Cook, formerly called
the Agusta, that ran down the Lady Elgin
some 81 years ago, has made her appear
ance at this port. and looks to be good for
sume years to come. II will be remember
ed that the prejudice was so great against
this vessel that her named had to be
changed. There were about 300 passen-
gers lost at the time of the disaster.
Passengers from the east via. Buffa-
10 are meeting with considerable ineonven-
fence since the trains on that division Of the
L. S. & NJ. S. road have been discontinued.
About forty passengers took passage on
the steamer Idaho last Tuesday for Erie
and Cleveland. T..ere were eight of the
passengers taken off by tug to Erie on
Wednesday, among them Mr.. L. A. Wat
son for Ashtabula.
On Friday night last Mr. T. c. Strong
WAS called no TO administer Sedative to
Mr.. Charles Ledwell, a next door neIghbor,
who was abusing his family, under the in
fuenee of bad whisky. Finding the readi-
est mode of quieting him was to give him
place in the lookup, he was taken thith-
er, and time given him for quiet reflection
during the night, and sober return to
better manners in the morning.
"A fact brought out by Capt. Laying,
was of considerable interest in connection
with the temperance movement in Pitts
burgh. The number of signers Of the
pledge among the railroad boys was stated
to be over 5000, and since the reformation
not railroad accident has occurred. On
the score, then, of policy and economy,
railroad companies can afford to patronize
and sustain the Murphy movement.
-Scribner's Monthly for August ap-
pears as midsummer, holiday number,
with unusual attractions. This idea of
throwing especial interest into these mid
summer numbers, was initiated last year,
and the thing seemed to take so well as to
warrant the following the present season.
This monthly, in its energy, tact and YER
satile ability. takes the front rank, and its
utterances command respect and atten-
ton.
Our devil came into the Office in high
state of explosive good nature, with the
last number of the Neacs in his hand. He
had been reading an editorial eulogY upon
Independent papersI He didn't pretend to
say how many grades and definitions Web
ster gave of independence, but some of the
illustrations given near home, and especial
ly that in reference to ''bullheadedness, :"
appeared to him to be a little pusilanimous
and craven. In his chuckling way. he in
formed the Office, that the loudest bluster
is usually found associated with the small
est modicum of pluck and backbone.
Not a little comment has been elected
by the close corporation course of the
Board of Education. Their sittings are
held in a corner, and the representatives of
the press are only permitted to have for
publication such report as the secretary is
disposed to furnish. This looks very much
as if it was none Of the public's business,
what the transactions of the board are
The President of the board, if we remem-
Der, favored. sometime since, a public
room for their sittings, and recognized the
right of the public to know what their ser
wants were doing. But the back-room bus
mess is still continued, and this being pri-
vate, our sources of information are as
stated.
The facts in the case of the narrow
escape of Geo. F. Green-a young man of
some Is years, son of Mr.. George Green,
North Ridge, East-who was run over
some days since by a moving machine. are
given by Mr.. Green for the purpose of cor
recting an erroneous atement, and not
because he wished them to appear before
the public. George was driving the team
upon the mower, and one Of the horses-a
young One-got leg over the neap and
began to founder. He jumped to the heads
of the team, and while holding them he
was crowded down. When the colt regain
ed his position, the team started, and the
wheel of the cutter bar passed diagonally
along his back, and when it ran off from
his head clean cut of the entire width OF
his hat brim was made without leaving
any injury upon his person, but that felt
in one Of his arms, which, he supposed.
had been seriously MANNED, as he had not
the power of raising it. He was enabled tc
be about the next day. The escape was
narrow one, and could not be repeated il
deliberately planned.
In these days when pure cold water is tht
beverage commended by every Murphey
ite, is it not little singular that it is 81
difficult to Obtain-in village like this
where the signerS of the Murphy pledgt
are counted by Thousands drink of colo
water in this dog-day torridness. No pub
lie pump gives down its refreshing draft
in the centre of our village, and no pain
have been taken to secure one. Perhap.
there is no money in the treasury for thi
kind of expenditure, and yet there seem
to be sufficient to warrant the expense o
cutting away ornamental trees and depriv
ing the people Of their refreshing ant
, grateful shade; and the removal of build
: Ings for the accommodation of those iden
' titled with the indulgence of other thai
{ cold water beverages. 1t would seem as