Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1877-05-18
LOCAL n E w s.
7lba Council met last Wednesday eve


LOCAL n e w s.
The Council met last Wednesday eve
ming.
Decoration Day is one week from next
Wednesday.
very few whitefsh are being caught
here this season.
The Public schools here viii be closed
on Decoration Day.
Snyder & Harris expect to start their
new fellOe work next week
The presses in the TELEGRAPH Office
are kept very busy these days.
-HamiltOn's Circus will exhibit at Ash
tabula about the middle of June.
Our Murphy signers number over ], 800
with few additions on Sunday after
noon last.
The County Commissioners have ap-
propriated $4,000 for the construction of
new barns at the Inhrmary.
-Quarterly meeting at the N. E. Church
next Sabbath, conducted by the Pastor
The Elder will be present Sabbath evening.
Our fishermen are taking pike in con-
siderable quantities, but the whitefsh have
not begun their run, and but few are
caught.
Last Thursday evening, deputstion
consisting of Bros. Hubbard and Prosser,
visit Kelloggsville to fill and appointment
there for Murphy meeting.
"A change of time took effect on the.L.
S. ans. Ry. last Sunday. The correct
tables viii be found in this paper. There
is nc change in the A. Y. & P.
The Harbor now stands annexed So
liei1or Hoyt received a telegram from Co
lumbns announcing that the Supreme
Court found no cause for appeal.
The lecture of Mr.. Colfax, it will be
recollected, will come of on Wednesday
evening, 23d inst Both the lecture and
lecturer are worthy of full house.
The Light Guards were out last Mon
day afternoon for target practice. Private
T. Hubbard made the best score and is now
the happy possessor Of the silver cup.
The tidal wave of house-cleaning has
swept over the land. It has caused great
distress among the male population, but
we trust the worst is now over and gone.
The jefferson cheese factory sold their
April cheese on the 9th inst, and on the
18th declared dividend of 81 and two
tenths of cent. for each 100 lbs. of milk.
The Ashtabuls Light Artillery, Light
Guards, and Lake Co. Guards of Madison,
are to be invited by the 29th Regiment to
20 into camp with them at Conneaut, Aug
18th, 10th and 18th.
Geo. C. Hubbard & Co. are preparing
to build a brick addition to the rear Of
their store, which will make their sales
room 1873 feet long, with fine light. The
present rear wall is to be removed.
Letter, packet, note, bill and statement
heads neatly printed and bound in tab
let form at this Office. Stationery bound in
this manner is always in convenient form
and the sheets are kept free from dust and
dirt.
e Sentinsl is scolding because the
ARP. Railroad do not supply better
Station building at Eagleville, where it
says ''mOre passengers get on and of, than
at any station between Ashtsbuls and War
ren."
Some dozen or twenty Of our boys
fitted out with four horse team, went
over and met our Kingsville friends on
"Wednesday evening last, inaugurated
Murphy society and took some ninety
pledges.
-McIntyre's old store at Leon has been
purchased by R. F. Moore & Son of this
place. Their intention is to supply it with
a stock suitable for country store. They
are well known in that vicinity, and need
no putting.
Our Austinburg friends are to have a
lecture on Thursday evening, 31st, from
Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton. for the ben
eft Of the new church. Mrs, Stanton is
lady Of talent and accomplishment, and
viii give pleasing lecture.
"A little daughter of James Sinclair fell
about thirty feet down a wash bank, near
South Main Street, last Monday afternoon.
Her cries were heard and she was soon res
oued from her dangerous position, badly
bruised but not seriously injured.
Sidewalks on some Of our streets are
not only intolerable, but absolutely dan
gerous to life and limb. While passing
along that leading to and near the Metho-
dist church, the broken and absent plank
brought lady to the ground very heavily.
"A call has been issued by the Congre-
gational Church of Painesville to Rev. G.
F. Stelling. D. D., lately of Harusburgh,
Pa, to accept the pastorship of that
Church. Mr. Stelling has the reputation
of being a fine speaker and an earnest
worker
Those who may wish to obtain map
of the seat of the Russian-Turko war will
find a notice in this paper giving the sd-
dress of the publisher where such cheap
affair may be had that will answer every
want of tracing the course of the armies,
st a merely nominal expense.
"A mass temperance meeting on Sun
day afternoon, and another on Tuesday
evening at the Opera House, were both ad-
dressed BY Bro. Mitchell, Of New Castle,
very effectively. His mastery of the Kings
English is evidence Of his capabilities, and
no one can doubt his earnestness in the
Murphy cause.
"A game Of seven innings Of base ball
was played last Monday afternoon between
picked mines from our military companies,
resulting in a score of % for the Artillery
against y for the Light Guards. None of
the Artillery nine had. played a game of
ball for years. and many of the Infantry
had no more practice.
We'll, those raw east, west and north
erly winds have at length relented, and for
s few days we have felt the presence OF
epring. with its genial and balmy temper