Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1877-02-02

The Council meets next wednesday
evening.
The Main street sidewalks are once
more free from snow and ice.
Games, made from parts Of the wreck
ed cars, are quite numerous on our Streets
The Ashtabula and Oil City railroad
is doing heavy coal business at present
Mrs. VIM. Willard received severe
fan on the icy pavement, last Sunday eve
ming.
-Newberry is about to erect a small
store on Centre street, in the rear Of his
store.
Trains on the L. S. &M. S. Ry., pass
over the new bridge at very slow rate of
speed.
Seven new rubber coats of the Nep-
tune hose company have been stolen from
the engine house.
The Fire and Water Investigating
Committee will make report at the next
meeting of the Council.
About all the bridge wreck has been
drawn up the hill to the depot and the
iron is being removed on cars.
The new cotton hose recently pur-
< chased for the fire department, is pro-
nounced superior to any now in use.
-"oapt. n. Bartlett, of the schooner
Oneida is manufacturing leather grease,
which he says is ''the best you ever see. /"
Alfred Il. Rowland, 8 civil engineer
expert, has been telling the eoroner's jury
what he knows about the Ashtsbula bridge.
Three new councilmen are to be elect
ed in April. Messrs. Manning, Crandall
and Hitchcock Of the present Council re-
tire.
Thomas Allen who cut one Of his feet
with an ak while at work at the wreck on
the night of Dec. 29th, is now able to be
about
"A bell signal, to call together the
members of the infantry company in case
Of need, is to be adopted by the Light
Guards.
Conductor Mckinley, of the A, Y. &
P. road, had his right arm crushed, at
Lawrence junction, while coupling cars,
one day last week.
Bills against the corporation that have
been accumgating during the past three
months, viii 4 ordered paid at the next
meeting Of. neil.
1t is,5.Eted that Chief Engineer
Knapp @nT lender his resignation at an
early day. Petitions and recommendations
for candidates will now be in order.
The past cold weather has had the ten
dency to raise the price Of oysters in the
market, as well as make them a scarce ar
ticle. Dealers say the oyster beds are trOz-
en- up.
"A bill Introduced into the House Of As
sembly, byMr. Milan, for the regulation
of the fees Of County Auditors, fixes the
rate for. Ashtabula cOunty-including
clerk hire-at So, f92.
The Norwalk, Ct, Gazette, tells Of a
turkey shipped from Washington, that
State. to England, that weighed 80 lbs.
We do not recollect of ever hearing of q
turkey of that weight before.
S-ME OK Ralph, dealer in groceries,
etc., made an assignment last Saturday to
W. B. johnson, of Plymouth. The sheriff
had taken steps to close him up for the
benefit of an eastern creditor, but he was
about fifteen minutes too late.
Our two months sleighing has not beer
able to withstand the bright sun and south
ern winds of the last few days, and not
withstanding the depth of snow, the cutie
shoes find bare ground, and warn US that
return to wheels cannot be postponed.
The Ashtabula Light Guards are t.
have fifty Springfield rifles in place of tn,
French rifles they now have. They arr
breech leaders, and have already beer
shipped from Chardon, O. The question
arises, what has become of the Chardor
Company?
Mr.. ]. NJ. Mowry, one Of the surviv
ors of the late disaster, who has been visit
ing his friends in Michigan during th,
past week, returned to Ashtabula las
Wednesday he is still in weak anc
nervous condition, but time viii make hin
alright again,
The poor dog that was taken from tn
burning wreck-the last of the Living
saved-was found to be so badly injured
and suffered so much, that he was shot, t
end his misery. The cost Of the snima
was $50, and transportation added s
more to the amount the express eompan,
had to make good.
We learn incidentally that ''Bobb
Shaftoe," of Mother Goose fame, feel
keeuly the neglect shown him in not beinI
represented at the ''Mother Goose ReceI
ton" last winter. To atone for this neg
lect the ladies Of the Cong1 church ar
considering the proprety Of inviting hin
to appear in character at an early date a
one Of their sociables at the lecture room
-Pierpont has been thrown into som
excitement by vague rumor that boy
skull has been fractured by Prof. Andrew
the principal Of the academy-while in
ficting punishment; while counter stor
has it that the injury to the lad was re
ceived while in quarrel with one of hi
DEMONSTRATING been thrown against
bench. The case has gone to the gran,
jury for examination.
in our early Ashtabula days. we use
to call George Willard the ''prinee of mel
chants" We thought it was a merited er
thet then, and We are not disposed to mod
jfy it very much Just now. Though NOR
than twenty winters and summers hay
run their rounds since that time, We canno
sec but that he has more nervous businei
snap in that venerable head Of his, mo-
of the promptness and accuracy of the fl
fshed accountant, and more of the trI
old-school gentility, generosity, an
thoughtful kindness and aceommOdstiol
than the very best of his younger compel
tors can boast. Long may he flourish.
The joint COMMITTEES Of the two hous,
of Assembly charged with the ilvestigl
tion of the bridge disaster at this plae
are pursuing their labors at Columbus
having a room in the Capitol buildinl