Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1877-10-26

That new school building on the
Ridge is nearly inelosed, and the roof
nearly on. Its symmetrical and ehsste de
sign is very ereditable to its architeet-Mr.
David Sloan.
The wild geese began their autumnal
migrations south last week, and several
fiocks passed over in the storm Of Satur-
day and sunday. The wind on Sunday,
from the east, rather disconnected the
plans of some Of them. and turned them out
of their course, and they were seen going
in a westerly direction. making the air vo-
cal with their sonoral notes, as their TRAN
gular platoOns moved along.
The quartet at the Presbyterian
church has been for some time deficient o1
the tenor part, and Of course the harmo-
nv has been incomplete and wanting In
fullness. On Sunday last that want was
supplied in very efficient manner, by
Mr.. Chamberlin, one of the old Continen-
tai company, whose lot is cast in town for
the present, with the Williams Brothers.
The effect was very pleasant, and afforded
something of treat to those present hav-
ing any degree of musical discrimination,
and such will be pleased if Mr.. C. shall
find it convenient to continue to occupy
the same place.
Mr.. Joyce who keeps the Shamrock
Saloon at the Harbor had been drinking
freely Wednesday and was taken to his
room and put 10 bed. Between seven and
eight o'clock in the evening he was missed,
and no tidings from him since. As his boots
hat and part of his clothing werefound in
his room it is thought be has been drowned
in the river. About one o'clock Thursday
morning the watehman on steamer Havan-
ma heard loud cries for help coming from
the river below the bridge He an Jack
Schramm got a boat and picked up Dave
Donayan nearly opposite the Lime Kiln.
He had fallen into the river from a pile
Of shingles near the old salt house, and
had foated to the point where he was
picked up.
We are laid under obligation to the
publisher-Mr. J. F. Ryder, of Cleveland
for a copy of "The Sentimental Song
Book, =" by Julia A Moore, the sweet singer
of Michigan. a eursory perusal
shows that the author has a generous
and gentle heart, and that a familiarity
with the production, and full spprecia-
ton Of the spirit that pervades it, may,
perhaps be productive Of some good. But
not having any poetic fire in our compo-
sition, we are not well calculated to appre-
ciate it in the book. or to criticise classic
elegance in numbers. The closing lines
of the authors last effusion, however, do
not strike us as felicitous, either in rythm
or expression, as some things we have met
with in poetic garb.
And now, kind friends, what have wrote,
hope you will pass DER,
And not criticise as some have done,
Hitherto heretofore.
We hear that our Democratic friends |
are placing some of their machinery for
printing that organ of the party which we
have been told about. The location Is in
Smiths Center street block. How soon it |
will make its appearance we are not in
formed. One effect of its publication will |
probably be to define party lines a little
more clearly in business as well as other
matters. It will therefore, be somewhat |
instructive to watch the effect likely to be
produced upon such papers as make their
independence Of all parties, their chief |
merit, which usually means trimming to
all and dodging round generally. A de- |
gree of cleverness in this particular, may,
be looked for in the future, that will throw |
everything of the Fast into the shade.
Sam Patch, we believe, was the author of |
the spothegm Some things can be done
as well as others, and there is a glorious
chance for an illustration of its truth.
There is fun ahead.
"A new theory has been suddenly start |!
ed up. as to the cause of the destruction of |
he Ashtabula bridge, by Mr.. B. A. Nor
ton, of New Haven, CT. 1t seems by his
conjecture or positive observation, that
there were two opposite currents of wind
moving at the rate of thirty miles an hour,
which met at or near the bridge, and being
resisted or confined by the banks OF
the narrow valley took in the |
form of a cyclone, and lifted up
the bridge from its moorings. The letters
of this gentleman defining this theory, ap-
pear in the Leader of Thursday. As a
eoniectural or possible case, it is perhaps
very well, and eommendable to the ingenu-
ityof the author, but as fact, the currents
of wind might have blown from the four
quarters of HeaYen at the same time, with
all its elemental forces combined, and no
more effect would have been produced up
on that ponderous structure-which, ac-
eording to Mr.. Collins declaration, had
enough iron in it for half dozen bridges
than upon the everlasting hills. But then
there is no objection in the world to the ad-
vancementof Mr.. Morton's theory, either
in the way of amusement or as confident