Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1877-05-25
HarSor ana Marine News.
Lake freights on coal and iron ore re-
main about the same.


main about the same.
"A restaurant and barber shop have re-
Gently been added to the Lake Side House.
The Q. s. steamer Michigan is fitting
ou, for service and will be in Detroit in n
few weeks.
-Messrs. McHemenWay and Hayes, Of
Painesville. have secured the contract for
the Government breakwster at Sand Beach
Lake Huron.
-Ex- Marshal Blair is now commanding
the schooner Jessie. She left Wednesday
on her second trip this season for Buffalo
with staYes.
Jack Schram is again ready for pleas
ure seekers with fine lot Of boats, which
he will let oD reasonable terms. You will
always find him at O'NeiIl's store.
johnny Thayer again answers the sig
mails at the pOntoOn bridge. The rugs new
er find it necessary to whistle but once for
the bridge to open, be itNday or night.
Fishing in the lake off this port is now
excellent. Bass, pike, ETC., are caught in
large quantities with hooks. The gill-net
fishermen are not as yet catching many
whitefish.
A large number of, vessels bound up
after cargoes for this port, were. detained
at Port Huron by the ice. In the course
of a week or two look out for harbor full
of shipping.
Paul Cheney is about ready to open
his new grocery store with nice line of
fresh goods. His popularity and the con-
venient location of his establishment indi-
Gates success in his new enterprise.
The necessary equipments for the life
saving station at Fairport having arrived,
Mr.. Babcock has everything in readiness
now to battle with wind and waves, should
any of cur sailors be so unfortunate as to
meet with any disaster requiring such aid.
Last Tuesday as train of fiat cars
loaded with coal wasssbeing pushed up the
elevated track to the coal chutes one of the
cars ran of the end of the trestle, dumping
the coal on the dock thirty feet below.
The car was broken IN two and hung over
the trestle.
The automatic railroad for unloading
iron ore is being taken down. but will be
erected again little east of its present To-
cation. A large upright boiler with two
powerful engines attached is already in
position on the dock and will be used to
draw the cars.
The schooner S. J. Tilden came in
light from Buffalo last Wednesday morn
ing While she was passing the schooner
Kate Richmond, which was lying just
above the bridge, she ran her ilb-boOm in
to the Richmond's rigging, carrying away
her fore-top-mast stay and breaking her
own iib-boom. S. ]. Tilden is very un-
fortunate name for these times.
A supper. for the benefit of the Har-
Dor Temperance Union will be given at
their new rooms in Halls block tomorrow
evening Saturday. An admission Of %
cents will be charged and every effort will
be made to make this a memorable and en-
joyable occasion. We are informed that a
special train will start from Centre Street
to accommodate those from town who may
wish to be present.
Professionalism most convenient for
anyway be left at the A. Y. & P. Station
Centre street-at any time not later than
noon of Saturday.
All of Hubbard & Cos fleet, the Snow
Drop, Jessie, Oneida and Wend the Wave,
haYe, or are fitting out for the first time
in two years. The Jessie is now on her
second trip to Buffalo with slaves, and the
Snow Drop left Thursday for Cleveland,
where she has contract for carrying coal
to Port Stanley. The Edwin Harmon,
York State, and Star Of Hope still lie at
their moorings up the creek. The Kate
Richmond has been chartered to carry six
eargoes of coal from this port to Buffalo.
Harmon & Wetmore, is the style of
new firm of butchers that has opened up at
the Harbor, and circulate with one of their
wagons about the upper village. Of course
these butchers are all-some 9 or 10 of
them-clever fellows and will serve you
with much accommodation and regularity;
but the great question is, who knocks
down the best bullocks? For the one that
gives us the best beef, is the one that the
buyer cares the most about, and he is the
man who will carry the palm with the best
patrons-those who can tell the difference
between little two-year-old and full
grown, stall fed bullock. This new firm,
we understand, are to enjoy some special
advantage in procuring the best animals
that John Harmon's sagacity is capable of
supplying.
May 19-Schr. Jessie, light, Buffalo; tug
Maggie Ashton, sight, Fairport
Y-Schr King Sisters. light. Cleveland.
ore, Marquette; schr. Kate Richmond, light,
Buffalo.
Ss-schr. S. ]. Tilden, light Buffalo,
CLEARED.
May 1e-Prop. Sparta, light, Marquette;
schr. Verona, light, Marquette; schr. d. F.
Marquette; tug Maggie Ashton, light, Erie;
steam barge Vienna, light, Marquette: Schr
L. Hanna, light. Escanaba.
22-SchF. King Sisters, 200 tons pig iron, $40
2S-Schr. Jessie. 79,OO0 slaves, Buffalo.
A-schr. Snow Drop, light, Cleveland.
Lecture of Mr. COIfax.