Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1877-10-12

Streets to erect ten street lamps for burn
ing oil or gas. As OIL lamps will probably
be the ones adopted it would be well TO
the committee to examine those recent!
erected at Jefferson, as they are from ap
pearance as good, if not superior to any
oil lamps we have seen.
We are indebted to some one-whethel
the author or the Bankers association, We
know not, for copy of Grossback's great
speech before the American Bankers AsSo-
citation, on the subject of gold and silver,
which we trust will pay richl for the peru
sal. Mr.. G. has the credit of being very
much at home on this subject, and having
few peers in the handlingof it.
AT meeting of the Ashtabula County
Agricultural Society, held on the second
day Of the Fair. the following gentlemen
we're elected officers for the ensuing year:
President-George E. Nettleton, Ashtabu-
la. Vice President-E. 0. Peck, Rich
mond. Directors-Calvin Dodge, New
Lyme; E. G. Hurlburt, Hartsgrove; B. F.
Perry, Andover; and Henry Bowman, Say
brook.
Mr.. A. Il. Williams Of Plymouth who
was wounded in the right wrist while
hunting on the Both ult., is doing well
and amputation will probably not be
necessary. At the time of the accident he
was in the Little Marsh. with couple of
companions who were standing near log.
Young Williams gun slipped from his
hand and the hammer striking on the log
the gun was discharged, the charge tearing
away the fesh@and part of the bone from
his right wrist.
The marrige of Mr.. Chas. G. Mccoy
to Miss Sarah A. Crosby, daughter of our
townsman L. NJ. Crosby, took place last
Wednesday evening at the residence of the
brides parents. Only few guests we're
present at the ceremony beside the rela-
tives Of the happy couple. On Thursday
morning a special car was attached to the
morning train on the A., Y. & P. road
which conveyed the bride and groom and
their Pittsburgh friends to the Smoky
City" Mr.. & Mrs. Mccoy will visit there
for week when they will return to Ash
bula.
The new Catholic school house had
narrow escape from fire day or two ago.
1t is supposed that match was carelessly
thrown in the shavings, from which the
fire took. 1t was Immediately discovered
and put out with bucket of water. By
the way, this building is of large dimen-
sions, and will almost rival in capacity the
several public school buildings put togeth-
er. five are to calculate the numbers of
the children from these dimensions, the
well-known fecundIty of the Irish popula-
tion will be fully sustained.
Our ''ycung man" addressed a rather
slim meeting at the Opera House on Mon
day evening last. Those who listened to
it say it was not inconsistent with the ap-
pelstion assumed by the speaker. Some say
that one moiety of the speech was devoted
to himself and the other to ourself. 9th
ers, who endured to the end, represent that
it was cut up little finer, and that Fitch
and Burrows were equal sharers with the
two first mentioned. The ''young man"
was Of course, duly .trotted out, and in re-
lief commended to those who had sympa-
thies to enlist, or bowels to yearn.
"A public trial of the Rubicon Range
is to be given at the store of Messrs. Geo.
c. Hubbard & Co. next Tuesday, which
will undoubtedly attract a large number
of spectators. At public trial given at
West Winsted, Conn.,, recently, the fire
was lighted at a. m; the oven was hot
in twenty-three minutes, and the fire last
ed until $50 p. m, or thirteen hours and
tlOenty-seven minutes. One barrel of -four
was baked into 246 loaves of bread, making
300 pounds, with 80 pounds of coal. No
fuel was added after a. m. Read the big
uloCLlGul III dUOlutI COluulus
The apple crop this season is not only
a precarious one, on account of general de-
cay-to which other fruit has also been ex-
posed-but we are of the opinion that they
have not generally been as large and far
as in some otheryears. Ameasure brought
US by Mr.. S. S. Snow, of Kingsville, how
ever, has been an exception to both these
ideas. \ full half bushel of the King of
Thompkins county, left US, counted out
twenty-four, some of the largest of which
weighed II ounces, and one other which
was picked at the same time, but not in
cluded in this twenty-four, weighed 10
ounces. They are beauties in their fair
ness as well as size.
"A drive to the Harbor the other day.
showed phase OF the business of that place
not often seen this season-the creek and
slips were nearly without vessel. Wbeth-
er the ore business has experienced an early
hull, or, as would seem to a chance observer.
every foot of space had been put to its ut
most use in the storing of that commoditv.
did not appear The incumbent weight
upon the docks would seem to be sufficient
ly ponderous to crush them, and yet we
noticed but one spot-near the turn from
the creek to the slip, on the east side
where the face line had been driven out
several feet, and considerably cracked and
spread at the point.
The street committee of the corpora-
tion, are making pretty thorough work
with Lake street, between the old corpora
tion limits and the Harbor The culvert
south Of the old Strong place has been
and the roadway considerably
widened in that narrow place, while Mt the
same time the road-bed has been raised by
cutting down the hill south. The result is
a very great improvement in both ways
evening mp and widening. 1t has been de-
termined also to McAdamise a strip of the
road in front Of The Strong house-usually
so bad-and the slope towards the culveri.
The stone from the beach have been drop
ped on tie si.c, and mostly broken up for
finishing the work without delay.