Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1877-06-15

FaFk question with ms USUAL grace anu
eloquenee.
Ia. .991 tons Of ore were received at this
Harbor during the seven days from June
7th to the 18th. This is not very bad for
dull times.
"A corps Of Frank Leslie's artists pass
ed over the L. S. & NJ s. Ry. last week. A
visit 10 the bridge and sketch of the To-
cality was made.
The large schooner NJ. S. Bacon clear
ed with cargo of 1900 tons of coal for Chi
cago last Saturday. She is new craft, this
being the first cargo she ever carried.
Mrs. Samuel NJ. Fassett, of Chicago,
is engaged at Washington in reproducing
the electoral commission on canvass. She
is gathering laurels in her profession.
We are informed by parties who have
given the matter attention, that the spple
crop this year viii not be more than a
quarter yield IN the Northern States.
Peaches will be abundant.
The hull and machinery of the steam
er R. N. Riee-plying between Cleveland
and Detroit-were badly damaged by fire
on Saturday evening last, while laying at
the dock of the latter city.
Our readers should always look at the
specimens Of job printing that are publish
ed each week on the first page of the TEL
EGRAPH. We think for style and price
they cannot be surpassed in. this vicinity.
A match game of base ball between the
Plymouth and Light Guard mines will be
played on the grounds below the L. S. s
M. S. bridge Saturday afternoon. Owing to
the rain no game was played last Saturday.
Some of the ladies who have used Thur
ber's cologne, want US to say to the public,
that ii is not surpassed by the best obtained
in New York or Paris, as two Of the ladies
who use it are warranted in saying by actu-
al test.
AT the annual meeting of the A, Y.
& P. railroad company at the Office of E.
h. Fitch, on the 9TH inst, the old board of
directors we're reelected. As the officers
are elected at Pittsburgh, the news does
not reach us very early.
"A union temperance meeting was held
by the several churches at the Methodist
house on Sunday evening last, which was
filed. The speaker was gentleman from
Charlottesville, Ia, Mr.. H. H. Wade. His
address was well received.
The schooner Harvey c. Brown, of De-
troit, consort of the Forest City arrived
here last Monday from Marquette with car
go Of ore. While crossing Saginaw Bay
she experienced very rough weather and
lost her main and mizzen top masts and
mizzen masthead.
The weather proved unfavorable for
the dramatic entertainment at the Opera
House on Saturday evesing last, and the
amateur performers acquitted themselve:
with much clevsrness. The thing will be
repeated with change in afterpieee, fol
the benefit Of the Temperance Union.
Our friend Mac. favors us with tele-
gram from Kalamazoo, stating that the
trotting at that place on Wednesday last
three minute raee-in which some of our
Ashtabula County horses were engaged was
won BY Adele Clark, in 2:25A. Ashtabu-
lA-Hsskell's horse-was close second.
"A grand reunion Of soldiers and veter,
ans is to be held in Conneaut the coming
August, and a grand and glorious time is
anticipated. Officers and soldiers of North
ern Ohio will be present, and military com
panies from Painesville, Madison, Geneva
Ashtsbula, and other towns will join il
the reunion.
Some slight-of-hand prestidigitators-
Dave Gary and OTIS Pooler-who have been
intinsrating about the vicinity, performing
. tObacco-box trick. were brought befOr,
Mayor Hepburn on Saturday last, and put
under bonds of $500 each for trial before
the Common Pleas. They were enabled t.
furnish bail.
1t would seem as if these were unfa
vOrabls times for indulging in patriarchs
asperations, and yet, those fellows over t.
the NeaOs Office are engaged in the work OF
reproduction of their kind. 1t would bt
not little amusing to know if they have
succeeded in bringing out veritable copie.
of themselves.
The Plain Dealer, on Saturday, had ,
cartoon, displaying the pious Sunday edi
tors Of the Leader and Herald in consulta
tion with his Satanic Majesty. We can
say exactly how Cowles will make it witt
the old gentleman, but we have no fea
that Fairbanks will prove himself more
than match for the old fellow.
The squash bug will be next in order
and an agricultural correspondent give.
the remedy. He says after trying plaster
ashes and gas lime to no purpose, he tool
a pan of ashes and poured on just enougl
kerosene to moisten the ashes, which b
scattered among the vines infested will
the bugs. In day or two there was not
bug to be found about the vines so treated
"A Dickens Promenade Reception
comes off at the Opera House this-Frida.
evening, gotten up by the alumni of tn
Ashtsbula public schools. The programm
embraces the Barden-Pickwick breach 0
promise case, with tableaus, SC. The char
scters to be represented are numerous. Re
fFeshments will be served at a small sun
beside the quarter for admission. The pro
Deeds go toward the purchase of librar-
for the High school,
Some Of our East Village friends com
plain at the neglect of the strip of roa,
running between Osborn's hill and the cor
poration line, near the Newell corners; the
say its condition is not creditable to tn
corporation, and aside from the laying @
a few plank over a culyert with no outlet
there has not been expended dollar upo
it for 25 years. How is this, Messrs. Stree
Committee and Road Commissioner? !
there any ground for this complaint1