Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1877-12-14
NJ Henry Sweet Of franklin. has been

for the purpose Of performing the hllsl duty
Of committing the remains Of his recently
deceased father. to his last resting placs.
Mr.. S. has had the good fortune to lease a
considerable tract Of oil territory. upon
which he has sunk three wells varying in
yield from four to twelve barrels a day.
! $4,000 has been refused for one half of
one of these wells.
Welt Well. The paIe-facedness of
the first number Of the !StaRdard Is now
accounted for BY itself 1t was trying to
do 3 big thing in the way of letter press
execution, and therefore, used 81 job ink
instead Of news ink at 20 or p cents. We
rather took it for granted. that they were a
pretty green sci, over there. but 1t seems we
didn't make allowance enough for them
Never mind. we shall be able to gauge a
little nearer, in the future.
As the holiday season is almost upon
us. and presents and deeds Of kindness are
among the first things thought Of, we take
occasion 10 reitirate, former suggestion.
that Christmas token to a friend could
take no more agreeable form than a years
subscription to the TELEGRAPH. It would
be pleasant and almost constant reminder
OF the thoughtful generosity Of the donor
throughout the year. It would be present
that would make wiser and better and hap
pier
Ole Bull construed the adage ''take time
by the forelock. Take time by the
hair" So far as We can see, the new
reading is sufficiently literal, and rather
more fOrcible than the old. At any rate,
there can be no improperly IN the sdop-
tion'of it by our readers, and the paving
up Of old scores and one year in ad-
vance for the future. This would be
one question connected with the advent
Of the new year settled, apd upon it the
mind would be free to grapple with the
next.
Our canvsssing agent, Mr.. Kimball,
finds similar success in Austinburg that
attended him in Kingsville, and the
ground that We had almost given up as
hopeless under the contol Of one or two
of our eotemporaries, has been canvsssed
with highly satisfactory success. Large
papers with patent insides aud circum-
scribed limits for local, home news, which
make merit of belonging to, no party
''ain't no where" Our agent says he
could only hear,of three names being ia
ken where he entered between thirty and
forty.
"A Rome correspondent-A. A. Peck,
makes an effort to get us right about the
places of Elder Cranes preaching. for
which we feel peculiar gratitude, for we
have been puzzled over this matter not a
little. The simple, positive fact seems to
be, that he '-preaches at Rome Station one
Sunday and at New Lyme center the next" |
This being the second attempt of getting |
right, we hope that it is final and ire. oca-
BILE. One other matter our friend corrects,
about the Chardon mail, is that the hack
runs "six times week, " instead of three.
as we had it.
Trouble has again arisen in getting the |
TELEGRAPH before our Saybrook subscribers
in due time. If we mail on Friday, as we |
do, before the closing of the
II As a. m. train they areas was the case
last Friday-carried by, and do not re-
turn until the next day. This is Yexatious,
and after few such disappointments the
subscriber 10 stop paper, reasoning YER
y nationally, if he cannot get it regular
Iy, he does not want it. To tell him that
The fault is not Ours-thst it is regularly
not help the matter, We
nave, therefore, through P. NJ. Sexton,
at headquarters, and we
lhink the evil will be remedied.
A sad occurrence took place in the
'amily of James Good, on Tuesday after
noon. Charley, bright and lovely little
iellow of 4 or 5 years, went up stairs to lie
Town. After a sufficient time had elapsed
'or nap, his mother went to look after
lin and found him upon the bed with his
yes open, and upon taking him up discov-
red that he was quite dead. One of his
nother's dresses hung upon the bedstead,
nd the contents. of one of the pockets we're
pread upon the stand, among which was
wallet and an open paper of strychnine,
AIKEN from the wallet. Whether he had
AIKEN the deadly poison or not, cannot be
old from any evidences apparent, or that
e had died with any pain OF struggle.
Mr.. Elisha Walker of Saybrook, who is
ne of the pioneers of the township, in
ormed us the other day, that he settled
pom his present farm in 1922. when the {
resent line of the North Ridge road upon
7hich be lives, was an unbroken f.rest,
nd not settler had fixed his stakes be-
ween his place and the Lake. The North
iidge road was not laid out for some time {
fter the South. Though many of the fa-
hers and mothers who began the work of
lbduing the wilderness, are passing away,
[r. Walker appears to be in very good
ealth, sid likely to enjoy with his I
orthy descendants for years to come. the
oOdly heritage which be founded, and his 7
rugality and industry have so well devel J
ped. 8
We regret to learn that our friend