Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1877-08-10


The Council meets next WedneSdA!
evening.
The fall term, of the public schools
will open Monday. Sept. Sd.
The infantry companies will not march
to Conneaut. as was first proposed.
Freight business on the Ashtabuls &
Oil CITY road is not very lively just now.
-Mr. W. F. Swift of the Cleveland SaH-
dan Post was in town last Wednesday.
Remember that Coles great circus will
exhibit at Ashtabula next week Thursday.
The annual reunion of Battery c., o.
WI. a. will be held at Geneva Aug.
31st.
Mr.. James L. Smith has gone to Cha
tauqua Lake. where he will camp out Tor
few weeks.
Such swarm of good-looking school
marms and homely professors was never
before seen on our streets.
Lake Shore stock took a jump upward
on Monday last. From so it rose to 511a.
The inquiry is, what was the cause?
Mr.. D. A. Strong of Ashtabula, has
purchased the stone mill at Madison, o.,
where he has removed and will carry on
general milling business.
The inaugural meeting of Oak Grove
Driving Association of Warren will be held
to-day and Saturday, Aug. 10th and llth-
Purses amount to 1886.
Cleveland has received $11, ,5s7 for h
censes on 1858 dogs. Ashtabula Is about to
pass an ordinance of the same kind which
should bring in at least $500.
The call for contracts for putting up the
school house on Prospect street, has been
re-inserted in this paper, and offers IA
forable chance for builders.
That was a good yield from one and
one-quarter acres of soule wheat on the
premises Of Mr.. \. A. Barnes, Orwell. The
measure was forty-seven bushels.
And now Mr.. W. o. Netrleton, of the
firm of Hall, Stevenson & Nettleton, has
gone West and taken to himself wife.
''May they live long and prosper"
The drum corps of Light Guards, com
posed of four young boys and fifer,are to
be provided with uniforms, consisting OF
dark blue cloth, trimmed with black.
-AI the cattle that were left at the
PainesviIle cattle yards during the strike
have been removed. The animals consum-
ed 300 tons Of hay while confined there.
The reception given by the Watson B.
B. Association at the Armory last Friday
evening was very pleasant and success
full affair. The receipts amounted to $s7.
Mr.. Geo. Travin, superintendent Of
one of the extensive dry goods houses of
W. H. Andrews of Cincinnati, was in town
last Monday and Tuesday, visiting his
friends.
Cleveland is once more taking up the
matter of building new armory for its
militia. They will get about so far when
Solicitor Heisley will throw cold water on
the project.
The heavy wooden railing around the
desk of the Farmers National Bank has
been removed and neat wire railing put
in its place, which adds much to the ap-
pearance of the room.
"A little more competition in the tow
ing business atsthe Harbor before the sea-
son closes. The owner of the tug Triad of
Cleveland, TALKS of bringing his boat here,
as the business at that port is very dull at
present.
Mr.. John Dade, of the Commercial
restaurant at the Hsrbor, has sold out his
interest in that establishment and has re-
ceived the appointment of cook of the rev.
enuecutter Perry, which position he is now
filling.
Our military companies expect grand
time at the encampment next week
Am. rng the sports viii be matched game
Of basa ball between two of the companies.
The troop,s 60 into camp next Tuesday
morning ana return Friday evening.
win the Tines man please put pin
here: One of our poll eemen who arrested
the young men from Gem wa after a recent
ball match. and the Mayor, each say that
in the court room the young 'nen each
gave Geneva as their place of residence.
On Tuesday of last week about mid
night the barn of James L. Potter, of JEFF
ferson, was burned. 1t was almost new,
44x59, and is severe loss to him. Among
the contents which were burned, were ten
tons of hay, lot of straw, four harness, a
hay rake, &c. There is no way for account
ing for the fire.
The cheek some of the Cleveland pa
pers possess is really astonishing Nearly
every one we look at contains one or more
ar, ticles from the TELEGRAPH, some being
oopie,1 word for word, without credit, and
others rewritten or altered so as to appear
as original. Such enterprise is anything
but commendable.
We had a call on Wednesday from
Edward Crook, Esq, of Orwell, and -
Treat, of Colebrook, both connected with
the Stults family by marriage, who with the
Jaynes, who have also become more or
less mixed, were on their way to Geneva
and Sturgeon Point, for partial family
gathering at the latter place, on the fol-
lowing day.
On the morning of the 5th inst, Mr..
F. ". Blakeslee left Ashtabula Harbor foI
trip by water to Dunkirk, n. Y, in a
little boat of his own construction, which
30 feet long, and 21I feet beam. He ex-
Is Il to reach his destination by sunset
PecC' Ss day, but we hear that when he
Oh the sa1 - changed his plans and fin
fsasiih ished his 1jaG journe, " fail.
u. S. Spaulding, St. ''S,ts =. = KantIond
boro'. Pa, died on a vls 5oEsI -
Newton Co., Ind, about ten e
from the effects of sun-stroke. Mr.. -
son-in-law of Lyman Webster, of XIII.
Vile. and was well known thereabouts as
an upright young man. Henry L. Miller