Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1878-03-29
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The Spring election viii take place on
Monday nsxtzApril 1st.
Examination sf Teachers will be held
at Orwell. on Tuesday, April 2nd.
415 barrels Of pigeons were shipped to
New York from Tionesta, Pa. last Mon
Q dey.-o alCag .ssslgc
zBeecher lectures in Cleveland this Fri
day evening. Subject-~The Day Of she
People" aa
We acknowledge the receipt Of several
speeches of Representative Garfield They
amply pay Perusal.
Are those early garden vegetables for
the editorial man, over there in jefferson,
all up and houFshing.
Ia. Howells Of the Sentinel, and
WI. Swift of the Cleveland Sunday Post
were in town last Wednesday.
The officers Of the corporation who
are elected next Monday win be sworn in
Wednesday evening April 18th.
-Mr. Geo c. Mygatt and family have
returned to Ashtabuls, and he viii take a
position in the Erie Store as salesman.
THE late cold snap postponed. the work
Of gathering up the sap buckets, and en-
eOursged new tapping for another run.
The little daughter of John W.. Col
4 lins, has been so much indisposed for
some days, as to leave her recovery quite
doubtful
The Erie and Pittsburg conductors
double their trips making three a week
and lay off intervening days, by new ar
rangement.
-Topky has clsrk-Mr Stetson, from
Athens, who bas business in his eye. BE
will undoubtedly be an accession to that
establishment.
Rev. S. D. Psst, informed US that the
firstnumbsr Of the Antiquarian, Of which
he will bethe editor, win make its appear
ance in April-printed at Cleveland.
Samuel Williams was arrested last
Wednesday night for drunkenness and dis
orderly conduct. In the Mayors Court
next morning he was fined 81 and costs.
We see that some of our cOtempora-
ries propose to take postage stamps for any
of those small amounts due. Not disposed
to be critical, we viii agree to do the same.
The fishing boats off Conneaut, made
very large hauls of white fish on Thurs
day Of last wesk-each boat averaged
about 200 pounds as we learn from the Re
porter.
"A note from our late eotemporsry Mr..
HsWley, says he is about to leave Harpers-
field, but is in doubt where he viii bring
up permanently. His health is better es-
tsblished.
We acknowledge the receipt of the
roll and report of the Musical Convention
st Geneva last week. We had an article
on the subject already in type, so that we
did not use it.
-Mahoning county is in splendid shape,
says the Youngstown HindicatOr. It has
not bond outstanding, does not owe q
dollar, and has over twenty-thres thou
sand dollars in the Treasury.
Augustus Sweet, who has been gradu-
ully wasting away for two years until he
was mere skeleton, died on the 21st inst.
the last five days Of his life not being
able to take any sustinence whatever.
We learn from the Reporter. that
some of the citizens Of that burg, are en-
gagged in gathering up farms in the corrO-
ration, and that one Of them-Mr Cum
minis has already procured $50 acres.
"A vein of gas was struck while dig
ging 9 well ON the cross road between the
ridges near the house Of Josiah Allen. It
maintained flame, and had all the prop.
critics Of the common subteranean illumin-
ating article.
Bishop Ames of the Methodist Epis-
copal church says of newspapers: 81
was an old school teacher, but my con-
viction is that good newspaper among
family Of children is s0orth more than any
$40 goa can pay a school teacher.
An examination of peach buds upon
our own premises, since the freeze of Sat
urdayan Sunday night, does not show
the blasted marks that have been feared.
Ifnothing worse comes, we shall probably
have supply Of that delicious fruit.
Mr.. J. N. Allen. suffered an spileptic
attack on Thursday the 21st inst, that
went so hard with him, that it was feared
by the family and physician, that he
might not rally; but we are pleased to
hear that he has been gradually improy-
ing.
No, George MetcaIf, who last fall
bougF ~ Hall place, on the North
Ridgs west, takes possession on the 1st of
April. and the Doctors family have leased
the Capt. Pratt place. now owned BY WIN.
Humphrey esq and will occupy on the
first prox.
"A Union meeting will be held Ar the
Baptist church, on Monday evening. April
1, 1878. which will be addressed bv Rev
W. G. Van Meter, who has spent several
years in Rome. The address will be illas-
+. trated by large maps, Pictures, etc. Ad-
mission Free.
We notice that our friend A. G. Sny-
der, who has an eye for good horse, was
driving, the other day, new and bSauti-
fui bay, that looked as if he might have
some good road qualities about him. We
shall DC happy to see that question set
tied in good time.
Mr.. George Green, from experience.
admonishes farmers, against sowing clover
upon tile drained land. His experience
has been, that the clover roots win reach
the tile and choke them, even though thew
lie two feet below the surface, in The short
space Of two years.
An old pioneer-one Of the very ear
Iisst settlers Of the county-Mr. Joseph
Aills-died at his residence in Eagleville
on Friday night last. His age is not stat
ed He has for q long time been an inva-
lid. and his suffsrings have been Of rath-