Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1878-01-18
LOCAL n E w s

The Commonwealth Minstrsls played
to empty seats last Saturday and Monday
evenings.
The Council met in regular session last
Wednesday evening. The proceedings are
published in another column.
The Reporter says the boy Chas.
Clark. formerly of Conneaut, has con-
fsssed the firing Of the Infrmary barn.
The sale of property to sat
isfy delinquent taxes on Tuesday last, was
well attended and the competition lively
and earnest.
Mr.. James Manning at the L. S. Station,
who has been running a store in the Hum
phrey building, made an assignment,
few days since, to JAS. Kain.
Mr.. Charles North of Colebrook was
killed week or so ago while telling tim
Der in that town, by the unexpected split
ting and falling of tree he was cutting.
Mr.. R. Houghton, of Jefferson, as we
learn from the Gazette, had a shock, on
Monday of last week, approxamating to
paralysis, but is rallying from it encourag-
ingly.
They have mum socials over at the
Hub. which seems solecism in language.
We take it, that there is deal of gigling.
and that this constitutes the social feature
of the antertainment
p. It. Stafford, merchant of Madison,
has found the adverse currents setting
little too strong for successful stemming,
and yielding to necessity, succumbed. Ru-
NOR put his liabilities at $4,000.
Mrs. Senator Plumb, with two chill
dren, has been spending a few days in
town in the family of her brother-Mr
a. A. Southwick-en route from Kansas 10
the capital to join her husband.
Prof. Hopkins expects to give his
second concert at Saybrook on Wednesday
evening of next week. Our Saybrook'
friends may count upon a musical treat,
and will not grudge their money or time.
The Bollinger glass works Of Raven
na, have been sold to a cooperative Co. Of
practical glass workers, from Pittsburgh.
The sole business of the manufacture, will
be the making of lamp ehimnies. The
working force, will be 20 men and boys.
Why may not the citizens of Ashta-
bula organize as an insurance company
and do their own insuring? If there is
profit in it, the money paid to foreign COM
panies might just as well be kept at home,
and 90 10 the building up and improve
ment of our own locality.
They have been agitating the gas ques-
ton over in Ackron, and considerable op-
position and complaint have been made at
the price paid for coal gas, which was
50 80. The result of the agitation has
been to reduce the price one half to the
city-$1.25, and to $3.50 for private con-
sumers.
1t seems that pressure of advertising
has compelled the ministers of Warren to
exclude from their religious services all
secular announcements. Hereafter, no
patent medicines, minstrel troupes, fire
mans balls, shooting matches, or any
thing of the kind will be advertised in the
Warren pulpit.s
Our culinary department recipes, etc.
is now under the management Of an expert
enced housekeeper and cook, and such re-
ciPes as may appear in this part of the pa
per, will be such as have been fully tested
and known to be all right, so that our lady
readers may adopt them without the fear
that they are going it blind, or at hapbaz-
zard.
An exchange says: ''Ths problem OF
Indis-good rosds-is brought home 10
Americans, and it is problem, which as
yst,our civilization has been utterly unable
to solve. Curious-we can flash message
in five seconds, from London to New York.
and we cannot, at reasonable cost, get T.
cart load of corn in an open winter. five
miles to market on an Illinois prairie"
Subscriptions continue to come IN even
though the new year has passed, making 4
demand for back numbers. We have a
few subscribers who have not paid in ad
vance. We know that they are good, and
their happiness would not be complete
without the TELEGRAPH. When the travel
ing shall be such as to enable them 10 como
and see, or send to US, all will be right
we doubt not.
Our "Pietro" letter does not appear
this week, by reason Of some hitch in the
business engagements Of Mr.. Locke, and
We cannot promise that they will be re
newed. This is to be regretted, as no
series Of letters of this character has ever
given such general satisfaction to our read
ers- II, however they are not to be re-
sumed, steps will be taken to supply their
place as best we can.