Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1878-02-22
A. R. THURBER & co.
14gI-46
LOCAL n r w s
-Wsshington's birthday.

deaths by small pOx in Youngstown.
The Light Gua.ds viii give dress pa
rads this tFriday) afternoon, weather per
mitting..
Hon. Freeman ThOrp was in town last
Tuesday and made a short call at tae lsle-
graph Office.
The Treasurer of the Lake Shore for
bids the taking of Mexican dollars at the
stations of the line.
What had become Of all the life insur-
ancs agents now-a-days2 There is no one
to offer an inducement to die.
The Central News Room has been
closed for several days past, during which
time it has received repairs.
The domestic happiness of Mr.. H. H.
Perry was increased TO the extent of nine
pounds last Monday night. Il IS boy.
The evening of Friday ga is fixed by
the ladies' OF the Temperance Union for a
social at the union rooms on Center street.
-825 grains Trey Of silver of standard
fnsness, will pay for the TELEGRAPH for
a year, whether the Bland bill passes or
not.
Hard times and the absence of bustles,
are having their effects upon the newspa-
per business. Things are not as they used
to be.
-Du Bois' new building Just north of
Wizards block, has gone up with rush,
and ia few days viii be ready for oecu
pancy.
The Western Union Telegraph Com
pany srs evening up rates that were reduc-
ed by competition when both companies
were in operation.
The Leader reports that part of the
stolen goods from the stores recently burg
lErized have been found in pawn brokers
shops in that city.
IA. L. Hurlbut, a reformed insbriate,
gass three lectures in the village closing
with Thursday evening, to good audiences
and to the general satisfaction of the hear
ers.
Mr.. John Prentice, of Columbus, for
merly of Ashtabula, was in town the ear
ly part of the week. he continues to
hold the Office of a guard at the Ohio Pen
itentiary.
-Bescher fell among thieves at Chicago
the other day, and lost his overcost. He
is represented to have consoled himself,
with the thOnght, that his purity and in
ward peace were left him.
-Ons Of the entertainments of the
Standard Office devil, is-we are told-to
quote scripture It is to be hoped that
his efforts in this line will not be lost upon
the rest of the establishment.
Representative Thorp will accept our
thanks for copy of the Ohio Centennial
Report. 1t is volume of interesting facts
and shows the part the great State Of Ohio
took in the Centennial Exposition.
The mild weather of the past winter
has been favorable not only for the poor
with short amount Of fuel, but for those
poor husbands who are required to start
the kitchen fire with thin and scanty ward
robe.
We occasionally hear that Mrs. Tilton
is sIdng out scanty subsistence by keep
ing Brooklyn boarding house, but who
will tell US of the welfare Of that other
body who lifted the 5000 out of Frank
Moultons exchequer?
Our devil says that valentine and
ground hog days come 50 near together
that he gets things little mixed. His
valentine this year was sent off on the
wrong day, and raised the very mischief
with his social prospects.
Another Democratic splinter seems to
be sticking into our brother Apthorp-it
is the dividingO of the village up into wards
and petition is in circulation to secure
that end. If our opponents are not sufi-
cisty entrsnchsd already, it may be well
enough to farm out the corporation.
The extension Of Elm street to inter
sect Camp, is engaging the attention of
property owners in that neighbOrhooa, and
petition to tbs Council, is in circulation,
looking to action at an early day. A street
50 central, and important as that, would
sssm to be entitled to better termination
at the southerly end.
Those rouyh-looking customsrs-Mex-
lean dollars-which week or two ago sub
sidized themselves into circulation about
here seem to have all at once disappeared.
We have not seen one for week or more.
The last one we had wore hole through
our pants pocket, and was lost to sight.
though yet to memory dear
We saw one Of our village butchers
the other day, delivering at a residence.
several pairs of bullock's horns. After
considerable cogit4ting over the matter
the conclusion seemed to be inevitable,
that there was soon to be some new depsrt-
ure in evolution. No reference is had to
the domicils Of either OF our cotemporar-
les.
The indianapolis Sentinel comes to
us marked for attention to highly com
mandatory notice Of lecture ON the dali
~, delivered there on the evening of the
18th, by MIR. Francis D. MOulton. The
treatment Of the Sentinel Of the gentleman
and his efforts, is very different from that
extended to him from that "nest of IN
clean birds" in Brooklyn.
Our friend Eyer the Barber had a sur
prise sprung upon him the night of the
14th inst. At about 9, he was informed
that all was not right at home, and hurry
ing Of in brsathless haste, found the house
lighted up, and crowd Of young friends
enjoying themselves, and ready to give him
hearty reception in his own house. He
wishes to express the thanks of himself
and wife for the kind remsmbrances of
these friends, with added wish that their
kindness NAV he raneafad