Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1878-04-05

our readers to look over. To those VIII
60 out Of town for their carpets, prObabl
TO better place can be found than Of Ithi'
Stones. To be found in its proper place
and for decorations and fresco painting
Ksnner & Cushman. both establishment
Of CleveL md. should be thought Of.
The singing school Of Prof. Howard
is held every Saturday evening at th
Presbyterian chapel. The attendance i
good. bnt there is room for more. Tn
competency Of the Prof. as a teacher, NanC
the moderate price OF 81 term, are ad
vantages that our young people should no
fail to embrace. The school has no specia
attachment to the Presbyterian church
but is open-and free to all.
There is a tenderness in the public
mind on the subjeet ofthe election. Some
Of those chaps who we're cavoorting about
the door Of the first Opera House eaucusr
who were so happy aver the thought Of
capturing the m0sting. have not been seen
very much about the village, since elec-
ton, and there is a subdued air IN the
bearing of some of the usually brusque
leaders Of the subterraneans.
The Tampa Tribune Of the 23d inst,
notices the return of Mr.. A. Il. ParslOw,
the TELEGRAPH correspondent, from a
trip across the country through Polk
county, which Is represented to have been
highly plessurablr and satisfactory-made
so especially by the courteous reception,
everywhere met with from the good peo-
plea fOrcible exemplification of southern
hospitality.
Doubling up in mercantile as well as
social matters is getting to be somewhat
fashionable among our merchants. A
large store, it is found. will amply accom-
modate two establishments of moderate ex-
tent, and besides dividing the rent facili-
tates dividing up clerk hire, and is saving
all around. Buraosm snd BOotes, and
Chamberlain and Stebbins uptown and
McGlanning and Maueson OF the Harbor,
have each adopted this plan.
Oh, it is sad to lcok over the field, since
the clearing Of the smoke of battle, to be-
hold the wounded and slain, the shreds
and scattered membra, of the very flower
the jewels-of Democracy what haYoci
what desoiationi Who can read that run
ming eulogium in the Extra" compre-
hending the gentle and generous Clover,
down to the rigging and restless tail s it
lies upon the Board of Education-with-
out being moved? Especially is it affecting
in the. case Of those innocents so generous
ly eudocsed-who voted the State demo-
cratic ticket last fsllr' Alas, it was never
so before the advent of the Standard.
The village is in fair way of having
at least one street in a condition for COM
Portable use. Center St., as has already
been stated, has been well ballasted with
blast furnace cinders, from the A. Y. & P.
station to Main St. The cinder is well
broken and dumped in the mud, and as it
finds bottom and settles unevenly, the de-
pressed places are evened up, and the sur
lace kept level. With this treatment fol-
Owed up there is every reason to look for
4 solid, smooth road, on that thorough
iare of the village. The only thing to be
is, that the corporation may
not be able to supply all the material of
his kind, desirable, for extending this
mode Of McAdamizing to other equal
y important streets Of the village.
The address of Mr.. Van Meter at the |
Baptist church on Monday evening, drew
/ full house, and the pastors of the several
churches were of the audience. The sub
ect of the address was the condition of
Rome as missionary ground. He recited
lis own experience and observation. The
'igoted and unchristian course of the
aomish clergy in interposing every possible
obstruction to this work, and their oppres-
ion of those who were disposed to read
md study the Bible for themselves, needs
10 repstition-its the. same old story of
persecution. But the facts given of the
sgerness Of so many Catholics to think
nd act for themselves in the face of such
'srsecution, was a matter of surprise.
deans are insufficient to sustain teachers
md the work languishes on this account,
nd the object of his return, is to appeal
or, and gather means from the churches
nd individual Christians, to provide for
more vigorous propagation of the gos-
el. His mass of information and fluent
nd agreeable way of communicating it,
very instructive and enlists absorbing
ttsntion and interest. A collection was
AIKEN up, but whether it was one in
mount worthy of the cause and its de-
lands-Rsf1id not hear.