Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1878-08-16


VentIOns, to be held next week.
The AshIabula, Youngstown s Pitts
burg Road earned last year $227. 2O6 gross,
and s77.33O net. This left a deficit OF
$S9. so. Of which $27.ll7 was for use OF
rolling stock, aud the balance fer interest
on the first mortgage bonds. This had TO
be paid by the Pennsylvania Company.
The Republican voters will bear in mind
that tomorrow evening the 18th, delegates
are To be- elected in the different townships
TO attend the Republican District and
County Conventions, the former to be held
at Warren on Thursday the Goth inst, and
the latter to be held at jefferson on Monday
the 18th inst. Every Republican voter
should be on hand.
About dozen young men Of Ashtabu-
la were to start from here early this morn
ing for Girard, Pa, to be present at the
brass band convention that is being held
there. They 60 in Tally, Ho! style, hav-
ing chartered Fuller's light omnibus and
four horses. Funny Phelps the champion
whip will have the party in charge and
blow the horn. They will return The same
evening.
"A new article of commerce has been
brought to light in this quarter, in the ar
ticle of moss. Mr.. Inez Chatfeld has been
hauling the article in full loads and load
ing cars at the station for Storrs, Harrison
g. Co. nursery men at gainesville. He
was loading the second car on Monday last.
The article is collected in the marsh and
used for packing trees and shrubs for trans
portation.
Should the military eneampment be
held at Ashtabula, daily camp paper will
be issued from the Telegraph Office every
morning, containing all the camp, local
and general news. 1t will be about half
the size Of the Telegraph, and will be de-
livered at the camp and TO subscribers early
every morning during the eneampment.
A limited number of advertisements will
be admitted.ss
The reader will find couple of very
fair and temperate articles in defence Of
the county History and its publishers, on
the first page, which are commended to at
tention. They viii do very well tc Offset,
in measure at least, some Of the positions
of our local-Kingsville correspondent,
which have been given place because the
writer was one of the disaffected ones and
seemed to speak for them and their griefs.
"A gentleman of Saybrook, who keepsa
dairy Of full average cows, estimates the
net income from each, at the present prices
of cheese, at 3 cts. day, and this estimate
is carefully and thOughtfully made. So
low did this estimate appear to the gentle-
man to whom it was communicated, that
he expressed doubt of his understanding
Of the statement, and it was insisted on
as result Of deliberate consideration.
The Commercial department at Grand
River Institute, for next year, will be in
charge of Mr.. ID. l.. Hubbard. one of Mr..
Speneer's best penmsns, and for the past
three years Principal of the Commercial
College at Erie, Pa. The facilities for be-
coming first-clsss penman and account
ant will equal those Of the best Commercial
Colleges. Mr.. ]. Wiswell, young man
Of Grand River, is to be teacher of PEN
manship at Wooster University.
The Meadville Daily Reporter has
made its bow to the public, and reached
our sanctum with one of those crosses in
blue upon its margin. which to printer is
a plain interrogation-swap sir? To
which, of course, we have only to say-by
all means sirI We like spice and snap and
that kind of jocund sauciness that makes
a fellow relax his muscles and wreath his
features in smiles and make all his milk of
human kindness give down. o yes, send
your pretty little bantling along.
The 18th anniversary of the settle
ment of the township of Wayne, is to be
celebrated Saturday, August oath inst,
at 10 o'clock, a. m, in the woods
Of o. Fl. Miner-the place where the semi
was observed % years ago.
The hospitalities of the occasion are ex-
tended to the press, the pulpit, old settlers
and especially to former residents of the
township. These observanees show gen.
srous attachment to home and its sur
rOundings-qualities usually found in con-
lectiOn with patriotism and good citizen
ship.
-Scme talk is heard about town over
The prevalent disposition-the present sea-
desecrate the Sabbath by the gath
oring in of crops, in many cases when there
is no apparent necessity for it. OF course,
there are occasions when the rescue of
crops from damage and loss, when the SEN
timent Of the community will sometimes
Justify the use Of the sacred hours but |
here has been tendency the present sea-
ION to take advantage of this sentiment to
10 harvest work without the argument of
catching weather being in favor of the
course. The injunction of the decalogue
'ignalized by the thunders of Sinai should
lot be TOO easily forgotten.
The reader will find a supplement in
he present number of the Telegraph, con-
aiming the rules, regulations and premium
list Of the AsLtabula County Fair, which
will put him in possession Of all the in
formation needful in making contributions
% this institution of home products and
home interests. The officers Of the assoei-
ltion are doing their best to make this fair
self-sustaining institution, and such as
will meet every reasonable expectation of
he people, and it is but fair that these eff
Iorts should be generally seconded by the
citizens Of the county. By a concert of
lctlon in this direction, results are likely
o be more satisfactory to the officers as
yell as the people of the county.
The expansion Barrel Head-a new
'ontriYance of Mr.. T. S. Norton, of Come
lut, is simple and easy mode of fastening
md removing the head at pleasure,
without the aid of strips or nails. All
here is Of it is-the head is made in two
quail parts, and the two edges that are
'roaght together through the center, are
'rOved to receive a round tspering key,
riven thronoh holas bored tbrouob tba |