Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1878-01-18

Mr. Ralph Montgomery, of the Madi-
son Gasstte, made us pleasant call last
Msnday.
Our friends of the Standard do not
seem disposed to let political differences
interfere with their generous neigiN'orhoOd
feelings and expressions, and modest merit
therefore. finds in them ready recogni-
tion and approval We should be slow %
think the notice Of our labors was Northliy
taken if we failed to appreciate II, as well
for its spirit as for the discriminating IN
telligsnce that suggests and prompts It,
The stockholders of the Ashtabuls
Social Library held their forty-eighuh an
nual meeting, on Monday evening last.
and elected the following officers and direc-
tors: President, Geo. Willard; Secretary,
C. E. Swift; Treasurer and Librarian, o.
Il. Fitch; Directors, Henry Fassett, A. F.
Hubbard, Rev. J. y. MeGffert and E. b
Fitch. The steady increase of the library
puts its present number of volumes at
eleven hundred.
-RiddeIl who started the competition
on sugars. holds the thing level, and does
not falter over the lowest range of figures.
and claims that in -four be has beaten the
village, by several cents sack. He has
been the pioneer Of low prices. and in ac-
commodation in delivery of goods, he has
had no superior This has been spprecia-
TED by the public, and the trade ne has
built up, has been healthful and encour-
aging from the start.
Mr.. H. C. Tombes. was taken with a
degree of indisposiriou on Sunday evening
last, that soon took on the symptoms of
pneumonia, which. complicated with his
general debility, became somewhat sombrs
in its aspects. DR.. Hubbard was called,
and soon others also, to sit IN council.
He has been to a considerable extent help
less, and has laid in a condition suggestive
Of a serious termination. While we write
ON Thursday morning-the answer to
numerous inquiries. is. that the symptoms
are a little more favorable and afford
better grounds of hope that he may have
more permanent rally.
Prof. Fitzpatrick, known and esteemed
by Our citizens. while resident here, as
Principal of our public schools, has been
overtsksn in serious departure from VIZ
tue. He has been living at Medina, where
a millinery business has been carried on IN
the name of his wife, for the last two or
three wears. Something more than week
ago. Mrs. K. with her child, left on E Wis
it to friends, and Mr.. K. was left alone in
possession of the store. Early on Monday |
morning the 18th, fire was discovered in the
store. It was soon arrested, when the ev-
licences were plain that there had been de-
sign in it. Well planned attempts at in
eendiarism we're revealed. Kindlings had
been placed in the drawers, and the chairs,
table and bed, had been saturated with
coal oil, and piled upon the piano. Mr..
K. was charged with the crime, and upon
being arrested, stated, after little at
tempt at misrepresentation, that he had
set the building on fire, and when ques-
toned as to his reasons, he said that the
times had been so very hard that he had
got involved and badly behind in his ac-
counts. He had either got to break up or
burn up.
The account we copy from-that of
the HerGId-further states, that he had
not shown very skillful management Ell
ther in the purchase of the stock, or the
conduct of the business; having paid
50 500, for the stock-much more than
its worth. There was an insurance upon
it, and the furniture, of So. 400, but the
insurance is in his wife's name, who, it is
knew nothing of the intentions
Of her husband Mr.. K. was a gentle
man of fine address and scholarship, and !
married while here, at Willoughby. His
fall fills his old acquaintance and |
friends. with a5tonishment and regret. |
Later information states that he has |
been indicted, and unless saved by in |
iuential friends, which he is believed |
to have, his punishment will be severe
and crushing.