Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1878-04-19
FRIDAY APRIL 18th, 1878.
LOCAL n E w 5
Sunday next is Easter.


come On Thursday this year.
Cleveland and Warren police are max
ing it lively for the street lOafers.
Has any one thought OF that O,OOO
bonding scheme since the election?
The work on the Pittsburgh & Lake
Erie R. R. is progressing favorably
The cold dry weather is not favorable
to grass. and its growth is therefore, slow.
Farmers have mostly gotten their oats
in, some ten days or two weeks earlier than
usual.
Our young friend L. H. Means, has
been admitted to the bar Of the Q. S.
Courts.
e. R. Metcalf has bought the Mead
ans farm of 81 acres, in East Village Tor
s2,7OO.
Sailors are asking s1.25 day, but the
Cleveland Leader says they generally ac-
eept of 81.
-verg. Webb is out, after some two
weeks confinement and loss of II pounds
ayoirdupOise.
The Republican Democrat Of Raven :
ma. will te sold at assignee's sale on
Thursday May End.
The usual number of petitions from the
Harbor flooded the Council room last
Wednesday evening.
We are informed that the health of
DR.. Wallace has not been improved by his
wintering in Florida.
The proceedings Of the Council meet
ing held last Wednesday evening, are pub
lished in another column.
W F Swift, Of the Cleveland Sunday
Post, was in town last Tuesday, and was
present at the sale of relics.
Who is the church calendar man Of
the Standard? We only care to know if
it is the natural groupings Of the SEN
ior's piety.
The Cleveland papers are exposing
swindle engaged in by a number Of -four
dealers in that city, of giving light weights
in nearly every sack sold.
The Rev. R. NJ. Keys, Of the Consre-
gational Church ConneGut, occupies the
desk of the Congregational Church Of
Chsrdon, on Sunday next.
-Messrs. Williams Bros. have about
completed their work on the history Of this
county. Lake and Geauga counties will
be their next field of labor.
"A. NJ Baldwin, who graduated in
Austinburg as landlord and butcher, is
now announced as opening a market at
Orwell. in the Orwell Hippodroms.
John Lynch, living at the Harbor, lost
a little three year old daughter by drown
ing, on Tuesday last. She fell into a bar
rel sunk into the ground for supplying wa
Ter.
The cost of loading, transportation,
unloading, carting and spreading the six
ty car loads of blast furnace cinders, just
placed on Center St., amounts to about
$40.
For any seeming want of Difference
and respect for our village officers elect
from our friend of the Standard, We are
nOaO willing to call it all right. Our friend
has faculty for frightening up things.
Now that gold can be had freely in
trade, it is not sought after, and the de-
mand for silver long since died out. The
chief difference now is-how to prevent its
accumulation. Is this not representation
AT an examination of teachers in Ash.
tabula last Saturday, there were g. candi.
dates; at AndoVer on Tuesday, there were
65. OF the 49 candidates that were exam.
ined at Geneva last week, 25 received GER
tifcates.
The Ashtabula Store is filed up with
new and seasonable goods, and the propri
etors were intending to notify the public
through the columns of the TELEGRAPH
this week, but the ad. arrived 10 late.
will appear next week.
The resignation of Second Lieut., B
H. Rickard, of the Ashtabula Light Artil
lery which was handed to the battery tw'
weeks since, has been accepted by the Gov
ernor. An election to fill the vacancy vii
be held next Monday evening.
What does it meanP We were tolt
that Col. Phillips, had bought the hote
property at Orwell, and was to immediate
ly become its landlord. The story now is
that J. Fl. Rex, has taken the hoase and i
fitting it up for his own occupancy, a.
host.
The Portage County Republican, Dem
Oerat, with all its appurtenances, is to b
sold at assignse's sale May 2nd. An en-
terprising newspaper man having tn
means can then purchase most desirabl
establishment at a bargain. We know {
no bettsr opening.
We have one comforting thought !
connection with the new Council. and thi
Is, 1t has character and self-respect enoug
to answer the ambition of its member
without following the lead of two or thrC
other Councils, in trying to signalize the
administration by hacking down the tree
of the Park.
Engineer Hepburn, began the work {
survey for the Marrow Gauge route to ru
between Tampa Bay and the st. John
River-SOuthern Florida-a distance {
some 100 miles, on Monday the 1st ins
The people of the region are enthusiast
over the advantages they are to reap fro
this enterprise. While we are glad that o.
friend has fallen upon a job so worthy
his skill and ability, we have to congrat
late our Florida friends upon their goC
luck in obtaining the services Of so go
and competent an engineer.