Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1878-06-28

and doing well both in purse and health,
though Mrs. L. is not now in good health.
Mr.. L. is a regular patron Of the TELE-
GRAPH.
We congratulated our neighbors Of the
Standard upon the evidences Of success
shown in the announcement of the design
Of enlargement on the first Prox The
Ashtabula county organ of Democracy
should feel its dignity sufficiently to put
IN fuIl proportions. Daniel the lion-hearted
Is inst the chap to bring all the latent snap
Of Democracy into free play.
The Pennsylvania Company operating
the Pittsburgh, Ft. Wayne & Chicago R'y,
Cleveland & Pittsburgh R'y, Erie & Pitts
burgh R'y, Ashtabula. Youngstown &
Pittsburg R'y, and the Toledo, Tifln &
Mansfield R'y, viii sell excursion tickets
over all their lines, at reduced excursion
rates, on July Sd and 4th. good to return
till and including July 5th.
Report has il that hush money paid by
certain Ashtabula county officials was TO
cover mp = contract not let as the law IN
such cases made and provided requires.
We are in possession Of certain facts whlch
will be given to the public unless We get
satisfactory explanation TO the contrary.
How about that ten dollars? Standard
What in Sam Hill have these county
officials been about? Won't somebody ease
our itching curiosity. Ten dollars, hal
just think of that! and no contract let
eitherl
The Hutchinson Family-Tribe of
Asa-who through the long vista of more
than three decades have contributed so
much for the enjoyment Of the world
through their sweet songs, are to favor our
citizens with an entertainment on Satur-
day evening, at the Opera House. We
shall probably need no urging to be pres
ens with ear and heart attuned to the sim
pie and touching melodies always made so
effective by the excellence of their rem
derings.
The elegant new steamer City of De-
troit will make three grand excursions out
of Cleveland on the Fourth of July, leav-
ing foot of Superior street at o M, re-
turning at 12 NJ; at 2 P. NJ, returning at
3. P. NJ; moonlight excursion leaves at
6 P. NJ, returning at g. Afne brass band
will be in attendance and no pains viii be
spared to make these excursions pleasant
to all. Capt. VIM. Mckay, formerly OF
the R. N. Rice, has command of the City
of Detroit.
Our eotempOrary Of the Warren Tri-
6une made something of a sensation upon
the start, and by cutting under legal rates,
took liberal share Of the county advsr-
tising. Things in that quarter were made
pretty lively for while and derelictions
of duty among county officers, raised quite
a furrore, and our friend Peterson frisked
about like herbiYorous animal in clover.
OF late things have been less lively-kind-
a sotered down-and the fat takes in legal
advertising have gone whore the woOd-bine
twlneth. What's up
-Messrs John Hubbard, W. NJ. Eames,
Jr., Chas. c. Brown, L. C. Butler, the par
ty of young men who left Ashtabula on
the morning of the 10th inst, in the yacht
Widow, for trip up the lake returning
last Monday night. They left the yacht at
Cleveland on the return trip, having visited
Fairport, Cleveland, Black River, Vermil-
lion and Put-in-Bay. They speak of the
trip as one Of great pleasure. At Vermil-
lion the locker of the yacht was broKen
open in the absence Of the party and about
$50 worth of clothing, blankets and pro-
visions were stolen.
"A Nefarious trick, it is said, was resort
ed to, to disable Fields Horse-Little Jake
and unfit him for the races in Michigan,
Of the national association. The horse lost
flesh and energy and became entirely inca
paeitated for the work of the track. It
turned out that an Irish rubber" had
been sampered with, and poison had been
administered in moderate doses-such as
would keep him from the track, without
producing fatal results. The villain has
been arrested, and the horse is under treat
ment. This accounts for the silence that
has seemed to brood oyer the exploits Of
this fsvorite animal for some two or three
races.
We are informed that some of our citi-
zens are shooting the small birds that raid
upon their small fruits. Lest it be done
ignorantly, We give the names of such
birds as are protected by the laws of the
State.
''Be it enacted by the General Assembly
Of the State of Ohio, that it shall be unlaw-
full for any person at any time to catch,
kill or injuIe, or to pursue with such in
tent, any sparrow, robin, blue bird, martin,
thrush, mocking bird, swallow, oriols, red
bird, gross beak, cat bird, ehewitt or
ground robbin, pewee or phoebe bird, wren,
cuckoo, indigo bird, nut catch, cresper,
yellow bird or fngilla, yellow hammer or
flicker, warbler or finch morris, red starb,
dummork, nightingale, cross bill or corn
drake, Hungarian Robin, European black
bird, great tit or blue tit"
The Ohio Editorial Association will
meet in.ClsYsland this year, July 10 and II.
Business sessions will be held at the City
Hall in the morning of each day and the
annual address viii be delivered by Hon.
Jas. A. Garfield at 2 p. m. of the first day
in the Tabernacle. After the close of the
second days business session the. members
Of the association will permit the Cleve-
landers to show them the wonders of their
city. Arrangements for an excursion on
the new steamer City of Detroit, and a
grand concert at Haltnorth's Garden have
been made, but the balance of the pro-
gramme has not yet been prepared Ar
rangements have, however, been made for
an excursion from Cleveland to Philadel-
phia, Cape May and New York for the
members of the Association and their la
dies, as guests Of the Pennsylvania Rail-
road Co.
"A daily line of sideRheel steamers
viii be established July 9th, to ply between
Buffalo, Cleveland and Putin Bay. The
steamers Pearl and Alaska new will COM
prise the line. 1t has been said, and we
hope it viii prove true, that these steamers
will make Ashtabula Harbor a regular
stopping point. 1t would undoubtedly
prove of profit to the owners of the line,
to say nothing of the great convenience to