Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1878-01-11
LOCAL n e w s.

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The Council meets next Wednesday
evening.
The public schools reOpsned last Mon
day morning.
The Court of Common Pleas opens
next Monday.
Six of the Petit Jurors and three Grand
Jurors are drawn from AshtabulA.
BRO. Lee Sen. of the Jefferson Ga
sstts called at this Office yesterday.
The beautiful snow, which came 50
suddenly and in such quantities is disap-
pearing.
John B. Cough is to lecture at Child's
Hall, Painssvills, on the evening Of the
18th inst,
--'Every man his own printer" but, oh
my, what wretched work of it some men
do maksl
The new residence of VIM. Seymour
on Centre st. is the finest structure on
that street.
The Court House is furnished with
four foot WOOd-the Gazette says-fOr
S1.9O cord.
Next Thursday evening the Light
Guards are to give a masquerade ball at
the opera House.
The Collins vault in Chestnut Grove
cemetery is now completed and enclosed
by beautiful iron fence.
-17,75s money orders have been issued
from the Post Office in this plscs since it
was made money order Office.
Mr.. Il. C. Nsllis, formerly of Ashta-
bula, has been reelected assistant cashier
Of the First National Bank Of PainesvilIe.
Capt. n. Bartlett has opened the
Ocean dining ball at the HarbOr where oys-
ters and warm meals can be had at all
hours.
Mr.. Ed. D. Booth and lady of Indian
spolis who have been visiting friends here
during the holidays, returned to IndiAnap-
oils last Wednesday.
An old Spanish piIIared quarter, came
into our possession the other day, of the
date Of l777. It's face is very fair, con-
sidsring its rips age.
-Psrsous desiring to take advantage Of
our club rates should spply Immediately,
as We shall receive no more orders after
Saturday the 18th inst.
The loan Association makes glad the
hesrt4- Of its stock holders by three per
cent, dividend, beside carrying over some
$500 to surplus account.
The annual meeting of the Ashtabu-
Ia County Historical and Philosophical
Society viii be held in Jefferson on Wed
nSsday, the 18th inst, commencing at Ii
o'clock, &. m. H. FAssETT, Ssc'y.
Prof. Harvey, Of Painesville, lectures
on the Weather Bearings at Kingsville, on
Friday evening of the present week. The
Professors mental range Is far above the
ordinary lecturer.
-P. NJ. Sexton, will receive sealed pro-
pOsals until the 18th. for carrying the o.
s. Mail to and from the Ashtabula Post
Office and L. S. & NJ. S. Ry. and A. Y. &
P. R. R. depots.
The contract for furnishing the Pitts
burgh & Youngstown R. r. with 6, 800 tons
Of steel rails, has been awarded the Cleve-
land Rolling Mill Company. The price is
to be forty-one dollars ton.
Frank MOulton. ''the best friend that
God ever gave Beecher," has been in at
tendance at Cleveland upon the Dairymens'
oonvention-hiS object being to secure
some action against the duty on salt.
Julia Moore-Jack Ryder's Sweet Sin.
ger Of Michigan has attained so much no.
toriety IS to be encouraged to take to the
Lecture platform. An exchange says her
flowing hair is confined by tinsel crown.
Snow blown into irregular shapes, lies
somewhere shout IS inches deep, and the
slipping is very good at this writing; but
the wind is in the South, and milder
westher prevails, but who can tell what
may come of it.
--Msxicsn dollars roughly mAds.snd cum
brous in their size and weight, are having
quite circulation hersabouts, and it is
stated that two tOnsi were recently taken
to Youngstown, to be used in paying OF
rolling mill hands.
The Commonwealth Minstrels with
several professional assistants are to give
two entertainments at the Opera House on
the evenings Of Saturday and Monday,
Jan. 18th and 14th. An excellent enter
tainment is promised.
If our agricultural readers of this
County, desiring Agricultural Reports or
other public documents. viii Immediately
SIND their names to US, we will forward
them to our Representative, Gen, Garfield,
who viii, if possible, supply them.