Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1878-12-06
LOCAL NEWS.

LOCAL NEWS.
Success has not responded to the ef-
forts to raise the svsmped, dredge at the
HarbOr.
$40 600 is the net receipts Of the Cleye-
rand Loan Association, closed Saturday
evening.
Mr.. R. L. Jones' condition is said to
be taking favorable turn under NeWburg
treatment.
-B. Webb, as We are left to infer. is out
suit Of clothing by the elsverness Ofa
Sboplifter.
Our jam of advertisements are in
great measure in for the holidays and will
soon be dropped out.
Some score Of persons went TO CleTe-
lsnd from this place, to enjoy the Opera Of
,Mignon, on Monday evening last.
Poultry is going forward to the East
efn markets in considerable abundance.
There were two tons expressed from this
station on Wednesday evening last.
Snow covered the ground about here on
Thursday morning, and the temperature
was very crisp and the ground little
crusty.
The rough weather since the sinking
Of the dredge at the HArbor, noticed last
weak, has been rather injurious to the por-
tions exposed to the beating of the surf.
The Standard man says the only re-
markable thing he saw on Thanksgiving
Day WAS the mud on Main street. Are we
to infer from that, that he didn't see no
turkey?
Those Who have been in the habit Of
getting up clubs of the TELEGRAPH will
please take hold of the same work for the
coming year, and send in their lists as early
Is the first if practicable.
Read tie new advertisements now, IS
our merchants who prizs your trade are
advertising for It. The inference respect
Ing othars Who do not advertise, is, that
thsy do not care so much about your trade.
Mr.. q. W. Landon Is the owner of 8
pair of yearlings which bring down the
beam at 2,9O0 pounds This win be found
hard to beat. If however, there are better
yearlings in the county we would like to
make it known.
The salary OF the Presiding Elder of the
Erie District of the NJ. E. Church has been
fixed at 81, 400. Meadville District pays
S200 more. That Of the Presiding Elder
Of the MeadEills District has bsen fixed at
81, ,60O-$10O less than was paid last year.
The Hudson-ohio-En Enterprise in its
fifth vOlume-a very cOmmendable local
patent outside-psper comes to US asking
an exchange. As Hudson was our first
home in the Buckeye State, and some very
pleasant recollections Of the place still lin
ger, and as the EYsterPrise is modest and
somewhat Facy, we viii not refuse to swap.
Some one Of the new secret societies
Of this village have been, insdverently or
ignorantly styled masonic. One of our
masonic friends intimated to Us the other
day, that all secret societies are not mason
ic, by q loug shot. Those organizations,
therefore, which haYe been credited with
virtue they do not possess, will please step
down and out,
=QaF rotempoFsry says that pole vas
retts1, So vas that SaybrOok stump.
And yet It hAdths lassnd power to freeze
his warm blood" Republican shelter
cslmed his fears in the one case, and lit
tie Democratic hneSsing came to his relief
in the other. But we suppose che is innO-
cent of knOwledgeOi the parallel between
the two cases."
There were sent to the Cleveland Hos
pital for the Insane, from Ashtabula eoun-
ty, in the month of November, beside Mr..
d. =. I. Jones, already named, Mrs. Nellie E.
Merritt, Geneva, Mrs. Arpatia Wiley,
Monroe, and Mr.. Amos 4. Chaplin, Of Len
OF, and during the same period there were
81 marriage licenses issued, as we gather
from the SsntiAeE.
The Sentinel alludss to the new name
given toOrwelf Station, as rather an odd
oonceit Of somebody, and having no haF
Enony or adaptation with any -ofits sur
F0RHqaalngSr I!s stFangeness and incOpgruity
the hEst impression made upon almost
every mind. II, as is suggested, petition
is sent Up for change, Why would not
''''Grand River" fill the bill. .'''
That frightful animal who's. roaming
IN the woods Of Orwell and Windsor.
hare been attssted by its unearthly screams,
Sp ErFiogs cpeassig9ns hes given the yapors
70 nssFly half the people Of Windsor and
Orwell, is still roaming and screaming, and
the Nimrods Of that section are awaiting
fall Of snow to enable them to hunt it
With sny prospect Of success.
--Mr. ". S. BurnhsmAwe notice-ad-
vertises his business for sale in the CleYe-
land Leader. As he seems little modest
about sdYertising at home we are disposed
q do him good turn, by giving him q
plaee IN the TELEeRAPH. Mr. B. has done 8
good, steady, Eelispls-snd as is generally
believed paying business, and spY one
who can Ill his boots, may do well with
the concern. 3 -
The Commissioner. at their meeting
the present week had a large number Of
applicants for relief from ravages and loss
bF dogs among their hOcks of sheep. Their
unmBsrs at Tie opening Of the session, bid
Yair 10 take 5 good potion Of their session
An appointment Of Coroner, to Gil the
vacancy caused by the resignation Of Capt.
Stiles was made, and James Reed, has been
notified Of his appointment.