Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1878-08-23
THE TELEGRAPH.
FRIDAY, AUGUST 2srd, 1875.
TheTeiegraph 8 months for 60e
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-Ine O0unca met iAsb W NodheSo"g
ing.
Sales of cheese range at about z to 8
cents. sIsi1
The Ashtabuls & Oil City R. R. is do
ing heavy freight business,
Sloan the engineer has been engaged
in grading mp the streets Of Geneva.
The Standards remarks about Mr..
Gillette seem to us like kicking man when
he is down.
Rev. E. R. Loomis was ordained Pas
tor of the Congregational church of Con-
neaut OH Thursday afternoon last.
-Pierpont was favored with fre-Al-
rich's carriage shop having been consumed
on the 14th inst. Loss about $780,
Morning services viii be held in the
Presbyterian ehurch next Sunday. The
Sabbath School and evening services will
be held on the following Sunday.
Mr.. L. W, Smith is preparing to ersct
anewli livery barn on the site now occupied
by the old one, opposite the Fisk House.
It will be of brick, 66 by 75 feet and two
stories high.
Mr.. E. J. Pinney, Esq, Of Jefferson,
willdelivers temperance lecture at Smiths
Opera House, Friday evening, Aug. Esd.
Admission free, and cordial invitation is
extended to al. ElE1 i ~
Bro. Rieg thought with others of 60
ng to Jefferson as delegates to the con-
Vention, but love for manual labor not be-
ing among his leading characteristics,
nine more earnest workers were found to
fill the delegation. IfEIE'I} fEs7
John Lankila met with quite a severe
accident at the Harbor last Monday. He
was employed in dumping an iron ore
bucket when two of his fingers we're in
some manner caught in the bucket and the
ends of them cut off.
Prof. Perkins Normal Music School
closed its session in this place last Tues
day evening with the oratorio of the
Creation. The Opera House was crowd
ed and the oratorio was finely rendered
to en- appreciatiys audience.
Jerry Sullivan boss Of gang of Ia
borers at the docks fell down hatehway
of the barge Vienna last Monday, receiT-
ing deep cut in his right side and neck
and bruising his chin; though seriously in
fured hopes are entertained for his carly
recovery.
The eighth annual fair of the Northern
Ohio Fair Association, commences Sept.
10Th and continues five days. The L. S.
&M. S. Ry. Co. will sell half-fare tickets
to those wishing to attend the Fair. and
every effort viii be made to make the Fair
q grand success.
The firm of ]. Mansfield Co., cloth
iers, of Cleveland, has dissolved, the East
ern members Of the firm withdrawing. Mr..
Mansfield has since formed co-partner-
ship with Mr.. Dickinson, Of Cleveland,
and the business will be continued under
the name of ]. Mansfield & Co., as hereto
fore, s1 -aa5 co
Our new Treasurer-S. Il. Cook, Esq.
-Rill enter upon his duties as County
Treasurer, on the first proz. Mr.. @. has
been getting the hang Of the sehoolhouse
by assisting Treasurer Crosby in the col
lection Of the last tax. His native readi-
ness viii be quickened, no doubt by the ex-
perience gained. ? s-hI>' F.
Some Of the finest as well as the larg-
est pssobes we have seen this year were on
sale in Rladell's store last Wednesday.
One of thOR aeasured sa4 inches in cir
cnmferenee, and al OF them were nearly
ss large. They we're of the early Crawford
Varisty, snd were grown by Mr.. J. G.
Wright OF Eaybrook. The crop is said to
be abundant in this vicinity.
The present outlook for the eontem-
plated excursion to Niagara Falls on
Thursday the 29th has every indication
of being a very enjoyable ofair, Those
having the msttsr in charge anticipate. =
large turnout, the fare being much low
sr than heretofore many viii go who
could not afford to pay the prices here
tOfors charged. Tickets for sale at the
Central News Room, Ashtabala.
-Ws are indebted to the courtesy of
Mrs. L, W. Smith Of Fair Point for Chau.
tauqua papers. andA copy # breakfast
bill of fare, showing how the denizens Of
that locality live and enjoy life. There is
apparently no occasion for lsaguishiug an.
der the quality Of the fare furnished. Our
appEshsnaons you'd sriss lrom any .ques-
tion liahk 20 come up before sach multi
tude-about qa4ptity rather than quality.
onr friend. Maqso9 would seem to be
governed BY conHdiag and generous feel
ing toward bis kind, when in prospect Of a
glass Of beer, rs viii be judged by the fol-
lowing paragraph IN the Cleveland Herald
Of Thursday Of last week: a,s
L. MuDson. a farmer of SaybrooK, o.,
came TO town Wednesday morning, and
laid hisssiehel down on doorstep while
he went into an adjoining beer saloon to
wash the dust down. He got his beer, but
when he came back bis saichel was gone.
Loss. $15. ~