Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1878-09-06
LOCAL NEWS.

The Board of Health meets tonight
Races at the track tomorrow, satur-
day.
The Public Schools opened last Non
The Council met last Wednesday eve
ming.
-Bi.der opened the oyster season here
last Friday.
Fl. A. PettibOne has taken orders in the
United States Courts.
The bills allowed at the last Council
amounted to nearly $I7OO.
Wheeler, the boot and shoe man, got
in a large consignment of fresh goods last
week.
The Fall term of the Geneva Normal
School has opened, with 100 students in
attendance.
-Major Morrison Addressed a Greenback
meeting, Of good numbers, at Painesville,
on Thursday evening last.
Thirty locomotives and six hundred
cars are now being constructed for the new
Pittsburg and Lake Erie railroad.
Refugees from the scourge of New Or
leans have found places Of security and
rest in both Jefferson and Conneaut.
Remember the races at Fields track,
Saturday afternoon, commencing at two
o'clock. Admission, 1Oc.; carriage free.
in luck this time. Only one Trade
Dollar left when the crash came A loss
of only 1Oets. We shall probably survive
that.
Capt. capron, of Conneaut, and o. S.
Latiner, Of Rock Greek, are numbered
among the applicants sOr the benefits Of
bankruptcy.
The Pastor of the Congregational
Church, We are requested to say, viii be in
his place on Sunday next, and regular ex-
ercises will be resumed.
During short call of mixed courtesy
and business the other day, Prof. Tucker
man spoke very encOuragingly of the insti-
tuition under his charge.
The new buildings on the burned dis
trict are now completed, so far as the out
side work is concerned. and are the finest
looking business blocks in town.
The temperance lecture delivered by
Prof. James Hedley, the phosiognomist, at
the Opera House last Sunday, is highly
spoken Of BY those who were present.
The sale Of the A. & P. road was
eonsumated according to the terms Of the
advertisement, and brought 5000, 600. Of
course it was sold in the interest of the
bOndholders.
The Northern Ohio Fair begins next
Monday, and will continue until Friday
evening. There viii be one of the great
est displays Of fruit and fine stock ever
seen in this country.
Gibbs, the Wagon Jack man who was
serving out q sentence for completely in
the shooting Of Brown, at Jefferson, has
been psrdoned by the Governor, and re-
leased from duranee.
The supply Of ice has been exhausted
here and what is now used is shipped here
from Stoneboro. This ice was carried ov-
er last season and is Of better quality than
that made last Winter,
AN invitation is extended by Capt.
Bartlett, Of the Ashtabula Light Artillery,
to all honorary members to go into camp
with the battery one or more days during
the encsmpmeRt ut PainesYille.
The time for the Northern Ohio Fair
is approaching. The grounds will be in
complete order and the exhibition will un-
dOubtedly be fine. Half fare rates on all
the rUads centering in Cleveland.
The Standard pOkes fun at the Pro-
hibitiOnists for going through the motions
Of q nomination Of county candidates. We
'spose they do it on principle somewhat
after the fashion of the democracy.
Capt. Mart. Wright has shown him
self a very clever mechanic by surround
ing his premises with very tasteful and
durable fence-contributing his share to
the improvement Of his neighborhOOd.
BY bills printed at this Office, Mr..
M'Clanning, at the Harbor, announces his
determination to reduce his stock of
clothing for the next IS days, by offering
it at such reduced rates as must insure q
brisk sale.
The fire department Of Ashtabnla has
decided to give social party at Haskell's
Hall, on Wednesday evening next. The
proceeds to be given to the yellow fever
sufferers. Mr.. N. q. Haskell, with his
characteristic generosity, gives the free use
of his hall.
Among the horses that will appear on
the track on Saturday next will be Perew's
Hsmbletoniau. Eel. has rather yielded to
the wishes Of the association, than being
governed by his own judgment, in bring
ing him out, as he has had nothing but the
mildest kind OF work during the service
season, and can only be expected to show
his style Of action, without any pretensions
to speed.