Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1879-06-13

1t is reported the citizens opposed
to the proposed plan for harbOr I'm
provement have held meeting. and among
other business transacted appointed Messrs-
L. W. Smith and Geo. Russell as CON-
mittee to procure counsel and serve an in
junction on the mode Of procedure. Mr..
Russell, We are authoratively informed,
declines to be made cats paw Of those
interested in this movement.
Our old and favored correspondent
A. P.-Amelia Thropp-sends US a com
munication from Brazil. which appears in
this number Of the TELEGRAPH. IL is de-
voted to the products of that-delIghtful
country. made doubly interesting to cur
people from the visit and bearing Of its
EmDeror-Dom Pedro-a poteHtate endow-
ed in a large degree, with the rare virtue
among princes. Of common sense, and with
out any admixture Of nonsense in his char
acter. The reader will not fail to give it
his attention.
The Cleveland council have refused to
grant lease to the L. S. & II. S. Co., OF
the lake front, opposite Lake View Park,
for the accommodation Of the Vanderbilt
line Of European Steamers. The plan
seems to have been a good thing for that
eitv. and the refusal-if on fair terms-is
a little surprising.
The arguments against granting the lease
we're many. For tenth part OF this strip
Of land the city paid the railroad company
more than that company how propose to
pay for the whole.
Tie death notice Of Mr. Zebulon
Whipple of Sheffield, this county, will be
found in the appropriate department Of
this paper. The deceased is the father OF
Mr.. A. ]. Whipple, of the above named
place, and was born in Connecticutin 1896.
He was soldier in the war Of 1872, and
in the year 1918 he walked to Ashtabula
county and located in Kingsville, in which
township and Sheffield ne has since lived
81 years. BE recently received his pen
sion certificate as soldier Of the war Of
1912. The funeral services were held in
Sheffield last Monday.
AT the time Of burial Of the remains
Of the unknown dead of the "Ashtabuls
Disaster il was announced the L. S. & NJ.
S. Ry. Co. would erect q suitable mOnu-
ment over the remains Of the victims in
Chestnut Grove Cemetery. Two years and
one-hsif have elapsed, and as yet there is
no monument erected, and only a cross of
flowers marks the resting place Of the vic
tins OF this terrible accident. II the L. S.
& M. S. Co. intend to do this work, it is
high time they commenced it; If not let
the company announce the fact, and We
doubt not q suitable monument will be
erected by private contribution.
On Wednesday the Mayor appointed
Captain Crawford Large and VIM. Rem
nick as members of the police force for the
HarbOr precinct, and the new members
commenced their duties Immediately
There is now a worse class of desperados
and cut-thrOats at the Harbor than eyer,
and TO give a weekly report Of their depre-
datiOns against the law and good order
would ill column or more of the TELE-
GRAPH. The policemen have received spec
ial instructions how to deal with these Of
Tenders, and the officers Of the Corporation
are determined to punish them to the full
extent of the law. and if possible to break
up this gang Of outlaws.
Or. Tuttle's lecture at the Opera House,
on Tuesday evening last, was not attended
in the ratio of its merits, and more is the
pity, for it was instructive, and no one
could have spent the evening to much
better purpose than in listening to him.
We had tried to advise our readers of the
treat they might avail themselves OF, but,
once in a while their errors are heavy and
they refuse to hear. The subject-Vital
Foree-was purely scientific and referred
to these bodies Of ours, so fearfully and
wonderfully made. We had hoped for a
better attendance at this second lecture.
The Doctor is a man Of considerable research
and observation, and whenever our people
are in a mood for it, they can hardly do
better than to invite him here,and go and
hear him in such numbers as to atone for
the neglect with which they have treated
him.