Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1879-04-25
THE TELEGRAPH.
Friday Morning, April %, 1879,
LOCAL NEWS.

LOCAL NE w y.
The next examination Of teachers will
beheld at Austinburg on Monday, April %
If Gentle Spring don't keep out of th'
lap of old Winter, there will be trouble.
Those who profess to be judges, claim
the coming month will be good for wed
dings.
The A. & P. railroad is to be supplied
with lot of new cars from the Allegheny
City shops.
-Patchen made haul Of 600 weight Of
fish one day last week. No whitefsh have
yet been taken.
Charles Stow continues his connection
with the Sell Bros. Menagerie and Circus
as press agent and general director.
The Perry monument in the Cleveland
park is to be removed from its central 10
cation to the southeast section Of the same
inelosure.
Mrs. G. R. ScoviIle, Of Saybrook, will
rent rooms at Ashtabula, it is reported
during her husbands expected absence
upon the lakes.
j. K. Stebbins has purchased lot on
the old Boyle place, adjoining that Of Mr..
George Mygatt, and ofthe same size. Con-
sideration 500.
The Gliding property at East Village
consisting of house and three acres Of
ground-was offered at public sale OR Sat-
urday last, and was bid in by Able Krum,
Esq, at $1,000.
The house of Holsey Hitchcock and
wife, Amboy-while absent at church on
Sunday last-took fire and was entirely
consumed. The furniture in the first story
was saved, loss some 5000.
Mr. VIM. B. Blair. who has succeeded
to an interest in the Ohio Mills, is said tc
be a very competent miller and the repu
tation Of the establishment is not likely tC
loose anything by the accession.
The residents of the Newton district in
Plymouth have been using road scrapel
on the Jefferson road in the vicinity of the
Marsh, and what has been miserable road
for many years past is now in fine condition.
"A committee from Jefferson went over
to Conneaut on Friday last TO take aslOok
at the town hall, recently built there, in
r-I,- T., r-oe sor,,, ;1,oz ne q, tbo br;1dipo,
of that at Jefferson. Conneaut has mod
el hall,
The sixtieth anniversary Of the found
ing of the order of o. o. F. will be OBJ
served at the hall on this-Friday evening.
Anniversary ceremonies, and addresses by
brothers of the order will constitute the
programme.
The temperance meeting appointed fol
this evening at the Opera House has beeu
changed to Temperance Hall, Centre street.
Brother Castle says it will be regular ole
fashioned meeting, and earnest request j:
made feF all to turn out.
Our friend Il. d. Hunt, it is said, ha:
gone to see his brother. We have heard ii
said Of persons in about his fix having
egone to see their uncle, and we are not
little apprehensive that there is more
''uncle" in this case than 'bro ther."
1t is not safe to leave your horse.
hitched about the village in the evening
without watching. But for the vigilsnee
Of private watch, Captain ScoviIle, a horst
aud buggy would have been appropriated
by:a couple of tramps the other night.
The improved and almost rebuilt Bap
tist church of Conneaut was dedicated on
the 18th inst, 1t has been put in fine con.
dition, repainted reeushioned, recarpeted
and replastered, and it wears a comely,
gratifying aspect, as the Express informs
us.
The PainesYille church is still without
pastor and in casting about for candid
ates for the vacant desk, we learn that they
are desirous Of making the acquaintance ol
and to listen to the pulpit efforts Of the pas
tor Of the Congregational church of thi:
place.
Rev. Mr.. Bickford, of Kingsvllle, sup.
piled the desk of the Presbyterian church
on Sunday morning and evening last, by
way Of exchange. His efforts gave genera
satisfaction. In earnest, practical truth
they we're not deficient, and in thought anC
delivery ereditable in culture and schol
arship.
Mr.. Montgomery has felt constrained
to stop the Andover Reviel0. We regre
TO hear Of any clever fellow coming to
period in his business. but those Of US wht
are located in more important business
centres sail so close to the wind that it il
hard working up any nearer and make any
hesdWay,
The old officers of the School Board
have been re-elected-Dr. King, Pres.
Geo. E. Stevens, Treasurer, and A. A
Southwick, Clerk. Ordered that the com
mittee on school grounds, procure ani
plant shade trees about the grounds Of tn,
new school house on the ridge west. A
loan Of 5000 was made by the finance
committee.
We congratulate our neighbors Of tn,
Standard in their streak Of luck in gettinl
so fat a take as the publication of the Join
Resolutions of the General Assembly. w,
knew that the Standard was we'll posted
in saints days but as to the typical sprink
ling its lintels and door posts in prepa
ration for the passover We rather supposed
was beyond its biblical attainmeHts.