Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1879-10-17

! The Congregational churches Of Ohio
win hold missionary mass meetings in
different portions Of the State during the
fall. One viii be held at Ashtabula on
the Goth of November, and at Jefferson on
the 21st Prominent speakers and the
secretaries ofthe several missionary sOcie-
ties will be present
The ''yOung man. it will be seen, ran
nine votes ahead of his ticket The only
way to account for this is that the Stand
ards staff. that ranges all the way from
third to a full bakers dozen, must have
exemplified towards him some of that
friendiiness which was so beautiful in
them before and at the caucus.
-Apthorp, we learn, is so disguised at
the shape things have taken, and the bar
renness Of results, which promised suit
able reward for tireless assiduity, that he
threatens 40 bow himself dawn and out.
Possibly the party could survive his loss,
but he should be careful not to disturb the
relations to the party of DR.. Fricker.
John Quincy Adams is a devoted Dem
Ocrat He has had the distinction of be-
ing nominated five times by the party in
/ Massachusetts,, and has been defeated as
often as nominated. He is now again put
up with the certainty of being knocked
down yet he accepts with resignation, and
marches to the shambles without protest.
As will be seen by the proceedings of
the Council, that body proposes to give
West street its full width by removing
such fences as are in the street back to the
lines as named in the decree of the court.
As this matter has hung fire so long and
been of considerable expense to the cor
pOration it is hoped it will promptly be
settled.
-HilIiards Show the Great Pacific is
to winter in Kansas or Nebraska. because
of the low price of provender-here is the
scale of prices-cOrn is worth ten cents
bushel-7O lbs.-hay 50 ton, and wheat
20 to 70 cents a busheI. Each farmer has
bin Of corn in his back yard for fuel.
1t is commonly used for stove fuel, and |
makes a good hot fire.
Ed. Blakeslee carried the election of |
Real Estate Assessor by some thirty ma
jority, in little Plymouth. Mr. Jones was
the regular Republican nominee, and en-
joyed the confidence and respect of his |
party friends, and why they should have
left him does not readily appear, except |
that Ed. is rather more proficient in
manipulating the public pulse.
The next session of the Ashtabula |
Educational Association, will be held in
the Normal School Room, Geneva, on
Saturday, October is. The programme
will be as follows Physical culture"
H. A. Andrews; 2,-"EducatiOn that does
not educate" L. B.Durstine; 3,-Address,
A L. Amer; 4,-"MOdeI class in Primary
Arithmetic Miss Ella Kingsley, of Ge-
neva; Miscellaneous Business.
"A special train will leave Ashtabula,
Tuesday, Oct 28th, at 5 O'Clock, stopping
at intermediate stations to Cleveland, for
the purpose Of giving our people an op-
portunity to hear the world famed TRACE
dian Lawrence Barrett in the play of Ham,
let, at the Euclid Avenue Opera House.
Round trip tickets, good for irst-class re-
served seats in Opera House are now on
sale at the Lake Shore depot for the low
price of $1.75
The A. &. P. employes-conductors
engineer, &C., are contributing freely to
the building up of the Harbor. The class
of houses that they are putting up are con-
siderably above the range Of dwellings in
that precinct-lsrger and better specimens
of architecture. Among those thus help
ing the general improvement are the fol-
lowing: Conductor Jacob Burnett, en-
gneer, Alexander Galloway, John Rich
ards, James Dorothy, and Frank Efferts,
telegraph operator-five good houses with
in conYenient distance of the docks. There
are varions others, smaller and less pre-
tentious buildings that have recently gone
up that have not been taken account of.
The last hours we're used in stump
efforts on Monday evening, by Hon. Peter
Hitchcock, at HaskeIPs Hall, in a very
faithful portrayal of Democratic Legisla-
ton in comparison with that of the Re
publican, in the course of the respective
parties in the General Assembly of Ohio.
Norman is more familiar with this sub
ject than our Senator elect. He was greet
ed with a full house, and met the highest
expectations of his political friends He
will no doubt turn his acquaintance with
the course of legislation to good account.
in looking after the trust that has been
committed to his care. He was followed
by Mr.. Ford, and he by Mr.. Pettibone, in
brief remarks
Mayor Morrison occupied the even
ing at the Opera House, with fair
audience, dwelling, we suppose, upon the
greenback hallucination, and found favor
no doubt with his own as well as the
Democratic party.