Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1879-07-25
LOCAL NEWS.

LOCAL NE w D.
The public schools viii open septem-
Der 1st.
-stebbins' brick house on Prospect
street has the walls up and makes a very
good showing
The Fall term of Pierpont Central
High School, under 81. A. Andrews as
Principal, will open August 26th.
The editorial and mechanical work
on the old Conneaut Reporter was never
better since our long acquaintance,
Rev. DR.. Bailey, of Warren, has been
chosen to the pastOrate Of the Presbyterian
church at Massillion, and has accepted.
-Blanch, the colt raised by Mr.. P. H.
Watson and given in exchange for the
roam family horse of Mr.. Call, the livery
man, dropped dead on Friday last.
The effort to rescue man from drown
ing in the lake, the other day, was unsue-
eessful because his hair had struck in with
the fashion. and there was nothing to get
hold of.
The fishermen at this place are not
meeting with much success in gilling
whitefsh this summer. The few they do
get are caught about thirteen miles of
Conneaut
Mr. Albert J. Bieder, the popular ba-
ker, has just set up a beautiful little
steam engine in his bakery, by which the
laborious part of ice cream freezing is
performed.
in the recent examination of F. G.
GiIlilsnd, Route Agent on the Ashtabula s.
New Castle run, before Chief Head Clerk
Story, on throwing the Ohio scheme, stood
50 per cent
Another modern improvement has been
introduced by the L. S Co., beside its track
between Centre and Prospect streets. It's
a semaphore, for signalling the situation
of the track and cars.
1t is reported the Ashtabula Light
Guards, of the Tenth Regiment, o. N. G.,
will go into camp at Rock River on Au-
gust 18th, with the Eighth and Fifteenth
Regiments, and Second and Sixth Bat
teries
Mr.. Fred Brockway is to open up
branch restaurant in Union City, Pa.
next Monday, where he will dispense to
the citizens Of that place the same quality
of ice cream which has met with such
popular sale here.
The Warren Chronicle of the 23d inst.
contains seven announcements for the Of
flee Of Commissioner, seventeen for Record
er, and six for Prosecuting Attorney; total
thirty, and it is not a very good year for
announcements either.
An exchange declares that the man
who sat down in the middle OF a pasture,
expecting that COW would come to him
and be MIXED, is not more foolish than the
man who stocks his store and expects peO-
pie to hunt him out without advertising,
-Another brick residence is soon to be
put up by Mr., A. o, Moore, in the Dick
neighborhOod-next to the Sievers house
As Mr.. Moore uses some taste in building,
q comely house may be expected-anOther
to the row that has sprung up on that
street within few years.
As Mrs. Oliver Smith and son were
driving up the Harmon Hill last Monday,
one of the lines slipped under the Whit
Aetree, when the horse commenced back
ing, The result was the carriage was
backed over the side of the hill and brok-
en-. and the occupants considerably bruis-
ed.
The claims Of the Seamen's Friend
Society were presented to a united eongre-
cation Of the Presbyterians and Congrega-
lional churches, on Sunday evening last,
at the Congregational church, by the Rev
Mr., M'MahOn, which was fully attended,
and a collection in aid Of the cause taken
up.
Attention is called to q local reference
to Wilson College, Chambersburg, Pa.
This is an institution for the education Of
women, and its rank and tone places it
among the first schools Of the country. It
is presided over by Rev. DR.. T. 4. Robin.
son, who taught the academy in this place
more than twenty years ago, and is favor
ably known to many Of our older citizens
Tom Hamilton a crazy inmate of the
Infrmary, took a notion TO visit Ashtabu.
Ia on Thursday night of last week, and
finding The weather rather warm, conelud
ed to us some Of the freedom of the gar.
den, and was found on Friday morning
with his iuteguments over his shoulder in
stead Of decently covering his person. He
was placed in the lookup until he could be
returned.
THAT was a very graceful bit of cleri.
cal wit leveled at the Presiding Elder. by
a Presbyterian brother, who had by mis-.
take mated one of the Elders oversboe,
with one Of his own. 1t happened to be q
little large. In urging the righting oi
the wrong he added the assurance that il
was a Methodist article. for the reason thai
whenever he stepped into the mud-'f
fell from grace"