Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1879-04-11
TIE TELEGRAPH.
Morning, April II, 1879,
LOCAL NEWS.

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Lettuce, onions and spinach have
made their appearance on the market.
Ed stull becomes landlord of the ASH,
tsbuls House 10 the course Of next week.
Capt VIM. Hancock will speak at the
Opera House next Friday evening on tenn
Perance.
We are obliged to our friends who for
warded the returns Of their several local
elections.
Mr.. b. J. TOpky returned on Wednes-
day last from the sad duty of burying his
mother, at Dayton.
S. R. Norris, the Gilt Edge butter
man, leaves Ashtabuls for Fargo, Dakota,
with views Of business.
We are indebted to Mr.. L. W. Kim
ball, Of Golden City, COL, for package of
Denver and Golden papers.
Charley Ingalls-the horse trainer
has arrived ia town With three horses, and
taken Up quarters in the Fisk House barn.
-Pigeon business is looking up, 1000
pounds Of these feathered bipeds having
passed through Columbus one day last
week.
Mr.. Geo. D. Zeile, who for the past
few years has been suffering with dropsy
died on Wednesday night last, at the age
Of 49 years.
Mayor Morrison is about to occupy his
lot on the burned district with a frame
building, for the use of Mr.. A. T. Dorlnan
Of the Lake Shore station.
The heedlessHess Of leaving a switch
open at AmbOy, last week, exposed a pas
senger train to serious accident. Moder-
ate speed is what saved it.
Mr.. Warrington recognizes the obi
cation he is under to the fire department
for saving his building, and, as will be
seen, gives them benefit on Monday even
: ing.
AT the village election in Painesville
last Monday there were $50 votes cast and
at the township polls there were 666; Ash
tabuls village cast 746 and the township
SS5.
Mr.. L. W, Smith is putting in a sky
light in the roofover the former room of
the TELEeEGPH Office to be used for photo.
gra nhing by Mr.. Wood, now in Tyler's
block.
Mr.. c. 4. Hastings writes that he is en-
loving a fair share OF comfort at M'Minn-
ville, Tenn. HIS business interests are
well looked after by his attentive clerk Mr..
Smith.
When Messrs. Booth and Poe called each
other fools in the House the other day, the
Speaker was so struck with the unanimity
and correctness of their views that he didn't
cali them to order.
"A Mrs Bell, Of Lenox, with the aid Of
numerous friends, celebrated her centennial
birth day on Saturday last. She is repre-
sented as well-preserved in the midst of
her heightened years.
An old cOlored man aged lie years died
in Pittsburg the other day, and the most
noticeable point in the matter, beside his
extreme age, d that be laid no claim to.
having been q servant Of Washington.
Don't forget that Capt. Hancock gives
the temperance lecture at the Opera House
on Friday evening. The Captain generally
proves himself master of the situation.
he is one of the pioneers of Murphyism.
-Crosby's Victor and National wash
boards are extensively in the field and gath
ering reputation and popularity insOmuch
that they are being shipped by the carload,
Pittsburgh, where man wears half a dOz-
en- shirts day, they are imm ensely popular.
The drama of the ''Hidden Hand"
was played at the Opera House last Thurs
day and Friday evenings, and by request
was repeated on Monday evening, by the
Paulus Post G. A. R.; time nor space will
not allow Us to give an extended notice of
the play and players, but we will simply
say slI did well and the public was well
satisfied. The net profit to the Post was
about $50.
Rose Sparks the girl who committed
suicide at Bloomfield, as asserted, was
brought into this cOunty-COlsbrook-for
burial. The story of the body being found
as already deseribed-the cord being tight
ened about the neck by the use of a stick
turned by her own hand, and everything
shout the bed indicating or der and death
without struggle Is looked upon by some
with degree inoredulity. '
The G. 4. R. dramatists had third
presentation of the "Hidden Hand" on
Monday evening last. 1t brought out the
best house Of the three, and left the treas.
ury sOund-some $40 ahead. The boys
deserved better ending than this of their
L., ,hors in the preparation Of this entertain
ment Their acting was very fair for ana
tsurs and vas veil received, as may be
judged from the succ,-Ssiyely increasing
houses.
1t will look like a revival Of busin ass
to see the Ashtabula House, raised as it
were from its ashes and invested with new
life again. Mr. Ed Stull, who becomes
''mine host, though without experience
IN the business is q young man Of some en-
srgy Of character and will no doubt soon
adapt himself to the situation, while his
lady mas had considerable familiarity with
the house while under the administration
of her parents-Mr. and Mrs. Warrington.
We shall hope to see the Ashtabula taking
its position among the hostelries Of the re-
.gion.