Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1879-01-10
SWIFT'S
Drug Store.
THE TELEGRAPH.
Friday Morning, Jan. 10, 1879.
LOCAL NEWS.


new club.
Coal dealers say business with them
was never better.
-''Have we fire Department." Well,
we should say so.
There was 10 meeting of the Council
last Friday night.
The citizens of Geneva propose to start
village library and reading room.
The public schools opened again last
Monday after two weeks vacation.
That cistern at the Ashtabuls House
redeemed itself at the fire on Monday last.
The cold weather of the past week has
been death to the little spArrOws that were
exposed.
The first through express matter from
the East for about q week arrived last
Wednesday evening. .t-'tsf
Jack Frost did some very fine etching
upon the large plate glass windows during
the zero range of last week.
Hon. G. N. Tuttle, of Painesvills, is
announced as the political editor of the
Willoughby (Greenback) Gazette, since
Jan. 1st.
The many friends of Mrs. H. H. Perry
will be pleased to know that her health has
greatly improved since her residence in
yineland, N. J.
George Metcalfs patriarchal ambition
is on the ewsytO qualification. BE scores
one-a boy. Small beginnings are by no
means to be despised.
If our subscribers who have agreed to
pay in wood have any bowels Of compassion
-any impulses of humanity-theY will
not longer neglect to bring it in.
Mr.. E. ]. Pinney delivered a temper
ancs sddress-prohibition-st the Har-
Dor, on Friday evening last. Mr.. P. gen.
orally hits his mark. and makes good eff
fort. .s-.
The opening of the New Year is mark
cd by the death ofa number of distin-
guished men, including Judge Sherman
and Rev. DR.. Aiken. of Cleveland, and
Cabel Cushing, of Massachusetts.
Our citizens take much pains to dump
their ashes into the street, and those that
are particularly nice, drop them in the
track Of the sleigh runners and thus give
the sleighriders the greatest benefit Of them,
The Cleveland Herald has done away
with that nuisance Of cutting or turning
g quarto sheet for perusal, by presenting
its readers with the paper neatly cut, as
has keen the case with the Leader of late.
We notice that our friend Ellis has
been taking advantage of the good
hauling for getting in some superior white
oak logs for,WoFiging into ploW handles.
Having the machinery, Mr.. E. cuts his
own handles from the timber.
On Friday morning last, the mercury
at this point ranged at about twelve or
thirteen degrees below zero, and the tenn
psrAture was realized to be pretty sharp
and biting aud no mistake, and the sever
ity through the day was a very sensible
check to business.
THAT morning daily from the Cincin-
natl Times Office has come to hand-hsving
appeared on the first. 1t indicates tact
and ability, and will no doabt fulfil its end
and that of cheap morning daily-for a
more general circulation than the regular
full grown dailies.
This house of Chauncey Pierce, South
AustinbuFg. took fire on Friday evening
last, from the stove pipe over the Kitchen,
and was wholly destroyed except 8 portion
Of his hOuseholdsrBects on the Rfst floor.
Insured for $1,000, which 1t is supposed
will nearly cover the loss.
There might have been fine crop of
frost bitten ears, last week, if they had not
been Tapped up and slowed away so care
fully. Almost every fellow was swaddled
with scarfs, blanket shawls, furs. &C.. un-
til it was quite difficult to identify him.
OF the crop Of frosted toes, potatoes. &C..
who can tell?
We seldom see more formidable snow
drifts than srs to be found since the late
storms. Within the corporation. on Main
street, there are at least two or three Of
six feet depth, and on the roads running
into the village such drifts are frequently
to be metwith, and without considerable
labor srs impassable.
-DF. Hubbard and family were eonsid-
erably affected, on Saturday last, by what
was believed to be poison, but about the
manner Of taking, all was mystery. 1t is
supposed to have been by accident. There
is a suPposition, however, that it may have
bsen taken with corn starch, some of which
vas that day prepared for the table.
The story Is told by the jefferson Ga
sette, Of Mr.. T. B. Wire, of Lenox, who
retired the other night, in the absence Of
his wife, and found between the sheets
what he supposed to be the family Tabitha,
but was not a little startled to find that it
was a Veritable opossum. whose life was
offered up on the altar of its temerity.
Some Of our village wslks-thst along
the front of the Presbyterian church, and
that through the Park, especially, require
no little dexterity to travel over and pre-.
serve perpendicular. The sharp ridge in
the center and sharp decline on either side
makes the foothold very uncertain and
7arn nsrr,Iis far nilasl-. -.--.-.l-s- = 49,
7soQlpt Attention.