Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1879-01-17
FROM OUR EXCHANGES.

gainesville Telegraph.
Mr.. Lon F. MeAleer has recently resign
ed his office of Superintendent of the
PaiaesYille and Youngstown Railroad, and
accepted the same position on two New
York roads, TO wit: The Utica, Ithaca &
| Elmira, and CazenOva, CanastOta & De
| RuyteE Railways. The two roads, al
| though separate corporations, are to be run
under the supervision of one Superinten-
| dent.
The death of Mr.. John j. Pratt, of this
place, occurred at the Newburg Hospital
for the Insane, few minutes after twelve
o'clock. nOUn, last Monday, January 18th.
The deceased was a native of CRANKY, Ct,
and came to Painesville some ten or eleven
years ago, where he has since been quite
extensively engaged in the sale of pianos
and other musical instruments, having an
establishment in the Stockwell House
block.
Among the heavy snow drifts piled up
in all sections by the late storm, was one
in South Thompson, of such depth that it
could not be ditehed or ',deep cut. !" AND 50
it WOO tunIreIeu, making track through 1t
sufficiently broad and high for the passage
of teams-the length of the tunnel being
SiTty feet. The tunnel remained open to
the travelling public several days, when the
heavy body of snow above crushed it in.
The like Of this tunnel has never been
known in this country.
Mr.. Nj. L. Phelps, residing in the vicin-
ity of Little Mountain, is the owner of an
ancient tomahawk, which in its early day
must have been regarded as a skilled and
tasty piece of metal workmanship. Though
old, battered and rust eaten now, it shows
evidence of having been quite handsomely
urnamented with raised border lines from
below the handle to, the head, which is
formed into regular pipe bowl, oonneot-
ing with the handle, through which the
smoke was drawn. Mr.. Spencer Phelps,
father OF the present owner, procured it
from an Indian sometime between 1903 and
1905. Who the manufacturer was is not
known, but evidently one well skilled as a
metal worker.
Ashtabula Sentinel.
On Monday, Josiah Belts, H. Stanford,
and F. A. PTitchard cgt down a chestnut
tree from which they got about forty lbs
of strained honey. 1t had evidently been
a healthy swarm, as there was about half
a bushel of empty comb, which apparently
had been drawn on this winter.
meSSTS. D6uldIlllH O. I'LL nave mdu6 TWO
contracts for timber; one of 200,0 feet
for Ashtabula Harbor, and one of 1,500,
900 feet for Sand Beech HarbOr, Lake HUI
ron. Fhey hays prospect of still larger
contracts of the same kind. They have
also heavy contract for lumber for Buffa- |
10.
SnOw-feas were to be seen in myriads on |
the snow Sunday afternoon. This is a |
4 81 l1yr
Where do the fleas come from They appear |
on top of the two feet of snow, and are as
lively as grasshopperS in June. We examin- |
ed one under a microscope. He looked very |
like ''gallinipper" of the Miami Valley. |
Charles Fl. IIedwell, well known in this
vicinity, who unfortunately for himself and |
family, is addicted to drinking to excess. |
Last Saturday be had attended sale at |
Mr. Martins in East Union, and was some
what under the influence of liquor. Be-
tween three and four o'clock he sat down
to dinner, but soon got up and went into
the buttry and took revolver from the
shelf and came into the room with it
pointed at his breast swapping it. His
wife jumped up and started toward him,
imploring him not 10 do so, or he would
shoot himself. Just as she reached him,
the pistol went off, and he fell on his knees
and then on his face at her feet DR.. Way
was Immediately sent for who calling DIR.
Tudor to his assistance, they went to the
the relief of the wounded man. 1t was
found that the ball had entered about two
inches inside and one inch below the left
breast nipple, and its course was such that
probing was not safe so near the heart.
At this writing he was still alive, but his
recovery is extremely doubtful. He has
said on several occasions that he intended
to kill himself. A few days before the
shooting he jumped from a rail road train,
which was going at high rate of speed,
with the avOwed purpose Of ending his
life. He is a man of fair education and
ability, but his love of drink has ruined
him.
Warren Chronicle.
The Ashtabula & pittsburgh depot AT
Bloomfield, was accidently burned on Sat
urlay night. The building has had an
unlucky history. 1t was blown over by a
gale from the Geauga hills a few years
since, and badly wrecked. Everything
was lost in the depot except money in the
safe. Loss from one to two thousand dol
lars. Only little freight was on hand.
Several tons Of burning coal made some
people imagine a new fire on Sunday
night.
Garfield and Youngstown huye not set
tied their county seat war yet. The mat
ter is before the Supreme Court and will
probably come up in few weeks for hear
ing. The Youngstown NelCS says, that
Youngstown will be represented by Gen.
Tom Sanderson, while Garfield has en-
gagged Gen. Garfield and Jerry S. Black, Of
Pennsylvania, to look after their interests.
The Clerk Of the Supreme Court writes,
that he cannot tell exactly when the case
viii be called.
Orwell Welcome.
Last Saturday night the station at
bloomfield on the A. Y. & P. road. was
burned to the ground, together with the
book. papers and what tJssiRht was,in the