Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1879-08-08

The Townsend Dramatic troupe which
has been summering here, were to have
left yesterday to commence their annual
tour. At Willoughby they will give their
first entertainment, after which they. will
continue their trip west, stopping at
Elyria. This popular troupe has made a
large circle of acquaintances and friends
during their sojourn here, and it is the
general wish that they will come again
Last Tuesday evening scOville's cOrnet
band gave them a serenade in front of
their hotel, to which Mr.. Harry Town
send responded by inviting the band to
Bisder's restaurant where refreshments
were served, after1which they returned to
the hotel parlors where an hour of pleas
ant intercourse was held. Mr.. c. E. Rich
ardsen Of this place, will travel with the
troupe this season.
Considerable talk has been caused by
the fact that certificate of incorporation
was fled for the Cleveland, Painesville &
Ashtabula Railroad. As heretofore an
nOuneed in the paper, it is said to be the
intention of Mr.. @. F. Lewis, ct al of
Cleveland, who filed the certificate of in
corporation, to continue the Lake-Yiew
and Colamer Railroad east through Guy
ahOga, Lake and Ashtabula counties to
the State line at Conneaut. The road
will Of ever built) run from one-half to a
mile south of the L. S. & NJ. S. Ry, there
by catching the local traffic from the
towns and villages along the proposed
line. The present indications are that it
will be many years before our readers
viii see this road completed. The capi-
tai stock of the company is announced as
$4,000 which would be sufficient to build
only about two miles Of the road.
The heavy shower that fell to the
south and east of us on Saturday afternoon
and perhaps others that preceded it, were
such as to raise Ashtabuls creek in an al
most unprecedented manner for the short
time left for the water to find its way
down to this portion of the stream. In
the morning we were informed that the
creek at this place had raised four feet
upon the stage of water previous TO the
rains. The accumulation was so rapid
that the water rushed down in a regular
wave, or bank. No particular dam
age was done, we understand, but the
washing away of the temporary dam that
had been erected, while the work of re-
building the dam to Fisk s. Silliman's
pond-washed out last year. Being upon
the platform, awaiting the 40 train at
jefferson, the shower came down upon
that place with such violence, that the
track was flooded in few seconds. The
shower was the result of two currents of
clouds respectively from the southwest
and northwest meeting nearly over and
east of jefferson, Its fury was soon
spent, and Ashtabula was left as dry as
before.
That Orwell mail line to Claridon and
intermediate places-Windsor, Windsor
Mills, Hartsgrove and so on, has
at length been changed The time of leav-
ing Orwell heretofore has been just before
the arrival of the morning train from Ash
tabula. Thus allowing mail matter for the
west to lie over until next day. It now
leaves orwell-according to the Sentinel,
which is to be taken as aushority in m all
matters-at 2:3O, arriving at Windsor
Mills at p. M. so that the TELEGRAPH
will stand chance now of reaching its.
subscribers along the line the day of pub
lication. That is an improvement, but
why should the connection not have
been made with the morning train?