Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1879-10-17
LOCAL NEWS.
Try Faulkner's fine segars.

Try Faulkner's fine segars.
Fishing continues excellent at the
Harbor.
-ExMayor Hepburn was in town last
Tuesday.
Teachers examination at Conneaut
next Wednesday
There was a regular meeting Of the
Council last Wednesday evening.
Councilman Haskells public well is
duly appreciated these dry days.
p. H. Watson, Esq, came home to
vote for Foster and HickenlOOper
-Bugbee, the clothler, has commenced
business in his new quarters, 135 Main
street.
Those who wish to join Mr.. L. H.
Pages classes in dancing should leave
their names with Mr.. W. B. Menneiley.
Mr.. Robert sanderson won the badge
of the Ashtabula Shooting Club at the
regular monthly practice last Monday.
-Mr.Frank Loomis, Of jefferson, has
commenced the study of medicine with
Drs. d. H. and L. B. Bartlett, at Ashtabu-
la.
"A crystal granite monument, cut in
New Hampshire, standing ten feet high
has been placed over the remains of Sena-
tor Wade.
Mr.. L. ". Smith started last Tuesday
morning for California, to visit his family
which is soiOurning there. He win be gone
two months.
Mr. Charles Robertson, school census
enumerator, reports finding only eight IN
occupied houses in his rounds and these
are nearly all undesirable ones.
The Conneaut Express has moved, bag
and baggage, to Geneva, where it will ap-
pear as the Geneva Express. The COnneaut
Reporter las the field to itself once more.
Mr.. Henry Starkweather has been
awarded the contract for filling on the
east side of the new bridge in the Gulf
over Hubbard Run His bid was for 14c
per cubic yard.
Our colored people deserve credit for
coming out in full numbers and casting
their vote for Foster, and that, too, while
DR.. Fricker was present and looking on,
but rather num-
Mr.. E. A. Hitchcock started for a
trip east last Sunday morning, expecting
to be gone two weeks. He will visit his
son, Mr.. W. E. Hitchcock, at Meriden,
Conn, and other relatives in the same
State.
Right Rev. G. 7. Bedell, D. D., pro-
poses to make the following Episcopal
visitations in the county of Ashtabula; !;
December 1st East Plymouth, Il an.
Jefferson, z p. M; December I'd, Kinsman; /;
Dec. Sd, Windsor.
Nuts both chestnuts and hickory
nuts are of excellent quality and rather
plentiful-especially the first Dealers
pay 50 a bushel for chestnuts, and 75cts.
for hickories. At Painesville the latter
are purchased for 65 cents.
-Baldwin's Musical Review-D. H.
Baldwin & Co., publishers, 12S W Fourth
St., Cincinnati, o., for the musical student
or ameteur, is a valuable work to have at
hand. The music it contains more than
returns the subscription price.
Mr.. Horace Walton, an esteemed citi-
zen of Saybrook, left on Thursday with his
lady for Nevada, Iowa, where some of his
children Iiys. He expects to reeOnnOiter
from this point-eYen into Nebraska, and
if he finds anything to suit him will p4r-
chase and locate.
The Ashtabula saloon keepers believe
in the old adage that in union there is
strength, /" have formed an association for
mutual protection and elevation" of the
members thereof The association meets
once a mouth, and is composed Of eleven
members at present
Miss Alice Sanborn has become a pu-
pill of Mt. HolyOke Female Seminary
This is perhaps the most distinguished
female seminary in the land-distinguish
ed for the thoroughness of its course, and
to graduate from it is prima facie evidence
of thorough scholarship.
MIR. T. S. Norton Of Conneaut, has
purchased an interest in the Jefferson Ga
zstts. The paper will hereafter be pub.
lished under the firm name Of Norton
Lee. Mr.. L. T. Norton, son of the sen.
ior member Of the new firm will take charge
Of the job department.
The Harry Pease dramatic company
is to appear at the Opera House next Mon
day evening for three nights engage
ment, the play for the opening night being
the popular comedy of "stin waters ruI
deep" The company has recently been re
organized and comes to us highly recon
mended.
Geneva last week, there were 80 appli
cants for certifcates-12 ladies and q
gentlemen. Ofthese, 6 ladies and 8 gentle
men received certificates. tthe Pierpon
examination on Monday there were but L
applicants for certifieates--14 gentlemen
and 1 lady.
The last Standard publishes a col
umn of the rankest Democratic article
under the head Of temperance" wit
''Mrs. H. P Fricker, editress." We shal
be slow to believe that the friends c
temperance, including Of course, the edi
tress, will endorse this partisan escapad
ofthe Standard