Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1879-09-19
LOCAL NEWS.

-FaiE at jefferson Tuesday Of nexi
week.
The Council met last Wednesday
evening.
The Wallace sisters will appear at the
Opera House next Monday evening.
The synod of CleYeland will meet in
this place on the nth proz. The ladies
have been putting the Presbyterian church
in order for its use.
-BurrelI's Oyster Depot viii be foundas
heretofore, at Burnham's He has the
trade well in hand and will supply any de-
mand on short notice.
The Sharpsville Advertiser says that
VIM. L. Scott proposes to build 3 railroad
to Massaugua Point-Erie harbor-and the
work is soon to be begun.
j. q. CoYeIl. of Rock Greek, was elect
ed as one of the Vice Presidents, of the regi
mental Association connected with the 23d
OhiO-representing camp B.
-Vitalized air for benumbing the sensi-
bilities and rendering the removal of
teeth painless, has been introduced by Dr.
Kelley, with new and elegant machinery.
"A special excursion train will leave
Ashtabula at 5 o'clock a. m. Wednesday,
Sept. oath, for the Pittsburgh Exposition.
Fare for round trip $3.50. See small bills
for particulars.
"A Democratic compOsitcr who was
sitting up the sentiment-''Hope cnee more
fills the Democratic breast" made an i'm
prOvement upon the thought by dropping
out the in breast.
Though we have had no frost the
swamp maple and the sumach are putting
on their autunmal hues, and the landscape
is changing the yerdant for the varigated-
gay, to be sure, but associated with the
sOmbre and melancholy.
Common Pleas began its session on
Monday last, with Sherman presiding. 1t
is occupied with motions and demurrers,
together with court cases. The grand jury
is in session, but the petit jury Will not be
called until the middle Of next month.
An old man living in the northern
part of the township of Madison, Lake
county, named Reuben Holmes, hung
himself in the woods, and was found on
the 10Th, after the body had hung for
some time. he was subject to fits of in
sanity.
Mr.. Henry C. Wright-says the Times
has been putting up string of iron
fence S15 feet in length-''the largest
stretch of iron fence probably in the cOun-
ty." Oh, mol friend Times, it does not be-
gin with Judge Sherman's of this place,
that is 400 feet.
The oyster trade has opened up here
this season with the usual brisk competi-
ton, and cans are now selling at forty
and fifty cents. The quality is excellent
and eastern papers say they are in finer
condition than in many years. The indi-
cations are they will be cheap this winter
"A melon thief on the premises of W.
II. M'Ewen-SaybrOok, inadvertently left
his pocket book in getting over the fence
to take his leave, the other night. The
owner is willing to call it all right. The
bill is not only paid, but papers in the
book served the purpose Of a card. Mis-
fortunes seldom come singly.
There are now three bus lines run
ming between the town and Harbor, and
q sharp competition is the result. Mr.
Anthony Foster, formerly in the employ
of Capt. N. c. Wright's line, is the last to
enter the field. If that proposed street
railroad to the HarbOr is ever built there
will be no less than half a dozen buss
drivers seeking new fields.
We are in receipt Of Vol. I, No. of
the Chromatic Art Magazine, published by
John Henry, No. 9 Spruce street, n. Y.
1t is ''a bi-monthly publication for the ele-
walton Of the topographic and photographic
arts, and it is destined to do a world of
good in the field it has entered. Its me-
chanical execution is not surpassed, if even
equaled, and edltcrially it will be read
with interest and profit from the Office
boy to the publisher.
Mayor Morrison is doing a good Job
in the way Of improving his store. Be
sides removing all the lath and plaster
from the entire apartment, he has-wisely
we think-concluded to raise the whole
thing and splice the posts and studding
three feet-making a ceiling of twelve feet
in h eight, and giving a degree of ariness
and commodiousness, that will be pleas
ant to contemplate in comparison with
the old arrangement, of nine feet ceiling.
There is a gang of disorderly boys,
whose ages range from fifteen to twenty
years, that assemblies almost nightly about
the corner Of Lake and Parsons streets
that the Police should attend to. The
boys amuse themselves by assaulting pass
ers-by, especially ladies, and have even
gone so far as to stop horses as they were
being driven past. Fun is nice thing
as long as it lasts, but unless this lawless
ness is stopped their fun may suddenly be
turned into sorrow.
Rev. Mr.. Bickford, of KingsyilIe, fill
ed Mr.. Safford's pulpit, morning and even,
ing Of Sunday last. We had the pleasure
Of hearing his morning sermon and the
conclusion arrived at was that it was q
very commendable effort, a sentiment that
seemed to be generally entertained by his
hearers. We 'learn that his labors have
been closed at Kingsville, and call has
been extended to him from Rootstown
Portage county, where satisfactory sala
~ has. been offered him,