Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1879-01-31

The girls of Erie have turned the
''pitch holes to good account They cali
them kiss bumps, whenever one is driven
INTO, they expect every man to do his duty.
What pity that the suow should have
been taken away 50 soon!
That notorious dead beat and swindler
Thomas Sexsmith, turned up in Ashtahula
last week, hut when he read that little ar
licle about his caPers which was published
III tie TELEGRAPH last. Friday, he imme-
liatrly departed for new fields.
-Me-srs. Storrs. Harrison & Co. are
propagating and have on sale, what is call
ed the japanese Persimmon, the fruit of
which is said to be superior TO The common
plum, oreven the peach or apricot Messrs.
S, H. & Co. keep up with the advance OF
the day.
Patrick Shea, the man who was 50
bndiy injured by train on the l.. ). & N.
5. Ry. al this place last Thursday informing,
died last Saturday and lis remains were
taken on Monday % jamestown. Pa. where
they were buried. He leaves wife and
one child.
Mr.. Edwin Hall is erecting another
building on his properly at the Centre
Street Crossing. 1t is to be two stories
hugh. with frontage of 10 feet and
depth Of 81 feet. The first floor is de-
signed for store and the second for a
harding house.
Tom Paine's birthday was noticed at
Geneva on Wednesday last. The pro-
grmne consisted of speaking, picnic sup
per, and social dance. The invitation
WAS extended to ''spiritualists. liberalists,
and all disposed to JONAS We gather
from the Times.
Mr.. Charles Patterson, of Madison,
Wis, brother of Mr.. S. D. Patterson, and
Il former resident of AShtabula, has been
visiting his friends here during the past
week. 1t has been sixteen years since he
left here and old Ashtabula appears to him
like another town.
Mr.. Stiles Dodge returned from Cana
da on Saturday last after something like
weeks absence, with some twenty pure
blood Cottswold rams and ewes, some hall
of who were recently imported from the
mother country. They are said to very
fine specimen animals.
The heavy rain of last Monday night,
together with the large amount Of water
from the melting snow caused some fears
that we might have another freshet similar
to that of last September. Fortunately it
made no perceptible difference in the
height Of water in the creek.
Mrs. R. Forman, of New Lyme, while
stopping with the family of Mr.. W. Sco-
vile, last week, submitted to surgical
operation Of much delicacy and difficulty,
performed by Dr. Eames, assisted by Drs.
Case, Tuckerman, Geer and Rathburn,
which it is hoped may prove successful.
As an energetic, prosperous farmer and
stock raiser, Mr.. E. g. Hurlburt, has few
equals in the county. OF this, his crops
last year are pretty good evidence His
acreage of wheat was thirty-six, which
cleaned up little short of 1000 bushels. |
His crop Of oats even went ahead of this
being 1000 bushels.
Our friend of the Times predicts that
in renewed effort to vote village bonds
for Harbor improvement, ''the people of
Asltabula will quite likely vote-no" We
would not say that the wish here is father
to the thought, but We viii say, that Bro.
SPeneers prediction in its result will hard
yprove him a prophet or the son of
prophet.
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