Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1879-11-14
LOCAL NEWS.

-Ex-MayOr Hepburn was in town
yesterday.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. Tod Ford returned
from their bridal tour last Saturday.
Geneva is petitiOning for the stopping
Of train No. at that place.
There will be a regular meeting of
the Council next Wednesday evening.
The Geneva Esprsss. BY Foster & Pat
nam makes a good business appearance.
Unless Heappointments are made, the
Corporation viii be without police force
on and after December 1st.
The water in Conneaut creek at the
aarbor. the Reporter says, is IS inches
lower than ever before known.
The Connsaut potato buyers pay from
80 to IS cents a busheL Thirty was the
reigning price at Rock Creek the other day.
"A correct time schedule of the L. s. &
N. S. Ry, is published on the first page.
Also one for the Ashtabula & Pittsburgh
BY.
Mr.. Baker-the commissioner elect, is
preparing to boom again in the tanning
business-having been laying by for two
or three years.
Grand River Institute notifies the pub
lie when to be on hand for the winter term.
Nothing need be said of its merits. It
resrs its own monument.
-Buckwheat cakes and maple drip are
in order, and have lost none of their taste
ful virtues, though the weather is little
mild for keenness Of appetite.
Friend Spencer, of the Times, has
been presented with an early rose potato
weighing four pounds five ounces. That's
8 little head Of competition.
"A semi-annual dividend Of 80 per
cent. has recently been declared by the
Farmers National Bank and also placed
about 500 to the surplus funds.
There has not been so much complaint
from the whistle nuisance, by citizens liv-
ing in the vicinity of the J. & F. railroad.
since the recent order Of the superintend-
ent
We are pleased to be able to state that
ths Rev. Mr., Yingling who has been an in
valid since Conference, and unable to fill
his desk duties, will Oficiate on Sunday
next,
The machinery IN the Fisk 6 Sill
man Company mill, was running by water
power last Monday, for the first time for
about eighteen months. The company is
rushed with orders,
1t is reported that our young man is
likely to have the speakership of the House
of Assembly thrust upon him. There
can be no mistake about the fact that his
star is rising.
Mayor Morrison, having got his old
store very essentially improved since the
fire, has again possession, with a store
room not surpassed for spaciousness and
general attractiveness in the burg.
The first half of Mr.. L. h. Pages
school of dancing and department closed
last Tuesday. Persons desiring to join for
the balance Of the term should be on hand
next Tuesday evening at HaskelPs hall.
"A Communication = Fairness con-
Oeruing the Rock Creek attempt at arson,
reached US on Thursday evening as we
were going to press-too late for printing
in this number. 1t win appear next week.
-Ashtabula Bank stock which has paid
6 per cent. in the May and November in
stallments brings par at auction, while
government per cent. bonds are worth
per cent. premium. Can that be eonsid-
cred fat value2
"A young man-R. E. Powers, walked
of the viaduct bridge, on Friday evening
last into the river a distance of 20 feet and
was drowned before help could reach him.
The body was fshed up after a couple of
hours. He was railrOsd hand.
"A young shad some six aud hale
inches long, was hauled upon the beach
by seine, on Monday last-rather a scaly
evidence that the young fry that were
planted here five or six years since, not
#itAstanding their shyness, have not be-
come extinct
John Ducro bOOms In anew advertise
ment in this number, and proposes to as
tOnish the natives by grand opening re
ceptiOn on the first and second prox.
The people, of course, will keep their eve
on the gun, which VIII startle the echos of
trade.
Mr.. silas Fassett has turned the bed
ofthe cold creek on the west side of the plank
road bridge, near the toll gate, into an ice
pond, where by use of slight dam he
can food an acre Of area and furnish an
abundant supply Of ice, for himself aRd
others,
The Tuller House, Geneva, remains in
the hands of the landlady, Mrs. Tuller,
assisted by Mr.. John Martin the efficient
and accommodating clerk We have the
assurance that the house is in good hands
and the public will continue to find it a
pleasant and bomsljks PLACE q q stop at.
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