Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1879-01-17
SWIFTS
Drug Store.
THE TELEGRAPH.
Friday Morning, Jan. IL, 1879.
LOCAL NEWS.

The Police are tskinga rest.
The Council met last Wednesday
evening.
Our new correspondent at New York
writes very interesting letter.
Several of the manufacturers of War
rem, paid off their employees in gold, last
week.
The Court of Common Pleas opened
on Monday last, with Judge Woodbury.
upon the bench.
Well, January 18th has come and
gone, and now where is your Pittsburgh &
Lake Erie Railway?
1t is now reported that the Pittsburgh
and Lake Erie Railroad will not be opened
until about Jan. 18th
The sale OF land for delinquent taxes
will take place on Tuesday, 21st inst. The
list is said to be large.
Mr.. Albert Henry, of Ashtabuls, was
appointed last Monday as Deputy Sheriff.
He wiIlmal1e an Efficient officer.
-Mr.sO.-C. Barrett, for several years
travelling. agent for the Cleveland Paper
Co., has been succeeded by J. E. Weir.
Mr.. A. G. Snyder takes the laurels on
pogkers. He raised Is months animal
that pulled down the scales at 476 pounds.
Mr.. B. B. Seymour. the gentlemanly
and obliging clerk Of our post office, is
spending a short vacation at Mauistee,
Michigan.
Baltimore was frozen up during the
recent frigid wave, and as a result oysters
in this market advanced in price from five
TO ten cents per quart.
The beggarly allowance for the services
of juror. were increased to two dollars a
day and five cents mileage, at the last ses-
sion Of the General Assembly.
OF the ten newspapers published in
Ashtabula County, six are printed in part,
elsewhere. The Conneaut Express is the
last to adopt the ''patent" inside.
Our citizens should bear in mind the
temperance lecture at the Opera House to-
night to be delivered by DR.. W. NJ. Eames.
1t will be interesting and instructive.
The firm of Haskell & Son, lumber
dealers, has been changed to that of J. W.
Haskell & Sons. The firm is composed
Of J. W. Haskell, W. C. HASKELL and D.
W. Haskell.
-Dr. Charley Eames has been home for
q short visit from East Saginaw. He
speaks in pleasant terms of business and
the location. The Doctor is worthy Of all
the prosperity that awaits ham.
Fourteen degrees below zero is claimed
TO be fatal to peaches, and as the mercury
ranged shout that figure during the late
polar wave, there is some danger Of the
crop being cut off next season.
Our KingsViIls friends will remember
that they can renew their subscriptions
at ciab rates-bY leaving their names and
subscriptions with Mr.. A. B. Luce, who
is duly authorized to receive the same.
The Liverpool and London and Globe
Insurance companies two risks, on
Topky's stock, in the former; and one on
the Ashtabula National Bank, have all
been adjusted and the money paid oyer.
"A report was in circulation last Sun
day, that Mrs. a. G. Snyder was so low as
to raise fears of her rallying. On Monday
the symptoms were better and her condi-
tion became more hopeful and encouraging.
The deep SHOWS are not auspieous for
short turns, as at least two of our milk
men have found. Fargo turned over, los=
ing his milk and money, and Strong has been
trying what be could do in that line, and
succeeded admirably.
Mr.. Stiles Dodge, of the firm of ]. J.
Dodge & Sons, South New Lyme, was in
town last Tuesday, on his way to Canada,
where he Is to purchase another lot Of
bloOded sheep and swine for his stock farm
at South New Lyme.
Most of the losses by the late fire have
been settled. Besides those spoken of else
where, Mr.. Dickinson in the Lycomlng,
Thurbsr in the Glen's Falls, Phenix Mutu.
al, Buckeye Mutual, and Delaware Mutual
have each been liquidated.
The Board of Education at Warren,
have adopted rule requiring continuous
session Of school hours beginning at 9
a. M. and closing at 2.45 p. N. The ex-
ample, it is said, has been successfully set
by several cities Of the state.
-Blakeslee & Moore have successfully
taken views of that portion of the shore Of
the lake near watch hill, where the York
State and dredge are located, with the
bulky incuustations of ice surrounding
them, and banked upon the beach.
We had almost foretaste of Spring
on Monday last. Though the beams of the
sun seemed gsnal and bland they were a
little deceptive. The effect upon the
virgin snow was not very apparent, but
that which was worn and diseolored settled
sensibly.
in another column Mr.. WIN. c. Has
kell adyertises Tor sale his very pleasant
residence on Prospect street; also, another
on Park street known as the Frank Sher-
man place. Both are located in the most
desirable parts of the town, and to cash
buyers bargains are offered.
We are reminded from day to day that
Fopky has taken the store Of D. W. Has
kell, under the TELEGRAPH Office. He will,
no doubt, prove a good neighboF enough,
but its not pleasant to be reminded all the
time that yo9 have peighhOr that is able
to make more noise IN tho world than yqp
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w-orders left at the Store ofcrosby, 4 Wet
sryTar or the Central News Room, will recel