Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1879-04-18
THE TELEGRAPH.
Friday Morning, April IS, 1879,
LOCAL NEWS.

. Z -PielT,ont reioices in three stores and I
healthy trade.
That blown up handle factory Of Denio
at Rome, is again in full blast.
Teachers examination will be held al
PIerpont on Tuesday, the 22nd inst. .
II. B. Wire, of Austinburg, has peti,
toned for the benefit of the bankrupt act
We should like 10 know who thai
''prominent railroad Official Of Ashtabula'
is.
Prof. Andrews wife and daughter have
been suffering from diphthsria. but are con.
Valescent.
Twenty-Five marriage licenses were is
sued BY the probate court Of this county in
March last.
The Ashtabula House was thrown OPP
: en- to the public last Tuesday under the
management Of Mr.. Ed. Stull.
Mr.. N. Hubbard, Township Clerk, has
now opened an Office in Pierce and Red
heads block, with Police Judge Richards.
"A repeal of the provision requiring q
postal clerk livery, takes effect on the first
iof.M Nay. That's well. Thanks to Garfield.
The city dads shufHed in and out last
Wednesday evening. Their sayings and
doings are fully reported in another col
Umn.
The Erie and Buffalo Divisions of the
L. S. & NJ. S., Ry., have been consolidated
and will hereafter be known as the Erie
Division. II -
Mayor Morrison strikes several key
notes in his annual address, and it will
repay every tax payer to carefully read his
suggestions.
! -B. Webb seems to be putting in his
best Hcks, and his trade is very wholesome.
He Is cOnversing with the public through
our columns.
Mrs. Belden, relict of Oliver Belden,
residing in the north part of Andover
townshiP was found dead in her bed, Sun
day morning ApfiI.l 18th,
"A limited partnership has been formed
between H. J. 'Topky and Horace Streeter
in the hardware business, under the firm
name of TOpky & StFeeter.
-Wllloughby is to have two papers.
Nh. Merrill failing to buy out the old pa
per, starts. on a new basis with new
paperAthe 2nd. Success to him.
Our friend, George Hunt, has pur.
chased the Milford Shepard place Of fifteen
acres on the Daniels road, south of Con-
meant. Consideration 81, 900 cash.
-Itis said that the distinction of eleeting
the arst e6iored man 10 .ofice in this coun-
" belongs to Geneva-James Carter having
been elected to the Office of constable in
that town at the late election. \
Granville Loomis, of SaybroOk, and
Mrs. Sarah Clark, of Plymouth, who were
sent to the Hospital for the Insane at New
burg some months since, have both recov-
.erea suficisntlylte return tOthsir friends.
"A report has been circulated here that
the L. S. 6 NJ. S. repair shops at Oil City
are to be removed to Ashtabua. The
railroad officials here say the shops are to
be removed here, but probably not before
next year.
-Durin9 thunder storm at Chicago, on
the evening of Wednesday, the 9th, me-
teor, apparently about foot in diameter,
descended to the earth and struck on the
south side, after bursting into fragments,
ct a white heat.
Our neighbor of the Standard in
dulges in an ambiguous kind of a notice Of
the late landlord Of the Fountain House,
Geneva, which rather squints at ''step-
ping out, and a hasty departure to some
pfacenot yet defined.
The Lake Shore Michigan Southern
Ry. Co are about to use stone and blast
furnace ciuders for ballast on the main
line Of their road. 1t is hoped this change
viii free the road, to great extent, of the
dust in the Summer season.
The NeaCs man treats his readers, this
week, with sermon that he tells us was
obtained BY his ''own request" The I'M
preston is, therefore, that he was present
and heard its delivery, and the novelty Of
the thing struck him favorably.
On Monday John Amsden was sent
over from AshtabuIa charged with stealing
''deacon skins from W. a. Field & Co.,
butchers. Being taken before E. W.
Richards he was proven guilty and fined
e1O and committed to Jail until the fine is
paid.
w. q. LandoD worked the sugar bush
of Fargo Bros, making some 1900 pounds
of sugar and any quantity of syrup. Mr..
L. says there is not much romantic interest
abOut the business. He and his force had
been at work night and day for about a
month.
The lecture Of the Rev. DR.. Bush, at
the Congregational church on Thursday
evening, was replete with instruction, and
was intently listened to by a full house,
with quite a sprinkling of children and
8 youth. His Illustrations gave vividness to
the lecture. .--..
The L. s. & NJ. S. company is to be
petitioned to reinstate Mr.. C. NJ. Wilkins
as agent in the Dorset station Of the ]. &
F. road, which he left with the expectation
Of making a permanent residence in Kan
sas.f The company had no more pleasant
and efficient agent than this gentleman.