Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1879-08-01
LOCAL NEWS.


the Council next Wednesday evening.
The thirteenth Ohio State Camp meet
ing opens in Youngstown next Teusday.
The knights of Honor had rainy day
for their reunion at Chautauqua, last week.
Our grain, -four and feed market report
is corrected weekly by VIM. Seymour &Co.
1t is reported that Capt. E. G. Pierce
has gone to Dakota, to join an engineer
corps,
Mr.. A c. Fisk an family returned
from a four weeks visit N Massachusetts,,
last Monday.
The Mckenzie Bros. will have the
new 200 feet Of the Government pier CON-
pleted by the 2Oth inst.
Green corn and cucumbers are plen-
tiful enough and cheap enough, even if
they had no grapes to throw in.
Excursions, picnics and Summer va
cations were never so much indulged in
by our citizens as they are this season.
The III Regt o. VI. will hold Re
union and picnic at Sturgeon Point near
Geneva, ,Auguil, 14th. Roll call at 103OA.N.
Mr. and Mrs. Albert A. Strong and
Misses Kate Root and Conklin spent last
Sunday and Monday at Chautauqua Lake.
"A large rattlesnake, with seven rat
ties, adornes a case in Newberry's store.
It was captured in Plymouth on Topper's
farm.
The reunion of the Heath family this
year, viii be held on the grounds of A B.
Comstock, in Williamsfeld, on Wednesday
August the 9th.
Some of the parties who made Con
neaut a place of refuge from the yellow
fever scourge of Memphis, last year are
. again there the present season
Mr.. J. G. Bates has sold out his inteI
est in the grocery firm of Yale & Bates to
to Mr. Ash, the new firm viii do business
under the style of Yale & Ash.
There is an evident taste for the fine
arts over at Willard 6 Co.'S store. BuIlett-
in board ichings, will no doubt take a
prominent place in the profession.
Mr.. L. A Ensign, recently engaged
in the grocery business here, but now a
travelling salesman for a Mew York tea
store, was in town last Monday and Tues
day.
The steam barge Sparta, struck one
of the approaches to the pontoon bridge
at the Harbor, last Tuesday 1t was SC
badly injured that it settled down and
has not since been used.
Capt L. C. Reeve, of Rome, adds the
following p s., to a business letter of Mon
day last I'VE have been having plenty
of rain of late, and oat harvest is begin
ninglwith a full crop and broad acreage
Prospect fair for a good corn crop"
John Booth, Esq, gave a little socia
bic to some of his frieuds and neighbors OF
Saturday evening last, in recognition O
the seventieth anniversary of his birth
We have no doubt but that the occasion
was characterised by due share Of pleas
ure.
The .Ashtabula Light Artillery, 81
Battery, O. N. G., has decided to go intc
camp on the 2Oth inst, but the location il
not yet decided upon. It is a settled
question however that the battery viii
neither go to Rocky River nor Kelle!
Island
Among our advertisements appear
one for the New York Furnishing CO
We have taken the pains to inquire int
the responsibility of this firm and find
stands high in mercantile circles in tn
east. We confidently recommend then
to readers as a reliable firm.
An exchange says: "With good crops
with good money, and enough of it, wit
business reviving, with bankruptcy les
frequent and less aggravated than fol
years, with the employment of labor stead
ier and its remuneration higher than i
has been since the panic in 1873. it i
about time for the GROWERS to dry up.''
The Office Of the Union EXPRESS q
Stoneboro, Pa, was burglarized on Frida
Of last week and a jug of whiskey an
about three dollars in change stolen.
bold son of Hibernia by the name Of Bill
Cannon was arrested for theac and brougi
before Justice D. C. Bachelor, and ha
a ahearing. He plead guilty and was SCI
fenced to six months TO county Jail.