Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1879-12-26
LOCAL NEWS.
"A Merry Christrnas 70 all

"A Merry Christmas 70 all
The Morgan bank has declared divi
dend Of three per cent.
The TELBeRAPH completes its XXXtf
volume with this number.
They are locating new railroad along
west Main street canal bed in Geneva.
The next regular meeting Of the Coun-
ell viii be held on Wednesday evening
January 9TH at 7:SO o'clock.
Renew your subscriptions, and begin
the new year with a clean score. One
more number viii close the old year.
The Peerless skass-g park has been
ss.H patronized during the past wg =
The ice is of good thickness and has bPd
frequently flooded Is
Post Office hours on Christmas n
viii be from to $50 a. m, and from
ESQ p. n. No money order or registet !
letter business viii be transacted. ofi
Christmas services will be held at Fta
Peters Episcopal Church at II o'cloclgp.
m. The interior Of the church has b /
lastly decorated for the occasion. :el
Eugene Packard, brakeman on .
Franklin Division Of the L. S. & NJ. S.
had one Of bis hands mashed while coed
ling cars at Andover last Sunday. RE
-Tha TELEGRAPH sent to some abss 3
friend for the approaching year, wOr
carry more happiness than any other fol
of present extant, of the same cost
: Geneva is moving in the matter of o9l
ganizing a S15O,OOO sewing machine cod
pany. Articles Of incorporation have bed,
received from the Secretary of State. ,
February next-shortest month of th !
year as it is-will no deahs be redoieHt-et
sparkling enjoymsnts, for the boys and
girls, as it is to have Eve Sunday nights.
Mrs. L. o. Van Akin, Of Plymouth,
called and paid her subscription for 1880,
last week, stating that she had been a
steady patron of the TELEGRAPH since its
first lumber.
-. A. Goodwin has sold his farm in
Morgan to Frei Knowlton, and E. Neyi-
son. OF Rome, has purchased the house
and lot owned BY Joseph Tanner, just
east Of the station.
The Court of Common Pleas, Judge
Sherman presiding, took a recess last
Tuesday until Friday the 96th inst
There viii probably be a two days session
before adjournment.
The ladies of the N. E. Church will
give an oyster supper in the lecture rooms
Of the church, New Years eve; supper to
be served from O'Clock until half past 8
o'clock. Supper % cents.
Communication with Buffalo by tele-
graph was cut of for several days within
week, on account of the blowing down of
polls-some 500 we are informed having
been Frustrated by late winds.
Eugene Sherwood, fireman on one of
the branches of the L. S. & N. S. Ry. fell
from the tank of his locomotive into an
ash-pit at the round house in this place and
received bruises and internal injuries.
Our business houses are plethorio with
holiday goods, and there will be no end to
the happiness of our citizens-bOth chill
dren and sdults-if they are all to be dis
tributed during the gay and merry season.
Saturday the shortest day Of the year
was also the darkest, as is testified to BY
Fred Blakeslee, who found himself cut of
fromphoiographie work-a fact not before
ezperience1 through any one entire day of
the year.
The TELEGRAPH Of next week will pub
ish list Of ladies who propose to receive
callers on4heSew Years day. The paper
will be issued on Wednesday and notices
are requested to be sent in by Tuesday the
Both inst.
The dropping out process Of the nu-
merous prOspeetuses that have filed our
columns for few weeks has been begun,
and soon the strain viii let up and we
shall get back again to our old limits for
reading matter.
Lake Shore stock, in spite of all
doubts and skepticism, mounted up to
four cents above par, with the tendency
upward. A dividend Of four per cent has
been declared by this Company, payable
February 1, 1880.
The Algonquin Club has been max
ing some extensive improvements in thei1
suit of rooms in the Pierce block. This
club has now been organized one year and
is in a fiourishing condition, and has
nearly fifty members.
The SIANDARB is the only 56-eolumu pa,
per in the county that is furnished at q
subscription rate less than $2.00 per year
Standard.
And advised as we are, there is no Other
paper in the county that regrets that fact
50 much as the Standard.
What is known as tbi holiday trade, our
daily exchar< be city Of New York
say. has been be. ian for years before.
SOH4e Vi IHe Iaressl manufacturing jewel
elers ceased taking orders for December
before the month was half gone, and the
purchase Of more costly articles, as gifts,
has been very general.
I'VE acknowledge the receipt of a CODY
of the Annual Report Of the Comptroller Of
Currency, to the second session Of the For.
ty-Sixth Congress of the United States. 1t
Is in q concise, tabulated form and valu.
sbls hand book ofreferenoe, well calculated
to supply ready and authorative answer
Tor financial questions frequently arising
in these days when public attention is Sc
generally turned upon questions of finance,