Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1879-12-05
LOCAL NEWS.

The Council did not meet last Wednes-
day evening.
Winter butter brings twenty-five cents
per pound in this market.
-Pierpont Center High school-term
begins Tuesday, January G, 1880.
The costume party given by the Odd
Fellows last week Thursday evening was
a success.
Copies of the new "ohio Code" are
now ready for distribution. City, town
ship and county officials are entitled to
copies free.
Officer Scoyiile's new skating park has
been flooded with water, and all that is
now necessary is cold weather enough to
makshe ice.
-Nr. and Mrs Former are stopping
with the family of Dr.. Eames-awaiting
treatment for Mrs. F. in a rather delicate
surgical operation.
The article for the Temperance cor
ner, handed in for the present week, has
been necessarily laid over, because Of the
Presidents message.
"A party of sixteen Sweeds arrived here
last Tuesday morning. They are fresh
importations and viii go to work on
the docks at the Harbor.
The Warren papers are congratulating
themselves on the enjoyment of three
trains a day between their city and Pitts
burg over the A 6 P. line.
MIR. S. W. Allen is furnishing his Gus
toners with fine line Of caramels, cream
and tafty candy of his own manufacture,
pure, fresh and wholesome.
Prof. Cummings lecture Oh Wednes-
day evening was well attended notwith-
standing the pelting rain. His next lee
ture comes of this Friday evening.
Three new locomotives for the Pitts
burgh & Lake Erie Ry, passed over the
Franklin Division and Youngstown Branch
of the L. S. 6 NJ. S. BY. last Saturday.
Owing to the amount of space given
in this weeks TELEGRAPH to the publica-
ton of the Presidents Message, a large
amount Of other news had to be omitted.
The Kent B ulzetlp says: The citizens
of Warren have petitioned for new de
pot on the A. s G. W. line. Kent backed
up her petition with $4,000 and got the
finest depot on the line.
Remember all mercantile printing ex-
ecuted at this Office is put up, if so desired,
in tablet form, without extra charge. This
is the best and most popular style of bind
ing for letter-heads, bill-heads, etc.
"A somewhat singular coincidence in
the life of the late ]. B. Shepard is told by
the brother of the deceased, as from his
lips, that he never in.bis life cast vote for
a Presidential candidate that was elected.
-Hilliard the great Snowman, OF Orwell,
and Mr.. Forman, of New Lyme, made us a
pleasant call on Tuesday last While Mr.
H. is spending the winter here at home his
stock is enjoying the climate of Monticello,
Iowa, where provender can be obtained at a
moderate figure.
The quarterly meeting of the Womens'
Foreign Missionary Society viii be held
on Friday evening, Dec. 9th, in the NJ. E.
church, commencing at half past seven
O'Clock. The meeting will be addressed
by Mrs E. 81. Yingling and others. All
are cordially invited
Miss Helen Peabody, Principal of
Western Female Seminary, Oxford, was
the guest at the editorial cottage" on
Thursday and Friday asst on her return
from New York, whittier she had been to
put on her way to her missionary field
Miss Cundle, alluded to elsewhere.
The Bishop of the diocese made a
visit to St. Peters Church of this village
on Saturday last, and administered the
rite of confirmation to 30 candidates for
Church membership. Indisposition inter
fered with the regular following out of
appointments, and that for jefferson was
postponed.
Report of County Teachers Examina-
tons for the Fall Quarter of 1879. Exam
nations held g. Number of Applicants
236: Ladies, IS, Gentlemen, 155. Re
eeived Certificates, Ladies, so, Gentlemen,
So, Of which z were years, 1s for 18
months, 81 for 10 months and n for 6
months. Number of failures 81.
Wednesday evening proved very un-
favorable for the gathering at the Har-
Dor and must have been something of a
discouragement The object was an out
cropping Of their generosity-no less
than the making up of a purse for di-
viding among the ministers who have
volunteered to look after their spiritual
welfare.
After getting the Thanksgiving sermon
in hand for the forthcoming issue the Pres
ident's Message reached US, and as we
could not well dispose Of both the same
week the sermon was deferred until next
week, Our readers will therefore hold
themselves in readiness for its perusal in
the next weeks issue, It will we'll bear its
comment.
-old subscribers knowing that they
have unsettled accounts would confer a
special favor by giving them attention be-
fore the close Of the year, or as soon as it
IS practicable for them to do so. This
course viii simplify and lessen our duties.
An early renewal by those expecting to
take the TELEGRAPH the coming year is
very desirable.