Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-04-23
THE TELEGRAPH.
Fridqy Morning, April 23, 1880.
LOCAL NEWS.

Fruit along the ridges west promise
we'll
Teachers examinations will be held
at Orwell on the 9th inst.
The rolling mill site has been taken
for the use of the Ashtabula Tool Co.
The Herald says Mr. P. Smiths
dredge will come to Ashtabula next week.
The Fountain House, Geneva, has been
taken by H. r. Holman, of Conueautville,
Pa.
The Township Clerks office is now To-
Gated in Smiths block, opposite the Fisk
House.
From present indications the base ball
fever will prevail in Ashtabula this sum-
mer to great extent.
VIM N. Andrews has been appointed
post master at Il. WiliamsReld in place of
W. Fl. Simonds. resigned.
Mr. Henry j. Topky returned from
his visit to Cincinnati and Athens on
Wednesday evening last
The Council met in regular session
last Wednesday evening, and the new May
or and members were swore in.
Mr.. e. A. Adams has lost his sec
ond twin boy-embracing within about
two weeks the pair-diphtheria.
The annual ball of the Ashtabula and
Pittsburgh R. R. employees, will be given
at Youngstown, on the evening of April
Both.
The sewing machine building Of Gene
va is making good progress under those
captains in the line of masonry-Brake &
Mcmillan.
Chief Engineer Clark and General
Superintendent Paine of the L. s. & M. s.
Ry., went to the Harbor on an inspection
tour yesterday morning.
John Hussay, one of the laborers in
Street Commissioner Abeels gang, found
$1.75 in silver while cleaning the gutter in
front of Radford's saloon.
The Panesville carriage shop, says the
Telegraph, was destroyed by fire on Mon.
day night with stock of carriages, tools,
&C., and work in progress.
Mr.. 0zias Dickinson and wife of Shelf
field, this county, aged respectively 98 and
95 years, have lived together as husband
and wife seventy-six years, so says the
Sentinel.
1t is pleasant to see how acceptable the
name of Dwight Crowell has become in
connection with the clerkship of the Su-
preme Court. Dwight has a pretty firm
hOld upon the popular heart.
Where there is demand, there is a
supply. Where there are Democrats, there
is whiskey, This must account for the
number of saloons that have recently set
tied around the Standard Office
Election of Colonel Of the 10th Reg't,
o. N. g., resulted in the election of Lieut..
Col. E. j. Oil, who received 175 votes to
70 for Capt. Talbitzer and 40 for Colonel
Fitch. The Lt.-Colonelcy was not filled.
The firm of j. M. Faulkner & Son
are increasing the size of their salesroom
and otherwise improving the appearance
of their store by painting and rearranging
the stock The salesroom will be 70 feet
in depth.
The Phoenix Iron Works Co. are build
ing shaper for use in their machine shop,
that will compare favorably If not surpass,
similar machines from larger and old man
ufactories. They retail for 81, 900 and are
used for turning irregular surfaces.
Landlord Field has sold to Ed Dick
inson his fifty two acre Yeamans farm, in
East Village far $4,000. As it adjoins tn,
Dickinson farm and makes them about 112
acre plat, Ed will find himself in pretty
good shape for more stalwart farming.
The delegation from this town t.
WaTen-given elsewhere-are asserted in
the Leader of Thursday morning, as to b'
antl-Sherman. They are understood to be
for Sherman. They are Thorp men and
'Thorp has defined himself as a Sherman
man.
Wheat has wintered we'll and general
ly looks vigorous and Of full growth. Tht
best piece we have noticed is tract Of
some ten or twelve acres, specially enrich
ed with well rotted barn manure, belongin!
TO Albert Harmon. Its appearance is tina
Of being too forward, A ride along on
Of the ridges the other evening shovel
great and almost uniform promise.