Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-10-08

Q-The Ashtabula Garfield Cavalry com.
pany now has nearly fifty members and
has made two street parades this week
The following officers have been temporal.
ly appointed Captain, George q. My
gait, First Lieutenant, Frank y. Wauous
Second Lieutenant, James Reed, Jr
w. II. Landou hus half breed Lam
cnshire SOW which gave birth TO an even
score Of living pigs the other day, sired by
Richard Stevens full-blood Lancashire
boar Such litter is Of very unusual oc-
curreucc. Mr. Stevens has a pair Of Vic.
torla shoats now which he Is breeding from.
"A very handsome india ink likeness
Of General Garfield and his Mentor home.
stead, is being laid before our citizens, for
their approval and purchase, by Mrs II.
w. Fobes 1t is very faithful, and most
attractive picture, and hardly II Democrat
would hesitate to possess it at cost Of 80
cents.
Enterprise and good stock mark the
course of our friend Fred Wilcox Of Rock
Creek Besides his Clydesdale propuga-
tor, he has just secured an imported Hol-
stein bull He is said to be a beauty, and
weighs I 400 pounds. This is new stock
for this region, but It is generally popular
where known.
The Ashtahula & Pittsburgh Railway,
has, for one so new, a road-bed that is
equaled by few roads in the country. 1t
is balasted with broken Stag, and the road
is smooth, free from dust and as firm as
"a mountain. Great credit is due to Mr..
w. II. Linton the company's road master,
for the fine condition of this road.
The new firm of Hubbard & Strader
have extended their business by adding
corn, oals and mill feed to their stock
which they are prepared TO furnish at
wholesale or retail Their baled hay and
straw are put up in small, firm bundles
weighing little over one hundred pounds
and are free from dust aud weeds.
The Warren Tribune has II rebel flag
prepared to give effect to its account of
the Hancock celebration at Hot Springs,
Ark.-which it generously offers to lend
to any Democratic friends that may wish
to give eclat to any of their gatherings
about home. We name this for the bene-
fit and accommodation of Hancock friends.
The night of the Democratic speech
was made vocal-as one of our neighbOrs
inform us-with drunken howlings and
disturbances. Then the sidewalks were
made filthy by the insubordination Of sun
dry abused stomachs, Our informant says
that relief was found in one instance, at
least, by the;throwing off of II bologna sau-
sage some ten or twelve inches long.
"A man whose name was Thomas
Connor, and supposed to be a sailor and
resident of Toledo, was found early last
Tuesday morning at the Lake street cross
ing Of the L. 8. 4, A, g. Ry, with both
legs cut Of He was taken to the depot
and afterwards removed to the Union
House where he soon died. II is suppos-
ed he attempted to jump the midnight
train and fell under the wheels. He was
about 50 years of age. The remains were
cared for by the Township Trustees
The Council has procured from Mr.,
Carso Crane of New York, a deed convey
ing to the Village the water privilege of
the Spring on Mill Hill, and the right to
ditch across that property, This land was
formerly owned by Mr. Crane who reserv-
ed these privileges when he sold to Mr..
Seth Wells, has kindly turned them over
to the village for nominal sum, and Mr.
Wells has, by direction of the Council,
been notified to return the water to its
original channel. The Council is now
prepared to give the public the benefit of
this spring water and it proposes to do so.
The meeting ~ hastily called for
Wednesday evening for MessFs. Law
renee and Sypher, on account Ofindisposi-
ton was sustained by Judge Lawrence,
who showed himself equal to the task
His speech combined more clear, concen-
trated, searching telling points, than any
thing that has gone before it in this cam
paign, The absorbing interest and atten-
tion in the arguments put the house either
in q rousing nthusiasm, or breathless
silence, pr, Fricker the representative
Democrat, ehatted under the arraign-
ment of his party, and asked fol privilege
to put an entangling question, 1t was
kindly granted and ciyilly answered.
The speaker then took the liberty, in turn,
to put question to the interrogator. But
the doctor failed TO answer and after
bearing few jibes, dodged his tormenter
in a perfect storm of applause. The
meeting was one of the best.
NoyELTY.-A novel affair in the form Of
an elegant car, 80 feet long, II feet wide
and Is feet high, filled with the products