Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-04-16

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ed. Price 10 cents
We are pleased 10 hear that our friend
Dwight Crowell continues TO receive mum.
endorsements from various sections Of the
state for the Office Of clerk ofthe Supreme
Court, making his nomination all the
more probable If not sure.
list Lieut.. W. B. Mouneiley, Of the
Ashtabua Light Guards, was the recipient
Of martial music serenade last Monday
night, by an impromtu drum corps. The
nerves Of the musicians were calmed by
generous donation Of cigars.
"A squad of 12 men Co. G. 10th. Regt.
go to Geneva tonight, to take part in a
prize drill, at the Armory of the same reg
iment. All members who expect to take
part in this drill, are requested to report
at the armory at 8. p. m. sharp
While Supervisor Abeel was driving
through town with load on Friday last,
barrel slipped off upon the team, and in
his efforts to save it, went off with it, down
between the horses. They started, and he
was run over iraoturing a rib besides bruis-
ing him.
The large elevator Of the Lake Supe-
rior Elevator Co., that burned last month
at Duluth, Mimi, was filled with corn and
wheat and recently cost S85, 900, and was
insured for 100000. Mr.. Clinton Markell,
formerly Of Ashtabula, is Secretary of the
Company.
Mr.. Chas. Walker as one of the con-
mittee for unning the road south along
the Saybrook line for some 80 rods from
the Lake Shore, informs us that the re-
port was adverse. Mr.. W. H. Brown
was the chief, and we believe, the only
petitioner.
"A. & P. Cos dredge Hercules has been
waiting nearly two weeks for suitable
weather to remove the sand-bar that form.
ed during the past winter just outside the
piers. A channel to the rock hottom, II
feet, is to be dredged out This is Govern
ment work.
-Thorp is getting to be man Of some
consequence in the House. He came near
raising breeze the other day. When ask
ed by Cole to yield the floor, he refused to
grant the request "to blackguard," A
fight became imminent but the elements
cooled down.
That gulf road is playing the role of a
trap. A chap drove off the embankment
the other night and went down the steep
activity some twenty feet, but his de-
scent was rather roll than clear fall
The condition of that new bit of road calls
for attention now that the weather admits
of it.
"A surprise overlook Rev. Mr. and
Mrs. Yingling, on Friday Evening last at
the M. E. Church. An impromtu supper,
silver cake tray, butter dish. and pickle
jar presentation, speech form the El-
der, felicitous of course and happy greet
ings, and so forth, were fttingly, worthily
disposed of.
"A fellow-name Mitchell, is enjoying
quarters in Muskingum county Jail for
splitting tobacco juice on the floor of a
church during service. All right Any
one offending common decency by squirt
ing tobacco-juice in church or railroad
Car, ought to have it bottled up and poured
down his throat.
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Gen. Garfield, it is announced, will go
before the committee with argument for
an increase Of the appropriation for Ash
tabula Harbor. Sunday last was spent at
home in Mentor. Returning to the Capi-
tai on Monday last, no time would be lost
fulfilling this task. as the committee wish
to dispose Of the matters in this connec-
tion.
Elder Day has broken housekeeping
and taken apartments with Mr. George
Metcalf qPd lqdy--a daughter-in view of
the termination Of the Elder labors in this
district. Mr.. and Mrs. pay will remain in
their present quarters until the sitting of
Conference in the fall. The Elder will
then be assigned pastorate according to
the order of the church.
-Messrs. MoKpnnon & Evers, from
Cleveland, have opened a machine shop in
the Watrous building on Bridge street,
where they are prepared to attend to all
kinds of machine work, including repairs
on marine engines. They are experienced
mechanics and seem to have worked up
quite business during the few days their
establishment has been open.
1.-THE spirit of the Valley"-a paper
sent us by Mr.. L. M. Crosby, from Har-
risOnburg, neighboring town to Staun-
ton. where Mr.. Crosby has established his
factory, says;-"The Grader Wheat Fan
parties find 1t impossible, thus far, to meet
the demand for their fans. They claim
that they will have to put on an additional
| force at their manufaetory in Staunton, If
they expect to fill the increasing demand.
There must be some private griefs to
assuage, we take it, from the mqnner in
which our cotemporary of the Times gives
rein to his fac etie and irony. We were
unable to see that our casual allusion to
his neighbor-the Doctor-as suitable
candidate for a delegate to the Chicago
Convention, was sufficient pFpyocatlon
for such a display of the Sine phrengy" of
sarcasm as followed it.
Henry ]. Topky, Past Dictator
Knights of Honor No. 1851, started for
Cincinnati on the 11th inst, as delegate to