Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-06-25
THE TELEGRAPH.
Friday Morning, june 20, 1880.
LOCAL NEWS.

WARRANTY and quit claim DEEDS, heal
Estate and Chattel Mortgages, Leases,
Land Contracts and full supply of JUS
tices and Notary Blanks kept at the TELE-
GRAPH office. II
The masonry upon the walls Of the
Tool Company is progressing with com
mendable energy.
A Garfield club was organized in
Geneva on Saturday night last Let the
thing be kept fervently hot.
e. L. Young, OF Cleveland, charged
with the murder of his son, has been set
free by Justice Peck's Court.
The plum has been an entire failure.
They are supposed to have been killed in
the blow, as hardly a specimen has been
seen.
Prof. Thomas Hopkins went to Colum-
bus on Saturday last, for the purpose OF
attending the reunion at the asylum for
the blind.
An attempt of union men to prevent
the working Of non-union men upon the
docks was quietted by the promptness and
energy Of the officers.
Miss Sophie Root left for California
on Sunday evening last, and her expecta-
tion is to get to her journeys end the Sat
urday following, at noon.
Mr.. Rowland has consented to give
the Fourth of July Grafton at Conneaut
The Conneauters are moving in the matter
Of II proper observance of the day.
The road that has been graded on the
west side Of the Nutting pic mic grounds,
from the lake shore road to the beach,
is said to be step of great utility.
Wheat, which is unusually fine gener-
ally, is almost ready for the harYest-some
fields already enriching the landscape
with the waving of their golden heads.
The burglary of H. l.. Dodge's store
remains mystery, no clue having been
struck, No relief, probably, is to be look.
ed for to either the individual or the town
ship loss.
"A depression in the gutter in front of
the Ashtabula House, forms an offensive
and unwholesome pool of standing water
that should not be suffered to remain
through the summer.
DIR, Kendall's Treatise on the horse
and his diseases, book which every horse
owner should have, that he may treat his
animal, if attacked with disease, inteli.
gently.
Among our new advertisements Is
that Of W. b. Stone, Clerk of Orwell
Township, in which he asks for bids fol
building new brick Town Hall. The
attention of contractors is called to it.
"A dredge was put to work during thc
fore part of the week for cutting away t,
the line OF the improvement aboYe the pom
tuop bridge, as was intimated, but afteI
trimming the edge, left the work, without
having returned to it.
Somebody sends us the Daily Ophc
from Los Vegas, New Mexico, of the 14tl
inst. Its dimensions are 20X26 inches
1t has the appearance of border civiliza
hang comment upon.
The ladies Of the Methodist church
had their social gathering at the house o
DIR. King, on Wednesday night of las
week, aud the attendance was not less thai
l9a The occasion was both pecuniaril,
and socially profitable.
VVban a man a,-,;,,os % q .,1;..4so,
Of the fact that he is old, and It Is abou
time to withdraw from the field of huma
activities, he is not far nom the maturit
Ofthat wisdom which left us the lesson
"All is vanity aud vexation of spirit"
Our RsheTmen have pulled up stak,
and gone to Erie for carrying on the
business, beyond the reach Of Ohio law
which seem to be enacted to protect th
interests OF the pound fishermen, and di
criminate against the gill-Ret fishery.
Charley Scoville--late police officer
The village, accepted last week the berth
second engineer Of the propeller Hacks
Plying between EsconRba and AshtabHl
In the ore trade. He is admitted to be
very competent engineer,
Strawberries are growing small an
less, and giving place, to- the black ras
berry. While the first sells ut seven cen
quart, the BLACK caps command shl
ling. The season of the strawberry hi
been a rather lengthy one-some fou
weeks.