Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-07-30
THE TELEGRAPH.
Friday Morning, July 80, 1880.
LOCAL NEWS.

The Light ARTILLERY are booked for
Geneva on the Sd piox.
There will be regular meeting OF the
Council next Wednesday evening.
Mr.. H. H. Hunt returned yesterday
from a months vacation spent in the
Northwest.
The last birth day of the Warren
Chronicle, was its 6sth-nearly full span
of mortal life.
"A rattlesnake with sixteen rattles was
recently killed on the farm of Addison
Westcott, at Griggs Corners.
There was a meeting of the Board of
of Education last Monday evening after
several unsuccessful attempts.
Faulkner & Son have some white clio.
yer honey, OF excellent favor and as clear
as diamond, at only 90 cents per box.
Eight, out Of lot of Texas ponies,
were sold ut auction here last Tuesday.
They sold for about $25 on an average.
We learn that Mrs Garwood Blakes-
Ice is seriously i'll, and her symptoms are
not favorable for a change for the bet
ter.
A corn field in the township of Nor
gan, according to the owners measurement
is Is feet, and one of its beauties is that it
is as level as ahoora
Il. NJ. Rice, photographer, Warren,
o., sent us a cabinet size photograph Of
Gen Garfield, which is the best likeness
of him we have yet seen.
Mr.. Frank Mckenzie will soon be at
work ON his Government job at the head
of the Peninsula at Erie, on which he has
contract for driving 600 piles.
Foot races in hot weather are not so
Objectionable on account of the drip, as
might be supposed, The nimbleness
areolerates speed, and thus repays the ei-
fort
DIR, D. S. Hall, is encouraged by the
health giving influences that surround him
His locomotive powers-as he informs us
are better than they have been for two
years.
Now is the time.to cut away the old
bearing canes of your raspberry patches,
and thus give the new ones all the free
dom for growth and increase for the next
year. o. --...-a
The Street Commissioner aud his men
were removing the surface earth from
Main Street last Tuesday. At a depth of
two or three inches there is firm road bed
OF stone.
"A portion Of the L. s. dock at the
head Of the east and west pier, next the
bank, on the south line of the pier, near
the coal chutes, has settled with the
weight of ore upon it.
Don't fail TO observe the fact that
our young friend Nathan, successor to
the Hasting shoe store, is offering his
stock OF spring and summer wear at re-
duction of 10 pei cent.
The catawba and the concord grapes
share in the mildew of the Rogers variety.
Some of these vines, on the same trelises
with the Rogers seem to have been affect
ed even worse than they.
Another attempt to gather together
the members Of the Board OF Health, was
made last Friday evening, with the usual
result. Better send the police after the de-
linquents, or else disband the board.
Recorder seems to be the most desira-
BILE and most sought after Office in the
county, il the number of applicants for
it is any criterion. 1t is not quite certain
whether the numberis7 2 or 8, or ~ and g."
MIR and Mrs. Ed. Booth, Of Indisnap-
oils, Ind, made short visit among their
friends here last Wednesday and Thurs
day and Friday, Mr.. B. is still in the en-
plOy of Mr.. ]. A. Mckenzie, the clother.
No word Of complaint is heard from
our farmers about "hard times" Every
crop is abundant-every prospect pleases,
and all is contentment and satisfaction.
such change Of program gives new
phase to life,
The woodman's AK, the Telling of trees,
the hum Of the saw and the hiss Of steam
are all heard within the corporation line
--on the Watson flats, where that little
peripatetic mill is doing its work with
wonderful facility
The ChArdon Republiean is one Of
the best and most iudicious weekly jour
nails that comes to our table 1t is fair
exponent of its intelligent and gentleman
ly proprietor and editor We always
open it with pleasure.