The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1854-01-26
From the Portsmouth, Daily Tribune d Clipper
GsIntcreSting News"

Mr.. EDrroE:--
Dear Sir: You have known me, long
and we'll and you are well aware that
one of my leading notices is. "Hear 00'h
sides!' You are apprised, therefore,
fully, of the fact, that I, for one, would
not, if could. prevent you from reprint
ing all the truth you might find in the COL
umns of your contemporary journals, on
varying railroad questions. would not
now say word, but that l dislike to
see you and your readers led into a
mistake, and injustice done other par
ties, by the unscrupulous or designing.
In your daily, Of the 18th, there is
an article from the Jackson Standard,
but single paragraph of which have
read. In that paragraph are the fol-
lowing sentences, VIZ
"TIe Marietta and Cincinnati Rail-
road is the only one that ever aspired
to the dignity Of rivalling this as coal
road. We now learn that the coal mines
on that road have been found unpro6t-
able; and that Mr.. Christy, who under
stands geology, and who purchased a
large quantity of coal-hnd, on the line
of that road, for himself and other gen.
tlemen, has recently abandoned his con-
tracts and paid the forfeit money. If
this is not true, we hope some of Mr..
Christy's associates will correct US.
Now, Mr.. Editor, if you had publish.
ed in your paper, as report, false and
ridiculous as it might be, that The wor-
thy editor of the Jackson Sianddrd,-
whose name ] do not remember,-had
committed a series of great crimes
that, for instance, he was walking in the
neighborhoOd of Jackson Courthouse, in
the dusk of the evening; that he met a
young, and innocent female, of the high
est respectabiityt whom he accosted in
an insulting manner, and when she
screamed for help and attempted to es.
cape, that the aforesaid editor knocked
her down, violated her peason, and then
cut her throat; | say, if you had pub
lished this horrible tale as something you
had heard, but doubted SO much, tina
you called on the editor friends to de
ny it if it were not true; you might
possibly, have done gross injustice to the
Standd,d editor but your story would
have been every whit as true as is bis
about Mr.. Christy's coal-land."
1t is certainly too much to expect Of
private parties, to follow up all the idle
ISLANDERS and falsehoods which unscru-
pulous enemies may invent; but, never
theless, many of these stories amount to
positive damage to those who have never
done the damagers harm.
Mr.. Christy resides in Oxford, o., and
never saw the Standards on dit. None
of his Associates in the purchase Of the
coal-land live in Vinton, Jackson or Scio
to county. But the Jackson mans tale,
put forth as "hear-say' in his paper, is
echoed as positive truth, in llillsborough
and Cincnnsti. Possibly laudable en-
terprise, on the part of "Mr Christy and
his associates" is set back, at a critical
moment for its success, by the weak in.
vention!
Let me assure you, Mr.. Editor, that SC
far from hiring the farmers to take back
their lands, Mr.. Christy and his friends
have gone into court, in Vinton county,
for the purpose of enforcing man who
thinks he sold too cheap, and is now try.
ing to back out by pretending to be cra-
zy, to abide by his contract. Mr.. Chris
ty and his associates have three, good,
workable veins of coal, and any quanti-
ty Of iron ore on their purchases; they
have mill seat of great value; good
agricultural lands, houses and barns; they
have the best of timber of various kinds
the Aux limestone, capital building sand.
stone, and all lying conveniently TO the
track of the Marietta and Cincinnati Rail
Road. which is, at this moment, nineteen
twentieths graded, from Blanchester TO
the lands, and will be ironed by the 4th
of July next.
"Mr. Christy and his associates" have
their own projects, which they do not feel
bound to impart to the public in general
and TO the Jackson Stand Ird in particu-
lar; but they hope to carry out, in good
faith, all their agreemt nts, and to find
the operation as profitable to themselves
as it will be agreeable to all concerned.
LONE OF EN-"
Chillicothc, Jan. 10, 81.
The above is really curious produc-
ton, to say the least of it. without taking
into the account, the very graphic descrip-
ton of the affair in the Court house yard.
1t is singular that "0ne of En- did not
have his production published in Chill
licothe instead Of Portsmouth paper
1t is strange that he should say "none of
his { Mr.. Christy 5, associates in the pur-
chase of the coal land, live in Vinton,
Jackson or Scioto county, and not tell us
that they did or did not live in Ross. 1t
is little remarkable that he did not state
in his article, in plain and concise Ian