The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1866-11-15
state News.

The Marietta r gister mentions the
death of Hon. WIN. A. Whittlesey, one
of the oldest members Of the Marietta
bar.
The Athens Messenger says that a
young lady named Helen Carpenter was
kicked in the face by horse she was
driving, and the bones of her face badly
fractured.
That excellent paper, the Pomeroy
Telegraph, has been sold by T. U, White,
to o. B. Chapman and L. b. Thrall
The new proprietors start out right.
The Georgetown Union says that
two of the burglars who attempted to
rob the safe in the Treasurer's Office in
that place, have been arrested.
There was lengthy murder trial
in Fayette county last summer, and a
man named Smith was convicted, on
circunstaatid eutience, and is sentenced
TO be hung on the 30th of this month.
The Herald says that petitions are in
circulation in that county, asking Gov.
Cox TO commute the sentence to i'm
prisonment for life.
--Deleware county, in this State, has
no Court House, and has not had one
for eight or ten years. A vote was
taken this fall on the question OF
building one, but the people voted not
10 build it.
The Cleveland papers give an ac-
count Of the burning of house, in
which two children, one three and the
other four years old, were burned to
death. They were the children OF
Patrick Moran, and the parents were
not at home.
Tho Columbus Journal tells of a
man named Burns, who was killed by
woman named Benson The man and
woman, and the woman's husband were
having drunken frolic, when she split
his head open with an ak. The Journal
docs not say where this occurred.
We see it stated in the Waverly
Republican that the removal of the
county seat of Pike county will be be-
fore the Legislature again the coming
winter, The cause of this is, that Mr.
Emmitt has not built the Jail, as it is
claimed he agreed to do.
We learn from the Chilicothe pa
pers that two young men living seven
or eight miles from the city, becoming
intoxicated, stole horse and express
wagon from Mr.. Carlisle, but they were
pursued by officers Howard and Guin,
aud were compelled to abandon the
stolen property and take to the woods
The same papers give an account
Of the escape of four prisoners from the
Chillicothe Jail, and that they were
again arrested in Carter county, Ken.
lucky, for robbing a store. One of
these is named Israel Winchell. Is he
the Israel Winohell of our county,
Tho Portsmouth Tribune states that
five prisoners have escaped from the
Portsmouth jail. Their names are
John Iiliard, Frank Farley, James
Sullivan, Samuel King and James
Huston.
The Ironton Register states that the
iron trade Is brisk, the demand being
fully up to the supply.
The Portsmouth Republican says
shat an old German lady, named WEIGH
an, committed suicide by drowning
herself in public cistern.
The Vinton Record says that tho
store of Mr.. Morgan, of IIamden, was
entered by burglars and robbed, and
then burned down.
The Ohio State Central Committee,
With vallandigham as its engineer, has
concluded to hold a nominating con-
venlion at Columbus on tho 9Th OF
January next.
The Cincinnati Gasstc says that
Judge Warren, of the Police Court OF
CinonDati, has decided that a deserter
in 1852 cannot be deprived of his vote
BY the act Of Congress passed In 1868,
nor can deserter bo deprived Of his
vote until he ia convicted by court
martial, s vu
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