The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1866-07-26
State News.

county. Inc Notion store OF helley N
Brush was entered, and about forty
dollars in money stolen.
We find the following in the
Chillicothe Gazette of last week: ..
One of our regular Jail pets had streak of for
tune from bad to worse few days since. One
Mclaughlin, who had been indicted for burglary
by our grand jury would have been tried last
week, but his brother came few days since, and
gave bail in three hGndred dollars for his appear
ance at the present terR. The Sheriff, following
the directions of law, released him from duraace,
but Immediately produced warrant from the
Sheriff Of jackson County for the arrest of
Mclaughlin, for q similar oifense In that county.
He was again locked up, properly ironed, and
taken to Jackson, from which place he is likely
to reach the penitcntiary in safety
We think the Gazette is mistaken.
Mclaughlin was indicted for horse
stealing instead of burglary.
The ChGlioothc papers give an ac-
count of an assault committed upon
Judge Keith, in his Office, by man
named Hirn. We also find the follow
ing item in the AdrertiSer:
DRowNED.-A negro by the name of Bias, was
drowned while bathing ina pond in tho vicinity
of Massieyllle, on Saturday last.
The Eaton Democrat gives an ac-
count of two or three burglaries com
mitted in that place. The house of
Charles Lockwood was entered, and a
pocket book containing $2l5 taken from
under his head. An attempt was also
made on the same night to enter the store
of Mr.. Edison, and an alarm was raised
and some shots fired. The rail road
ticket Office was entered, and some
revenue stamps were stolen. The same
paper gives an account of bloody fight,
in which one man was seriously injured,
and concludes thus:
We understand that high words had passed
between the parties during the afternoon, and
that whisky and cards lay at the bottom of the
whole affair.
We find the following in the Marietta
Register:
DRowNED.-Joseph d. Marsh, of Belpre, was
drowned, on the 18th inst in the Muskingum,
some three miles above Marietta. lie was riding
down the road on horseback, In company with
DR.. z. d. Walter, of this city, when they turned
their horses down to the river, for water. Going
In the horse of Mr.. Marsh began sinking in tho
mud, and lounderlng, he went out into deep wa
ter. Mr.. Marsh lost his scat, and was drowned
before Dr. Walter could render him any assist.
ance. His body was soon recovered, but life
was gone.
The Waverly Republican says that
they are boring for oil at Piketon, and
have got down between four and five
hundred feet.
We find the following in the last
number of the Gallipolis Dispatch:
WITcHEs.-Wo have received q communication
from Cheshire on the subject of witches in thai
neighborhood. Time was when Cheshire wal
considered the banner township as TO intelligence
| but fanaticsm has taken such deep root In tha
vicinity that We are not astonshed at their being
afflicted with witches, spirit rappcrs, and al
manner Of doviltry. We would publish thu
communication VIC fully understood Its drift
The West Union Scion says thai
William G. Billings, of West Union, {
young man of eighteen years Of age
was recently drowned at Quincy, Ky
He had gone into the river to bathe.
The Ironton Register says that Mr.
Bundy has succeeded in getting thu
mail arrangements SO changed tha
Ironton has the same mail facilities tina
it had before the recent change.
We notice in the Vinton Rccort
that Maj. Bratton Of Macarthur an
nounces himself as a candidate fol
Judge of the Court of Common Pleas
The convention at Portsmouth, Aug
9th, willnominate a candidate for Judge
on tho Democratic ticket, as we'll as {
candidate for Congress.
Tho lIillsboro Ne,cs says that abou
60 persons were admitted to full mem
bership in the NJ. L. Church at tina
place on last Sunday week.
The Middleport Ga:eae says that
man named Peter Barnet shot maj
named Beverly Morton, while he, Nor
ton, was in company with Barnet's wife
Morton will probably die. The sam,
paper says that man named Thoma
Madison was drowned in the river a
that place, while bathing. The sam
paper says that fracas occurred il
Pomcroy between three negroes and
white man, in which the white man
named Thomas Craggs, had his skul
fractured by a brickbat
We find the following in the Ports
mouth Times:
A man named Slmcox was fined s2, n few day
since, by the Mayor, for bathing In the Ohio rlvGl
Inside the corporation limits, during daylight.
The Circleyille papers state tina
the store of Hartman and Rice, a
Proptsville, Pickaway county, has bee
broken open and robbed. The Pos
! Office was also kept in this store.
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