The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1866-11-29
State News.

A young man named James Dunn, a
brakeman on the Indianapolis and Gin
cinnati Railroad, fell off the cars at
Cincinnati a few days ago, and the loco
motive ran over him, killing him in
Stantly.
Mr. Gaylord is going to build a
blast furnace in Portsmouth, so he can
make the pig iron used by him at his
rolling mill.
John Row, Postmaster at Ports
mouth has been removed, and one
William Smith appointed in his place
james McClain was walking out
near Ironton, when he fell off bridge,
some thirty feet, and was killed.
The Marietta and Cincinnati Rail
road has earned over one million dollars
this year.
"A week ago last Sunday night,
while John Murphy and John Dunni-
van were assisting to put locomotive
upon the track, near Zaeski, it turned
over, falling upon them, killing Murphy
and seriously injuring Dunnivan. They
were both residents of Chilicothe.
"A lot of boys from ten to fourteen
years of aye, in Cleveland, had been
reading Dime Novels until they con-
cluded that they would organize as a
band of robbers. They went TO cave
in the country and carried on piltering
in the neighborhood until their parents
found them and took them home.
"A State Temperance Convention
was held in Columbus last week.
Gov. Cox was introduced to the Convention,
and in the course of his remarks he stated that he
fully sympathzed with the temperance move
ment aud would be glad to sec IL successful
throughout the State There Is great deal to be
accomplished, and in his opinion the most effi-
cieent way to advance the cause would be for
every one Of its friends to educate public seni-
ment to such point as will secure the enforce
nent Of the present liquor laws on our statute
books, rs we'll as those which may hereafter be
enacted
The Governors brief hut pertinent speech was
enthusiastically received and a resolution was
unanimously adopted thanking him, ns the Gov
ernor of Ohio, for the Outspoken aud manly posi-
ton he takes on the temperance question.
"A couple of young fellows in Gin
cinnati hired horse and buggy to take
a ride. They got drunk, fell out, and
one of them tried to shoot the other.
John McFarin and John Callaghan,
in Cincinnati, got drunk, got into a
fight, when the former stabbed the
latter with a large sized pocket knife.
w. G. W. Smith, who was con-
victed in Fayette county, for the MUIR
der of John Gray, made application to
the Supreme Court for the allowance of
writ of error, but the allowance was
refused, and Smith will be hung at
Washington tomorrow, friday unless
the Governor should commute the
sentence. Smith has given up all hope.
So says the Herald.
"A man named Isaac Carpenter, has
been committed to the Jail in Cleveland
for the murder of his own father. lie
struck him on the head with a stone,
during quarrel.
WIN s. Bailey has recovered a
Judgment at Cincinnati of near $4,000
against the parties who destroyed his
printing Office, the "Free South" at
Newport Ky, in 1859. 1t was an
abolition paper, and best citizens of
Cincinnati thought it was doing Gods
service to destroy abolition papers, only
seven years ago.
"A fellow named James Rapp, was
fined $50 and costs and sent to Jail five
days, by the Police Court of Cincinnati,
for entering the house Of an old, blind
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