The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1867-05-30
THE COURT HOUSE.
BY D. MACKLEY.

county, will be laid | understand that
the county commissioners will deposit
certain articles under the corner stone,
there to remain perhaps from one hun
dred to five hundred years. l suppose
they will deposit copy of this weeks
STANDARD, and when posterity digs it
out and reads it, what will be the Won
dering over its records of the present
times. In this year, 1867, it will be
seen that the cars take several hours
to run from Portsmouth to Hamden.-
In the year 1000, when this is read, men
viii travel the same distance through
the air, in as many minutes as it now
takes hours. This may seem visionary;
but who would have believed fifty years
ago that this day the events that take
place in London at four o'clock in the
evening, can be known in San Fran
cisco, California, at ten o'clock in the
morning of the same day. But SO it is.
will not speculate upon the prog
ress to be made by posterityi the Young
America of the year 1000 will Judge
whetherth they are the equals of the Young
America, male or female, of the year
| 1867.
must say to postcrity, that they
must not judge Of the business of Jack
son in 1867, by looking at the advertise
ments in the STANDARD, although that
is a good indication generally Our
great great great grand children must
not think that there is but one tavern
in Jackson, and but two or three stores,
lawyers, doctors, &cj there are several
old iogies here, vegetating in business,
whose names are never seen in print;
they will not be remembered by poster
ity, as they are already forgotten.
Our town contains about 2 800 inhab-
itants, and our county about $4,000
We are in our infancy, and there is
much room for vast progress.
The people of this county have come
to the conclusion that men, women and
children should not be bought and sold
as cattle but whether the last vestige
of human bondage shall be wiped out in
our State, has to be determined in Octo-
Der next.
There are about twenty places in our
town where rifle whisky is sold. A
bottle of this will perhaps be deposited,
and l would warn posterity to touch it
carefully, as it kills at eighty yards,
around a corner. But some copperhead
Nasby may sec that no such poison be
permitted to 60 down to posterity, un-
less the Commissioners guard the corner
stone as the gates of the garden Of Eden
were guarded, with cherubim and fla
ming sword for your copperhead loves
whisky, and he can stand much of it
and not die.
once saw record of the old Court
House, when it was built, what it cost,
&c, but as | cannot find it now, | con-
clude that it was destroyed at the time
the Court House was burned. The con-
tract to build tho house was probably
made in the year 1919. | find that
private rooms were rented to hold the
Courts for several years,
The first Court of Common Pleas was
held at tho house of VIM. Givens, on
Tuesday, August 13, 1916 Hon. John
Thompson President Judge, Hugh
Poor, David Payne and William Givcns
Esquires Associate Judges Joseph Sill
Esq, Prosecuting Attorney. The first
business transacted was m Indictment
against Joel Long and John Hale, for
agreeing to fight and box at flsticuils
in Bloomfield township, on the first of
April, 1916. Each plead guilty, and
was fined twelve dollars and the costs.
The courts continued to be held at
private houses until september 10, 1924
when the first term was held in the
Court House. Hon. Ezra Osborne
President Judge, Hugh Poor, David
Mitchell aud William Givens Associate
Judges, and Richard Douglas Prosecu-
ting Attorney,
find the following records in the
Auditors Office;
"June 0, 1910. Ordered that An.
drew Donnelly be allowed for furnish
ing Court House and fire wood at March
Torn, So, ,0o,"
january 9sy 1920, Ordered that
Mrs. Richmond be allowed for furnish
ing Court House at March last, in or
ders, $1,000"
December 4th, 1891 Ordered that
Mrs Richmond bo allowed for furnish