Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1870-05-12
State and Noighborhood Items.

+ ly pushed on the unfinished portion
q of the Chillicothe and Frankfort
q turnpike.-Grain business is live
, ly.-Eggs are selling at l4@l5
cents. The water in the Scioto
is low.--Apples are selling at 81
, per bushel Hay brings from
Slt to $t3 perton.-Fruit trees,
/ of all kinds, are in bloom.----The
, Ross County Agricultural and Hor-
ticultural Societies will hold their
joint annual exhibition on the 9th,
7th, 8th and 9th of September
DR.. G. A. Trimble reached his res
;dence in this city on Saturday last,
looking much the better in health
from his Southern sojourn. Tie
DR.. has purchased a Southern resi-
dence at St. Johns, Florida.
- The Board Of Directors of the
the Clinton county Agricultural
Fair have agreed to hold their
County Fair ON the 7th, sth and 9th
of September next.
j. Fl. Garyin has sold the
Wilmington journal to A. Fl.
MeVey & Co., by whom the Jour
nal is to be published in the future.
= Our neighbors are preparing
to decorate their Soldiers graves
on the 30th.
II The Cleveland tunnel has
reached a point 410 feet under the
lake. t.
= There is o woman in Akron,
who has borne forty children.
= Fruit prospects reported fa-
yerable in all quarters. o-,
- The London Union gives this
cheering item "It's no use, gen
tleman, there's a new leaf to be
turned over in London, on the So
cial drink, fight and rowdy qucs-
ton. And the SCORER this matter
is understood, the better for all
parties, The present officers of our
town are bound that the laws shall
be carried out, and decency, at least,
be maintained"
The same kind Of a leaf has been
turned over here, and the same de- {
arrived at in our viii t
lage. Let the reformation go on! S
= About the crops, the Union /
says: "From every quarter of the +
county the reports reach us that q
Madison County is being trans
'ormed into one vast corn field, the 4
lumbar of acres OF sod turned un-
ler during the winter and spring
1eing unprecedented in the histo- :
of our County. Our land owners q
Ire beginning to realize thatit don't c
oay to hold immense tracts of land l.
rs pasture fields. Grass and hay '
lon't pay, and so they are taking {
20 farming, which in this county !
means, Of course, hard work, but 4
sure for good pay in the way Of 6
crops" =
= The Xenia Torch of last week f
says Of our Senator in the Ohio I
Legislature; "Hon. M. D. Catch +!
mas returned from the famous ex- q
,ursion of the Ohio Legislature, {
ooking as if Baltimore oysters and e
'resh shifts Of the sea were good !
,hings for tired Senator. em '
The Lancaster Gazette reports ii
hat the contractors for building the r
lew Court House in that city are 0
lively with the work, !
md that when the plan Of the build i,
NC is fully completed it will be one l'
If the finest buildings of the court ;
louse kind in the State y
- Judge G. Coats is writing an
interesting history of the early set f,
lement Of Union County. a
- There are % democratic can Z 4
lidates in Brown County, for the 4
Of Sheriff by the Brown 81
County Democratic Convention G
they ought all of them to be nOmi- il
lated. - -
- The Mansfield Herald says: il
we learn that the arrangements a
or the second annual session Of y
he State Musical Association, :,
which is to be held in this city, ;,
commencing on May 23d, are about b
and the Festival prom n
ses to be even more successful ~ ~
han was the one held last hear. Il.
- A steamer is on exhibition at ci
Mansfield designed to cook food 0
or all kinds of stock, and for max
ng steam for hotels and dwellings