Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1870-06-23
State and Neighborhood Items

A tribe of Gypsies are en-
camped near Chillicothe.
= Mrs. McGath, of Pickaway
county, is 100 years old.
- The State Convention of
Methodists will be held at Della
ware on the I'd, Sd and 4th of Au-
gust.
- Matthias Haas and Charles
Kuhn were killed by lightning in
Ross county, during the storm on
the 10th.
- A number of Cincinnati fami-
lies have already taken up Summer
quarters at Yellow Springs, Greene
county.
- The Superintendent of the
Ross county Infrmary has been
fined 500 and costs for whipping a
girl under his charge.
= A Farmers Stock Exchange
has been established in Chillicothe.
James L. Hackney, of vii.
mington, has horse stricken with
paralysis on one side,
- Fifty cars of live stock were
shipped from London during the
month of May.
- The estate of r. P, Brown,
decd, Of Clarksburg, Ross Co.,
Ohio, is estimated at over $780,
900.
- At the Madison County Stock
Sales on the 7th, nearly 400 head
were sold at good figures.
- The Republican Congression-
al Convention for the seventh Dis
trict meets at London on the 10Th
of August.
- The Internal Revenue colIcc.I
tons in Clinton County, during the
month Of May, amounted to $l0,-
263,51.
-- The ceremonies Of laying the
corner stone of the new Lunatie
Asylum, at Columbus, will take
place on the Fourth of July, under
the auspices Of the Grand Lodge
of Ohio Il. IL A. M. Invitations
will be extended to the fraternity
throughout the State, and an i'm
posing display will be made. ,
Il. N. Alternately has resumed
the publication Of the Mt. Sterling :
Advertiser.
-- G, II. Hanawalt has been ap- '
pointed Postmaster at Mt. Ster .
ling.
- Two deaths have recently oc.
CURED in Chillicothc, caused by
bathing while the blood was heated
Boys should be careful not to 60
into the water while too warm.
49, The police Of Portsmouth
made q descent upon the houses of
i'll fame on Saturday night.
- The survey of the Columbus s
and Ironton railroad through Pike
county cost over 1920.
- Dayton will have horse fair {
on the 9th, 7th and Sth Of July t
81, 900 in premiums will be award c
I'd each day. =
49, At recent Democratic Con v
lention in Brown county there were 2
four candidates for Sheriff, !,
md the Convention balloted ll6
lines, when John Dillon was the =
man. n
- Coiumbiana county has CON J
racted for a new Court House to =
iost $0S,7l7, Y
-- The Athens Messenger says a
hat the track OF the Columbus g.
Hooking Valley Railroad has been >
to Salina, which is with =
n six miles Of Athens; and the n
Dad will be ready for trains thro' I
o Athens by July 10th, :
- Tho Wilmington Journal a
ays: "A mortgage is on record q
u the Recorders Office here, given
" the Marietta u Cincinnati Rail =
'oad to Thomas Whiteridge and i
Iohn Donnol Smith, of the city Of h
Baltimore, Maryland, for $S,000,- n
300. The revenue stamps on it '
amount to $4,000,
- Jerome D, Smith, census ta-
ier in Clinton county, who has !
,een hard at work since tho lst =
IF June, and had succeeded in get. !
ing quite a large amount Of cen a
sus statistics together, whilo ar c
ranging them late on Saturday :
evening, became tired and left his !