Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1870-07-28
State and Neighborhood Items.

Il w SIIClVFlllH oU lIle %3uh ul August u
Democrats will hold their Convention a
D the same place on The 18th. fMi
\ - Mr., Jas. Fleming, 10 years Of age, 0
Pickaway county, was thrown from
wagon and dragged abp'S half mile b,
a runaway team, on tie lsth, and SO Sc
verely injured that he died about an hou
afterwards NIa
- sam1 seall, one Of the Oldest ant
most subs tantial citizens of Pickaway Co.
died of cholera morbus, on the Goth, aget
II years FT
Negroes slip up behind ladies in Cir
cleville and snatch pocket books from
them; SO the Democrat says.
- Vim. Gill, of Pickawny county, has
purchased a yearling bull, yearling heif-
Grand heifer calf, all thorough breds of the
Prairie Herd" Of Mr.. t. Kirk, Of this
county.
/ = Ihe Oberlin Junior Glass, thinking
last Saturday morning was not warm
enough, built.up FIRE in their recitation
room, and when the hour for recitation
came, and with it the Professor, the heat
was so intense 1t was almost sphocqting.
The Professor stood his ground and made
the class sweat before they got through
with the joke.
Seven hundred and fortg-aix emh
grants passed through 0olumbur last
week,
- Trains commenced running regularly
through to Athens on the c. d II. V. Rail
Road last Monday. w ~
= Commodore Henry Wake, brother of
Judge Wake, of CircleviIle has been ap.
pointed Vice Admiral in the U. S, Navy,
Vice Dahlgren deceased. aaH TN
The Union reproyes Circleyille young
ladies for smoking cigars on the streets.
- Mad dog killed In Circleville few
days ago. Berr p a
- Some farmers in Pickaway county
contracted their wheat at 81 per bushel
before the rise.
- There are now 73 children at the Sol
diers' Orphans Home at Xenia. .-
- DR.. A. H. Brundage. of Xenia, had
fine black stallion and buggy stolen on
the night of the 10Th. $3.50 reward is Of
fered for the property and thief
"A few nights since, Mr.. John Crane,
of Oedarville, Greene county, hearing a
noise he thought to be burglars, got up
and went to the front door to look out.
While he was standing there his son, who
had also been alarmed, fired revolver at
the elder Crane, supposipg him to'be the
burglar. Fortunately the bali missed the
mark and the old man made himself known |
before another was fired. s~~s
- About 900 names are registered for.
the season at the new Netf House, Yellow
Springs
The population ofJamestown, Greene
county, according to the census, is 497.
- Camp Meeting commences near New
Lexington August 18th. Extensive prep
arations are being made for it,
= Lancaster wants Steam Public
Laundry.
= John Stevenson died from a sun.
stroke, in Lancaster, on the 9th
- Lancaster had occasion to try her
steam fire engine, o1 Monday last week,
without the aid of which an extensive and
disastrous fire could not have been pre-
vented. Two dwelling houses were much
damaged as it was.
- At Ohillicothe on the 10Th, man /
named John Lawson crawled under sta-
.ionary train in the railroad yard and laid
lown, with his head across the track to
ileep. While he slept the train was NOV.
I'd, and his head and one foot cut off.
- Peaches SoId in Chillicothe at 5000
bushel last week
- Eighty persons were admitted to full
in the Main street M. F.
Church, at Chillicothe, on Sunday, l7tl
49, A document was filed in the Record |
RS Office, in Chillicothe a few days since,
N which were fifteen 5000 revenue I
900 mall. {
80 lawyers in Clinton county.
Dayton claims 40, 900 population,
Willis Willich, of Circleviile, passed +
he examination at West Point. n
300 hands are working on the Lo-
.an and Straitsville Railroad {
- The cemetery at Circleville is troub Y
ed with thieves who rob the graves of J
lowers and shrubbery. t
81 600 reward is offered for the arrest
nd conviction of Valentine Osborn, the
murderer of Hayworth, in Clinton county,
ecently. ~ 4.Hd
- franklin College, Wilmington, will +
e offered for sale in front of the Court =
louise, on the Sth of August. 1t is ap-
raised at $4,000, n anlaganR =
- The census enumeration shows the r
opulation of London, Madison county, to
. 2,O65, n
- Xenia's population is 6,377. I
- They report snake in Wood county
0 feet in length. HfEs +"
- Nine French horses imported by the h
Iarion Importing Company, arrived in |,
Iarion recently. - et-R h