The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1870-11-24
SUNDRIES.

They are still talking railroad
about Macarthur, Gallipolis, and such
out.of-the-way villages Pomeroy has
about got over her railroad fever. But
Hillshoro has not.
The Record SAYS that the Sabbath
Schools in McArthrr are poorly attend
ed
The Zanesville Times tells two hor-
ible stories One is, where man who
had recently been out coon hunting,
dreamed he had caught an o'possum,
and scizlng his little child by the feet,
dashed it against the bed post and killed
it before he awoke.
The other is, that father and moth
er disputed about the correcting Of
little child, and one seized it by the
legs and the other by tho arms, and
palIedit till'they SO injured it that it
died.
&C. W Starbuck, proprietor of the
Cincinnati Times died last week, lie
was much respected, and is said to have
been very wealthy, his property amount
ing to over'three quarters of million Of
dollars, nearly all of which lie derived
from the profits Of his newspaper estab-
lishment.
7i-The Marietta Register says that All
F6on, a "heathen Chinee," is in that
place. He claims to have been in the
United States eleven months. He is
running small show.
The people of Portsmouth are talk
ing ofhaYing the Holly Water Works
in that place. The estimated cost Sllo,-
600.
"A man named James Ray, who
lived eight miles from Gallipols, re-
Gently committed suicide by shooting
himself in the head.
1T is now definitely settled that
Gen. Schenck will contest the seat in
Congress Of L. D. Campbcll, alone on
the validity of the vote or the soldiers
at The Dayton Soldiers Home.
The Ohio Woman Suffrage Asso-
citation held q convention in Columbus
last week.
-Elmef Rowell has become associ-
ate editor of the Athens Journal. Gen.
Wildes made it good paper, but his
duties as an attorney in active practice
did not leave him enough time to devote
to his paper, The Journal will soon be
enlarged. .,..
--The boiler Of a portable saw mil
In Athens county, exploded, and blew
the mill to atoms The loss is abOu
$4,000. David d Huntsman and Da,
vid Sayles were instantly killed, and
John Chafiin was mortally wounded
Frank Tanner, Thomas Foster ant
James Chambers we're wounded.
The Court House at Macarthur is
Being extensively repaired. A new
slate roof is to be put on, and it vii
all be re-panied, inside and out. The!
talk Of getting town clock.
Miss Kate Boyd has been appoint
ed as one of the School Examiners o
Athens county
-Shufilin is still in Jail at Ports
mouth. He was sentenced to thre
years in the Penitentiary, but the exc
Cution Of the sentence is suspended un
til the result Of an application to th
Supreme Court for writ of error i
known.
The WayeFly Watchmaa gets o.
tho following malicious item : .s
The citizens ofChilieotho have taker
so many ague pills this fall that whe
they shake hands with each other tn
pills rattle in their bellies like beans in
brass kettle l'
The editor Of the Register has take
|.n.N
so much whisky to wash down tn
pills, that his head, (being empty
now, rattles As badly as his belly
a-sDr Carey A. Trimble Of ChilIicc
the who 80 ably aud faithfully rcpreser
ted this District in Congressa few yeaI
ago, has just closed up his business an
gone 10 Florida, TO make that State hi
future home.
-Fayette county, Ohio, will 500
have els miles of free turnpike roo'
Rnished Jackson county has about 6
rods' Of pike, between Oak Hill an
Portland. That is all,
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