The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1870-07-07
SUNDRIES.

-Jaiuee Drown was uToWHeu III Dig
Walnut Creek, Ross county, last week.
Samuel Thompson, of Ross county,
attempted to commit suicide by shoot
ing himself.
by late news from Washington we
learn that the long talked Of Indian war
hasactually begun.
The treaty for the purchase ofSan
Domingo was defeated by the U. s.
Senate last week
Temperance sermons were pleach-
ed in all the churches of Chillicothe on
last Sabbath. Where, oh where is
Judge q Clark!
"A Teachers Institute will be held
at GallipoliS, commencing August goth.
Hon. E. E. White, editor of the Edu-
Cational Monthly, will be present.
"A policeman named Mahony, in
Chillicothe, had rough fight at the
Depot Hotel, while attempting to ar
rest drunken man named Dowd.
"A young woman named Whine,
at Nelsonvile, Athens county, was
burned to death by coal oil She was
attempting to kindle fire 18th the oil
The lightning struck four oil tanks
in Pittsburg last week, and set them on
6re. A large amount of property was
destroyed, and one man was killed and
burned up.
BY the fire that occurred in Con-
stantinople a short time ago, we now
learn that 1000 lives were lost, and
$4,000 people are homeless, and $40
100000 of property destroyed.
-On last Sunday week, at Balm
bridge, Ross county, ION the Bottom),
two young men, who were drunk, had
afight on horseback: One ofthe horses
was badly stabbed in the neck.
The u. s. Sen ate last week voted
TO let the income tax law expire, and
afterwards reversed that vo te, and vo-
ted to retain it, at 2-12 per cent. There
will probably be $4,000 exempt
The Portsm outh Republican says
that the many fir lends of Hon. John 7.
Wilson requests it to say that that gen.
tleman will be a candidate for rs.nomi-
nation before the Republican conyen-
ton.
The Council of the city Of Ports
mouth desire to change the grade o.
the railroad. The agent of the road
has procur ed an injunction to prevent
the change.
"A little daughter of VIM, Allen,
Of RaVenna, got hold Of bottle chic
ride of zinc, which had been prepared
for horse medicine She drank of it,
and in three hours and a half was dead
Tho Mason County Journal, al
Point Pleasant, West Virginia, has
been enlarged, and is printed on new
type. Itis now the size ofthe Standard
The Journal is a Democratic paper, buI
one which we always like to see.
Two steamers made arace on the
Mississippi last week, starting from
New Orleans. One Of them beat the
other Large sums Of money were bet
and the excitement along the river was
20 great that business was almost entirely
suspended.
The Office ofSpecial Commissioner
Of the Treasury expired by limitation
on the 3Oth of June, and David A,
Wells has gone out Thank God for
that. This man Wells tried to do
more dirty work for British capitalists
and American wholesale merchants
at the expense Of American labor, than
any other man living.
--Baber will be candidate for Con
Rress, before the Democratic conven-
ton. The Journal is doing its level
best for Winans, the great free trade
Republican, for a denomination. The
Journal does not like Baber Let us
make a prediction for the Journal. If
Babsr and Winans should be the can
didates, Baber will beat the hind sights
of its man Winans. Mark that.
Two lazy, lousy Indians, calling
themselves Red Cloud and Red Dog,
have been in Washington and New
York. They made speeches at Cooper
Institute, New York, and the peopl,
we're highly delighted, and shouted ap'
plause. We regard these speeches Al
being so silly that boy of ten years
Ofage should bO ashamed to make sucl
sspeech.
DIR. Howard has rendered his res
ignatiOn as President of the Ohio Uni
versity. It has not been formally aocep
ted, but he has been granted leave o
absence for six months.