Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1870-03-17
state and Neighborhood Items.

Columbus to Gallipolis via Near
thur.
- A railroad is talked of from
| Ironton to Cincinnati
- On Monday, 7th inst, j. S.
Leaning shipped from Wilmington
two hogs, the largest being q years
old and weighing $50 lbs. The 9th,
er was II years old and weighed
GAO lbs.
- On Thursday night, Sd inst,
the Vigilance ComInittee" " of viii
mington captured negro in the
act Of hurglarizing grocery.
"A man bought a set Of harness
in Wilmington few days ago and
paid for it in Slver.
= Hillsboro is going to put up
90 street lsmps, to burn gasoline.
- On Wednesday morning, 9th
inst, young man named Milton
D. Stantec, was killed by the acci-
dental discharge Of pistol, at the
house Of his brother-in-law DIR.
Holmes, in Centerfcld, Highland
County.
- Sixty thousand dozen split.
bottom chairs are annually manu-
Iactured at Williamsburg, Clermont
County.
- Petitions are being circu-
lated throughout the State in favor
Of County School Superintendents.
- Oberlin, Ohio, has always
boosted Of its temperate, abstemi-
Gus habits. There never was
gls of spirituous liquor sold in
the place, and there is an ordinance
forbidding smoking in the streets,
A Governor Of the State was once
fined for violating this enactment.
- 700 persons have united with
churches in Dayton during a rGvi-
val still going on.
The Ohio State Sunday School
Convention will hold its next an
nual scssionin Springfield, Wednes-
day and Thursday Of the first week
in June.
p - Over 200 children of Barns
vile have the measles.
- Henry Padden has been ar
rested in Portsmouth, charged with
an attempt to poison his wife.
- The IrOnton Journal says -
"Mr I, G Scott, over at Laurel
furnace, put up during the late
freeze, about thirty tons Of ice,
composed almost entirely Of icicles
formed over the projecting rocks
in the hills. Some Of the icicles
we're very long and thick, aud we're
piled down like cord wood,
- LOTT prisoners In the Ohio
pcnitentiary.
- Benjamin r, Thompson was
found guilty Of manslaughtcr in
Killing his brother, by the Franklin
County Court last week.
- Marshal Wolf of GAINESVILLE,
las been convicted Of manslaugh-
.or, for the shooting Of an old ne
gro man named Sam Lee.
49, The great Jennings farm, near
Irbana, Of 3,0G5 acres, was sold
asst week, for S27s, 800, to Andrew
Jr., formerly Of the White
Springs,
- Application was made to Gov
,rnor Hayes on Saturday, for the
,ommutotion Of the sentence Of
rhomas Carr, Of Belmont County,
sentenced to be hanged March
10Th, for the murder Of a young
ady. The Governor declined to
Interfere with the Judgment and
ientence of the Court, and the man !
will be executed as sentenced, i
- The furnace house Of Kearns,
n Gorsuch's extcn- |
i've window glass works in
.anesvillc, Ohio, was dostroiod Q
y fire Saturday night, A heavy y
Wind storm prevailed, and if it had :
iot been for the rain and snow, the !
whole square would doubtless have
,cen destroyed, The roof Of the
Masonic Building was blown of, !
md the rain ruined its beautiful fres,
% work Several other buildings
we're damaged by the wind.stom, J
Mrs, Lydia Short died few 8
lays ago at Lyndon, Ross County
n her S6th year
"A Bainbridge correspondent of
he Ross County Register say,John !