South-eastern Independent. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1871-1871, 1871-07-14

IL. B. VINCENT Il BRO. are the
local agents here for the sale of the
Grover & Baker sewing machines.
T. D. CHEADLE is renovating things
about MS Merchant Tailoring Estab.
lishment-getting ready for the Fall
trade.
The Special Term of the Court
of Common Pleas, for Morgan Coun-
u, convenes on Tuesday morning,
the 18th.
A SHOCK o wheat was struck and
consumed by lightning in James
A. McConnel's wheat field, east of
town, during the storm on Monday
last.
GENTLEMEN from Windsor and
Center townships, this county, re-
port that the Prohibition cause is
fast gaining ground IN both those
localities.
THE MARKErs.-No change in the
home market since our last issue.
Cattle were quoted in Cincinnati last
Monday, at So to SIS per hundred;
Hogs, at from S4.15 to S4.55; Sheep,
at from 81 to IS.
A GRASDDAGHrER of Daniel Boone,
the Kentucky Indian hunter and pi-
oneer, is now the widow of ex-Govern-
or Boggs, and resides in Napa County,
California, on the old homestead where
the family settled nearly twenty-five
years ago.
The Herald hoists its platform again,
or done so last week. Why doesn't
it tear down the names of Mueller,
Williams and Hosmer from the state
ticket. Whisky ard lager beer WON'T
mix with temperance 10 more than
oil will with water.
THOMPSON A. ROBINSON. of Bloom
township, died on Monday last, at
his residence. He was bulied at
Wesley Chapel on Wednesday. He
had been a member of the Baptist
Church for thirty-niDe years, and
was about sixty years of age. He
died of consumptlon.
Attest of the Babcock Fire Ex-
tinguisher was made in the Public
Square of this Village on last Sat
urday evening. The Ext,ngulsher
proved satisfactory, and the proba-
bllIties are that our town council
Will purchase a half dozen of them,
at $50 apiece, for the use of the
Corporation.
The Pomeroy Crescent, of last
week, says the jail statistics of
Meigs County, for the year ending
June 30th, 1871, foot up as follow:
whole number of prisoners for
the year, 141-as follows: Men,
ia; women %; boys, 8; girls l; IN
sane, s. Ofthe above number SIX
ty-two were committed directly for
drunkenness"
WE notice a new paper, the Dali
ly Dispatch, is now issued in Co.
Iumbus, Ohio. Among its con
ductors and editors, r several gen.
tlemen who were recently engaged
on the Columbus Crisis. The DIS
patch is an evening paper, and ably
conducted, and is Independent IN
politics. 1t is just snch a paper as
has long been needed at the State
Capital.
WE should have mentioned ere
this, that the Columbus Crisis has
been merged in the Ohio Statesman,
and that the Statesman, under pros
emf management is one of the most
reliable Democratic papers in the
West. Those of our citizens, who
think they cannot get along wIth>
out q Democratic state organ in
their house, cannot do better than
subscribe for the Statesman. Adj
dress, Ohio Statesman, Columbus,
Ohio.
JOIN OGLEvEE, of Bristol township,
Is a lucky man. His wife presented
him with a pair of twins-both boys
a week or so ago, making five boys she
has presented him with within the
past four years and a half, ard all
whom are living. Four pair of twins
have been born on Oglevee's farm
within the past ten years, indicating
an unusually healthfnl locality. 0gle-
wee has Jul thanks for a basket of very
fine eating apples he brought us last
week. We suppose he thought he
lowed the apples"
JACKSON MILLER, son of Samuel
Miller, of Malta township, attcmpt-
ed to water a par of horses OF his
fathers in the river just above The
Malta wharf on last Saturday, and
the lines becoming cntangled in
some way, The horses became I'M
manageable while III the water, re.
sultlng in their being drowned.
Mr., Miller barely escaped drown
ing himself. Fortunately for his
mother, who had been IN the wag-
on with him, she took the precan-
tion to get.out of it just before her
son started to water the horses.
The horses were worth about $500.
This makes four horses that have
been drowned at the place above
named, and IN about the same man.
ner, in the past tour or five years
THE daily papers. of the past
week, are full of casualties, sui
cides, and shooting ARRAYS. Be-
tween New York Cits and Newark,
n. J., On the Newark Railroad, on
the 9Th, five persons were killed,
and fifteen wounded, and hundreds
of thousands of dollars were lost In
damages, by a brakeman turning a
tram of, cars in the wrong direction,
causing a collision. At Dayton,
O., on Sunday last, a terrible tor
nadu demolished a German Luther
an Church, in which Sunday School
was being held at the time. blew
the Washington Street Bridge
down, and unroofed and damaged
about fifty buildings, by means OF
which eight persons were killed
and thirty wounded. Murders and
suicides-three of the latter in GIN
einnati afone-have been too nd
merous to enumerate, and nine out
of ten Of them have been caused by
alcohol,