Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1871-12-28
BIoOmingburg Local Items.

BLooMNGBURG, Dec. %, 1871.
EDS. HERALD 1t is, / believe,
conceded that there is more corn in
Fayette County now than was ever be-
fore known at this season of the year,
when the fat hogs were so near all
marketed. 1t is also fact, l think,
that there was never so much land |
sown to wheat in one season in our
county, as has been sown this fall
Raising corn from 1863 to 1868, with
hogs at ten dollars per hundred, was
a favorable business for our farmers
but with hogs at four dollars, with the
present high prices for labor, the
farmer must change his tactics.
Raising sheep has been almost en-
tirely neglected, and wool is likely to
become an object again; hence, vast
amount of land will again be sown to
grass, and our farmers will look to
sleeps wool as well as hogs for green
backs. 1t is also admitted that the
opening of Kirk & Co.'s pork house at
Washington, has enabled the farmers
to obtain from 1Oc. to zoe per hund-
red lbs. for their hogs more than they
would have received had not this
house been opened.
Our turnpikes are now mostly paid
for, and if all the talk about retrench-
ment does not prove to be mere gasS
we may hope soon to see great pros
perity in Faye;te county. The pres
ent drouth causes some considerable
inconvenience, but the cold, dry wealth
er is remarkably healthy.
A few days since some of the deni-
zens of our neighboring county of
Madison, came to sale in the II ortll-
ern part ofo county, and sold whisky
to the crowd. AS a result one of our
citizens had his phiz. very much mu-
tillated, for which Officer Edwards
charged the perpetrator s2995. I un-
derstand the gents who sold the whisky
are to be looked after.
The students who went from our
Academy to Wooster and Delaware,
and those who are attending medical
lectures at Cincinnati, are all here to
spend the holidays. These young
bloods together with the numerous
visitors expected, will make it lively
here for few days.
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= nifty, to thank ''LovEJoY'' through the
Herald, for his interesting letter from
Africa. We hope to hear often from
him. He manifeS ts- much the same
spirit in Africa that he did while nea
Richmond, when he was a member O
the First Ohio Cavalry, during the Re
bellion. l wonder if the members o
the First Ohio Cavalry recognize il
:, "Lovejoy," the chap who so daringl,
: dashed upon the breast works a
: Richmond, and captured the fin
transit and presented it to the Bloom
:, ingburg Academy
All those stories about so many @
: our citizens having been at the Chica
;, go fire, turns cut to be false The fact
are that they have only been to Dyer
new Clothing Emporium, where clotl
!, ing of the latest style can be bougI
e 50 cheap that every body can afford t
= buy them. Neither is it true that Ma
Stewart went to New York for Chris
- mas fixins; he found them all in Gin
cinnati
> BY the way Nr Editor, will you e,
- plain to us why it is that Christm
- and New Year do not come on ii
~ same day OF the week this year ? Al
= oblige B.
vo P. S. There is mistake in yo
H. last issue in regard to TIE installme
,or of officers in Lodge No. 449 F. A. \
on next Friday evening, the 29t
That delightful ceremony was pt
a. formed by Hon. Mills Gardner, P.
of Fayette Lodge No. 1O7, on l;
no Friday evening, the 22d. Some 80
Il the Brethren from our neighbour
md Lodges assembled at the hall of c
,is. Lodge, No. 449, and the following
ter stallments took place:
ms j. NJ. Mccoy, w. NJ; c. D. Ha
ins S. W.; VIM. Noble, j. w; Ed.
and exander, Treas. J. F. Sheets, Sec
ac- A. B. Elliott, S. D.; John T. Smi
hat j. D.