Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1871-12-14

Six days more for tax-paying.
Hogs are worth $4.1O to AIS
- Fayette County has twenty,f five free
turnPikes.
d. Furtwangler went to Cincinnati the
first of the week for holiday goods.
The youngest child of Mr.. H. Strauss,
of this place, died last Monday night.
-46 cars of hogs and cars of cattle
past week.
A P. Kirk & Co. have slaughtered
1920 hogs up to yesterday, and 1000 the
past week.
$3.50 hams were shipped from this
station by A P. Kirk & Co., during the
past week.
= Smith johnson has resigned his situa-
ton as one of the book-keepers in the First
National Bank.
p. Sherman is prepared for the Holi-
day trade with a big stock of fancy candies
of his own manufacture.
Remember the Bloomingburg Presby-
terian Circle, at W. A. Ustick,s- to- morrow
night. Everybody is cordially invited.
= Thelast premiums paid on loans of
the Enterprising Building and Loan Asso-
citation were $40 and 1852. In the Fay
cite. $1O8
There will be public sale of personal
property belonging to the estate of Sam'l
Willis, decd, at his late residence in Jasper
township, on Friday, Dec. 23d.
Minus T. Harrington convicted of
burglary at the last term of Common Pleas
Court for this county, was taken to the
Ohio Penitentiary on Tuesday, for a five
years term.
The CircIeyille Herald of the 9th says:
Express Messenger Greer, of the Circle
vile and Cincinnati Accommodation, in
forms us that, during three days of last
week, he shipped 600 head of poultry
| from Washington to Cincinnati.
L. Schnidcr has moved his barber
shop to the room adjoining P. S. Collins
Restaurant. The room vacated by him,
adjoining Silcott & dillikan's dry goods
store, is now occupied by the new tobacco
man.
"A report was current on the streets
Tuesday evening to the effect that an ex-
tensive fire had destroyed the principal
business portion of our neighboring town
Of London, on Monday night. The report
proves, however, we are glad to say, with
out foundation.
Tho first number of the Scioto Valley
Post, new Democratic paper started at
Chillicothe, came to us this week. 1t is
published by John P Burns. 1t is a neat
looking paper geographically, and makes a
good start editorially. Chillicothe is well
supplied with papers.
- Occasionally we come across a man
who fancies himself too poor to take a
county newspaper that will only cost him
two dollars year. Now, if we were to
publish the name of any such man, and
give that as the reason, we should expect
to be obliged to answer to suit for slam
der, on the grounds of having damaged his
credit in business way.
.-Et,Fhe. New Orleans Minstrcls, a first.
class company of artists, who are highly
z spoken of by the press in all the yariou:
cities where they have exhibited thi:
season, will favor our town with a visit OF
the 18th and 10th inst giving two enter
tainments at Music Hall. Miss Mauc
Stanley, the well known and accomplished
fsoprano vocalist, accompanies the troupe.
In our neighboring village of London
they have a new steam fire engine, costini
some eight or ten thousand dollars. Tha
town has been visited by two confagration
since the arrival of the engine, the loss i
the latter being some $4,000 "A few Bah
cock Fire Extinguishers would cost man
thousands less, and would perhaps b
equally reliable in the hands Of the London
ers.
Anew time table took effect on th
c. & NJ. V. Railway on Monday. Train
now arrive at and leave this station as 70
lows: Going East-Coal arrives
1925 and leaves at 1888 A. NJ
Freight arrives at $40 A. NJ. an
leaves at 8:35 A. NJ; Express and Ma
,es leaves at 1855 P M; Accommodate
t. leaves at 1853 P. NJ. Going West-Co
! no Q arrives at 1858 A. NJ. and leaves at l..
he he A. NJ; Accommodation leaves at GIG
Ike NJ; Express and Mail leaves at 1855
rm NJ; Freight arrives at 1:46 P. NJ. al
J. leaves at 2:15 P. NJ.