Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1871-10-26
LOG AL ITEMS

The Catholics are building a new
Church in this place.
We understand Mr.. Geo. Wiggenton,
of this place, intends moving West short
ly.
w. w. Allen and DR.. Smith, start
next Monday for Southern Kansas, to spend
the Winter.
The Presbyterian Social Circle will
be entertained next Friday evening, at the
residence of Col. Kerr.
The editor of the New Richmond In
dependent has lost his head. He says it
got burned up in the Chicago fire. Poor
man! He has got substitute.
- Common Pleas Court commenced its
Fall session at Chillicothe, on Tuesday
last. The Blackburn case, it is supposed,
will come up for trial at this term
- Harvey Sanderson, Jr., will offer lot
of stock at public sale at his residence, 9
miles from Washington, and IL mile East
of West Lancaster, on the jamestown pike,
on Friday, November Sd.
In mentioning last week, a public
sale at the residence of Mr.. Ephraim
Henkle, on Thursday, Nov. I'd, we acci-
dentally located his residence three miles
East, instead of West of Washington.
= The W. U. Telegraph office at this
place, is now managed by a young lady
operator, who seems to give as good, if not
| n IittIa batfar SofirfootioD 4baD aDr oyaro +o,.
who has had charge of the Office for years.
- After preaching on Sunday evening
last, at the NJ. E. Ch urch, contribution
was called for to aid in reconstructing
churches in Chicago. The call, we under
stand, was responded to in the sum of
5000.
The law library of the late Judge R.
M. Briggs, embracing some $50 volumes,
will be sold at public sale, by H. B. May
nard, administrator of Judge Briggs estate,
at G. A. Palmer's Office on the 18th of
November.
= Late advices to the Colum bus papers,
from Lancaster, state that Hon. Thomas
Ewing is rapidly failing in health and that
the probabilities are that he cannot survive
many days longer. His disease is dropsy
and heart affection.
= On account of the Small Pox being at
Chillicothe, the Woman's State Suffrage
, Association, which was to have been held
at that place, on the goth inst, has beer
/ postponed until the 9Th of November next
when it will be held at Xenia
E We hear that pacing race for $500 &
: side, is to come off this week at Columbus
between the dun pacing horse owned il
$ this county by Bill Wright, and anothe
; horse outside the county; we don't know
I by whom owned. The dun is a goer.
- The official majority for Judge il
z Highland county, as given in the HILLSIDE
e rough News of last week, is 487 for Steel
: instead of 387, as given in our last paper
d from the News. This makes Steel's major
: ity in the three counties of Ross, HIGHLAND
and Fayette, 4O8 instead of 3O8.
7 ! - On Saturday last, Benjamin Rankin,
e of Jasper township who has been attend
ing lectures at the "Hygieo Thereaputic
College" Florence, New Jersey, called a
- our Office on his return home. He look
3 as though he had been a close student il
= the aquisitien of medical science.
i In the case of Mrs. Estella Scott VI
4 King David Anderson and Jas. Hawley
e. tried before Mayor Bereman and Jury o
ot Wednesday of last week. verdict in favo
N N of plaintiff for 5000 was returned, for dan
of ages sustained by the sale of liquor to he
m husband by defendants.
On "A daily hack line has been establish
hs ed between this place and HilIsboro, /
ad Messrs Bales & Suthern. The hack leav
tie Hillsboro at O'Clock A NJ, and returnir
az: ;nr leaves Washington at l O'Clock P 4
les Orders may be left at the Kirk House S.
NJ. advertisement.
re- Rev. W. w. King, of Chicago, we
known in this place, will lecture at Il
. Court House next Saturday evening,
the subject of "The Chicago Fire and I
. Lessons" He will also preach at Il
n ~ Court House on Sunday at O'Clock P \
Jed and on every evening of the followi
al week.
as - The congregation of the NJ. E. Chur
= in this place, regard themselves peculiar
fortunate in being able to secure the p;
torial services of Rev. S. A Keen,
another Conference year. The decision
the Conference, we think, is in conformi
with the wishes of every member of
congregation in this place.
id, We have been requested by those
the The attendance at the Fayette County Pion,
less Fair, held at Jeffersonville on the Is
JIM and 10Th, to tender their thanks to t
people of Jeffersonville and vicinity,
as their kind hospitality to visitors on Il
ith, occasion. They certainly are noble hea
ami ami ed class of people.
St., = The Athens Journal of last week pa
"a the following merited compliment to Q
who was born and raised in our toy
where he has hosts of warm friends a
I admirers, as well as at Athens:
1 Rev. E. H.. Heagler remains at Ath
during the coming year. He is we'll loV
Pastor, and no one could be more acceE
BILE to our people, both members of
Church and others.