Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1872-02-08
LOCAL ITEM 8

- court COnNGQ6S on the ZOLn inst.
- ST. Valentines Day-next Wednes-
day.
= Methodist Quarterly Meeting next
Saturday and Sunday.
A lively religious revival is going on
at the Colored Church.
= Brick & Sabin's Minstrels at Music
Hall next Saturday night.
Several of our citizens went to Cincin-
natl to hear Nilsson last week.
The young ladies of town are arranging
for leap year dance on the 22d.
= Seventeen persons united with the
Sugar Creek NJ. E. Church during the late
revival.
= The ladies of the NJ. E. Church are
holding daily afternoon prayer meetings
this week.
= Raising fine cattle and hogs for sale
as breeders, has become quite business
in this county.
= And the ground hog saw his shadow
and went back into his hole. More Win.
ter for while.
A. P Kirk & Co.'s pork house, finish
ed slaughtering on Tuesday, having killed
5000 hogs this Winter.
Quite a large party of ladies and gen
tlemen of our town went down to Cincin-
natl yesterday to hear Nilsson.
Rev. 7. H. Phillips, Presiding Elder
of the Chillicothe District, will preach at
the NJ: E. Church next Sunday.
.-Protracted meetings have been in pro
gress at the Good Hope NJ. E. Church for
over week, with good success.
= The loss by the. burning of the c. &
N. V. Railroad depot at GAINESVILLE, last
week, was $4,000. No insurance.
4 Rev. Mr.. Carpenter cOntemplates
commencing series of protracted meetings
at the Presbyterian Church next week,
Hon. NJ. ]. Williams was home from
Columbus on Saturday and Sunday-his
second visit since the Legislature conyen-
ed.
DIR. L. A. Elster has returned to JEFF
fersonville, after "A few months absence,
and offers his professional services to the
public.
Rev. T. K. Davis, financial agent OF
Wooster University, preached at the Pres
byterian Church last Sunday-morning and
evening
II. D. McElwain started out last Mon
day on a travelling campaign as general
agent for the Amazon and Triumph Insur-
ance Companies.
John NJ. Wright, will offer his house
and lot and lot of personal property al
auction, d mile West of Jeffersonville, or
Saturday, Feb, 18th.
= Frank H. Robinson has returned from
school at Delaware, and gone into the FRS
National Bank to take charge of set o
books, in place of Mr.. Sturgeon.
-" Happy Jack" and "Kirk House
John,'' being unable to support themselves
have been granted Winter quarters in the
:, County Infrmary:
: The pioneers of the county, and othe,
citizens, will celebrate Washington's brit
g day February 22d,) in this place. Pro
i grammes will be issued in few days.
E. A married folks leap year party cam
4 off at the residence of Mr.. w. F. Willett i
/ Is this place, few evenings since, each lad
n escorting some other woman's husband.
y A. Nathan & Co., have concluded nc
te to move to Cincinnati, as announced wee
e or two since, but will remain in Washing
ton and continue to furnish the people chea
clothing.
- - The report of the Xenia Powder Mil
h. explosion on Monday created some con
t. motion in our public schools, the childre
(and some of the teachers) thinking it WI
an earthquake.
In the neighborhood of fifty ne
m members have been added to the M
Church membership, since the commenc
We ment of the revival. Morning and evenir
,9pff meetings will be held all this week.
at -Droves of fine fat hogs are drive
he he through the streets every day on their W,
ri Fl to the pork house and depot. 1t seems
if the hog crop of the county this year
~ ~ inexhaustible. 1t ought to make gree
ed backs plenty-but somehow it don't
- Prof. P. f. Morehouse, who is atten
ing Medical Lectures in Cincinnati, was
}. town day or two during the past wee
The course of lectures will conclude in
. few days, when he will return
he his duties as Superintendent of the Pub
Schools.