Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1872-02-01
NeigIborhOod News.


NeighborhOod News.
The First National Bank of Jackson has
been organized. Capital 100000.
Athens has had no small pox, and don't
want any.
There are $50 children at the Nenia Sol
diers' and Sailors Orphans Home.
Geo. P. Holcomb has been appointed
Postmaster at Chillicothe in place of Gen.
Brown, resigned.
The London, CNdadison Coz Enterprise
says: Dropping in at one of our principal
business houses the other day, we were
grieved and almost heart broken to see one
of our most estimable county officers in
such a state as to have to be taken to his
office ON a wheel-barrow. A temperance
excitement in London would not be a bad
thing a
The Times, of the same place says: Mr.:
John Clarridge, our Mount Sterling friend,
was in our Office yesterday, with another
ingenious and valuable invention, as cx-
hibited in model which he had with him
and which he expressed to Messrs. Mum
& Co., of New York, to secure for him his
patent. 1t is of new and very much
needed feature of the Moving Machine.
And if MIR. c. is successful in securing his
patent, (as-we believe he must be) it will
be fortune to hin.
There is a petition circulating in this
county, asking the Legislature to make it
account of the immense amount of good
these animals do in destroying medow
mice, moles, etc.
Wilmington has a champion walkist'
who walked 70 miles in four hours.
Some $4,000 is now pledged to the cap
ital stock of the new bank of Mt Sterling,
j. W, Hatfield of Monroe township,
ssIiekasFay county, caught an owl which
measured five feet two inches from tip to
tip Of. its wings. It was partially white.
They had little row at the United
Brethren Church in Gircleville the other
evening. A man Knocked the usher down
because he refused to admit his daughter
and said she knew no good of herr
The Marietta and Cincinnati Railroad
Company employ about 225 men in thei
shops at Zaleski, and very recently com
pleted in that shop f fly new @Continenta
Line freight cars.
: A gentleman in Perry county blew int,
his gun barrel to ascertain if It was empty
He is now ba1d-headed on the back of hi
neck.
There arc. one hundred hands workin;
on the Railroad tunnel south of New Lex
ington, and expect to have it completed b.
May next. It is 600 feet in length.
i, The liquor dealers Of Lancaster, publisl
) card, stating that they will notsell Iiquo
! to any man after being notified not to b.
; any member of his, family. and reques
: parties interested to notify them. This
very considerate.
$ There are only eight applications for di
d yorce pending in the Ross County Commot
Pleas Court.
f The following items are from the las
Ross County Register: Sheriff Mace ha'
1 two ribs broken by a fall from bugg
on Thursday morning last.
Mr.. Albert Peterson, who resides nea
Frankfort had one of his legs badly smash
. ed Monday by falling tree.
: A girl named Kleimer, has abady whic
she desires to get rid of, and SO, on Wed
. nesday night, she carried the little one t
her fathers house and left it on the doc
: step. The intense cold of that night 500
: : setthe child to crying, hearing which NJ
" Kleimer arose and took it in, thus perhaI
! saving its life.
The Xenia TorchIight of last week say
!. The net compensation of county treasur'
ar Rarnes- for the. year ending June 1871, wa
.. Sc, ,218 06. --------.