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Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1873-07-03
The Railroad.

Upon the subject of investing Day
ton capital in the construction of
a railroad from Dayton through Xenia
and Washington to the great coal
regions in Perry, Hooking and Jack
son counties, the Dayton journal of
the 2Oth inst. remarks:
Nor do we know why Dayton capi-
talists are Indifferent to the obvious
advantages of this road, excepting
that our monied men prefer one per
cent. a month for their capital on the
street to any other investment. The
road ought to be built. We believe it
cheaper route than the Southern
Ohio road at first cost, and we regard
it equally desirable every way.
We are informed through other
sources that there is a growing inter
est manifested by the people of Day
ton in favor of constructing this great
throughfare to the best coal region in
Ohio. 1t seems to us that the FEAST
bility of this route, it's superior advan~
tages to any other route proposed to
be opened to the manufacturing in
terests of Dayton and the towns and
cities through which it would pass,
needs only to be fully understood to
secure its speedy construction. 1t is
decidedly the nearest and cheapest
road that can be made, and will pay {
better per cent on the investment.
The Xenia Gazette of last week
says:
The railroad men of Washington C
H., have been in consultation with the
leading spirits in that line, in Dayton,
concern ing the construction of roaC
from the latter place, through Xenia
jamestown, Washington, and tapping
the great coal veins of Hooking Val
ley. The Dayton men have signified
their willingness TO aid such project
and if vigorous movement. could be
secured along the entire line, there
would be hopes of cheap coal anc
cheap transportation for US yet.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1873-07-03
Death of Mr.. Jesse Grant.

The death of Mr.. Jesse Grant was
not sudden or unexpected. For sew
eral years his health has been failing
him, and curing the last two or three
months there have been several times
when he has been in so feeble a state
that relatives and friends at a distance
we're summoned to his bedside to bid
him farewell A remarkably strong
constitution and resolute will have
enabled him to hold on to life with
more tenacity than is often displayed.
Even in his last sickness the firmess
of his grip only relaxed very gradual
ly. Days ago he was considered in
imminent danger, and even at the very
last he was able to keep death at arm 5
length for more than twelve hours
after those in attendance had ceased
to hope.
This resoluteness of will was a
prominent trait in Mr.. Grants char
acter. He began life poor, worked
hard, and accumulated a fair compe-
tency. He was an honest man, but
peculiar in some things. As he ad-
vanced in years-and he had almost
reached the Psalmist's allotted limit
when he died-these peculiarities grew
upon him. It became easy for poll
ticians and designing men to play upon
him. He was proud of the success of
his son-what father would not have
been ?-and men were found mean
enough to flatter him, and seek through
the weakness of an old man to gain
what they could not secure in other
| ways. But Mr.. Grant was not apt to
be twice deceived in men, and when
| those who had been benefited by him
| found themselves unable to use him,
they took care to talk i'll of him.
They magniied the infrmities OF age,
and charged things upon him of which
he never dreamed. Then political
opposition came on, and some sought
to strike the son through the father.
There have been many other men
like him, save in respect to seeing a
son in the presidential chair. Had he
died thirteen years ago, before his
son came before the country, he would
have been remembered as an honest,
hard working, thrifty man, who by his
own labors had placed himself beyond
the reach of want, and who was natu-
rally inclined to hold on to what he
had so hardly earned. His son has
changed all this. He has become,
through his son, a man of national
reputation. 1t was a strange position
he was placed in. What more natural
than that vanity should spring up
And yet it was nothing that he had
himself that he was vain of; it was
simply a fathers pride which had
something more than ordinary to feed
upon. He loved to hear Of his son
loved to talk of him, and dwell on tht
relation Gin. Gaz. 30th ult.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1873-07-03
POSTAGE.

The law passed by Congress at its
last session requiring editors of news
papers to pay postage on their ex
change papers, and requiring subscriB-
bers to pay postage on papers circulat
ed within the country where printed,
was an act of spite, and not done with
view of economy, or justice to the
2. 0. Department Many of the
newspapers of the county had advo-
Gated the repeal, or at least a Todifi-
cation of the franking privilege, as
that privilege had been shamefully
abused, and the people demanded that
this great abuse of this Congressional
privilege. should cease, hence the
presses of the country in accordance
with this just demand, advocated the
repeal of the frankiDg privilege or at
least the abuse of it.
Congress was not called upon to
pass a law to prohibit free circulation
within the counties where published
nor to require postage to be paid on
exchange papers. Nobody objected
to this. It was regarded as the best
means of encouraging friendly and So
cial intercourse between the people,
and of cultlvating friendly relations
between neighborhoods. This of
itself is worth more in that respect
alone than TIE mere dollars and cents
that may go into the treasury from the
postage from this kind of newspaper
circulation.
The falseheartedness of the last
Congress in their professions of econo-
my in Governmental affairs is made
too apparent to be misunderstood by
the dullest spprehensions, in this, fact.
They repealed the franking privilege,
a privilege they have most shamefully
abused, but when they did this, as an
equivale Mt for this lost privilege, they
increased their own salaries 50, 500 9
year or $4,000 for a Congressional
term, and secured to themselves some
very unjustifable perquisites. That
is the way they undertook to fill the
Treasury-by charging postage on pa
pers circulated in counties where pub.
lished and by requiring publishers te
pay postage on newspaper exchanges
and by increasing their own salaries
as an equivalent for the abolition o
the franking privilege.
Public sentiment is opposed to this
whole thing, and if the next Congress
has any regard for the public pulse OF
this subject, one of the first thing
they do at their next meeting will b.
to restore free circulation and free ex
change to newspapers as heretofore
and to repeal the law increasing tn
salaries of Members of Congress.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1873-07-03
Another Democratic Departure
Proposed.

Proposed.
The Democracy of Allen county
have struck out and proposed to abol-
isb the old Democratic party. They
have lost all faith in its honesty, or per
haps it is in its power to obtain Off
cial control of the Government. The
Allen county Democracy have there
fore taken the contract TO abolish all
parties in the United States, and foIm
a new ono out of the parties they
vainly imagine they have the power to
demolish by the mere adoption of
such whereas and resolutions as the
following which we clip from the pro
ceedipgs of the immortal Democracy
of old Democratic Allen:
WHEREAS, Corruption, in appalling
proportions, prevades all the political
avenues of the country, so that public
confidence is almost entirely obliterat-
ed; and whereas, the sole purpose of
the Democratic party is, and ought to
be, the promotion of the public inter
ests and the preservation of the peO =
Pile; and whereas, both of the pOliti-
cal parties have demonstrated that
they are pOwerless to check or control
the existing tendency toward the utter
Generalization of the politics of the
country; therefore
ReSoIUed, By the Democracy Of
Allen County, in Convention assem-
bled, That we invite the people of the
State of Ohio, without regard to past
political associations, to meet at Co
lumbus, in Mass Convention, on the
30th day of July next. to take such ac-
tion as the exigeAcies of the times de
mand.
The proposition does not seem to
meet with much favor in high quarters
of the Democratic party. They tool
a departure last year that came neal
putting them with their chozen leader
under the ground, and the knowing
ones of the party have no fancy fol
the departure proposed by the Deno
cratic party up in the woods of Aller
county. Brother Putnam, of The
Chillicothe Advertiser says in relation
to the proposition:
It is nonsense for the Democratic
party to talk about. organizing a new
party to achieve success; and tina
must be the only object, as there is no
a tenet of our faith that any Demo
crat in the country would ignore.
we disband, hundreds of our mos
faithful adherents would go at once
into the ranks OF the Radicals, ant
our opposition would be feebIer tn al
ever. The Democratic temple ha
stronger columns than any that can b
built upon its ruins.
The Cincinnati Eng uirer of FRIDAY
morning says:
The Allen county motion may b
said to have failed for want of sec
ond.
We have yet to see the first pape
in the State, of any political party
that favors a mass meeting as propos
cd by the Allen county Democracy
They made their proposition to,
broad. They ought siml ly to hav
proposed a mass meeting of the Democ
racy of the State, without regard t.
past political aetion.'
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1873-07-03
Senator Sherman and the Back
Pay.
TIr. sherman Tells Exactly What He
Has Done.

MANSFIELD, O.. June 10.
To the Editor Of the Cincinnati Gazette:
1 notice telegram in yesterdays
Gazette in which Ger. Bovnton classi-.
ties me with the Senators who have
not returned theil 'back pay" This
is literally true, for, as I have not re-
celved it, have not returned it. Still
the telegram. conveys a false impress
sion. The simple truth is, that with
in few days after the passage OF the
salary bill, after consulting with some
of my colleagues, and in Difference to
the general sentiment of my constitu-
ents, l determined l would not receive
the back pay, but would leave it where
it now is-in the Treasury of the
United States. I so notified the dis
bursting officer of the Senate, and,
when asked by any one about the mat
ter, have answered that 1 would not
receive it. did not, end do not deem
it necessary formally to receive the
money, and then pay it back again.
1t was not my purpose to make any
public statement of my action in this
matter, and ] do so now not from any
desire to claim any merit for what l
have done, nor even by implication to
censure such of my associates who,
though voting against the salary bill,
yet received the pay allowed by it, but
simply to assure those who take an in
terest in the matter that I have not,
and will not, receive any portion Of
the 1896 40 allowed me by the sala-
ry bill for "baclz pay"
Very truly yours,
JOHN SHERMAN
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1873-07-03

The Cincinnati Enquirer is in fa
vor of farmers Government. provid
ed the ticket is made so as to suit the
Democratic party; that is to take all
the candidates for the important offfc-
es, such as Governor and the like,
from the Democratic party, and the
candidates for the "little" offices from
/ o party at all. We find in the En-
quirer of Monday, the following item
on the subject:
The farmers of Ohio have less than
Il month in which to complete an or
ganizatiOn throughout the State, call
State Convention, nominate a State
ticket such as the Democracy can in
dorse, and thus make sure the election
of a farmers Governor for the
first time since the nation was born
df they sleep through July the golden
gate will have swung on its hinges,
shutting them out from their opportu
nifty for a period which no one can ow
measure, for their iron is LOW hot,
they are free from entanglfng ALLAN
ces, and they may never again have as
easy and emphatic success within their
grasp. Success now will aid the farm
er more than success in the future. If
that success be genuine and deserved
1t will at once crystalize the farmers
movemement into an acknowledged
power in the land. Will the farmers
let the opportunity slip?
In another paragraph, however
which we publish below, from the En-.
quirer of the same date, it seems tc
distrust the ability of the farmers or
ganizatiOn to command much siren 9Th
or to unite their sire myth with the De
mocracy, on the Enquirer's Candidate
for Gubenatorial honors. Senate
Thurman being its candidate for Gov
ernor and Senator too, it would not dC
to take any other than a farmer 70
Lieutenant Governor, and the farmers
organization, if they have one, Nigh
not feel disposed to play Second fiddle
to party that is bankrupt in political
capital. But here is the ENQUIRER.
paragraph on the subject of Thurman,
double candidacy for high offices
The Democratic weekly press fires
another broadside this morning int,
the Allen County resolutions. If tn
press represents the sentiments of tht
party, and we feel assured that it does
there is no popular demand fap.a De
parture this year. The battle will b.
fought under the old flag and the olc
leaders. The probabilities are nov
that Senator Thurman will be con
scripted and made to head the column
as a candidate for Governor. 1t i
neck or nothing with him. If he car
be elected Governor he can be return
ed to the Senate, and if we cane car
ry the State, the Senatorship slips from
his grasp. The old organization is tc
he maintained and no man can leaC
the hosts like Thurman. We ar,
afraid that the Farmers movemen
VIII not cryrtallize in time to do good
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1873-07-03
Sen ator CARPENTER. saIarv.or,

- Senator Carpenter, salary grab
Der, uses this powerful argument in
favor of the steal: "The laxity of
life is restrained by the supervision of
a wife, and the heart is kept alive to
the better feelings of our nature by
the sweet voices and the tender touch
of children. Members of Congress
will have families in Washington. 1t
is better that they should have their
oaUn." AS an argument for retiring
Senator Carpenter from public life
this is sufficient. Men who talk in
this way are not to be trusted very
much in anything. 1t is fact, how
ever, that honest men in large mum
bers, quite as valuable to the public
service as Carpenter, have comforta-
bly, supported themselves and families
in the District for years, and are now
doing it, all the year round, for less
than $4,000 salary. Congressman can
do the same, without inconvenience,
if they avoid the gaming table and
other vileness, living honestly in
''their own" homes. Such pleas as
Carpenters are an intolerable offense
to the public nostrils.- Gin. Chroa.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1873-07-03

= A great deal of condemnation
and bad blood is shown toward those
Members of Congress who have taken
that pile of Greenbacks, termed the
Salary Grab. Among all the men
who condemn in such severe terms,
the men who have taken the said pile
of Greenbacks, who is there among
them that would not take all the mon
ey that Congress would vote to them :?
We feel pretty certain thatif Congress
or anybody else were to propose to
give us $4,000, the generous instincts
of our hearts would not allow US to
refuse the kind offers of such gener-
GUS friends. No! no we would new
er insult our friends by refusing to ac-
cept of such substantial evidences of
their personal kindness for US.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1873-07-03

- The number of members Of the
House of Representative who up to
date have conveyed their back pay into
the Treasury is thirty-tw They are J.
Allen Barber, Wis; S. s. Cox, N. Y. ;
John NJ. Crebs, Ill; John Coburn,
Ind; Aylett R. Cotton, Iowa; Will
liam P. Frye, Mo G. A Ginklehurg,
Mo. c. B. Farwell, Ill. j. A. Gar
field, Ohio; John Hill, n. j.; Geo.
A. Halsey, N. j.; j. B. Hawley, Ill. !;
j. R. Hawley, Conn; Eugene Hale,
Me-; William S. Holman, Ind; G.
W. Hazleton, Wis; NJ. C. Kerr, Ind. !;
John Lynch, Me-. Geo. w. McCarry,
Iowa; James Monroe, Ohio; Alex.
Mitchell, Wis. Eli Perry, N Y; j.
M. Jush, Wis; VIM. R. Roberts, N.
Y; H. A. Starkweath er, Conn. W.
L. Sessions, N. Y; P. Sawyer, Wis. !;
w. Townsand, Penn. w. H. Upson,
Ohio; H. Waldron, Mich. VIM. A.
Wheeler, N. Y. or these twenty five
are Republicans, and seven Demo
Gratis.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1873-07-03

Mr.. Montgomery, editor of the
Logan blocking Co, } Republican has
been and is still connected with some
coal and railroad enterprise in North
ern Alabama, says in letter to his pa
per:
The Northern half of Alab ANA is
mountainous, and abounds in mineral
wealth of enormous richness. Ac-
cording to Prof Atkinson the coal is
10 to 100 feet in thickness, with Vari-
Gus purtings of slate, dividing the
coal into veins from to IA feet, and
the iron in proportion.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1873-07-03
Appropriations.

Among the appropriations made by
Congress at its last session, for vari
GUS purposes we notice by an article
in the Republic, the following which
is made on account of the abolition of
the Franking privilege:
An element, which swells the appar-
ent appropriations of the last session,
appears for the first time in our legis-
lative history. tits the appropriation
of 81, 1865, 300 for the purchase of pos
tage stampt for the executive depart
ments, and was made necessary by the
repeal of the franking privilege here
tofore used by officers of those de-
partments. A careful estimate of the
number and weight of official letters
sent by the different de partments dur
ing one month formed the basis on
which the above appropriation was
made. The amount was distributed as
fol
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1873-07-03
Notice to Contractors.

FTNHE Board of Education of the BloOming~
burg school District, Fayette county. Ohio.
viii receive sealed proposals until Saturday, the
nth Of July, at IL O'Clock, for furnishing all ma
tcrials and building frame School House, - by
81 feet according TO specifications in the hands OF
William Jones. Clerk of School Board. Each
bid shall contain the name of every person in
tereS ted in the same, and shall be accompanied
by a sufficient guarantee Of some disintereSted
will be entered into and the performance of It
properly Secured The building to be completed
serves the right to reject all or any bids.
BY order Of the Board - -
june 10, 1873. SIwi
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1873-07-03

= A law PASSED the legislature of
this State, last winter, authorizing the
Auditors of the several counties of
this State, to draw on the County
Treasury in June and December, for
sixty per cent of the sums that have
been levied for the use of schools,
cities, townships, &C., instead of
waiting until the final settlement in
August and February. This is good
law as it gives an opportunity to put
the money in circulation Immediately,
instead of keeping it locked up IN the
treasury uselessly, when it might as
well be giving aid to the business
transactions of the county 1t
ought to be put "where it will do the
most good"
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1873-07-03

- The South Bend Tribune, pub
lished in the midst of the best wheat
growing district in Indiana, says:
All reports we hear put the coming
crop far below the average.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1873-07-03
Road Notice Time and Place Of
Holding View.

To James Burris. of Clinton county. Ohio:
You hereby notified the Viewers and Sur
veyor appointed by the Commissioners of Fay
cite county, Ohio an their order of June I'd. A
d 1875 to lay out and survey the County Road Pc
titioned for by the undersigned and others, will
meet at the beginning point of said road, to-wit:
At Il point in the Washington and Palmer road
where the lands of James Burris and Hannah
Bush corner. in Jasper township, Fayette cOun-
ty, Ohio, on the 18th day of August \. D. 1873, at
O'Clock p M g, for the purpose of viewing and
laying out said road, and the purposes set forth
i'll said order.
Dated this 2sth day of June, a. D. 1878.
w. FERGUSON,
S5-w4 Principal Petitioner.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1873-07-03

There may be few counties in
the State where as in Fayette, the De-
mocracy being in the minority, their
papers may think it sharp practice to
drop all past political associations aud
go in for strategy, merely to defeat
the Republican party. That is the OBJ
ject, To suppose that a party made
up of party that has for years been
in the minority, and are furnishing
with Office hunger, would be any more
competent and honest than any body
else, or that it would be anything else
in fact, then the same breed Of poll
ticians with the same aspirations and
instincts, is too preposterous to be
credited by any intelligent class of
people; to use q modern mode of
speech, ''its too thin,'' to conceal the
real object of its crafty originators
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1873-07-03

- James H Allen, bank messen-
ger in Boston, who recently abscond-
ed with $4,000 of the banks funds,
and who returned the other day and
made good the amount to the bank,
wa arraigned Saturday and discharg
ed, the bank refusing TO prosecute.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1873-07-03

= At the election for Mayor of Chill
licothe, on Monday, Waddle was baat-
en- by a majority of 273 votes by Esq.
Mick.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1873-07-03
- South Bend, (Ind.) Tribune OF

= The celebrated Artist, Hiram
Powers, died in Italy a few
days since. The Greek Slave" was
his best and most popular specimen of
sculpture.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1873-07-03
PEPORT OF THE CONDITION
OF THE
Fayette County National Bank
at Washington, in the State of Ohio, at the close
of business, June 13, 1873:

COUNTY OF FAYETTE-4 SIS.
l. NJ. Willard, Cashier of the Fayette County
National Bank, of Washington G. H, o., do sol
emnly swear that the above statement is true to
the best of my knowledge and belief.
NJ. WILLARD, Cashier.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 2sth day
of June. 1873.
THOS D. MCELWAIN, Notary Public.
Correct-AtteSt:
DAVID RoGERs,
NEWTON EVANS, Directors
MILLS GARDNER,)