Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1873-07-17
NeighbOrhOOd News.
HIGHLAND COUNTY,

Ne1ghbOrhOOd News.
HIGHLAND COUNTY.
The Hillsboro News saws:
The rumor of death from cholera in |
Lynchburg, we are assured is unfounded |
I. P. Strauss & Bro, are having private |
Gas Works constructed, and expect to |
light up their new building this week
The gas will be generated from gasoline, |
by a new and patented process. Mr.. |
Mcmillan, of Cincinnati, one of the pro-
prietors, is here, experimenting the con-
struction of the apparatus.
The HilIsboro Mail says:
The Leesburg Enterprise office was en-
route for Bainbridge on Monday last, on
the overland route, via Centerfeld, Peters
burg and Rainsboro.
Some of the advocates of woman suf-
frage, of Greenfield, have sent up peti
ton to the Constitutional Convention,
praying for clause in the new Constitu-
ton to allow women to vote.
Capt j. L. Hill, at present employed
in the drug establishment of w. H. H
Dunn, has made arrangements to take
charge of the Woodrow House, in the ca
pacity of landlord.
So far as our knowledge extends, there
was not drunk" in our town on the
Fourth fact we take great pleasure in
chronicling.
The Xenia Torchlight says:
Rev. VIM. Simmons, of this city, who
celebrated his seventy seventh birth-d day a
few weeks since, was on that occasion
made the recipient of a purse Of money
amounting to nearly 5000 token of re-
spect sent him by his ministerial brethren
and friends at Cincinnati and in the Spring
field District
Forty thousand kegs of powder were
manufactured by the Miami Powder Com
pany for the six months ending July 1.
The company have two immense engines
at work, one of them ninety-horse, and
propose to erect third one before long.
ROSS COUNTY.
The Chillicothe Gazette says:
Andy De Camp fell from a ladder while
engaged in painting yesterday and broke
his right arm and left leg. His injuries
were attended to by DR.. French, and he
is now doing we'll.
Azman named Monroe, who resided in
Huntington township. is said to have been
killed by the falling limb of tee, while
going home from the Fourth of July cele-
bration during the terrible storm that pre-
vailed in the evening.
Perhaps one of the most thorough nui-
sances and breeders of ill-heaIth that ever
existed in this city, is the scrapings from
the bed of the canal, that have been
thrown on the banks of the canal by the
lessee's dredge. and are now being al
lowed to remain to tester and fume be-
meath the scorching rays of the sun and
eXhale noxious and miasmatic Yapors to
such an extent, that the only wonder is
that anybody retains their health.
PICKAwAY COUNTY.
DR.. NJ. Brown is in Minnesota, where he
will remain during portion of the hot
season.
The Foresman will case, which occu-
pied the Court of Common Pleas week
and nearly two days, was decided on
Tuesday, in favor of the plaintiff, there
by setting the will aside.
Harry Clemens and Lyman H. Hoffman
were elected directors of the Mechanics
Bank, to fill vacancies, on Wednesday
evening last.
The times have changed since it was
considered an odious thing in Pickaway
county to have received an education Al
Oberlin.
2 The Circleville Democrat and Watch
man says:
The tax levy, for all purposes, in thi.
= city, for 1873, will be 81 upon the one
! hundred dollars valuation, nine cents less
than last year. This amount is distributed
l as follows: State, 81 mills; County, !
: mills; City, mills; School, mills, ano
/ Township, IL mills.
The corn on the "fats" in Scioto town
7 ship, was nearly drowned out by the rains
Il last week, and is in bad condition.
The broom corn is not as much iniure
, by the freshet as first supposed, and tn
prospect now is favorable for four fifth
crop.
II Seventeen divorce suits were com
e menced in Pickaway Common Pleas, dur
$ ing the year ending July 1st, and twelv
v divorces granted during that time.
From West Lancaster.
o WEST LANCASTER July IA, 1873.
EDS. HERALD:--The school at this villag
closed its Spring and Summer term last FIR
dav. The exercises consisted of recitationi