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The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1874-12-31
| [From the Circleville Union.7
Jackson County Coal.


We put upon record the following official tes-
timony, of the superiority of the above descrip-
tion Of coal, which would be most conveniently
reached from this city by the construction of
the Circleville and Macarthur Railroad. Prof
Orton says:
t'OHIo AGRICULTURAL AND MECHANICAL I
COLLEGE,, COLUMBUS. November "a, 1874.
George Frey, Esq:
my DEAR SIR: The Jackson county coal is
not surpassed by any coal in the State. 1t is
equally approved by theoretical and practical
tests AS As to its quality, nothing more need to
Re said than this, that it is successfully used in
the raw state for smelling iron in a half dozen
or more furnaces As to quantity, there is no
more reason to fear giving out jackson
county coal than there is of Clarke county lime
stone. When at Jackson Court House, you are
fairly within the coal area of the State, and the
supply is certainly adequate for centuries.
Your thriving city can do nothing wiser, as it
seems to me in the way of public enterprise,
than to establish direct connections with this
rich center OF coal and Iron.
81 am truly yours,
HEDWA ARD ORION"
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"The rural press is not at all disposed to fret
its gizzard about local postage. e."-Ddyton Jour
nal.
The rural press opposes almost unanimously
the only sound principle in respect to postal
transportation and revenues-that is, that eve
ry ounce Of matter handled by the Postal Ser
vice shall pay postage. The rural persist in urg-
ing their deadheadery upon the Government.
Why not stop that leak p Cincinnati CONNER
cial
That is mistake. The tururals do
not want to pass any place where their
city contemporaries cannot pass. All
they ask is equal and exact justice. We,
for instance, do not ask the free carriage
of the STANDARD in Jackson county, if
the Commercial be denied free carriage in
Hamilton county.
And how about the free carriage of
mail matter in the cities Let that leak
be stopped at once. While the editor
of the Commercial is squatting upon his
roost in his garrett at midnight, writing
his editorials, his letters are brought to
him, at the expense Of the Postofice De-
while we are compelled to
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Now that that the railroad question is
again coming to the front, we hope that
every good citizen will aid in crushing
out all persecution and war upon the
railroad interests of the country.
The following article, from the Colum-
bus Journal, has bearing upon this sub
ject:
law of Ohio prescribes that any railroad op-
Grated sin whole or in part, in this State, may
demand and receive for the transportation of
passengers on said road, not exceeding three
cents per mile for distance more than eight
miles; and every such corporation its officers
to be violated the provisions of this act, or any
other corporation, its officers, employees, or
agents, who shall demand or receive greater
sum OF money for the transportation of passen-
the sum allowed by law. shall pay to the party
aggrieved for every such over charge, a sum
equal to double the amount of the over charge;
but in no case shall the amount to be paid be
less than one hundred and nifty dollars The
Baltimore Ohio Railroad, being one of the old
roads incorporated under special charter, claims
to be exempt from the provisions of this act
For example: The distance from Cambridge to
GAINESVILLE is 26 miles; maximum legal fare 7Sc;
real charge, 95c; over charge l7c. Distance
from Cambridge to Columbus, So miles; Sc a
mile, % %; fare on Baltimore Ohio, 50 95;
over charge 40c. We learn from the Cambridge
papers that number of persons in Guernsey
county have made short trips on the railroad in
order to make test cases, and are about to bring
suit against the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Co.
1t is said that number of such suits will alio
be brought in other counties simultaneously,
and that some of the parties have penalties
charged against the road amounting to nearly
twenty thousand dollars each, and that the ag-
gregate of penalties to be sued for in Guernsey
county approaches two hundred thousand dol
lars. Colonel John NJ. Bushfeld and Ball g.
O'Netll OF GAINESVILLE have been retained at
torneys for the plaintiffs to the actions. An
traordinary excitement has been created in the
community by these expected cases, and as
usual under such conditions a considerable
amount of intemperate and foolish language
the railroad rnshes into print and charges the
parties to the prosecution with being "black-
maiers' and "fanatics." ("Fanatlcs is a good
word, >" the gentleman seems to think, and he
hurls 1t at them just as he would have called
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THE RAILROAD.

A dozen or more persons every day ask
us what we think about the prospect of
the railroad. Our one answer is that
nothing now is needed except the money.
The next question is, can the S75, 900 be
raised? 1t can. Whether it will be, is
another question.
We have ever believed that the best
and most equitable way to construct rail
roads is by government aid, or taxation.
1t is not necessary now to argue the lat
ter mode, as it is forbidden by our State
constitution. Many men object to taxa
ton, and say that they want railroads
admit their value to any community, but
they say, let individuals build them. The
objection to this plan is, the great diff
Guilty in getting individuals to subscribe
a sufficient amount of money to construct
even cheap, narrow gauge railroad.
Now is the time to see whether this class
of men mean anything more than mere
talk when they favor the construction
of railroads by individual subscriptions
1t looks like small matter for jackson
county to raise SIS, 0O0 to build road
which will be worth millions to the peo-
pie of the county, especially when other
counties, very much less interested, pro-
pose to raise much larger amount. And
it will be an everlasting disgrace to the
people of this county, if they fail, and
lose the road
Then how is the end to be accomplish
o1
their full share. They are in cramped
condition, but they will probably sub
scribe $5, 600 each The six furnaces in
Jackson will thus raise $4,000. Where
will we find the other $45, 900? Every
man must consider it an individual mat
ter, and do his whole duty. In time of
the rebellion, when all went to work
wonders were performed. And when all
take hold, the work is not heavy on any
individual. What man is there in Jack
son county who would not pay ten per
cent of all the property he owns, as re-
turned by the assessor, sooner than see
the road fail? There is not man in the
entire county who would not be worth
ten per cent. more than he now is, the
very day the road is assured.
If any considerable portion of the peo-
pie hold back, and console themselves
with the idea that the road will be built
any way, and they will enjoy the advan-
tages and take none of the cost and re-
sponsibility, then we might as well quit
and submit to a failure without any
effort. -
We admit that We ave our doubts
about the people dQning up with their
money as they should do. We hope we
may be mistaken, but we soon shall see.
The books will be found at both of the
banks in this place, and there should be
no delay or holding back. Let the peo-
pie come forward, not only with alacritY,
but with money also.
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The exposure of the Katie King fraud
appears to have little effect in checking
the foolery of spiritualism. Anything
that is absurd, unreasonable or impossi-
BILE, always has numerous believers and
followers. Let quack doctor advertise
that he can cure cancer or consumption,
and if he is particularly ignorant or filthy,
exposure or failures have any apparent
effect to open the eyes of ignorant dupes.
The strangest thing is that such meu as
Robert Dale Owen should have no more
sense than to believe in spiritualism, es-
pecially since the exposure of the Katie
King affair. But it is said that his faith
in this absurdity is mistaken
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Arkansas ...................... Sc
Wyandotte, Kansas City d Northern. so
Galena and South Wisconsin. 80
Des Moines and Mmpesota... 40
In addition to the above there were on
the lst of July, 1874, Sc narrow gauge
railways in process OF construction.
THE FEsrINIoG NARROW GAUGE.
This is, perhaps, the most noted mar
row gauge railway in Europe. 1t is IA
miles in length, commencing in the dis
trict of the Festiniog and terminating at
the shipping point OF Portmandoc in
North Wales. 1t has been in successful
operation (by steam) for more than ten
years.
WHAT is SAID OF IT.
Captain Tyler, inspector of English
railways says:
The adoption of locomotive power
upon this little line is very important,
and has evidently been very successful.
experiment The cheapness with which
such line can be constructed, the guam
tity of work that can be economically
performed by it. and the safety with
which the trains run over it, render it an
example which will undoubtedly be fol-
| lowed, sooner or later, in this country,
India and the colonies"
4
The latest annual report of the road
within our reach at this time, for 1869,
shows that during that year it trans
ported 1885, l32 tons, net, Of freight and
! 81 900 passengers. Net income for the
year 1869, sl0,623 sterling, or nearly
ZOO per mile.
Upon the above showing the London
! 1ol.l-c he
line yields dividend of 294 per cent on
the original capital"
SPRINGFIELD, JACKSON PoMERoY-GRowTH
OF NARROW GAUGES, ETC.
The American people have been slow
and cautious in accepting the idea of
! aarrC'v "'r-e railwavs; hut those l'ncs
OF ra4IS,.y h,,vo Woke, t,.c.I. ly;sy Il. ,
favor, mainly in the Great West, without
the aid of foreign or Eastern capital, and
every candid observer is compelled to
admit that they meet all the just de
mands of the people among whom they
have been tested. New and important
lines of this gauge are likely to be con-
structed in the Immediate future, con
Meeting all the great markets with the
agricultural districts of the country
and very sooni the only present objection
that of break of gauge in transporta-
ton, will be removed.
The people can build such lines for
themselves, and they must do it as a
measure of protection.
The advantages which may be secured
to the several communities, to be united
by the Springfield, jackson and Pomeroy
Railway, would probably more than equal
the cost of the road 70 them, within five
years, exclusive of all dividends upon
the stock
|
Already the cities and towns northeast
of Springfield in Ohio and Indiana, are
considering the question of reaching our
line by connecting line of narrow
gauge. The city of Chicago may, in a
very short time, be our real northwestern
terminus, whilst the seaboard will be oul
eastern terminus,
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war. They already announce that home
rule" is the remedy for all Southern ills,
meaning by "home rule the supre-
macy of the spirit whose manifestations
made the amendments necessary. They
will repeal the laws enforcing them, and
leave the amendments to shift tor them
selves.
No reasonable man could complain of
this if it promised to give the negro fair
play or an equal chance with other 'citi-
zens. Let him be treated like the rest
of US, and don't cocker him and hold
him up. If he can't stand, let him fall.
Certainly; so say we all. Let him be
treated like the rest of US. But don't
knock him down, and then say that he
can't stand. The difficulty is that he is
not treated like the rest of u.s. and the
i'll treatment comes from those who stig-
matize him and brand him with odium
in every way. In such situation "home
rule is a sound policy only when the
national power is in the. hands of his
friends, not of his enemies. Look,
says one of the colored leaders of his
people in Georgia-"lool1 how we're sum-
marily tried and convicted for trivial
charges before jurors who assert that
! they will be id if they will acquit
a negro, guilty or not, for if a negro is
not guilty, he ought to be- You might
as well try frog for his life before a
hungry snake"
The colored citizens are an eighth of
the population. They cannot be colo
nized nor expatriated. They are native
! Americans, and they are equal citizens
under the supreme law; nor:will that law
be changed. They are in large part igno-
rant, like the poor whites of the South
and a great proportion of the foreign
born population of the North But no
home rule" no removal of the federal
tsword from "our brothers of the South" ="
no repeal reinforcement laws, no exhor-
tations that they cease to regard -thaus-
selves as wards of the nation, will RENE
dy the difficulty. The colored problem
will remain difficulty and the colored
Il ti;stt' sNEc.' until their immediate
q white neighbors do them the same justice
that they do each other, and cease to
Ipersist in disgracing them with stigma
of inferiorIty. The American negro will
not go out of politics, and ought not to
go out of politics, until he has justice.
AS long as his equal civil rights are not
maintained and protected with those oi
white men, he has not justice; and while
they are denied, his equal political rights
will not be respected. The Republican
party has made mistakes in dealing with
the subject, and rascals, under the cloak
of humtnity and justice, have advanced
themselves. But there is no folly so alb
solute as the supposition that Democrat.
ic hatred, contempt, impatience, and de.
spair will secure that justice which can
alone solve the problem
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The Columbus Gazette thinks that the
common schools of Ohio are a failure,
and objects to the manner in which
Arithmetic and Grammarssare taught. 1t
is partly correct. 1t objects to too much
attention to rules in Grammar, and says:
"The province of grammar is to simply
furnish code of rules by which one can
prove himself right or wrong when called
upon to do so" By failure to observe
a plain rule of Grammar, the writer con-
veys in the above short sentence an en-
tirely different meaning from the one in
tended. No doubt he meant to say that
the province of Grammar is simply to
furnish, not to simply furnish. By put
ting the proposition in a place forbidden
by rule of Grammar, he changes the
meaning of the sentence.
In the same column is an editorial with
the following heading: "The Blind Asy-
lum." We suppose the editor meant the
Asylum for the Blind, as an asylum is
not expected to have eyes, or to be able
to see.
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Springfield, Jackson &
Pomeroy r.. R. Go.

NOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN THAT
IN books for receiving subscriptions to the
Capital Stock of the Springfield, Jackson &
Pomeroy Railroad Company, will be opened on
Saturday, January 49, 1875, III
Springfield. Clarke County, Ohio, at the First
National Bank, the Second National Bank, the
Mad River National Bank and the Lagonda
National Bank.
south Charleston, Clarke county, Ohio, at the
First National Bank and the business house of
Houston & Murray.
In South Solon, Madison county, Ohio, at the
business house ofJohn q. Hayes.
In JefferSonville, Fayette county, Ohio, at the
business house of f. H. Bendel
w Washington G, H.. Ohio, at the Merchants
and Farmers Bank, the First National Bank
and the Fayette County National Bank.
In Greenfield, Highland Co., o., at the busi-
ness house of W. w. Bell, the First National
In Bainbridge, Ross Co., o., at the banking
house of Rockh0ld, Cooke & Co., and the busi-
ness house of j. p. Brown.
In Waverly, Pike Co., o., at the office of James
Emmitt and at the Bank of Emmitt, Jones &
Company.
In jackson c. H, o., at the First National
Bank and the Iron Bank.
In WilkeSville, Vinton Co., o., at the business
house of w. c. Cline.
In Pomeroy, Meigs Co., o., at the First Ma
tional Bank of Pomeroy.
By order of
GEORGE II. FRYE,
JAMES PURsELL,
w. w. BELL,
r. X. SEYMOUR,
JAMES EMMITT,
H, /. CHAPMAN.
Cofporators.
Dec. %, ls74-tf.
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mot FOR JOE"
STRANGE CREEK, BRAxToN Co.,
WEST VIRGINIA,
December II, 1874


WEST VIRGINIA,
December II, 1874
To the Editor of the Standard:
In your paper of December 3, 1874, you
say, "We always take furnace scrip on
subscription, when it suits our subscribers
better than to pay money" Our Treas
urer, j. NJ Kinkaid, is here, and on ex-
amining your paper was very much
pleased with it, and would like to have it
for the next year. and as money is scarce,
(and when it suits you better to take
scrip inclosed find 81 so in Elk River
Furnace scrip. Send the paper to j. NJ.
Kinkaid, Troy, Ohio. If you find any
difficulty in negotiating the scrip in
jackson county, send Sam. Hawk over
here, and we will give him par value for
it. If you are still willing to exchange
your paper for Elk River scrip, please
send one to George C. Clyde, Troy, Ohio,
Secretary of our company, and L will
send you the scrip the next mail. We
are pushing the work on the furnace as
fast as the weather will permit. The
JacksOn county DOys are all We'll.
w. A. SAVAGE.
No, thank you. West Virginia be-
ing a Sovereign State may 60 in for
hard money, under Democratic admins
tration, and repudiate Elk River scrip.
OF course it is negotiable as yet, but we
fear for the future
We will send Kinkaids paper, but de-
cline any more scrip. Send US yenison
or ginseng
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Bowen, the Christian editor of Macarthur,
charged $50 some dollars for publishing the, one
insertion, 22S squares of Commissioners Report.
The law allows one dollar per square for one
insertion, which would make his just bill S22S.
The bill was allowed, of course, and Bowen is
happy and still rants about Republican thieves.
Oh consistency thou art jewel.-Logdn Re
publican.
We published the Commissioners Re-
port for jackson county, longer report
than that in Vinton county, and pub
lished it three weeks, and charged $l95.
But then Jackson is a Republican county.
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The Indians of Oregon are far in ad-
vance of people claiming to be enlighten-
ed. Here is an item from the Baker
City Herald:
Another tamanawas case is on the tapis in
the District Court at Olympia at the present
term. 1t is the case. wherein the Indian tradi-
ton of tamanawas, faith doctoring, is involved.
The tradition says If the doctor fails to the
patient the doctor shall die. In this case it ap-
pears that DIR. Sack, an Indian doctor, treated
another Indians wife who died. The bereaved
Indian, with three confederates, caught the ILL
fated doctor Jack and cut his throat and threw
his body into the bay. The body has not yet
been recovered. The Indians confess the muir
der, but plead their religious superstition in
justification.
If every quaek doctor could be treated
in the same manner, thousands of lives
would be saved every year. True, it
might cut down the amount of advertise
ments in the newspapers.
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MURDER
A Man Killed with an Ak.

EAGLE FURNACE, O., December 25, 1874.
To the Editor Of the Standard:
most horrible murder was committed here
last evening" about o'clock.
man by the name of David A. Gregory
killed Mathew Dalton with pole ak, burying
the bit of the ak in the left breast of Dalton,
killing him almost instantly.
Gregory tried to make his way into est
Virginia, but was caught this morning about
o'clock and brought back, and had prelimina-
ry trial. He admits he killed Dalton, but does
not say for what reason.
He is now in the Macarthur Jail.
Dalton is astranger-came here about the Isl
of last December, from Lawrsnce county.
Bad whisky was the cause.
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We find the following in the Columbus
journal There is not much poetry in it,
but there is a wonderful amount of truth !:
The following order, from one of our business
men, is too good to waste on the Counting Room
alone:
'' 'I0the Editor ofthe Ohio State Journal
ssPlease discontinue TO print, il You will,
NV Ice house for rent, and send in your bill.
In the good old sober Republican days,
The weather was honest and true in its ways,
Seed-time and harvest, with thunder and rain,
And ice, when the winter came round again;
But the Democrats now manage things as they
please,
And we're too near to hell TO have a hard freeze
a. December z5 1874
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Benjamin Hammonds was feeding and
attending hogs at the still house of Geo.
Davis & Co., near Portsmouth. when he
fell into tank of hot slop and was
scalded to death. He is only one among
tens of thousands whose death is the
direct result of the productions of the
still house
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The Mayor of Cincinnati has under
taken the task of closing the gambling
houses in that city. This is indeed
tremendous undertaking, and if he should
succeed, it might not be found impossi-
BILE to check some of the three thousand
liquor houses in the city that are selling
in violation of law
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The Waverly Watehn.an has a patent
outside, and then prints its inside at
home. Its patent side is too large, or its
home side too small, we do not know
which The inside is nearly column
smaller than the patent side. This re-
minds US of little story. A customer
had been trading for some time at a
grocery store He went and settled and
paid off his account, and then stole a
Goldfish and hid it under his coat. The
fish was too long or the coat too short,
and the tail protruded some inches be-
low the skirt of his coat. The man
wanted to have his reputation for homes
ty indorsed, and he said: 81 have now
paid you all l owe you, have / not 2
"Yes," said the grocer. "it is all square.
Il have always paid you up honestly,
have not? p said he. ooh, yes" said the
grocer; "but let me give you this piece
of advice: The next time you go to a
grocery, wear a longer coat, or steal a
shorter Goldfish"
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Congress and the Ohio Legislature hav-
ing adjourned over the Holidays, will
both be in session in few days, when
of Importance is going to be done. We
will give short synopsis of the proceed
ings each week, for the benefit of such of
our readers as do not take papers with
full reports
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leave our comfortable editorial room and
walk two squares to the Postoffiee to get
ours We are about tired OF this city
swindle, and demand that the the free
delivery rascality shall be stopped Equal
rights is ell the rurals ask
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The prisoners in the Gallipilis Jail, five
in number, broke out short time
ago. Their names are Thomas Casebolt,
charged with incest, Edmund Ralph, as
sault and battery, Floyd Hagar, hog
stealing, Wise Burks and Herod Page,
(colored) petit larceny.
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There was an Eisteddfod in Cincinnati
ON Christmas day. This is Welsh con-
cert. where different choirs compete for
prizes The Oak Hill choir, consisting of
forty persons, were competitors, but the
Cincinnati choir was too many for them,
and took the prizes.
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Christmas was celebrated in Cincinnati
in various ways. The record of crimes is
full and complete. Half dozen cases of
malicious cutting and shooting by men
crazed with liquor are recorded in the
city papers.