Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1874-04-30
THE MERCHANTS AND FARMERS
BANK,
Washington c. H., Ohio.
LOG AL ITEM s

County Commissioners meet next
Monday.
Mr.. S. L. johnson, of New Lexington,
spent Sunday in town.
= w. C. Gould talks of starting a new
independent newspaper in Washington.
DR.. Allen has fitted up the room lately
occupied by John Shum, for drug store.
j. L. Van Deman & Co. expect to
move into their new store room this week.
A horse was stolen from the neigh
borhood of Frankfort on Friday night
last
Owing to rainy weather, Sells Bros
Show did poor business here last Satur-
day.
Three of Sells Bros performers left
them here, on account of reduction of
wages.
- We are requested to say that Rev. A.
C. Hirst is expected to preach at the NJ. E.
Church. on Sunday next.
- Sharpers with Sells Bros show, skin
ned couple of parties at Frankfort out of
$500 on "thrse card monte.''
The Clinton and Fayette County Stock
Association will have a.public sale of thor
oughbred stock at this place on the 18th of
June. Ill
Rev. j. R. Powell will preach at the
Baptist Church, in this place, on Sunday
next Mr.. P. is engaged in the interests of
the Bible Union Society.
The town-lots belonging to the Jos.
Blackmore estate sold last Saturday at
Sheriff's sale, in partition, at good prices.
The seven lots aggregation over $1,000.
-1,OOO barrels of salt, purchased by
the agent of the Fayette county grangers,
was received by rail one day last week,
and distributed to members of the oranges.
The crusading women in Chillicothe
have resumed street work. 1t will require
any amount of work to produce good i'm
preston on the hardened sinners of Chill
icothe.
- Geo. Dahl has removed the frame
building from his lot on East street, oppo
site DIR. Coffman's, and is preparing to COM
mence putting up an elegant brick house for
aresidence.
- Arrangements are being made to pro-
cure Victoria C. Woodruff to lecture at
this place. She has expressed her will
lingness by letter to come. Notice of the
fact will be given at an early day.
r Messrs. Thomas and James Kirk are
having printed, at this Office, catalogue of
their famous herd of pure-bred Short-horn
cattle. 1t embraces about 60 pedigrees,
and will make pamphlet of So pages,
containing portraits of some of the most
noted animals of the herd.
- April has been unusually cold and
clear. Yesterday morning was clear and
very cold; ice was frozen over standing
water. If the peach crop is not killed Or
badly danasged, it is probably owing to
the fact that high, drying wind prevailed
all of Tuesday afternoon.
} Henry Robinson and Joe Sims have
bought the machinery of the FIGURING
Mill at Madison Mills and moved it to
Washington, and are putting it in running
order in the warehouse building lately
bought by them of Jas. Pursell. They
will be ready for grinding soon.
In Circleville we learn that proposition
has been made to begin the crusade work
at o'clocksa. m. and continue until II p
m. They have 225 crusaders, and they
propose to put Is on the street at time, tc
be relieved by another Is every two hours
The women are making it tolerably warn
over there for tippling-house keepers.
= Our people were disappointed, ant
the Lecture Association considerably 'pu
OUT by the refusal of Mast to fill his en-
gagement to lecture here. He was engag
ed by the Association through the Bostor
Lyceum Bureau, and was to have lecturec
here last night, but after having advertis
ed the lecture all over the county, the AS
sociation received word from the Bureau
that Mast had ordered them to cancel al
his engagements, and would not fill any o
them.
= The New York Comedy Troupe, +
j. Wildman, manager, is now playing i
the Shenandoah Valley, Va. Shep. B. Lo
gan, of this place. who engaged with thi
Company last September, still acts as Ad
vance Agent, and likes the business. Tn
Troupe has visited our town twice With
the past year, and intend coming agai
sometime during the summer. Clara Wild
man is favorite in every town where tn
Company has played. She never fails i
captivating her audience.