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The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1874-12-24
CASE OF CHARLEY ROSS.


In the latter part of June, 1874, two
persons were in the habit of passing the
residence of man named Ross, who
lived in Germantown, a suburb of Phila-
delphia. Ross had two little boys, one
four years of age, the other eight The
day of July they drove along in buggy
and asked the boys to ride. After going
some distance they told the larger boy
to get out and go into store and buy
some fire crackers, ,.Lgiving him money.
As soon as he had entered the store the
men drove rapidly off with little Charley,
and his parents and friends have never
seen him since. Mr.. Ross advertised,
offering $500 for the boy. He received
an anonymous letter, proposing to de
liver up the child for $4,000. The po-
lice of Philadelphia were put upon the
track, and the Mayor of that city issued
his proclamation, offering reward OF
s2O,0 600 for the recovery of the lost child.
His likeness was painted as near as could
be done from recollection and this was
engraved, and printed with the Mayor s
proclamation and sent to every Postoffice
On one single day, every house in Phila-
delphia was searched by the police, MAX
ing l4O, 900 houses but no trace of the
boy could be had
Soon after the boy was stolen, Superin-
tendent of Police Walling, of New York
city, was convinced that two desperate
chaoacters named Mosier or Mosher,
and Douglass, were the guilty parties,
and they have been pursued by the po-
lice ever since.
Last week Judge Van Brunt, of Bay
Ridge, near New York City, left home to
hold court. No person was left in. his
residence, and he had an alarm bell in
the house of his brother, who resided
near Wires led from this bell to all the
doors and windows of the Judges house
rang violently, when the men went to
see the cause, and discovered two bur
glars in Judge Van Brunts house. They
surrounded the house, and after desper,
ate battle one was killed and the Other
mortally wounded. The men proved to be
this same Mosher and Douglass. Before
Douglass died he confessed that they
were the men who stole Charley Ross
The elder Ross boy, who had been in the
wagon with the men, and who had seer
them frequently, readily recognized the
bodies as those of the men who had
driven off with his little brother.
The police are now making renewed
efforts to find the lost child, and seen
confident that they have so got upon the
trace of him that they can find him in (
short time.
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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Springfield, Jackson &
POmerOy R. R. Go.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT
Capital Stock of the Springfield, jackson 4
PomeToy Railroad Company, will be opened on
saturday, January %, 1875, i'll
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 of John e. Hayes.
In Jeffersonville, Fayette county, Ohio, at the
business house of E. H. Bendel.
In Washington @, 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
Bank and the Highland County Bank.
In cambridge, Ross Co., o., at the banking
house of Rockhold, Cooke & Co., and the busi-
ness house of j, p. Brown.
In WaYerly, Pike Co., o., at the office of James
Emm1tt, and at the Bank of Emmitt, Jones &
Company.
In Jackson G. H. O., at the First National
Bank and the Iron Bank
In Wilkesville, Vinton Co., o., at the business
house of w. G. Cline.
In Pomeroy, Meigs Co., o., at the First Ma
tional Bank of Pomeroy.
By order of
GEORGE H. FRYE,
JAMES PURSELL,
w. w. BELL,
r. X. SEYMOUR,
JAMES ENIMITT,
H. L. CHAPMAN.
Dec. "a, 1s74-tf
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Ii will be remembered that we pub
lished communication last summer in
reference to road from Washington
City west, which would pass through this
county. In the Cincinnati Gazette of
Tuesday of last week we noticed the fol-
lowing;
The old scheme for the construction of a mar
row gauge railroad between Washington, Gin
clnnatl St Louis, and Chicago was revived to-
road, by Mr.. Hurlbut, of Illinois. 4 somewhat
similar bill was introduced by a Virginia mem
Der last session, and is now before the Commit
tee on Railroads and Canals. The road was
originally Incorporated under the laws OF Vir-
glnla- The bill of to-day recognizes such a cor
poratior by the United States, and gives it
power to construct the said railroad through
West Virginia, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, to 81.
Louis and Chicago The company is directed
to reach the Ohio river at Point Pleasant, in
Mason County, thence to cross the Ohio River
by a bridge or tunnel The capital stock is
liked at Sl5,O00,0OO, in shares of slOO each. The
company Is authorized to issue bonds, the in
cent. The bill provides for the Government
indorsing the bonds to guarantee an interest at
the rate of Sl2 900 for each mule of the mountain
division, and $4,000 per mile for each mile OF
the Western division.
This road would evidently pass through
jackson county, most probably through
Oak Hill, or some place between that
point and jackson. 1t might be near
Cross Roads, or Winchester At all
events it would penetrate the heart OF
our richest mineral region.
We look upon this as matter of the
utmost Importance to Southern Ohio
and especially to jackson county, and
we hope Mr. Bundy will keep his eye
upon it.
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There is no improvement IN mail ar
rangements at this place. On Tuesday
forenoon the Cincinnati Daily Commercial
for Sunday and Monday, and the Gazette
for Monday, came up from Portsmouth.
They had been taken past this place.
Why is this done, and done so often
Such repeated neglect of duty on the
part of officers and agents of the Govern
ment is what makes as sound Republi-
cans as we claim to be, almost reconciled
to some kind of change of administers
tion We have so repeatedly called at
tention to these failures, with no bene-
fetal results, that we shall not grieve
when these agents have to give place to
other and better men.
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We always believed it was a mistake to
abolish the Franking Privilege, and we
think so yet. We take the following from
the proceedings in Congress one day last
week:
A paragraph for the purchase of postage
stamps for the Treasury Department gave rise
to discussion in which the question of the res
toration of the franking privilege came up. q.
F. Hoar, (Rep.), of Massachusetts,, asked Mr..
Garfield (Rep), of Ohio, whether there had
been any diminution of the PoSt-ofice deficit
by means of the abolition of the franlzing priv
Mr: GARFIELD said he did tknow; but he
believed that, it not for that abolition, the
| Post-office deficit would have been greater.
MT III Gac 6s not the gentleman
| Mr.. GARFIELD-lfknow that the deficit has
increased, but believe that the repeal of the
| ranking privilege has, to a considerable extent
| increased the revenues of the Post-office De-
partment; How much, do not know. am
| compelled, however, to say that do not believe
| that the repeal of the franking privilege has
been as great blessing as believed at the time
it would be. Still do not think that we should
| givei up without fair trial. 1 do not think
that one years trial is enough. This year was
famine and distress, and not a fair year TO judge
! of the effect of reform. Let us give it another
| Democratic House, and then, with this double
vision, we can determine the question.
| Mr.. KELLEY (Rep.), OF Pennsylvania, hoped
| the paragraph would be struck out and the
franking privilege restored. He had it not on
his conscience that he had ever voted for its re-
peal, and he had the satisfaction of knowing
that whenever his vote i'm piled favor to its res
| toration, he had given it. He believed that the
free circulation of the agricultural report in
| one year more than paid for all frauds til al
might be practiced under it. The repeal had
been obtained by fraud in the getting up OF
| memorials by the Postmaster General to his
10000 subordinateS, and there was a further
fraud in the Postmaster Generals official state
| ment that the repeal would save 100000 a
year. 1t had not saved 81 100000, nor SI00, ,OO0
| He asked restoration of the peoples rights
| the free intercourse between the people and
their repreSen tativeS.
MI MAYNARD condemned the repeal of the
franking privilege as as tending to remove the
Government still further from the people. Sc
far from being reform, iu the true sense of the
word, it had operated solely to cut of free COM
munication between the people and their rep
resentativeS.
| After further discussion a motion to strike
| out the items for official postage stamps was
rejected by II to IL
We indorse all that was said by Messrs
Kelly and Maynard. We hope the frank
ing privilege may be restored.
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Among the ''quaek" remedies of the day. is a
preparation called CDR. Fitler's Rheumatic
Sirup." 1t was advertised by us two years ago,
and c. F. Filter, No. %, South 4th Street, PhiIa-
delphia, owes us balance of SIS on the con-
tract. He has willfully lied to us so many
times, and has exhibited such evidences of dis
honesty, that we have no hesitation in de-
nouncing him a saoiIldler. We see his adver-
tisement in numberof our exchanges, pre-
faced by, we presume, the doctors own beauti-
full ''mug," and, while advising the public to
give his medicine" wide berth, we also ad-
wise our cotemporaries to get their pay in ad-
vance. We do not charge fraud Filter any
thing for this notice, and hope our exchanges
will be equally generous towards the "dead-
beat. MdySUiLLe Bulletin.
Here, too. He swindIed us, and we pass him
along the line a dead beat.-FortSnlOtuh Iri6-
Itne.
We had quite a correspondence with
this swindler, and refused to insert his
advertisement without pay in advance
He finally agreed to pay in advance, but
he never did SO, and of course we never
published his advertisement. We are
only out a few postage stamps.
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Kelly and Maynard. We hope the
ing privilege may be restored.

A boat with 5000 pounds of ginseng from Lo-
gan county, Va, was brought down the Guyan
River a few days ago and shipped over the q. IL
0. Railroad to the east. 1t was worth S5,000.-
IToIlt0n Commercial.
1t would be interesting to know whether it
was the boat or the ginseng that was shipped
eaSt.-POrtSnlouth Tribune.
The boat, of course. That is what it
means in English. We suppose the
learned editor intended to say that the
ginseng was shipped east, and that it was
worth $4,000, but he says that the boat
was shipped east, and that it (the boat)
was worth $1,000. Did he mean that
boat and ginseng were both shipped and
that both were worth S., ,0002
The learned editor of the Journal had
better let the English language alone and
confne himself exclusively to Latin
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We regret to see that the Pomeroy
Telegraph comes to the aid of the desper-
ate ruffans who came from Meigs county
to Wellston and attempted the wholesale
murder of a roem full of innocent men
and women. The Telegraph quotes from
rough men in Jackson. True But we
never justify their bad deeds. If ever a
dozen drunken ruffians go from jackson
county to Meigs and attempt wholesale
murder, we hope they may never be per
mitted to return to jackson county
alive. We will take great pleasure in
announcing the death of all such, and
writing a full obituary notice of all of
them
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A rich thing recently occurred in Phil
adelphia. The spiritualist humbuggery
has taken fresh start and some
persons named Holmes were exhib-
iting spirit n materialized form. 1t
was the spirit of Katie King, who had
died in England two hundred years ago.
This materialized spirit talked, and
actually kissed the celebrated Robert
Dale Owen. Mr.. Owen is man of great
talent, and is no doubt honest. He be-
lieved in this spirit, and wrote long ar
ticle which has been printed in the Allan
nc Monthly for January, in which he
AYERS his belief in this spirit. But Katie
has been discovered to be spirit who
has never been any thing else than ma
terialized, and now Mr. Owen, as an hon.
est man. candidly admits that he had
been humbugged.
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There are a good many city papers that
have a good deal of impudence, and ask
the country papers to advertise them to
the amount OF twenty to thirty dollars,
for which they graciously condescend to
send their paper one year. The New
York Observer is not one of that sort.
We have received the following from the
publishers
To THE PUBLISHER-Dedr Sir Our pa per,
being metropolitan and comprehensive, is very
largely desired an exchange by the numer-
are compelled to decline very many of these Of
fers, unless We can receive some corresponding
compensation.
Without presluning to dictate in the matter
wish The New York Observer sent them in
exchange, shall make such editorial notice of 1t
as their Judgment may dictate. and send US a
marked copy Immediately, that we may perfect
our exchange list for 1875. Respectfully,
s. 1. PRIME & Co,
New York Observer, 81 Park Row, New York.
Terms, postpaid, So Is; two new sub
scribers, postpaid, So. 80.
We have been receiving the Observer
several years. 1t is paper that would
do good in any family, being one of the
best moral and religious papers in the
country. If the publishers think this
notice sufficient to justify them in ex,
changing, thdTfRn put the STANDAND on
their list ~
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1874-12-24

Personal liberty" works the same re-
suits in Hooking county that it does in
every other place, as the following, from
the Sentinel tends to show:
On last Saturday evening a fight occurred at
the Union Furnace between a man by the
name of Jones and Jesse Cochran, in which
which he died on Monday night.
The particulars, as We have learned, are these:
Cochran and his son and two neighbors,
named HowSer, living a mile or SO beyond the
Furnace, were in town on Saturday, and had
been drinking. On their way home they stop
ped at the Furnace, and began wrangling about
jug of whisky, charging that it had been
stolen from them by the Furnace men. In the
quarrel, the old man Cochran charged man by
the name of Jones, workman at the Furnace,
with having stolen his whisky, and following
the charge struck Jones a blow. Jones picked
up wooden pattern and returned the blow,
striking Cochran on the head. The old man
fell senSeleSs and the following Monday
died. The case came before Squire Crawford,
acting Mayor, to-day, and is now in progress.
Jones pleading self defense. Cochran is about
50 years of age.
The terrible consequences of this drunken
brawl is a temperance lecture that should come
ing on the dangerous brink that leads down
hope lights nc funeral lamps for the bereaved
and where no prayers can be said for the dead
Will the bloody hand which drunkenness lifts
above the grave be needed by those who are
hurryIng to a fate as awful and as black with
despair.
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They have had a spelling school at
Ironton, for the benefit of the Childrens'
Home The receipts were $65 25. Ex-
penses $5 CO. There were over four hun
dred persons present. Judge johnson
was one of the captain S, and in throwing
up for first choice of spoilers he won, and
his first choice was Mrs. John S. George.
The only person not spelled down was
one of the Commercial corps. Judge John
son went down under the weight of the
word rendezvous, while Hon. Ralph
Leete was unable to wrestle with
"ubiquity" 1t must have been better
than a circus We wish we could have
been there
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We publish the prospectus of the Gin
cinnati Commercial this week. Something
over year and half ago We cut of the
Commercial as an exchange. on account of
ago it desired to have Us publish its pro-
spectus. and exchange. We agreed to
exchange, provided it stopped lying.
During the present year it has been. edl-
torially, a tolerably decent paper As a
newspaper. it always did stand in the fore
most ranks Large numbers OF the
Daily Commercial are sold along the rail-
road every afternoon through this coun-
ty We viii put it upon its good be-
havior and try it another year
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Ten weeks ago new daily paper was
started in New York City, called The
Republic. 1t was an administration or
gan. Last week it died.
The Cincinnati Gazette, speaking Of the
death of this party organ, says:
The death of the New York Republic is an
nounced. In the words OF the ordinary obitua-
fy ''This sad event was notwholly unexpected"
1t is "mighty hard work now to start new pa
pers. Hundreds die where one succeeds. Times
able man could start new journal in New York
City capital of 500 81 900. What could
! be done by Mr.. Greeley, or Mr.. Bennett, or MI.
Raymond cannot be done now.
Moreover, there is n6tle place to-day for a
| thick-and-thin partisan newspaper such as the
! ing. The right and duty OF individual judg-
ment is more strongly insisted each year.
! Newspapers tnat can be counted on to support
| the party, right or wrong have had their day.
| such. Misfortune and bitter disappointment
| are sure to- follow such experiments.
Finally, the Republic was suspected, justly or
| unjustly, of being Third Term organ. We
have never seen anything in its columns that
warranted this suspicion, but it nevertheless
| existed, Whatever it said, or omitted to say,
| was charged up in the popular estimation to
| sustain and live. AS much at least as any other
| single cause, it contributed to the downfall OF
| the paper, and the wreck of the hopes OF those
| engaged in it.
naliStic failure. WhOSOeVer are concerned, let
! them take heed We sympathize with the edi-
tors and proprietors in their disappointment,
but the lesson must be drawn.
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1874-12-24

Our subscribers who reside outside of
Jrckson county, who have not paid in
advance, will only receive one more pa
per. The time to which each has paid is
printed and pasted on the paper each
week, so that no one need be at loss to
know how his account stands. But for
fear that some may have forgotten, we
may, after the names have been stricken
off, publish the names, with the amounts
due from each. 1t might be valuable to
the parties themselves, and to publishers
in other counties.
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Old Sam. Pike died last week at his
home in Leesburg, Highland county,
Ohio. He was abaut seventy years of
age. Mr.. Pike is said 10 have started
between thirty and forty papers. He
would not generally continue at one pa
per longer than few months. He was
at this place few weeks during the war.
He was red hot Democrat, and did not
deny being in full sympathy with the
rebels. In private life Mr.. Pike was a
pleasant gentleman, but as an editor he
was coarse, vindictive and abusive.
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1t will be remembered that there were
serious riots at Nelsonville, Athens coun-
ty, last summer, and that the Govern
or of the State had to quell the riot.
Six of the rioters have lately been tried
in the Athens Common Pleas and found
guilty. Four of them were sentenced by
Judge Guthrie to pay fine of $500 each,
and be confined twenty days in jail, and
two were fined 800 each, and confined
fifteen days in Jail.
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The following appeared in the pro-

The following appeared in the pro-
oeedings of Congress last Monday week;
Mr.. HOLMAN (Dem.,) of Indiana, offered a
IesoluIlon Ihat IN the judgment OF tne Rouse
of the Government, no subsidies in money,
bonds, public lands, or pledges of public credit,
or corporations engaged in public or private
enterprises, and that all appropriation ought
TO be limited to such amounts as shall be i'm
peratively required for the public service.
WITHOUT action upon it, and leaving IL to go
over till next Monday, the House adjourned.
That has been Democratic principle
for fifty years. That party opposed the
old National Road and it has opposed
internal improvements ever since, Every
thing attempted to be done by the Gov
ernment for the good of the people, 10
opposed by that party.
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The following appeared in the Colum-
bus Journal one day last week. We sup
pose that the young woman referred to
has many acquaintance in this county
Annie Gallagher young girl employed at
the Zettler House, attempted TO commit suicide
Friday night. Several months ago she left her
home at Berlin X Roads, Jackson county, and
took employment at The Mills House, in Zanes-
vile, where, it is said, she formed an attach
ment for Don Lawrence, the younger, of CO.
lumbus, who was an occasional boarder Sub
sequently she removed to Columbus and
worked at the Zettler House On Friday she
received letter from the object of her passion
accusing her of faithlessness and foreboding an
eruption in love affairs She retired to her
room, bathed herself clothed herself in a clean
night dress, swallowed dose of blue Vitriol,
and laid down on her bed to die with dagger
by her side, to complete the work if the vitriol
should fail. About nine o'clock she was found
to be in great agony, and DIR. Stein was called.
Remedies were given and the patient was soon
on the road to recovery. The vitriol dose was
too large
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1874-12-24

The Commissioners of Scioto county
have suspended work on the turnpikes
in that county The county orders are
not paid, and the turnpike fund has al
ready been overdrawn $4,000
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DR.. Boschee,s German svruD

Cough no more! How much joy there is IN
every household TO know that they can at least
procure a remedy for any case of cougbe, severe
colds settled on the breast, consu,nption, or
any disease OF the throat and lungs that is GER
person is safe from the dangers of those dis
eases-all you need to do, is 70 go to your drug
Boscheefs German Syrur,. Two or three doses
will relieve you at op.ce. If you doubt what
we say in print, get a sample bottle for 10 cents
and try lt. or a reg nIar size fnI q cents.
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Jane Musgrave sued VIM Schmidt be-
fore Esq. Brammer in Ironton for selling
LIQUOR to her husband. The suit was
brought for $500, and was tried by a
jury, who gave a verdict for the full
amount claimed