Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1874-12-31
Don't fail to see Everybody's Friend


Counterfeit ten dollar bills on the
First Nation Bank of Richmond have been
put in circulation in Dayton. Look out
for them.
Prof. Fessenden. of Xenia, is holding
Musical Convention at West Lancaster,
this county, and will close Friday evening
with Concert, for the benefit of the Sun
day school of that place.
j. NJ is now in Washington and al
though he has borne the pr edjudices for
% years, is still waiting, and only wants
gradual Yindication of his principles and
truth.
Live hogs are selling in this market
at from 619 to 7eper ID; one lot, on Tues
day, sold at Sc 80 per cwt. Wheat is 90c
per bushel; corn, 55c; potatoes, 81; eggs
25c per dozen; butter, 25c per lb.
The Ladies' Temperance League, of
this place. have elected the following Off
GERS: Mrs H. B. Maynard, President; Miss
Anna .Ustck, Vice President; Miss Lissa
Millikan, Secretary; Mrs. Morris Sharp,
Treasurer. Executive Committe H.
P Cherry, Mrs. DR.. Worley. Mrs. Mills
Gardner, Mrs. Mack Pine. Mrs. Allen Heg-
Ter.
- Mr.. B. F. Orr, General Agent of the
Continental Life Insurance Company,
passed through our city yesterday, to pay
a loss OF 5000 at South Charleston,
Clarke county, On policy issued only last
December, and but one annual payment
made. Another good evidence of the
extraordinary benefits Of life insurance,
and of the promptness of the Continental,
of Hartford, which pays its losses the day
they are due.
Subscribers at a distance who do not
get the HERALD, after this week when they
go to the pOstofice, will remember that
all matter conveyed in the mails after the
| first of January next, must have the post
| age prepa id on it, and the reason why the
paper has not been sent to them is that the
paper has not been paid for in accordance
with our terms, or that no arrangeme emf
has been made for the payment of postage
| We have subscribers at distance, how
ever, who pay for the paper regularly
once year; to those we shall continue
to send the HERALD. if they want it. re
such subscribers, and all who pay for the
paper in advance, we will pay the postage
ourselves and furnish them the paper at
So year. This will give them the paper
for twenty cents less per year than here
tofore. a
Directly across the street and oppo
site our Office, stands dark, gloomy-look.
ing old stone structure. 1t is the county
prison. And, looking from our front win
dow, we can daily see behind the irol
bars of the prison three hearty, stou
young men, who have been placed ther
to await their trial in court on charge o
having committed a burglary, for yer!
small consideration. The daily sight O
those young men in that gloomy cell nat
urally causes one to enquire the cause tha
have misled those young men so far as t
cause them to commit crime. The ques
tion is readily answered, however-thre
words will do it: IT WAS RUM! Yes, it wa
Rum! Had they been sober, industriou
young men they would not now be oc
cupying a cell in our county prison. Ha
they not in the first place yielded to tn
insiduous tempter, they might have bee
honored and respected by the good ant
} virtuous; but it was rum that did it; an
scenes of the kind we have named, an
even worse, are being witnessed, dali!
all over the land, and the treacherous oil
King Alcohol is at the bottom of it al
and yet, in this Chris tian State of our
there is a proposition before our Stat
| Legislature to submit the question of
censing this old monster to carry on h
: work of debasing our young men accorO
ing to civil law.
Let any Christian man take a view
9 this whole rum question in its influence
upon our young, and even old men, al
L ask mselfsincerely and honestly, whet
er he is ready to lend his vote and his il
fuence to legalize a traffic, the result
which, is to fill our county and Sta
prisons with criminals, and our Imfirm
: ries with paupers?