Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1874-11-19
GIeanIngs From Gar Exchanges

Our pork packing establishments ar sadly
in need of water for killing purposes.
We are informed that the citizens of S9olna
are not as well pleased with independent morse
fairs as they expected to be.
On last Thursday night, the 5th inst, the
wife of Isaac jerks, residing near CuCa' thls
county, presented her husband with three
hearty children at blrth-tWo boys ana q
girl. At last accounts the father was as wen
as could be expected.
The Journal of last week says:
Drunkenness is rapidly on the increase in
our town because saloons are multiplying at |
fearful rate. Is there no remedy?
A. s. Amburg, of New Vienna, has made |
an assignment. His liabilities are unexPect- |
edlv large. Some of his victims are extreme |
ly exasperated.
The Lancaster Gazette says:
The new engine, No. Is, recently turned |
out of the Lancaster Railroad shops, on her |
trial trip from New Lexington, brought the
largest coal train ever run into this city
on the c. & n. V. Road, consisting of forty
six and one-half cars. laden with coal
The Xenia Gazette of last week contains the
| the following items:
Where will the depot of the narrow gauge
| railroad be located?
! The subscription canvRssers for the narrow
| gauge are succeeding finely.
The narrow gauge railroad project is vital
| one to Xenia. She will be equal to emergen-
cy.
Coal at cts. a bushel or less-what luxu-
ry! Would you enjoy it? Then subscribe lib
orally for the narrow gauge R. R:
Capitalists will be the greatest gamers by
the narrow gauge, and should be proportional
ly the largest subscribers.
Mr.. Seth Haynes, of Waynesville, wac in
Xenia Saturday. He reports much sathusl-
asm on the question of narrow gauge in his
region. Says they will raise $4,000
By an examination of the books it appears
that the expenditures at the Home, were dur
ing the administration of Jenner's five months
over 81, 500 greater than for tbs months
of last year.
The CirclcvilIe Herald says:
The bully girl withsa crystal optic and tin
horn at the iolifcation. She "tooted her
bazoo" in concert with Hon. Nelson's horn,
and wanted ''WhIte husbands or none"
There is considerable typhoid fever through
out this locality, but the percentage of fatal
cases is small.
A subscriber in Ross county informs US that
there is a church, near Chillicothe, which
gives chrome to every new convert.
Harrison township has an old lady, one
hundred years old, who is in INDECENT circum-
stances, being neither half-fed nor half-clothed d
and vet refuses to be taken to the County In
firmary, where she would find q comfortable
home.
The Chillicothe Gazette of last week gives
US the following items:
Col. VIM. E. Gilmore of Missouri, has been
in the city for the past week, and informs US
+ that he is considering the advisability Of
! locating here permanently.
Mr.. Alex. Mccoy, in company with Mr. Full
lerton and others, at work in maxim G
the survey for narrow gauge road from here
to jackson. They crossed the river Mon
l day.
: Col. Orland Smith has sold his residence
on High street to Mr.. Jas. B. Scott, and we
understand intends making his future home
in Cincinnati.
On Saturday morning last Mr.. David Houk
: a well known farmer residing in the vicinity
of Yellow Bud, found three Of his cattle lying
dead in the field, under circumstances which
led to the belief that they were poisoned. Mr.
Houk has no suspicion to who did the act
nor can he imagine their reason for it. He es
Inmates his loss at about 5000.
Master Ed. Stafford son of Judge W. H. SAT
ford, son of this city, was taken into the folG
of the Catholic church, on Sunday of las
week. He was baptized by Father Murray
OF st. MarY's Church, and now acknowledges
t himself n member of Fa her Murray's flock
The Hamilton Telegraph truly remarks.
The opinion that hitching strap is not es-
sen tial to the harness of the city bred horse ii
Il not so frmlymaintained as it was some year
: ago. Experiment has demonstrated fact tina
i a we'll used hitching strap that costs but
l cents will save $50 in repairs on harness anc
f buggy. Most of the ''runaways' and conse
4 quent ''smash-ups'' on our streets come from
y gentle city bred horses that ''neYer scare,
= and do not need to be hitched to post.
: David Sample, County Commissioners elect
had five or six hundred bushels of wheat i
the stack destroyed by fire last Friday nigh
A tramp probably rested awhile on the grain
solacing himself with his pipe of tobacco
Hamilton Telegraph.
The Sabiha Telegram of last week says
D. There was considerable disturbance an
noise in our village last Friday night, aftt
- the close or the horse fair. There were nc
q" many strangers, either. We learn that sever
al of our citizens had their houses stoned, an
Of that there was other deYiltry done. Who IL
perpetrators were, we did not learn. We hoL
however, that none of our citizens would stoC
'c SO low as to do what was said to have bee
done on that night.
III The Cillicothe Register says:
Mr.. Joseph Bowers, farmer residing
short distance west of the city, seems to
particularly unfortunate in the matter of acc
P dents to his children by runaway teams. Sc
IL eral years since his team ran away while
Water street, at point the Gas Hous
n threw out his little aughter, iniuring her g
e severely that she died. Saturday last, viii
unloading barrel of cider at Policemt
n. DeusehIe's, on Mulberry street, the team to-
~ fright and made q sudden spring, knockil
down his son boy about Is years of az
- who was holding them by the head and befo
10 the horses could be checked they had draw
the loaded wagon across the boys body, bo
wheels passing over him. The boy was We
- severely injured, but his recovery is expecte
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