Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1875-02-04


School Hall on Friday evening was very
we'll attended and highly appreciated.
A class in gymnastics who had received
but two lessons gave exercises before the
audience and performed admirably for the
practice they have had. The position of
the Professor in his lecture in relation to
the benefits of this kind Of execises was
well taken. This class of exercises brings
into play ever muscle Of the whole physi-
oal SYSTEM and while it does it mildly, re-
quiring no violent physical force, it
seems to strengthen and give tone and
yigOr TO it,without which the intellect can
not receive cultivation as readily and sure
ly as it does when the two are cultivated
together. A large number of students IN
our schools have applied to become mem
bers of the gymnastic class. which we
have no dou BIT will be benefit to our stu
dents. The benefit OF these exercises is
well understood and highly appreciated in
our best schools and by our best and most
successful educators. The professor de-
signs giving course of lectures at the Hall
and everybody shonld go and hear them.
A poor sailor man, with red face an
Irish brogue, and a breath that smelled
like distilIery, called at our Sanctum on
Monday, and showed us paper signed by
Phil. Sheridan, which stated that he was
one of the crew Of the ship Virginius cap
tured by The Spaniards; he had had both
arms and legs broken in several places, had
been shot once or twice and run through
with swords by the cruel Spaniards, and
then confined in dungeon on bread and
water for seventeen years; but at last es-
capped and swan to the United States. He
was soliciting contributions to assist him
in returning to his family in New York,
and wanted quarter from US. The sad
tale Of his sufferings affected us to tears,
but we told him we had wife and eleven
babies to support, and we were compelled
to deny ourselves the pleasure of contrib
uting.
= The country is full Of tramps and
beggars of every description, and house
keepers are bothered to death by them
Stout, hearty looking galoots, too lazy to
work, go from house TO house, begging
something to eat, old clothes, etc. few
days ago one of them called at a house in
town and asked for something to eat. He
was taken into the kitchen and set down at
table, where he went energetically to
work and put himself outside Of about
enough provisions to last an ordinary fam
lily a week, and then passed on to the next
house, and begged the lady there to give
him something to eat, but she happened to
know that he had just breakfasted at her
neighbors, and turned the poor fellow
away hungry. Some people haven't any
sympathy foran unfortunate fellow being.
A party who deposited letter in the
post office the other day, stamped with
proprie tary patent medicine stamps, prob
ably thought he had good joke on the
Government, and will be surprised to know
that that kind of stamps will only carry
letters to the dead letter Office.
- Rev. Mr.. Sawyer has arranged for
course of six lectures on popular science,
to be delivered in the Baptist Church, the
first Of which will be delivered tomorrow
evening by DR.. E. G. Dalton, of Cincin-
natl, and the others to follow at intervals
Of two weeks.
Rev. WV. Sawyer has been appointed
by the Ohio Sunday School Union dele
gate to the Intern ational Sunday School
Convention, to meet at Baltimore in May
next.
= Craig Brothers will sell lot of $ took
and other personal property, a public
sale, at the residence of D. II. Craig, near
StauntOn, on Tuesday next. the 9th inst
= County Commissioners were in ses-,
sion Monday. No business, except the
examination of bills and issuing of some
road bonds, was before the board.
= Gen. Fitzpatrick is expected to lee
ture in this place some time during the
present month. He will no doubt draw
crowded house, if he does. -
= Jacob Pursley, of Jasper township,
Ol0O Oi 4AOhNaI AdotB Vi y pASlA
pneumonia. He leaves a wife and ten
children
- We regret that We have to announce
the death of Walter c. Hood, State Libra
rian, who died on Tuesday evening, aged
46 years.
We call the attention of our readers
to an interesting communication on the
subject of narrow gauge railroads, in this
paper.
A considerable amount of stock in
the Springfield, Jackson and Pomeroy R.
R. has already been aised in Washing
ton.
Amos West, former welI-known
citizen of Washington, was in town the
fore part of the week.
"A bill has just passed the,Legislature
authorizing Township Trustees to build
tile or boxed ditch hes. -
Peter. Hess new $500 Hearse ar
rived yesterday. 1t is an elegant piece Of
| furniture.
school Report
Report of School District No. l, Pain
township, for the month ending January
20, 1875: