Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1875-05-20
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! We are sorry tnaG our usually cOufb-
eous, mild and gentlemanly neighborS
of the ChiE!icothe Gazette, should al
low themselves to become nervous ana
make an unbecoming exhibition OF
bad blood. and still more sorry that
they should so far forget proper re
GARD for facts as to misrepresent the
friends of the Dayton & Southeastern
Railroad and the business men of
Fayette County. 1t is a perversion of
truth to say, as the Gazette does, that
e.The whole of Fayette County has
only raised 100000 in three gears
Ross County has had just as long a
time to raise her proportion of the
the stock to the D. & S. E. R. r. as
Fayette County has, yet she has not
raised as much as Fayette It has al
ways been settled fact that the D. &
S. E. R. R. would run through Chilli
cothe if they should take their quota
of stock. Fayette has raised hers,
but Ross has not raised hers; but we
do not despair of Ross, for there are
energetic men there who are at work
for it, and the stock viii be raised,
notwithstanding the cold water thrown
upon the enterprise by the Gazette
The editors of that paper say:
We have seen Chillicothe abused
and talked about by every one horse
town in the State We have endured
sharp reprimaDds from country news
papers published in country towns di-
minutive in size, and with population
so lacking in enterprise that they will
permit their Court House to tumble
down about the ears of Office holders
before they think Of building a new
one. 1
It also boasts that Chillicothe has
taken $4,000 in the Valley Road
she has completed her quote, says the
Gazette. We are glad of it; but then
when it says that ''this is no: only
more than Washington c. H, ha:
done, but is probably more than
she will do long after she reaches /:
size which will entitle her to some 9th
er name than village" it says what il
not quite true. Washington and Fay.
ette county have raised for the two mar
row gauge roads s205, 900. Has Chill
licothe and Ross County done as well
Washington and Fayette County have
within the past eight years, expended
about million of dollars in building
free turnpikes Has Chillicoth don
as we'll? Dent you think that Littl
Bristle, and Washington have don
pretty well for one horse toaon ?
But if she can do this, what would sh
do if she was great city like Chilli
/ cothe, in the way of enterprise, in tn
same time? The Gazette complains
that Chillicothe has been abused
/. says il has endured it, but now it dom
propose to do it any longer. Vel
i neighbor, we admire your sand bu
3 what in thunder do you intend to d.
p about it2 We say to the Gazette i
, conclusion, that the friends of the Z
& S. +. R. R. have nothing to do wit
the resolution proposition of tn
+ Springfield, jackson & Pomeroy Rail
! road Company, of which it complains
1t was of their own getting up, an.
the editors of the Herald an
e the friends of the D. & s. E. R
n r. had nothing to do with it, NOR
|, than the editors of the Gazette W
'e trust that our neighbors of the G'
t, zette will yet be brought to a realiziD
{; sense of the fact, that although Chill
4 cotbe is a great, magnificent city, ST
IN is not yet an independent state, ar
ge that majority of her citizens ha,
he more discresion and better judgme
in regard to the true condition of h
interests, than is reflected through Il
columns of the Gazette We subsid