Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1875-12-30
LOG AL ITEM 8

week.
Quarterly Meeting at the NJ. E. Church
next Saturday and Sunday.
The Farmers Pork Co. has slaughter
ed about 1000 hogs this season.
Beautiful New Year Cards at the HER
AID office. Bring in your orders.
The Ely Light Guards Ball netted
them about 800, which goes to help pay
some out standing obligations.
WIN. Vincent Esq, of New Holland,
has purchased the Greenlee farm, near
Bloomingburg, for seventy-ffve dollars per
acre.
Washington young ladies will do the
New Years calling next Saturday. They
believe in exercising their Leap Year priv
ileges.
Paint Greek has been swelled consid-
erably beyond its usual proportions for
several days of the past week, owing to
heavy rains.
-Messrs. II. H. Edwards, J. P. Patter-
son and F. NJ. Allen now compose the
County Board of School Examiners; F.M.
Allen, Clerk.
Religious services will be held in the
City Hall next Sunday at ? and O'Clock
p. m, by Rev. J. c. Irwin, of the Christian
Church. Thepublic are invited.
Many a tired hummer rested his little
head in the CalaboOse Christmas night,
and found it a dear hotel to stop at when
he came to settle for his lodgings
Some hummer threw a whisky glass
through one Of the windows of the Excel
sfOr House on Christmas Eve. He threw
it at man in the office, but missed him.
Miss Maud Wallace, the youngest of
the Wallace Sisters, who are a favorite
company with our amusement-gOing citi-
zens, died recently, in Philadelphia, of
dyptheria.
The patent heaters put in the City
Building some time since, are voted fail
ure for the purpose of heating the upper
and lower parts of the building, and are
to be removed, having only been taken'on
trial.
"A Leap Year Dance is to be given by
Washington young ladies on New Years
Eve. The young gentlemen who hold in
vitations are unspeakably happy, and
those who don't, are correspOndingly mis-
erabIe.
Mr.. II. Goldsbery has rented the room
in Union Block lately occupied by C. But
terfeld, and will move his butcher shop
into it. He will also keep in connection
with his meat market, stock of vegeta-
bles, fruit, &c.
The church property known as ROwe's
Chapel, situated on the New Holland and
Good Hope road, two miles south of the
intersection with the Chillicothe pike, will
be sold at auction by the Trustees on Sat
urday, January 8th, 1876, on the premi-
ses.
The Legislature of this State will con-
vene on Monday next. The Senior Editor
of the HERALD will go to Columbus to-
morrow afternoon, to be ready to assume
his duties in the House of Representatives
He has engaged quarters at the American
Hotel, room Ss.
The Springfield Republic says: EFSome-
body in the D. S5 S. E. R. r. interest, about
Dayton, is expending great deal of wini
in the evident effort to scare somebody
else. There have been no indications OF
a panic anywhere along the line of the S
j. & P, so far as heard from, and work on
the road bed is going ahead actively"
Christmas was a most beautiful day
warm and Spring-like. And if in the
course of fifty or sixty years from this
time any of our subscribers should be a
variance as to the kind of weather we haC
on the last Christmas in the ninety-nintI
year of the governments lifs. all they viii
have to do to decide the question will bC
to turn to the columns of the HERALD o
to-day.
JEFF. Lindsey put troublesome drunk
en- man out of the office of the Farmers
Pork Co. several times on Christmas
The last time he put him out the MIN fell
striking his head against the building, an
knocking him senseless, and for Whil
JEFF. thought he had a dead man on hi
hands. He was hauled to the Calaboose i
an express, in limp condition, but reyiy
ed in the course of time.
The Ely Light Guards Ball on Christ
mas Eve was attended by a large compan
of the ''beauty and chivalry'' of this an
neighboring cities, and Christmas Ev
lasted with the dancers until about
O'Clock next morning. Wittich's band, {
Circleville, furnished good music, and tn
Ball was a success in every way. Th
Sherman Guards, of Lancaster, and tn
Harris Guards, of Dayton, were represe1
ted at the Ball.
Mr.. j. G. Campbell, Secretary of I'll
international Exposition, suggests that
= each county, provision should be made fC
the delivery of an address, tracing the hi
tory of that particular community fro
" the time of its settlement, and includin
n a sketch of its growth, it's resources, il
y dustries, prospects, &c. If this scheme !
IL thoroughly carried out, it will institute,
the aggregate, an invaluable historical r
I pository, such as no nation ever had Il
opportunity to collect.
- The fourth installment of 1O% of IL
stock subscriptions to the Dayton al
Southeastern Narrow Gauge, is called fC
n payable within sixty days from Decemb
2Sth. 1t is a matter of great importan
that stockholders should be prompt in pa
ing their assessments, as the road is nc
under contract, and the work will be COZ
menced on it within few days. In ord
to have the work vigorously prosecut
GI as and as speedily finished as possible. t
le- Directors will need the hearty co-one,
!. tiOn of all the stockholders in the pavme
. of their assessments, to enable them to Fl
he fill their part of the contract for the CO