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Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1876-05-11
arr.-nnIaE FOE TIE HERALD.

We call upon our Republican friends
throughout the County to assist us in ex-
tending the circulation of the HERALD
We are now giving our readers, in clear
new type, more reading matter than al
most any Of our neighbOring cotempora-
ries who select and set up all their read
ing in their own Offices This is done at
heavy expense, and we hope we shall
not be regarded as vain if we suggest
that the HERALD, in point of quality of
its reading matter, is not surpassed by
any county paper in the State. We have
constantly endeavored to make it in
teresting, useful and acceptable TO the
people, and have substantial reasons to
believe that we have not failed in these
efforts but there are great many Re
publicans, as well as others in the county,
who are not subscribers to the paper, but
who, we doubt not, would subscribe if
their neighbors would take a little pains
to present the matter to them.
AS the great national political campaign
is coming on, the paper will possess un-
usual interest this year, and every Repub-
lican, at least, who resides in this county
should be subscriber and reader of the
HKRALD. We hope our friends will as
sist us in making an effort to put the pa.
per in the hands of every Republican IL
the County, and as many others as may
be induced to keep watch over the po
litical policy of the Republican party.
The Republican National Convention
viii be held on the l4th of June; and W
would like to commence the campaig
with a largely increased list of subscrih
ers to the HERALD.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1876-05-11
a CooI Confederate ChaIlenee

The charge now is that under the Con-
stitution the General Government had no
right to pay, nor Governor Morton to re-
ceive, the $275, 900 in question. We used
to hear deal of that sort from the Cop
perheaps during the war, which IN toto
they denounced as unconstitutional. 1t
seems we are to hear more oft, and if the
Cenfederates in Congress are to investi-
gate the conduct of the war, uncOnstitu-
tional disbursements of public moneys to
exactly the amount of the National debt
will doubtless be exposed. For the rest,
the more Morton's record as the great war
Governor is attacked the brighter will it
appear, for there is no flaw in it. The
only significant feature of the whole af-
fair is the cool Confederate challenging of
Unconstitutional expenditure Of Gov
ernment funds i'm putting down the re-
bellion. That will not be lost upon the
country - Chicago Tribune.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1876-05-11
a Free BLOW.

1t ism t every business man and whole
sale dealer who can get twenty-five line
reading matter notice, free, gratis, for
nothing, in all the papers throughout the
country. That is a favor and distinction
extended only to our fellow-citizen, Mr..
John 7. Norris. The following is an AS
sociated Press dispatch, which appeared
in all the dailies Friday evening and Sat
urday morning, from the Atlantic to the
Pacific and from the North Pole to the
Gulf. John seems to be getting plenty of
free advertising at this time, in one way
or another:
SPRINGFIELD, o., April IS.
\ man named John L. Norris, who
lives in this city, is carrying on, in an
elaborate, systematic and very extensive
way, this kind of business: He adver-
tises his headquarters at Springfield and
Cincinnati, and orders goods and products
of various sorts from firms in all parts of
the Union and Canada, referring them to
the bankers and other business men of
the city. When the goods arrive they are
Immediately taken from the express Off
ces, or freight depots, and transferred to
other parties for any amount Norris or
his confederates can get for them. Norris
was in the Ohio Penitentiary nearly year
for swindling, but was discharged through
a legal teehnicality, and has been carry
ing on his business since on larger scale
than before. He claims to have amassed
forty thousand dollars by this style of busi-
ness. Many efforts have been made by
the Springfield newspapers and leading
business men to expose his practices and
warn the public against him, but in spite
of these efforts he seems still to be doing
very large business.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1876-05-11

Thus far, General Hayes is the only
Republican of any prominence before the
people for the nomination for the Presi-
dency that the Democratic inquisition in
the House of Representatives at Wash
ington have not tried to indict on charges
of criminal connection with frauds upon
the Government. General Hayes stands
before the American people above sus-
piciOn, in all his official acts, and pure in
his moral standing. If, however, any
one of the several prominent and able
men of the Republican pa rty is more like
ly to receive the nomination for the Pres
idency than Gen. Hayes, it is because of
the brazen efforts of the inquisition to
convict them of dishonesty, and their ut
ter failure to show that there was even a
shadow of truth in a single Indictment
they have brought against them. Every
effort of this character has proved fail
nre, and this fact has only resulted in
placing these Republicans in higher esti-
nation with the people, and their SLAM
derers and prosecutors in correspond
ingly lower degree in the opinion of all
VINO are not foreswon to support and de-
fend their party leaders. They have used
their skill in defamation upon the char
acter of Blaine, Motron and Bristow, but
their poisonous arrows have fallen al
their own feet, and that which they had
designed for the destruction of others il
recoiling upon themselves, just as such
acts Of desperation for such an unholy
purpose always should, and always will
when detected and brought out to public
view, proving the truth of the old max
i'm, that "honesty is the best policy"
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1876-05-11
School Examiners.

FT1HE Board of School Examiners of Fayette
4 County meets in Washington on the first Sat
urday of each month. Only third and fourth
class certificates will be awarded at these regu-
lar examinations
Applicants for first and second class certid-
Gates must give notice to the clerk of the Board
at least five days before the last Saturday of the
months of January, April, May. June, Septem-
ber, and October, when special examinations for
these advanced grades, win be given,
IL II. EDWARDS,
j. p. PATTERSON, ENamin erS.
1917 T. NJ. ALLEN
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1876-05-11

II is to be hoped that while our Repub-
liean friends are expressing theif prefer
enee for, and advocating the nomination
of certain candidates, they will not per-
nit their feelings to be so far committed
as to make it next to impossible to unite
in the support and election OF any one of
the several candidates whose names are
now before the people in connection with
the nomination. All the candidates now
spoken Of for the nomination are good
men, and able representatives of the prin-
eiples of the Republican party. We have
every confidence in the wisdom and iudg-
ment of the members of the Convention.
to believe that they will present to the
people for their suffrage no man un-
worthy of the united support of the Re.
publican party. 1t is fair to conclude thai
they will nominate no man who is no
fully identified with the Republican par.
ty and principles, the reforms, retrench
ments in expenditures, and the homes
and fair administration of Governments
affairs throughout; and this is what tn
people demand.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1876-05-11
Has silver Coin Decreased I'm value or
Have Greenbaclks IRcEeasedl

Has silver Coin Decreased In value or
Have Greenbacks Increasedl
A correspondent of the Xenia Neaes
says:
The imported stump speaker, Governor
WOOdfOrd, of New York, in last Iail
campaign held mp before the people hNe
dollar gold piece and said, TINS Is gCou gll
for fiye dollars the world over. he a!sO
held up a one dollar silver piece ana sald,
ssthat is n dollar the world over" Since
then silver has lowered in value fifteen
Der cent. and is worth no more than a
greenbaek dollar
Since then the Government has COM
menced redeeming certain class of its
paper currency in silver coin, and silver
dollar is dollar the world over. 1t is
not true that the redemption of paper
money in coin has made the coin less val
Ilable; but if paper currency was worth
but So cents on the dollar at the time the
writer refers to, its redemption in silver
by the Government at par has made the
paper worth Is cents more on the dollar,
or par with the silver dollar.
If the reasoning of the writer is cor
rect, the redemption of greenbacks with
gold, will have the effect to reduce the
value of gold equal TO u or 10 per cent
on the dollar, or quite the difference OF
exchange before the resumption, which
shrewd 1naneiers will be slow to believe
The error that the writer has fallen int
is, that he assumes greenbacks instead o
gold and silver to be the standard of val
ues; that is, he reyerses the finaneia
rule
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1876-05-11

The young man Schooly, who was mo-
ney clerk in the Express office at Nash
vile, robbed the office of package con-
tanning $1O,O 900 in money last April. He
was detected by Canadian detective in
Canada few days since and taken back
to Nashville. He had been in the office
about three years and the company had
great confidence in his honesty. How
often the remark is made that 'there is
no telling who to trust.' This is even so
but it will not do to say that all men are
rogues.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1876-05-11
Tnr editor of the Laporte Ind.) chr

The editor OF the LapOrte (Ind.) CHTOn-
icle says:
We know of one man, not thousand
miles from the city, who wouldn't go
home last evening, because he knew that
the carpets and stoves were in readiness
for his reception. He said he wasn't
going to kill himself poundin' Carpet and
blackin' stoves,' and he was last seen
vending his way northward OIL Michigan
avenue, doubtless meditating on the eff
cacy of a ''dhrOp of strate' on a troubled
| conscience.
Pshaw! Mr.. Chronicle, we know of a
place not 4 thousand miles from this town
that can boast of having dozen such
cOnseience-stricken specimens of human
ity.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1876-05-11

State OF Ohio aud Jacob Lightvs Elijah Drals
By virtue of execution from the Court OF
Common Pleas of Fayette County, o., to me 6i-
rected and in pursuance of the command thereof
will expose and offer for sale at public auction
at the Court House in the town OF
Washington &. Ii. Monday, May Sth, 1876 at
one O'Clock p m. OF said day, the following
property tO-wit:
gray Horse years old
Top Buggy.
l set Single Harness.
Taken as the property of KlUah Drais to sat
isfy the above executions.
Terms of sale cash
JOHN MILLIKAN, Sheriff.
Ace Gregg. Attorney.
April %, lS1G. 24wa prr 81
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1876-05-11
Notice.

NJ Office is hereby given that the Committee
In heretofore appointed by the Commission
ers of Fayette County, Ohio. to apportion the es-
timated expense of The Carr's Mill Road i'm
provement, have returned their report. and that
the same Is now on hle in the Auditors office -
Notice Is also given that the Commissioners OF
said County Will meet at said Auditors Office on
Monday. June 18th, 1876. to hear the said report.
J. p, ROBINSON, Co. Auditor.
May sth, 1876 a6w4
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1876-05-11
GHERIFFS SALE.

Hulda a. Parrett ct al vs. Hanson o. Wright
ct al.
By virtue of an Execution issued in the
above stated case from the Court of Common
Pleas of Fayette County, Ohio to me directed
and IN pursuance of the command thereof will
expose and offer for sale at public auction at the
door of the Court House in the town of Washing
ton G.. H.. Ohio on Saturday, the 18th day OF
May, 1876, at O'Clock y. m. of said day the FOL
lowing real estate to-wit:
Beginning at stone B in the center of Lees
burg pike corner TO Amos Wright estate; thence
with said pike north deg SO min east 49 5s poles
to stone IN said pike. corner to lot No. 1:
thence with the line of said lot south 50 deg %
min east 103 % poles to stone corner to said lot:
corner to said lot; thence south 50 deg % min
east u poles to stone corner to said lot in the
line of Lot No. g; thence south deg so min
west 80 poles to 4 stone corner to said lot No
and jasper Wright; thence north 70 deg 5 min
west 42 "a poles to stone corner to said Wright:
thence south deg west lO9 8 poles to a stone
corner to said Wright: thence south S7k deg
thence south 214 deg west 10 poles to a stone cor
ner to said Wright; thence north S32< degs west
/ poles to a stone corner to said Wright: thence
north "a deg east 10 poles to a stone corner to
I said Wright; thence north SIS< degs west % o.
poles to a stone and small black walnut corner
, to said Wright in the line of Amos Wright es-
tate; thence north deg % min cast - 6S poles
to stone and hickory corner to said estate
thenee north Sc deg 25 west 60 80 poles to the
beginning, containing 60 acres and l36 poles and
1 BENG part of John Browns survey No. 36fq
Appraised at $63 IS per acre.
Terms of sale cash.
| April I3 1876
Gregg & Crea'mer, Att'ys.
22W5 prf SI4O0 - --0A III
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1876-05-11

WE notice that on Tuesday, ID inst,
Hon. John w Washburn, Repre-
sentative in the Ohio Legislature from
Pike county, was married at Waverly, to
Miss Lide V. johnson, and started the
next day on their bridal tour to Colorado.
We thought during the whole of the ses-
sion Of the Legislature that there must
be uncommon attraction at Waverly for
the Honorable member from Pike. The
interests of the State might be advanced if
few more bachelor members of the Leg
islature would 90 and do likewise.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1876-05-11
CHERIFFos SALE.
Robert Boyd ct al VS. J, N. Baldwin ct al.

Robert Boyd ct al VS. J, NJ. Baldwin ct al.
Sale on Execution.
By virtue of the above stated writ and in pur-
suance thereof viii expose and offer for sale at
public auction at the door of the Court House
in the town of Washington {. H., Ohio, on Sat
urday the 10th day OF June 4 D,1s76, at O'Clock
p. NJ OF said day the following described prop
erty towit: Situate in the county of Fayette and
of Paint creek, being part of survey No. 9i2I.
Beginning at a post oak and hickory in the line
of John baldwin, Thence n. 5QlS deg. w 81
chains to q stone in said line. Thence N 3o16 deg,
Il a. rs chains to q stake, Thence - 6lsS deg. +,
TS4 chains to post oak in n line of the heirs OF
Thomas bragg, Thence s. 30S deg. w. 1851
chains 10 the beginning containing thirty live
and q acres 1854 Rnd poles rs surveyed Sep
tembcr 1st, 1873.
Terms of sale, cash.
Appraised at SOL 6G
JOHN MII.LIkAN, Sheri6
Gardner y Creammer, Atty's
May II, lST0. pf$s40 % vs.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1876-05-11

TLDEN stock seems to be rising in the
Democractic stoek-market. While Ohio
is dividing her strength between two Of
her great men, it has tendency to
strengthen the New York candidate 1t
makes but little difference, however, who
the Democracy nominate, so far as the
result in November is concerned, for it is
not the intention of the people of the
United States to place man at the head
OF the Government whose sympathies are
with the party opposed to the principles
advocated and carried into effect by the
Republican party, in time of war and in
time Of peace.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1876-05-11
DOAD NOTICE
NOTICE l

Il hereby given that a petition will be pre-
Sented to the Commissioners of Fayette Coun ty
at their next session to be held on the first Mon
day of June, 1876, praying for the eStablishm ent
of a county road along the following route in
said county, to-wit:
Beginning at a stake in the center of the
Springfield road north dI5s deg west "a. chains
from the west end of the bridge crossing the
east fork of Paint Creek. near the residence Of
Elizabeth Green oil said road; thence south so
deg west 42.4I chains on the land of Hamilton
Green to the north east corner OF the land occu-
pied by ID. e. Yates, near School House No. in
Paint township in said County; thence with aid
Green and YateS'line south so west 1888 chains
to the north east corner OF the land occupied by
John n. Yates; thence with said Green aud
John N Yates south 80 deg west Ills
chains to the corner Of said J.N.6ates and Pres
ley Thompson; thence with said Green and
ThOmpson's (now j. n NateS') line south 80 deg
west 80 chains to burr oak, corner to said Green
and Thompson (noW }. n. Yates and Solomon
Brock; thence with the same course to the cen
ter OF the new county road leading from the
Prairie pike to the Bloomingburg road. Said
road to be located wholly on the land occupied
b. d. e Yates and J. N Yates along their line
The above described line being the southeast
side of the proposed route and not with the cen
ter line thereof.
Dsted this eth day of April 1916.
,EIN4 PETITIONERS.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1876-05-11
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GHERIFFS SALE.

Abel McCandless vs.. II. P. Green ct al
Eayette County Common Pleas
Sale on Execution.
By virtue of the above stated writ aud in pt,r-
suance thereof, will expose and offer for sale
at public auction at the door of the Court House
in the town of Washington on Saturday the 2Tth
day OF May \ D. 1876 at O'Clock of aid day
the following described properly te-Wit:
Situate In the County of Fayette and State OF
Ohio and in the town of Washington C. H. and
1 Dounaed and described as follows, viz: Begin
ming at stake north corner of out lot No 43 in
said town and in the east line thereof; thence
south 45 deg west along Market street 535< feet
to the corner of lot ofIand owned by E.C Ham
lion; thence south IS deg east with his line IL
poles to stake; thence north 45 deg east 531s
poles to said east line of said lot No. 43 and the
Corporation line; thehce with the line of said
lot and the old Corporation line north As west IL
poles to the beginning.
Taken as the property Of T. P. Green to salts
fy the above execution
Appraised at $I265 90.
Terms of sale cash
JOHN MILLIkAN, SieriK
Gregg Il Creamer, Att-ys
April %. 1876 24W5 prf 50 30
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1876-05-11

This is the way Andrew jackson made
reply to the application of an investiga-
ting during his administration that want
ed to overhaul the department records:
'"rhe heads Of departments may answer
such questions as they please, provided
that of the officers under their direction
from public business to the injury there
of to that business. l shall direct them
to devote themselves to their duties in
preference to any Illegal and unconstitu-
tional call for information, no matter
from what source it may come, and how
ever anxious they may be to meet it. For
myself, | shall repel all such attemps as
an invasion of the principles of justice as
well as of the Constitution, and | shall
esteem it my sacred duty to the people of
the United States to resist them as
would the establishment of Spanish in
QUESTION"
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1876-05-11
EGAL NOTIOE.-RALPH

~ Gray and Nellie Gray. who reside in Des
MoineS county in the State of Iowa, and Vernon
Gray who resides in Burlington Iowa, will take
notice that d. Furtwangler administrator of
of the estate of T. NJ Gray, deceased, on the 26th
dav of April A. d. 1876 filed his petition in the
Probate Court within and for the county OF Fay
ette and State Of Ohio, alleging that the personal
estate of said deoedent in insufficient to pay
his debts and charges of adm ministering his es-
tate that he died seized in fee simple of the fol-
lowing described real estate situate in said
County and State Of Ohio and in the town of
Washington and bounded and described as iol,
lows, to-wit;
Beginning at stake S465s feet from the corner
line between Bereman and Eurtwangler and the
Columbus Pike so called, said stake being in the
fence line of Bereman at the corner OF an alley
Thence in q n. W. course with said alley 165 feet
to a stake; Thence S93s feet at right ans giles in
North Easterly direction 10 stake in Bereman
meadow lot; Thence i65 feet in s Z. course to
a stake IN BeFemRn's fence, near said Columbus
turnpike; Thence s21s feet 10 the place of begin
ing, containing a lot by 10 rods square, being
lot No, SEA in Bereman's addition 10 said town
of Washington.
That Ralph W Gray, Ella L. Gray, Mary e
Gray Nernon Gray, Dalsey Gray, Nellie Gray and
Jennie Gray as his heirs at law hold the next es-
tate of inheritance therein, and that Nj O.Adams
andthe First National Bank OF W ashington, Ohio
claim TO hold liens thereon.
The prayer OF said petition Is for the determ
lining the amount of said liens ana the priorities
thereof and for order OF sale of said premises
for the payment of the debts and charges afore-
said,
Said Petition will be tor hearing on the Goth
day OF May A. D. 1876 at 10 O'Clock A. n or as
soon thereafter as counsel can be heard.
! ID. FURTW ANGLER,
24w4 Administrators Of T II. Cray deceased.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1876-05-11
clnc,nnatl live STOCK market.

N7ItNNItNsN-tIIl 4IVg ., IOI u
Cattle-There was a light falling off in
the receipts this week as compared with
last, while the shipments have increased.
The quality of the offerings was general
ly good, including quite a number of dali
ry COWS and slop-fed steers and coarse
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1876-05-11
silver Coin.

Notice has been given from the proper
department, that after Monday last
checks on the Treasury of the United
States are to be paid in silver coin, where
it is required. This, it is thought, will
furnish as much of the silver medium as
will be needed. When this silver is paid
out on these checks-and there is 10 pre-
MUM OH silver-we can't see that there
should be any reason for boarding the
coin and keeping it from serving the pub
lie interests in the every day business of
the country. Just now there seems to be
scarcity of fractional currency, but
there will be no good reason for this in
the course of few weeks.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1876-05-11

Mr. Schuyler Colfax has found the
source of true happiness at last, and it is
not in running for Congress. He says
The happiest years of the past quarter
OF a century have been the recent ones, in
which 1 have belonged to my family and
not to the rest of mankind
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1876-05-11

A LAW passed the Ohio Legislature at
its last session by which the two days la
Dor on the public highways may be salts
fled by the payment of $3.50 instead of
500 as hetofore