Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1876-01-20
NEIGHBORHOOD NEWE9

| AHC IOWn VI OICClNClu Has OOHShA OlAC
of Coleman's 2OO-ight gas machines to
light the new Town Hall and other build
ings.
The jury in the case of Armstrong Nc
Cray, tried in Wilmington last week for
the murder of John Falkner, failed to
agree and were discharged.
The Lancaster Gazette says: At the
Cincinnati and Muskingum Railroad shops
a lot of new machinery is being set up, and
the workmen are busy upon new engine.
ReviYals are in progress in the Chilli
cothe Churches. Fourteen persons have
united with the Walnut street N. E.
Church under the ministration of Rev. A.
c. Hirst.
A fire at Midway, Madison County, Fri
day, destroyed Wise Bros dry goods store
and the Post Office with a valuable mail;
also a saloon building. Loss $4,000; in
sured for 50, 900.
The Emmitt House, of ChiIlicothe, has
changed hands, Captain L. A. Bowers,
the proprietor for the last three years, dis
posing of the remaining two years of his
lease to E. B. Clark & Sons, formerly of
Circleville.
On Monday, Jan. 10th, a young man
named VIM. Owens, of MOwrytown, High
land county, sold forged..note for 1926 to
the Hillsboro National Bank. He was ar
rested, acknowledged the forgery, and is
now in the Hillsboro Jail awaiting the
| opening of the next term of court.
In the back part of the churches in Will
mington, according to the Journal, ''the
boys chew tobacco, act the fool generally
in trying to make the young girls laugh,
and the girls with their handkerchiefs fiirt
with the young fellows, and chew chewing
gum" It's no wonder incendiaries are
trying to burn up the town.
In Chillicothe, Thomas Green has sued
John P. Schaffer for the recovery of fifty
dollars stake money, placed in his hands
by Green and J. P. Bnrns, editor of the
Post, ON bet that Governor Hayes would
have 5000 majority. Both parties claim
the money. The case is regarded as test
one to certain extent, as there are other
bets of the same character which have not
been paid over.
At Chillicothe on Monday, two tramps,
by the names of James Kelley and Michael
Carol, walked into the residence of Fa-
ther Murray, the priest of St. Mary's
Church, in broad daylight, and after Wis
iting every portion of the house, walked
out the front door with their arms full of
cloth ing, and carrying a valise which was
also packed. They were observed, run
down, and captured, and recognized to
court in the sum of $500 each.
A dispatch from Circleville, Jan. 18th,
to the Cincinnati papers says: 'EThe
streets have been full of excited groups of
railroad hands to-day who have been
working on the Scioto Valley Road below
this city, and do not receive their pay. W.
B. Walker, one of the sub-contractors of
| the grading, who is especially complained d
of, was attacked on the street this after
noon by couple of men, who were taken
in hand by the city police and landed in
Jail after an exciting scuffle which attract
ed an immense crowd. The sub-contract-
ors are behaving very badly and consider
able feeling is manifested. By the terms
oftheir contract they were not to be paid
till the road reached Chillicothe, and they
do not seem able to carry their obligations.
Protracted meetings are in progress in
all the churches in Wilmington, except
the Friends. Father Denny, of the Jour
nal, thinks it his duty Gas politician and
a man of the world,'' to give the clergy 6
little advice, suited to the occasion. He
suggests that EFno good can arise from the
ill-tempered and often unjust onslaughts
of the clergy upon the membership" Ht
believes that FFthe great instrumentality
in conversions preaching, and not chronic
schooling and petulent grumbling." H,
winds up as follows: E'Gaffing Zion hac
better be abandoned, and converting sin
ners, after the apostolic fashion, substi
tuted. We prefer Christian character t
good words, and the love of Christ in tn
heart to Haunting phylactery on tn
frontlet." What kind of set of 'Fgospel
: sharps" have you in Wilmington, anyhow
., Bro. Denny?
FrOm the Chillicothe Register OF Saturday,
There were 343 marriage licenses issue
:, in Ross county last year. The averag
: number issued during the past four year
was 351.
: During his term of office, Gen. Hurs
d collected three million seven hundre
thousand dollars, and deposited the sam
q to the credit of the U. S. Treasury.
h After argument of counsel in the sca1
dal case, the case of Mr.. Hiss was sustain
IS ed and the Court granted him a divort
e from his wife on the ground of adultery
,. The bar and billiard room of the En-
mitt House were closed yesterday by tt
l. Sheriff under an attachment brought /
, parties at Cincinnati against Capt. L. /
a. Bowers, to recover the value of liquor
etc., furnished him. Capt. Bowers is sa
to be very considerably involved.
The Chillicothe and Frankfort Turnpi]
~ Company has chosen the following office
and directors for the ensuing year: Smi
\ Pursell, President; John E. Mills, Seer
], tary; John Augustus, James Hennes
a. DIR. VIM. Latta. D. G. Anderson w
r, elected Treasurer of the Board. TT
" :, Company is now out of debt.
SIS tFEOm the Circleville Democrat OfIast Frida,
" Mrs. Mary H. Sweetman, mother of
m H. and M. A. Sweetman, died at her re
IL, dence in this city, last Sunday. She W
n in her 74th year.
n
n, The celebrated Clydesdale stallion ssE
peror," imported by H. c. 6 c. W. GU
ct died on 25th ult., on the farm of Will:
Guy, in Madison county.
In the last twelve years, the four Sc
of Ex-sherif j. H. Corper, of this C
have died of consumption, the last a
re- Sose' go al eAcelIeHt, SIN
ys boy, on oth INST, at the early age of nil
teen years.
in The survivors of 55th Ohio V. l., one
rs. the regiments which had a company