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The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1876-02-17

The Legislature should revise and
make more severe the law against carry
ing concealed weapons. As a New York
paper says, half the murders are proba-
bly, due to the fact that the criminal has,
within reach, so easy a means to kill as
the revolver in his pocket.
The above shows the great mistake
which is made by nearly all reformers.
1t is not the revolver in the pocket, but
the beer and whisky in the belly that
does the mischief The law now on the
Statute books against carrying concealed
weapons is as effectually dead letter as
the law against selling liquor, Profane
swearing and a hundred other such
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1876-02-17

Mr.. Monahans effort to improve the
morals OF the people Of Ohio by impos-
ing fine Of $50 upon any one who takes
the Lords name in vain, has been heard
of in the old Commonwealth of Virginia.
Mr.. Charles U. Williams, Of Richmond,
has introduced bill in the House OF
Delegates which throws Monahan's in
the shade. The Virginia legislator pro-
poses to lay a tax of s. per annum upon
any one indulging in the habit OF using
profane language, and tax of 81 per an
mum upon every male inhabitant of the
Commonwealth, over the age of fifteen
years, who may drink as a beverage any
wine, spirituous, or malt liquors, or who
may chew or smoke tobacco and use
snuff These taxes are to be paid to the
collector of State license taxes for the
city, county, or town where the party
may reside. On the first day of May ev-
cry person desiring to be freed from liza
bility for any of these taxes is required
to make oath that he has neither sworn,
used tobacco, etc, for twelve months pre-
ceding, and does not intend to do SO for
the next succeeding twelve months. A
section of the bill imposes a fine of 20
per cent of the amount of tax upon every
person delinquent in paying the tax i'm
posed by the bill, to be collected as other
license taxes. The bill has not become a
law.-[CinCinnati Gazette.
We intend to be a candidate against
Monahan in 1877, and now make the
pledge, that if elected, we will introduce
a bill making it a capital offense to
smoke, or to keep saloon" under the
name of drug store.
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1876-02-17
REPUBLICAN, STATE CONVENTION

The next Republican State Convention
will be held in the City of Columbus. on
Wednesday, the 29th day of March, 1875.
The Convention will nominate candidates
for
Secretary OF State.
Judge of the Supreme Court,
Comptroller of the Treasury,
Member of the Board of Public Works,
And Two Electors of President and
Vice President Of the United States.
1t will also designate four Delegates
and four Alternates to represent the
State in the Republican National Con-
vention to be held in the City of Cincin-
natl on the 18th of June. The Delega-
ton from each Congressional District
will also come prepared to announce or
select two Delegates and two Alternates
to that Convention.
We recommend that the meetings in
the several counties for the selection of
Delegates to the State Convention be
held on Saturday, March 18th. 1876, and
that efforts be made to secure large at
tendance at these meetings. so that the
people shall be fairly represented in the
State Convention.
The basis of representation in the Con-
yention will be one delegate for every
four hundred votes cast for General r.
B. Hayes for Governor in 1875, and one
additional delegate for any fraction of
two hundred votes and upwards in each
county.
All voters, without regard to past party
affiliations, who desire the success of the
principles Of the Republican organization,
are cordially invited TO join in electing
Delegates to this Convention.
(Here follows list of delegates to
which each county is entitled, jackson
county being entitled to 6. The entire
convention will consist of $50 delegates. }
By Order of the Committee,
A. T. WIKOFF,
Chairman Republican Central Committee.
j. G. DONALDSON, Sec'y.
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1876-02-17

An incident of coal mining under the
town of Jackson, is related as follows !:
A citizen went to his well to draw a
bucket of water, having let out consider
able rope he looked down to see if the
bucket was full, when he saw a miner
with lamp on his cap pass under the
well. He hailed him and discovered
that in digging coal they had gone
through his well, leaving nothing but q
hole = [Standard.
We find the above in one Of our ex-
changes. 1t never appeared in the
STANDARD. We do not get up so silly a
yarn as that Please excuse US.
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1876-02-17

The trial of Gen. Babcock in st. Louis
for completely in the whisky frauds, COM
menced on Monday of last week. We
have no idea that he is guilty, but no
doubt the rebel St. Louis jury will find
him guilty. The course of the newspa-
pers in this case is disgrace to our pre-
tended civilization. They demand his
conviction, without evidence. Even the
Cincinnati Gazette joins IN this disgrace
full and dangerous business Every Re-
publican who is accused of participation
in these frauds, is convicted before a
word of testimony is heard. 1t is worse
than drunken mob. 1t has had no
parallel since the trial of the Salem
witches.
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1876-02-17

The people OF Chillicothe are fond Of
amusements, but they know Of only one
kind an which they feel at home, and
that is indicated in the following, taken
from one Of the Chillicothe papers:
A row occurred in the bar room Of the
Emmitt House, on the afternoon OF Sat
urday last, between John Moore the bar
keeper, and Dir" Mackey, and James
Thompson, who was a participant more
in the talk than in tho fight The cir
cumstances, as near as we can ascertain
them, were as follows: Mackey had
been drinking during the afternoon, and
about three o'clock his brother, Mr. Ben.
Mackey, came to the Emmitt House and
requested Mr.. Moore not to sell him any
more liquor. Mackey and Thompson
soon returned and called for beer, when
Moore refused il to them. This occa-
stoned quite war Of words, in which
Mackey-so Moore asserts-heaped all
the epithets upon him that he could
think OF, but finally went out without
bringing the matter to blows. Presently
the couple returned, however. and again
started up a heated discussion, which
terminated this time in Mackey drawing
back beer glass to hit Moore, when
Moore anticipated the intention by
throwing a beer glass at him, which,
striking him in the face, made q deep
and ugly cut in the cheek and upper lip.
Mackey was taken away by his friends
and washed, and was soon ready for duty
again, when he returned once more. eager
for the fray. This time Moore did not
wait for him to make the attack, but
rushing from behind the counter, struck
Mackey in the face, knocking him down
and in fact terminating the difficulty, for
that day at least
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1876-02-17
OHIO LEGISLATURE.

When the present Republican Legisla-
ture met, we urged a short session, but
we said we had little hope that our sug
gestion would be needed
We read in the papers last week that
caucus of the Republican members had
decided to urge business, and adjourn as
soon as possible, but on Monday the Gin
cinnati Gazette had a letter from Mr..
Furay, its Columbus correspondent, and
and the Commercial had a letter from
Mr.. Loomis, its Columbus correspondent,
both arguing for a lengthy session. We
do not know that these letters were sug-
gested by members, but we can inform
members, and these city correspondents,
that it is not the editors of rural papers
who are making senseless cry for ad
journment, but these country papers, in
some measure reflect the will-the de
mand of the people. The Ohio Legisla
ture could remain in perpetual session
and find something still to do.
What in the world do the people want
with more laws? There is now a codify
ing commission, at much expense to tn,
people, endeavoring to find what the
laws are. They are endeavoring to picL
a very few grains Of wheat from tn,
mountains Of chaf
Suppose you pass the appropriation
bill and then adjourn. Who will suffer
i N Won fnusf IN. n opofb.r kofcb nr ,,s.
less laws, why not adjourn until mex
winter? IL you remain i'm session unit
the last Of next month, the Republican
party need not hold any State conven
tion. The party cannot, in that event
elect any body.
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1876-02-17

Some time ago we received from Hon.
j. A. Garfield, his great speech on the
JEFF. Davis amnesty bill. We intend to
publish il hereafter.
We have also received from Hon. n.
II. Van Worries, of the Athens District, a
copy Of Blaine's speech, a synopsis OF
which we have already published.
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1876-02-17

Why cannot President Grant write a
letter about the third term as ineligible
as that addressed to Private Dalzell by
General Sherman, who says:
81 never have been, am not now, and
never will be candidate for the high Of
fee Of President before any convention
or the people"
There is nothing in this of the stupid
conceit of being indispensable in an i'm
perative exigency. Sherman's letter is
good reading all the way through
Cincinnati Commercial
If Grant had written that, you third
term idiots would have declared it to be
bid for the nomination. Gen. Sher-
man says, substantially, that he will not
announce his name formally; but be
does not say that if nominated by a con-
vention, that he will not make the race.
Grant, in his annual message, said that as
that would be the last annual message
he would write before the election of his
successor, he would call the attention of
Congress to certain matters. Every per-
son of sense supposed that that settled
the matter; that he would not be can
didate, but the Commercial was more
certain than ever that he would be a can
didate, and be his own successor.
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1876-02-17

During the past month or two they
have been sending the poor, persecuted
whisky men to the penitentiary by the
dozen, and now it seems they are after
the tobacco men likewise One poor
soul writes thus to the Cincinnati Com
mercial:
THE SORROWS or THE TOBACCO TRADE
PLEASANT HoME, TASEY Co.
No, January q, 1876 !
To the Editor ofthe Commercial:
Is it true there is no appeal from the
United States District Courts? Is il true
that defendants in indictments have to
pay all the costs for witnesses time, trav-
cling expenses and board, and even when
acquitted get nothing paid back2 Is it
true that the Government sends one or
two hundred thousand dollars twice q
year to run the District Court, and then
tempts officials to increase the costs to
use the money? / hear these things, and
never would have thought twice Of such
absurdities had il not been that a neigh
Dor was put through on suspicion of an
offense, and, though acquitted, it nearly
broke him up He was suspected Of sell.
ing tobacco without license, because he
asked for license from May 25, 1875.
to May %, 1876, and could not get il
from the officers under one pretext or
another, till July, though he paid for
il, and so he closed his store last May 2j
till he got the license. Last September
he was arrested and taken to the Court,
and, being stranger, could not give
bail; so he boarded, am told, in Jail till
he could get some friends and two wit.
nesses there. So when the trial came on
there was nothing against him but the
date OF his license, and he proved by
a couple Of near neighbors that he closed
his store in July, and came near being
convicted because the witnesses were
not positive whether he shut up on the
10Th or Goth Of July But he got of, the
Judge telling MIN he must be careful
So he came here and told me il cost him
.hree hundred dollars, besides his law
yer's fee. lie says he won't sell any
more tobacco-license or no license. |
heard of a man VINO had to bring ten or |
welve witnesses two hundred miles, and /
,oard them a week, on some little charge /
,ot up by some enemies, and IL cost him 4
thousand dollars. IL cost him forty 1
lollars for each man he had to take 4
here Fourteen farmers near here who
row tobacco and have been selling il to
eighbOrs by the pound, ignorant Of the
iw, are now indicted; and one cross
Dads grocery man, whose boy sold a to-
acco bucket, was closed up by q man
no came here and took him away.
hat does all this mean, Mr.. Editor?
he people here are getting most anx-
us. Truly yours,
WN. JAMES, II
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1876-02-17

James Parton, the author, recently
married the daughter of his deceased
wife. This marriage is contrary to the
laws of Massachusetts,, and ne is making
an effort to get special act passed to
make it legal
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1876-02-17

Consumers Of the weed. take comfort
"He was . great smoker" is recorded Of
a man who has Just died AZ the age Of l0f
years in an English work houso.-lN. Y.
Commercial Advertiser
Are the smokers 10 be comforted by
the fact that one Of their number lived
10 be l0f. or By the other fact that he
died in q work. house se7-Icin. Gazette
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1876-02-17

The Treasurer Of Wayne county is
defaulter to the amount of 100000 He
has lit out for Canada. We have not
learned his politics, but on our political
map we notice that Wayne county is
shaded with black, denoting that it is a
Democratic county. And then the de-
faulter's name is Helman.
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1876-02-17

The Columbus Journal knows what
ought 70 bo done. when ID says
Gibbon says Jocrian who proposed
any new Law stood forth In the Assembly
Of the people with a cord around his
neck, and " the Law was rejected the In.
novstor was instantly strnngled which
shows these ancient Greek sayages had =
correct notion of the evils Of sHccasivs
legislation. But suppose their way Of
dealing with the authors Of Unnecessary
and rejected laws were In vogue now.
what mortality there would bol
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1876-02-17

One of the Cincinnati papers tells how
property is protected in that city, under
Democratic rule, as follows:
In the ten known cases of burglary oc.
curing on Saturday and Monday nights,
not single arrest has been made, and
no portion Of the stolen goods recovered.
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1876-02-17
The Wayerly Watchman support

The Waverly Watchman supported l..
T. Monahan last fall for Senator. 1t is
now, when too late, getting its eyes
opened. 1t says:
The newspapers all over the State
write Senator Monahan down as a con-
summate fool and an egotistical ass. 1t
is truly wonderful with what precision
these papers judge of this matter.
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1876-02-17

The Ohio State Register, of Washing
ton C. H., says that young man twenty
years of age, named James Sheridan, at
tempted to get on a train at Jasper Sta
tion, when he fell under the train and
had both legs crushed. One had to be
amputated above the knee, and the other
below. II 10 critical case.
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1876-02-17
WHO HE IS.

He is German, having wife and two
little children, who are in destitute cir
cumstances. He was at one time land
lord of the Star Hotel, but about six
years ago he removed to Kansas, return
ing to this city last July. He kept a lit
tie saloon on Chillicothe street since his
return, but it did not pay him, and he
disposed of it, Since then he has got
along poorly, and when we saw him in
arrest, he was weeping and bitterly be-
moaning his fate. He took his marriage
ring from his finger, and with tears
streaming down his cheeks, asked by
stander to sell it, and get his wife and
children something to eat
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1876-02-17

The ehain.g gang 10 70 be recruited By q
thoroughly classical gentleman. Prof
Chas. Hessmer. Of Huntington. Pa. vas
sent up on . charge Of drunkenness. Al.
though he has mastered eight LANGUAGES
and speaks lhem hucntly. lie ia thus
enabled 10 violate Mouahan'a bill In sew
en- dialects. and the sheriff be none the
wiser Portsmouth Timca
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1876-02-17

The Covington, Miami County Gazette.
gives an account of the death of a little
girl near five years Of age, whose clothes
caught fire at the stove, and all burned
off her. She lived twenty-four hours af-
ter the accident
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1876-02-17

Last Thursday young man eighteen
years of age, named Richard Lyden.
drove horse attached to a spring wagon
into the Scioto river at Columbus. to
wash the mud off the wagon. They all
went over the State dam, and man and
horse were drowned,
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1876-02-17

Dr. l. T. MonahAn. Senator from The
district below here. introduced bin in.
tended 70 inatantaneously and ehscsnal.
" stamp out profanity, which has proba-
bly, caused more swearing than anything
OF the kind ever before Invented. Few
Of the ungodly could hear Of 10 With out
abiding 70 the DR.. a. that - fooli''-
1 IIrnnlnn CnmmarciAl
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1876-02-17

A gentleman, on being told that Don
Pedro, III Emperor of Brazil, intended
visiting this country shortly, replied 4:
Dam Pedro; let him come if he wants
to-" Where is Monahan, Of the Ohio
Senate II Allen County Democrat.
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1876-02-17

One of the largest. best. and most
beautifully printed papers on our ex-
change list is the Findlay Jeffersonian,
published by E. G. and o. j. Dewolfe,
formerly of Waverly.
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1876-02-17

Senator Christiancy of Michigan was
recently married at Washington City to
a young woman who is a clerk in the
Treasury. He is GA years of age, she 10.
His wife had been dead only nine
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1876-02-17

The late Governor Allen. just before
he went out of Office. pardoned good
many of his friends out of the Peniten-
tiary; and yet there are more convicts
there now than at any former period of
time, in all over 1900.
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1876-02-17

A drunken man named Bob Crawford,
in Ross county, went out hunting, and
stopped at store at Hallsville. The
stove was hot, and the room crowded
with people. Crawford was told not to
go so near the stove with his powder
horn, when he deliberately took it off
and threw it in the stove. 1t was found
to contain nearly quarter of pound of
powder
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1876-02-17

Hon. Reverdy johnson of Maryland
died last week. He was nearly so years
of age, and was perhaps the most emf
nent lawyer in the United States. He
was on q visit to the Governor of the
State, and was found dead near the
house, where he had fallen, and broken
h;a akull
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1876-02-17

The Columbiana Register says that
Joseph Vale, of East Carmel, shot him.
self in his barn, when temporarily in
sane, caused by his little niece putting
out one of her ewes with pair of scissors.
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1876-02-17

The Greenup Independent says that
two young men named Davisson. cousins,
were out hunting, when the gun of one
of them was discharged, and the ball
passed through the head of the other,
killing him instantly.
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1876-02-17

Patrick Donahue, publisher of the Bos-
ton Pilot, has suspended, with $500, ,000,-
600 liabilities.-[Waverly Watchman.
That shows the honesty of the Irish
people. What American editor could
get trusted to the amount of three hun
dred million dollars2
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1876-02-17

We have received the South Florida
Journal published at Sanford, Orange
county, Florida, by Way a. Osborn, for
merly of Wilmington, Ohio. Mr.. Way
was until recently one of the editors of
the Wilmington Republican. The Jour
nal is a six column paper, and is lively
and interesting. 1t charges SIS an inch
per year for advertisements, and $50
per column.
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1876-02-17

The Ironton papers are rejoicing be-
cause Captain Merrill has been appointed
on the police. The last we heard of
him previous to his appointment, his
bowels were almost cut out in drunken
6Oht
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1876-02-17

win tho Republican Legislature heed
the following1 IL " from the Columbus
Journal
The General Assembly owes one i'm.
portant service 20 tho people OF Ohio
which IL cannot too carefully bear In
mind. and that IL 10 dispatch its business
promptly aud adjourn early.
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1876-02-17

c. A Mershon was convicted at Bloom
ington, Indiana, in 1871, for the murder
of John Moore, and sentenced to the
penitentiary for life Last fall the Su-
preme Court granted him a new trial.
and he was in Jail. Last week a mob of
men masked went to the Jail at two
o'clock in the night, overpowered the
jailer, and shot Mershon in his cell, kill
inc him
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1876-02-17

There was a great FIRE in New York
City last week. destroying thirty build
ings. The loss is estimated at some four
or FIVE millions of dollars.
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1876-02-17

Gen. Grosvenor Speaker of the House
of Representatives, has been at his home
in Athens for the past ten days, sick of
pneumonia
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1876-02-17

We learn that the Webster Fire Brick
Company lost five thousand dollars by
the failure Of Bancroft & RAIDER, of Vim
ton Furnace.
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1876-02-17

Crime is now an epidemic, the same
as was the temperance movement two
years ago, and the spelling schools one
year ago. In the Cincinnati Gazette on
Tuesday of last week, the following
head lines will indicate what is going on:
CRIME
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1876-02-17

We mentioned a short time ago that a
thief had been caught in one of the banks
in Portsmouth. From the following,
which we find in the Times, he appears
to be one of Old Bills pets, who failed to
make living at the saloon business, and
being too honest to work, he was not too
lazy to steal.
The Times says.
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1876-02-17
And now even the little niggcrs must
have some fun. a. well a. tho superior
race. a. We gather from the following;
A tHILp AVADtAtA


IsotIHNILLNs NJ Jan 81
Galley Ciacoc. q negro girl four years
old, while quArrcling with Willie Van.
winkle. a negro boy Ten years of are. was
instantly killed today In Frankfort. Ky.
The boy picked up and pointed loaded
oarbine al the girl, not intending 10 dis
charge the weapon. but BY some means
tering the girls body. caused her Instant
"A
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1876-02-17

DIR. Shattuck, of Marion. Lawrence
county, is dead.
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1876-02-17

A Man on Trial for the Murder of His
Betrothed, and Another for the
Butchery of His Uncle.