Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1878-05-02

and nothing now can come between the
prisoner and the galIows save Guberna-
torial intervention and death.
The Wilmington Republican, 25th, says:
Hon. J. Q. Smith, who returned from
Montreal, to attend the funeral of his
uncle, Judge Smith, was in Wilmington
on Monday, shaking hands with his
friends. He is looking well and seems TO
be getting along splendidly in his new
position. Accompanied by his family he
will return the middle of this week, ex-
pecting to reach Montreal via Detroit, by
Saturday next.
(From the Xenia TorchIight, April 24.)
Judge Geo. Smith, father of our present
Judge Smith, died at Lebanon last Thurs
day morning.
Cooke, of the jamestown Tribune, has
made arrangements TO sell his office to a
Mr.. Jones, of New York State.
District court will convene here next
Monday. An unusual amount of busf-
ness-about 30 cases in all-wilI be passed
on by the court.
The young man who, last fall, was con-
victed and sentenced to imprisonment
the Hamilton county Jail for breaking
into the jamestown postoffice, has been
taken to Mt. Vernon, O., to be tried on
charge of numbering a wealthy merchant
there some two years since. The evidence
is said TO be such that his conviction is al
most certain.
tFrom the Circlevine Democrat, April 2e)
Mrs. Sarah Young died at her residence
at Dutch Hollow, east of this city, last
Sunday, at the age of II years, months
and % days.
Samuel a. Swinehart, died at the resi-
dence of his parents, in this city, on North
High Street, last Tuesday morning, of
consumption.
Circleville has four poker rooms, three
faro rooms, and one keno ''snap," opened
last Monday evening. ''You pays your
money and you takes your choiee''
John Mason, colored, sent to the Peni-
tentiary from this county over year ago
for hog stealing, has been adjudged in
sane, and transferred to the Insane Asy-
| lum.
Jacob Needy, the well known stock
dealer of Allegheny, has gone into bank
ruptcy, with liabilities amounting to $40
900, assets, $50, 900. Needy has operated
extensively in this county for a number
of years, and has many friends who will
be sorry to hear of his misfortune.
We regret to learn that Peter Bartholo-
NEW, one of our best known and most
highly respected citizens, is suffering with
partial alteration of mind. The trouble
is caused by an affection of the spine, and
threatens serious consequences. He was
removed to the Asylum last Monday.
Last Tuesday afternoon, John Shugars,
who resides on a small farm five miles
north of Circleville, while laboring under
a temporary fit of insanity, tried to kill
himself by plunging knife into his
breast. The wound is supposed to be fa-
tai, and at last advices all hopes of his re-
covery had been abandoned. Shugars
has been partially insane for some time,
but he never before attempted to injure
himself. The deed was accomplished in
the barn where he was found some time
afterward by his wife.
Last Thursday evening, Mrs. Martha
McCollister, of this city, widow of John
McCollister, deceased, deposited roll OF
money containing about forty-one dol
lars, in the oven of her cook stove for safe
keeping. She had probably lost faith in
our banks as a safe place for keeping
money, and took this method of securing
her wealth in bank she knew could not
fail. Friday morning, forgetting all about
her work of the evening previous, she
built roaring fire in her stove for the
purpose of getting breakfast. In a shor
time She thought of her money, and upor
opening the door ofthe oven was horrifiet
to find the entire amount, with the ex
ception of several dollars in silver change
in a mass of ashes-cremated as it were
The silver had been turned almost blacl
by the heat.