Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1878-07-18
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- The Colored camp-meeting opens at
the old Fairgrounds next Thursday.
A dray-horse belonging to James
Wyatt dropped dead on the street, last
Saturday.
Court adjourned last Friday. There
was very little business disposed of dur
ing the term. Ebff
The board of County Commissioners
went to New Holland on Tuesday, on
Boggs ditch business.
= Zimmerman's grocery was burglar
lied Monday night, for the second time
within a few weeks.
- Geo. 1. Bailey has bought out the
livery and feed stable of VIM. Robinson &
Son, on Market street.
= The Ely Light Guards will appear
at the ArmOry in uniform, on Tuesday
evening next, for street-drill.
= Two new passenger engines for the
G. G NJ. V. Ry. are being built at the
COmpany's shops at Lancaster.
A house near the Cemetery gate, oc-
cupied by a colored family named Hick-
man, was struck by lightning Thursday
last.
- Sheriff Smith has fitted up the room
back of Gregg & Creamer's law office,
up stairs in the Courthouse, and will oc-
cupy it for his office.
"A band of gipsies have been en-
A II, Mai rNf for a
couple Of past. they have anum-
ber rsof od horses, and are on the trade.
IL rhe d. &M. ". Railway is selling
II round trip excursion tickets to the Sun
day School Encampment, at Loveland,
which commences to-day and continues
till the 31st.
The officers elect of Temple Lodge
No. 227, 1. 90. F., were installed Oh
Tuesday evening, July 9th: N. S. Hen.
kle, n. g.; S. S. Salisbury, V. G.; WV
Brandt, R. s. SO @t @ss
- Street Commissioner McCourt ha
been putting in the past week cleaning VI
the streets and cutting down weeds ant
grass about town. A good deal of tina
kind of work is needed.
: = The Columbus Daily Evening Dis
patch is now received in Washington OIL
the evening train. VIM. Kearney is tn
; agent and will deliver the Dispatch to sub
scribers in any part oftown.
= The c. w. & O. Ry. will run an ex
cursion from New BurIington-and inter
mediate points to Dayton and the Soldiers
Home, on Saturday next, July 90. Far
for round trip from New Burlington an
Port William, 81; from Bowersviue an
Pierson, 9Oc.
Jos. w. kirkpatrick, administrato
), of Moses Adams, deceased, will offer {
: public sale, on Saturday next, upon tn
premises, two tracts of land belonging I
the estate of said deceased, and situate
y in Fayette and Pickaway counties. ST
Il advertisement in this paper.
When the fates of the Dayton an
g Southeastern Railroad fall into the col
! troll of Dayton managers, Col. S. N. Ye
, man predicted that it would not be con
= pleted into the mines while under tn
se management, and. we must confess, ye1
p much against our wishes, that it looks
be though the Colonel, in this particular,
least, is true prophet:
The Fayette County Teachers Tns
70 tute session commences in this place A
gust 18th, continuing five days. Excelle
n instructors have been employed, and
a. good programme of work arranged. T
a managers expect to make it one of t
a best Institutes ever held in the count
All teachers of the county should av
u Y themselves of the opportunity it offers
= instruction in their profession.
ati = Weather for the past few weeks
to been excellent for the corn crop, and il
70 general remark of farmers that they N,
m- er saw corn grow more rapidly. There
nv a splendid, prospect for an immense CT
in the county. With the best crop
wheat ever raised in the county just sa
ly harvested, and the present prospect
IN. corn, abundance of all kinds of fruit a
n. vegetables, and no hog cholera in
county, our farmers ought to be in pre-
Is fair humOr.
90 : At Geo. Gregg's sale of short-hC
St4 cattle, at the Fairgrounds in Circlevi
on the 10th inst, Mr.. S. G. Cunningha
of this county, purchased "Hattie M
elo- held, by Duke of Plansview I'd, by DIT
tsh. uary, 1861. Price sI94 rrhis ,ras
his only purchase made by a Fayette cou
stock man. Capt. j. s. Foster. of Wa
ington, was the auetioneer. Twenty,
Irly animals We're sold, and the prices
ma tanned were considered fair. The q,
nr aggregated $2,119.
,ck, = The following publications are
a eeived at the reading room of this pl;
fresh from the press: Atlantic Montl
,.Gu n5u Harpers' Magazine, Scribner's Magaz
nee Blackwood's Magazine, New York w
fac ly Herald, Harper's Illustrated Wee
Methodist Recorder, Christian Stand
Boston Weekly Journal, Women's L
,ver perance Union, New York Semi-We e.
un- Tribune, Ohio State Register, Fay
face County Herald. There are also var
hose other papers contributed. The lib
OOd. contains $50 volumes. The room is
e ali every day from to 6 o'clock p. M,
is free to ladies and gentlemen.