Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1878-09-05
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= Our grain buyers are paying 9Oc. for
wheat, and 35c. for corn.
The S. j. & P. narrow-gauge com
menced carrying mails on Monday.
Mr.. Jerome D.ais has his famous
mules at the Wilmington Fair this week.
= Sheriff Smiths proclamation forthe
October election will be found in another
.-eMr. Peter SHERMAN has our thanks
for presentof the finest watermelon of
the season.
"A liberal contribution ed
among our, citizens this week foi ben
fit of the yellow fever sufferers ma
sonic order raised over 500. -s-3
We are requested to state that B. B.
OFT & Co. viii donate their receipts on
Friday next to the. fund for the benefit of
thesyellow fever sufferers of the South.
e r A Sunday School Picnic.w will be held
to-day, sat Otterbein, commencing at 10
osc1oeSs Several prominent S: S. workers
will be present and address the meeting.
= DR.. ). S. Jones, administrator of R.
L. Williams, will sell the personal prop
erty belonging to said Williams estate at
auction, at New Martinsburg, on We'd
nesday, Sept. 25th.
The drawing for Mr.. Theo. Wendel's
picture of Eve, will take place on SatHr-
day evening, Sept. 9TH, at O'Clock, at
Esq Koontz's office. All who. have taken
tickets in the drawing, and have not yet
paid, are requested to call at the hat stor e
of D. Wendell and pay up before draw-eg
ing.
John w. Rogers and P. A. Harper,
administrators of Jos. Harper, deceased,
win offer the personal property of said
deceased, consisting of large amount of
stock, gram, farming implements, etc.,
at public sale, at his late residence, i'll
Marion township, on Thursday, Sept.
26th. See advertisement for list of prop
erty.
- There will be an Association of the
Old School Baptist order held OH the farm
of Ira Yeoman, one mile south of Good
Hope, beginning Sept. 18th, and lasting
three days. A number of able ministers,
from different States, will be present.
Among the number expected is Elder
Beebe, of New York, editor of The Signs
of the Times, All are invited.
The Washington Board of Education
at their meeting on Monday evening,
| awarded the contract for furnishing mate
rial and building the new school house, on
the lot lately purchased, in Gardner's
addition, to E. Bird, he being the lowest
bidder. There were five bids received, as
follows: E. Bird, $2632; Robinson &
Nolan, $275O; A. Coffman & Co., $2775 :;
A. CrOne, $2927; Pine & Schwartz, for
| HI; Oh Tbo h,,S1 :,
to be finished in the next sixty days.
The Poe Light Guards, of Columbus,
and the Duquesne Blues, of Springfield,
the two colored militia companies of the
o. N. c., who were in camp at the old
Fair Grounds, in this place, the past week, :,
struck tents on Tuesday and went home.
While among us the men conducted them
selves in a purely soldierly manner
treating everyone who visited them with
respect and civility, and avoiding all
rough and boisterous talking, not pleas
ant to the sensitive ear, so common in
soldier life. They went home with the
good wishes of our citizens, who invite
them to make this their camping ground
next year.
- An old lady, whose name we did not
learn, narrowly escaped death at the
Market street crossing of the D. & S. E
Ry., Tuesday morning. She, with a gen
tleman who accompanied her, boarded
the train for Dayton, at that crossing
and just as she had got upon the platform
of the cars the train made sudden start
throwing her from the platform, down
between the cars, with her body lying
across the track, and she was only saved
from being run over by the prompt ac
= ton of the gentlemen who was with her
and others standing near, who pulled he
from under the cars just in time to saw,
= her from the wheels. She was sOmewha
(, injured by the fall, but was able to go of
r on the train.
8 Mr.. Willis jenkins, living thre
= miles this side of Jeffersonville, had
+ valuable bull and one COW killed and an
e other injured by lightning on Frida
r night last. A gentleman from that neigh
d borhood informs us that lightning struc
U in no less than fifteen different place
on small piece of ground in that vicini
ty, within fifteen minutes time, on Fri
day night, and that horse and bugg
from Washington was passing on tn
road during the storm, and the hors
ia frightened at one of the claps of thunder
wheeled round and demolished the buggy
3 throwing the occupants out, but not ser
le persons in the buggy, but our infOrmar
w did not learn their names.
- Col. Garis turns over the Count
Treasury this week, at the expiration
his second term, to his successor, E
eff Craig, and it affords us great pleasure
8. say, that during his four years. admins
ct tratiOn of that Office, he has given fl
E. most complete satisfaction to the peon1
id of the county. Col. Garis has been a
honest, faithful and efficient officer, stri
and careful in the management of II
n business entrusted to him, and gentl
" manly and accommodating in his trea
1 n ment of the public having business vii
ne his office. He retires with the hearty a
prOval of the people of the county upC
his official conduct and their best wish
for his future. Mr.. Craig, his successo
If is a man in whom the people have all co
it. fidence-a careful, competent, butine
man, and having had experience in Il
at office, at most trying time in the histO
of the office, he is well acquainted wi
its duties, and in every way well qualifi
N. 10 I'LL it acceptably.