Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1878-11-21
LOG AL ITEM 3

November stock sales next Tuesday.
Grain dealers are paying 25c. for
corn.
The pay-car of the C. & NJ. V. Ry,
was over the road yesterday.
Ely Commandry X. It. held their an
nual election of officers last night.
- The military ball which was to have
been given on Thanksgiving eve, has been
postponed.
There are SIS civil cases and Al Grim
inal on the docket of the common pleas
court in this county.
The November term of Fayette Com
mon Pleas convened on Tuesday. Judge
Steele on the bench.
There are four prisoners in jail-twO
for house-breaking, one for hOg-stealing
and one for horse-stealing.
Mr.. J.H. Mahan, Democratic County
Commissioner elect, takes his seat on the
1st Monday in December next.
- There will be a Mass Temperance
Meeting at the City Hall, next Sunday
evening, to be addressed by Hon. Mills
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everybody come.
The taking of dispositions in the con-
tested election case, has been going on
most of the time the past week. When
the case will come up for hearing in court,
is not known yet.
The market price for hogs here is
1926 to $2.40. The pork-houses have not
opened the slaughtering season yet.
Roots & Talbot expected to kill their first
lot yesterday or to-day.
= The sale of David Dore's residence
by the U. s. Marshal, has been set aside
by the U. S. Court, on account of an error.
The property will be offered again on Sat-
Iurday, December 2Sth.
The marshal of Mt. Sterling passed
through here Monday with a prisoner
named Joe Dill in charge, whom he had
captured in Illinois, and was taking to
Circleville. The charge against him was
stealing horse from Piekaway county
maj.
Clinton Woods was arrested last Fri
day, at Lyndon, Ross county, and brought
here and placed in Jail on charge of hog
stealing. He plead guilty, and was bound
over to court, and in default of bail will
remain in jail until his case comes up in
court.
= Col. ROb't IngersOlI will lecture in
Springfield on Monday evening next.
Subject: Cramps, or Hard Times and the
Way Out.'' The S. j. & P. Ry. will carry
| int
mediate points to Springfield, and return
them by special train after the close OF
Col. Ingersoll's lecture, at half-fare.
The following shipments of stock have
been made from this station, over the c.
& NJ. V. Ry. this week: 22O hogs to New
York, by NJ. Laughman, on Monday. Or
Tuesday, rs head of cattle by M. Laugh
man, and 4s head by Mr.. Toole, to Phila
delphia; 10 hogs by Alb. Hause, to Eas
Liberty. Norman & Watson shipped 22t
hogs to New York to-day.
A new timetable went into effec
Monday on the D. & S. E. Narrow-Gaug
Ry. The time of trains at this station
as follows: Going East-mail train, 10 2
, a. ChilIicothe accommodation, 2
p. M; Washington accommodation, a
= D. m. Going West-mail, 4 :25 D. m.
Washington accommodation. 8 :45 a. m.
, Chillicothe accommodation, 6: :35 a. m.
- Can't the friends of temperance i
our town induce Hon. H. L. Dickey t
deliver temperance address in this plac
before he leaves for Washington city. w
know of no one who we think could d
more good in the way of temperance II
!. formation than Mr.. Dickey. There
great need of efficient work by able rel
d resentatives of the cause in this town.
At the preliminary examination
David Eibes, Hannah Eibes, his wifi
Elizabeth Jackson, Scott and Clay Go
q. don, who were arrested On suspicion
ne the murder of John Manmeizel, at Sabin
,k which was held in Wilmington last Thur
r day, David Eibes and Scott Gordon we
Is, held to answer to court and committed
rk Jail without bail. The other person
as named above were discharged, there
r. ing no evidence to hold them.
9ir The Miami Valley and Columb
,in 51 Narrow-gauge Railway Company adve
Id tise for sealed proposals for constructiI
ty the earthwork, piling and trestling
m the road between WaynesVille, War;
county, and Harrisburg, Franklin cou
ty, distance of ffty-six miles. Pl
cir posals are to be received at the office
of the company, in jamestown, until t
err Both of December. The company repo
ON the stock all raised along that part of
but road. The estimated cost of the road
re- $3.50 per mile. Most of the right of W
has been secured.
= Sheriff Smith arrested two cOlol
men on Monday afternoon, one nan
Ben. Lucas and the other named Ch
sor Williams, and took them before MAJ
DID, Barclay on charge of disorderIy condu
lex. They had been quarrelling. Lucas '
ing summoned here to testify as witness
Maj. Cooks side, in the contested e1
on tion case on Monday afternoon, and
arrest prevented his testimony from be
taken. 1t may not be out of place to
Clre 5 mark in this connection that it is IL
Re- common thing for Sheriff Smith to nj
1urt arrests for disOrderly conduct. In f
VI this is the first case coming to our knC
1,u edge during Mr.. Smiths administrat
cts The parties plead guilty, and Mayor
clay fined them 50 each.