Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1878-04-11
LOG Al ITEM 3.

F " ES~-AANSANS -
= The contract for the masonry of the
vaults to be built in the county offices will
be let on the 1st Monday in May next.
Rev. Il. Allen, of Dayton will preach
at the Baptist Church next Sunday morn
ing andeYening lat the usual hours all are
invited.
! = Mr.. Antrim, of Lebanon, has opened
a new dry goods store in the room in Joe
MeLean's block, lately occupied by o. R.
Munger.
= The township assessors of the coun-
ty win meet at the County Auditors Of
flee on Saturday, for consultation and in
structions.
! Judge Thompson will hold Bankrupt
Court in this place on Monday next, in
the cases of Henry Kirk, Thos. Kirk, j.
w. Morris and c. l.. Getz.
j. n. vanDeman, attorney y-at-law
and notary public, has removed his office
to room No. upstairs in the VanDeman
corner, over Melvin, Silcott & Co. store.
= Craig Bros. talk pretty loud to the
dry goods buyers of this section in this
issue. Read what they have TO say in
their mammoth advertisement on this
page.
| = More ground will be plOwed up and
! planted this year than ever before in this
county. The pastures are disappearing,
and corn and wheat fields taking their
places.
= Jesse Arnold is assisting Jasper
Wright, Assessor of Union township, in
taking the assessment. Arnold takes the
assessment in town and Wright in the
township outside of Washington.
= The Board of Commissioners of this
county went to New Holland yesterday
to meet with the Pickaway county Com
missioners and finish the re-apportion-
ment of expenses of the Boggs ditch.
- The Columbus and Washington Ry.
will be remarkably cheap road to build
between this place and Mt. Sterling.
There is very little bridging, and no grad
ing of any consequence on the whole line.
= A train will be run over the c. w. &
G. Ry. on Sunday next, from Glenwood
to Washington, arriving here at 10 a. m.
and returning at p. M, for the accom-
mediation of persons wishing to attend
church here.
- The last lecture of the Washington
Lecture and Library Association course
will be delivered by VIM. Parsons, at Mu-
sic Hall tomorrow evening. Subject
''Michael Angelo" Don't fail to hear
this brilliant orator.
The Chillicothe Register says: COnnec-
tion is now made at Musselman, with the
Dayton and Southeastern by the 1927 a,
IN. train on the NJ. & c., and the ? :56 p
m. train. Passengers coming east from
Dayton arrive at Chillicothe at 1 "a a. m
and at IA p. m.
j. N.VanDeman's little son Jimmie
six years old, had his fore finger on one
of his hands nearly severed between the
first and second joints, and the secont
finger badly cut, by an accidental blow
from hatchet in the hands of his broth
er Fred, one day last week.
Z Mr.. and Mrs. Joe n. Wilson hav
met with a severe affliction in the deatl
of their little boy, Asher, who had hi
\ foot mashed in the turntable at the rail
road on Tuesday of last week. His sui
ferings from the wound were so intens
as to bring on lock-jaw, and he died o
Thursday night.
- The New Jasper correspondent c
the Xenia Gazette, 5th, says: J. NJ. Boot
. and H. II. Conklin have gone into par
nership with their stone quarry for thi
season. They have procured a lot s
Is Washington G. H..for stone yard, an
s. will commence shipping stone to tht
place in a few days.
r Sheriff Smith made the following sal
1t of real estate on Saturday last: 1876 acr
of land in Union township, property
y John Dewitt, to James Karney and Mr.
ne DR.. Goldsberry, at $33 per acre. L
n acres of land in Wayne township, pro
St erty of Greenup Dewitt, to Amazon I
suranee Company, at Sal peracre.
'r- = The s. ]. & P. Ry. was finished
es- Greenfield last week, and on Monday Is
res trains began running regularly to til
to point. For the present there is but 0
iss train day, leaving Springfield at a I
it, arriving at Washington at lO:43, and
IRE Greenfield at II :55, and returning leaN
by Greenfield at 3 10 p. M, Washington
Ilr i,r 20, and arrive at Springfield at 100.
IN = Mr.. Robinson, engi neer of the {
lumbus and Washington narrOw-gau;
who is engaged in securing the right
-. -, way for the road, informs us that TWEEN
.oH two out of the twenty-eight land-own
~ through whose land the road passes,
iou tw cen this place and Madison Mills, h!
@ donated the right-of-way to the compa
and there is a good prospect of obtaini
the balance of the right-of-way on
siI- same liberal terms.
ms ms p. S. Collins, the old reliable liv
sti- M man, brought to this office last Stature
viii a curiosity in the shape of mess of I
says potatoes, raised in this county this Spri
This is a little ahead of anything we Ii
yet heard of in the way of gardening
The potatoes were as large as hens eg
oleS they were raised by Mr.. NJ. V. Arbog
one OF Paint township, in his garden, ant
EY's has quite crop of them. He brou
ruly in sack full of them on satnrdov to
bak- Collins. -
,oIo. The old First National Bank, Of
place, has surrendered its charter.
luAe, | ..z..I L.
re In ceaseu " De @NaC'OI'"l DaIk' It's ST
,ery- holders have organized themselves
1t is an association under the name of the
hole rJe,s g. Drover,s Raplx 70 s,ooood
First National, and carry on a ger
banking business. There is no chan
the officers Of the institution. Unde
Yll.e' new organization, additional seouri
depositors, in the personal liahilit
ruls Tnnst the stockholders, is one of the prOml
nv a features, while the association gains
eral advantages by the change.