Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1878-03-28

- Easter comes TINS year OH the zlSI
day of April.
= Lots of horse-trading was done in
town on stock sale day.
A new engine on the S. J. & P. Ry.
is named Washington"
= Bowman Hess is new candidate for
Treasurer of Union township.
= The Ely Light Guards will receive
their $960-this evening.
= The Columbus Journal says the Co
lumbus and Washington narrow-gauge
''Seems to be fixed fact
Another train will probably be put
on the S. J. & P. narrow-gauge between
this place and Springfield, about the 1st
of April.
DIR. Foster has removed his office to
the room on the second floor of the Slim
son building, Main Street, across the hall
from the HERALD office.
= Capt. Millikan requests all members
of the Ely Light Guards to come to the
Armory this evening and receive their
pay for Camp and Newark services.
who owns or harbors dog on his premi-
ses shall pay a tax Of, one dollar on him.
The Assessor is required to assess all dogs.
= Mr.. A B. Adams class in the NJ. E.
Sunday School, accompanied by about
twenty other members of the school, went
on an excursion over the D. & S. E. to
Musselmans' on Tuesday.
= Next Monday will be considerable of
an election day. There are township and
corporation officers to elect, besides MEM
bers of the Board of Education, and Re
publican candidates for county offices.
= The ordinance providing for the
election of City Solicitor has been repealed.
There will therefore be no Solicitor to
elect at the corporation election on Mon
day next. That Office will be filed by ap-
pointment hereafter.
= "Omnibus tickets or tickets with
the names of all the candidates for nomi-
nation for each of the officers, printed
upon them. will be the only ones used at
the Republican Primary Election. Voters
can scratch the tickets TO suit them
selves.
= The Presbyterian Social Circle will
be entertained on Friday evening, March
goth, at the Parsonage, by Mrs. DR.. Den
mis-, Mrs. H. P. Ustick, Mrs. H. L. Rob-
insOn, Mrs. DR.. Hamilton, Mr.. H. f.
Brown, DR.. Lee Worley. All persons are
cordially invited.
- Our neighbors of Good Hope are hav-
ing gay times over railroad facilities. The
monotony of the place is being broken by
the daily whistle of the iron horse, and
the pulsatiOns of the Good Hope people
are being quickened and enervated.
Hurrah for Good Hope.
= Candidates should not place too much
confidence in mems promises TO vote for
them at the coming Spring election. The
| Spring election comes this year on the
first day of April-''all FOOLS day ,''-and
candidates, as well as other people, must
expect to be made victims of ''ApriI fool?
jokes. Some of these gentlemen, whC
have their maiOrities all figured out, OIL
the basis of votes promised them, viii
undoubtedly find on the evening of tn
1st of next month, that they have beel
cruelty April fooled.
- At the festival of the Colored Baptis
Church, to be held on the 29th and 3Otl
of this month, Mrs. Amanda Green, o
Bloomingburg, Miss Emma Martin, of De
Witt settlement, Mrs. Alther Thornton
Miss Laura Cole, and Miss Josephine viii
liams, of this place, will be candidates 70
the dress; and Israel Morgan, of Bloom
ingburg, Willis watkins, of Dewitt set
tlement, Willie Anderson, Joseph Cole
and Charley Powell, of this place, will b
candidates for the cane. This is to be
fine silver headed cane, ordered on tn
25th, by j. B. Hudson.
= The Register of last week gives tn
following paragraph, which indicates tn
moral tendencies of those institutions fo
the promotion of vice, drunkenness
crime and pauperism:
''Last Sunday was enlivened by knoc
down and drag-out fight in Snyder's S;
loon, in Melvin's block
t We appeal to the good citizens of OF
town, the law-abiding people, and tt
tax-paying people of our town and coul
ty, to consider whether it is not the
duty to use their influence, and the
money, in putting IL stop to the increa
of drunkenness and lawlessness in o.
town and county. There are many hous
. in our town that are devoted to drinkil
{ and gambling seven days and seven nigh
It in each week; or we are missinforme
s Should this State of things exist, Witho
9 a single effort being made to prevent