Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1878-05-30
OPPOSITE COURT HOUSE.
L 90 Al 1T RM 8.

LOG AL ITEMS.
= County Commissioners meet next
Monday.
- Common Pleas Court for this county
will convene on Tuesday next.
- The county Board of Equalization
meets at the Auditors Office tomorrow.
- An excursion train runs over the S.,
& p. Ry. from Greenfield to Dayton,
to-day.
= H. B. Maynard is neatly remodel
ling his house on Temple street, occupied
by Glen. Bateman.
= An excursion over the c. W. & c.
Ry. brought in a large crowd Of visitors
to our town on Saturday.
M. Grubbs, of this place, and J. W.
Campbell, have the contract for building
church at Dublin Hill, near New HOI-
land.
- Rev. S. Fl. Smith, of Jamestown, will
preach at the Baptist Church next Sum
day morning and evening. All are cor
daily invited to hear him.
- Through the kindness of Mr.. Geo.
Adams and lady, the schools, at the ap-
preaching Commencement will use their
piano. Thanks are due from the school
authorities.
= Farmers in this county tell us that
the wheat crop is not as badly damaged
by rust as it was last week supposed to be.
Very little damage has been done in this
way, and as yet, the prospect for large
I crop rs good.
A meeting of the stockholders of the
D. & S. E. Ry. Co. win be held~st -nay--
ton on Thursday next, to devise ways
and means for the speedy completion of
the road to the coal fields. Stockholders
viii be passed free over the road.
= There will be a Mass Sunday School
Meetibgtat Buena Vista, next Sunday,
June 2ll. The parents, young men and
young women of that community are es-
pecially invited to be present. The meet
ing will be at 211a p. m. Earnest speakers
will address the meeting.
= Sheriff Smith made the following
sales of real estate on Saturday last: The
farm of DIR. S. G. Roberts, containing 554
acres, to Mary A. Story and Geo. L. Arm
strong, at $40 per acre. The undivided
four-sixths of 219 acres Ofland, property
of Isabella Cripps, to NJ. Grove, for $32O2.
In our Bloomingburg cOrrespon-
dence last week, in speaking of the reno
walton of the NJ. E. Church, the type said
the work was being done by ''COl. Boyd, -
which was an error. The work Is being
done by Col. Rogall. of this place, and in
his hands it is certain to be done in artis-
tic style.
: Jacob Light, George Dahl and o. II.
Cunning, the new Councilmen elect on
the law and order ticket, took the oath oi
office on Tuesday evening. The Council
will meet on Monday next. As now con.
stituted, the Council is composed of the
following gentlemen: B. n. Burnett, S
W. Cissna, Ace Gregg, o. Il. Cunning
Geo. Dahl and Jacob Light.
= The Woman's Foreign Missionary
. Society of the M. E. Church, viii hold it
next regular meeting at Mrs. s. A. Rec
tors, on Tuesday afternoon, June 4th, a
three o'clock. The country under con
: sideration, this and the following tw,
!. months, will be Africa and its Christian
e mission. All the members of the churcl
u u are especially invited to attend.
IS = The Chillicothe Register of Saturda
e last says: ''The effort to change the rout
#: of the Dayton & Southeastern Marrow
gauge through this city has failed Th
Board of Directors held meeting at Day
y ton last Saturday, and unanimously dC
cided to at once proceed with the cor
io truction of the road from Mussleman's
"a this city, entering Chillicothe on the oil
,e line, by way of the Hydraulic"
q, = Auditor Lindsey went to Springfield
a last Friday, to meet with the Auditors
n counties through which the S. J. & P. R
#. passes, for the assessment of the road, an
a on Saturday he went to Dayton for tt
Id assessment of the D. & S. E. Ry. II
w main track of each of these roads was a
m sessed at $4,000 per mile, and siding
$1,000 per mile. The main track of G
lumbus, Washington & Cincinnati r
was assessed at $1,000 per mile. AuC
tor Lindsey went to GAINESVILLE yesterd
to meet with the Auditors of counties
St. the line of the G. 6 NJ. V. Ry. for the
die sessment of that road.
IN Those Councilmen who refused
th' conhrm the appointment of some of
the good men as we have in the town. ma
eiu by the Mayor to fill the vacancy made
will the Council by the resignation of j.
KoOns, and resigned their positions
cause of certain publications disappr,
1l' ing of their refractory conduct. h,
ce- learned by this time that they were
INT rejecting the will of the voters of
Lth, town They probably thought that
ne resigning they would refer the quest
'eF- to the people, and that their acts wo
rea- be vindicated. Were they vindicat
In One hundred and fifty majority of
votes of the corporation against tt
ON ticket answers the question, and sho
far satisfy them that they were not the t
the representatives Of the viii Of the citiz
II of the town.