Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1879-03-20

-225 singers tonight.
= Stock-sales next Tuesday.
Nice and humorous dialogues tonight.
The elevators are paying 8oc. fOgl
corn.
-rfhe literary work milf please you.
Hear it tonight.
District court for this county will
convene on the 2sth of April.
Only 25 cents to bear tlie pupils to
night. Net proceeds for apparatus.
--FnlI fpyOgFamme of tonight Is out.
Look 'it- up and see the grand treat in
store for you.
= Four or five inches of snow fell here
abouts on Sunday night-the last of the
season, it is to be hoped.
Mr.. .l5ileott, Of the dry goods firm of
Melvin, Silcott & Co., will start east for
Spring goods in a few days. F XF fttT
Mr.. P. S. Collins has recently been
decorated by Sheriff Smith with the title
and. .authOfity of deputy sheriff.
Our schools have done much in the nat
ural science. Approve the work by your
presence tonight at Music Han, H }EE
Scott Gordon indicted with David
Eibe for the murder of John Manmeisel,
at Sabina, was, on trial at Wilmington,
acquitted.
j. B. HudsOn, the popular jeweler,
made the Catholics apreseht of ahand-
some and expensive clock for their
church, last week.
WIN. Allen, Of jefferson township,
made an assignment for the benefit of his
creditors on the 11th inst. VIM. J. HOr-
ney is the assignee.
= viii. Blaine was shot through the
hand by the accidental discharge of re-
volver he was handling, on Friday last.
The wound is not serious. 4tti
). The A. M. E. Church will hold a
camp meeting on the Jamestown fair
grounds, commencing on the 4th of July,
next, aud continuing twenty-four days.
= The township officers to be elected
in this township at the coming April cleo
ton are three trustees, treasurer, clerk,
assessor, two constables and twelve su-
pervisors.
- The official bonds of S. F. Kerr and
J. B. Koontz, Justices of the Peace elect
of this township were approved on the
10th inst, and they entered upon the dis
charge of their official duties.
= Charlie Worley had his hand pretty
severely mashed last Sunday. He was
carrying heavy chunk of coal, when he
slipped and fell, the coal falling with con.
siderable force upon his hand.
Proposals for the grading and bridg
ing of the c. j. C C. narrow-gauge rail
way from Allentown to Mt. Sterling, arr
to be opened to-day. There are a mum
Der of bidders for the work, and salts
4 factory contract will likely be made.
The annual meeting of the Presby
terial 'FWOman's Missionary Society," o
ChillicOthe Presbytery, will be held at tn
Presbyterian Church in this place Wednes
day, April End. The meeting will b.
opened at 9 a. m. DIR. BUSHNELL and wife
who have long been missionaries in Africa
will be present. za.s 81
- The phantom and eucher party at tn
Arlington House, last Friday evening
was one of the pleasaptest social event
of the season. About fifty couple .wer
in attendance. Hunters excellent band
of Chillieothe, furnished music. Tn
supper was highly creditable to the Gull
nary department of the Arlington.
The case of the State of Ohio VS. Bo
Slusser, indicted for assault with inten
to kill, committed upon Jim Holland,
colored man, of this place, at the Sabin
Fair last Falls being tried in the Clinto
County Common Pleas Court, at Wi
mington this week. About forty-fiv
witnesses from this place are summone
to attendithe trial. or I = II
= The Chillicothe Cypress says: M
David Christie, the well-known machin,
blacksmith, has purchased the machinel
Of the Chil1icothe Agricultural Work
and moved the same to Washington c. I
He has formed co-partnership with M
:. A. r. Burnett, of that place, and the fir
5 are erecting buildings there. MIR. Chri
tie is a worthy man and first-class m
\ chanic. We wish the firm success.
} Judge Thompson will hold bankru
court at the Court House in this plaC
commencing on the first of April ne,
for the purpose of hearing the objectio
" made by creditors to the discharge
x bankruptcy ,of Henry y-and Thomas Kir
- also, to hear and determine the cont
-. versy as tOscertain property in the case
= A. G. johnson, and to determine the pri,
>; ity of liens, and make distribution in t
case of Ely and Stimson, and to hear a
og determine all other matters that m
IL come before the court. The court will
ed continued from day to day until all
business is disposed of.
ses We call attention to the adverti
ment of w. H. Shaft, the carriage ma,
ms facturer, in this paper. Mr.. Shaft has !
over twenty years experience in his bl
ip- ness, and thoroughly understands it. a
,so- evidenced by the quality of the w
Gs. turned out at his manufactory. For 81
les. ish, we'll made and reliable work, we
recommend any one contemplating
Sc. purchase of carriage or buggy to his
81 tablishment. The patent ,two-bew
ing for the manufactures Of which Mr.. S
hen has the sole right in this part the st
is handsome and durahleand preferre
any other style by most persons who
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