Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1879-12-04
School vacations for the rest of the

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The Ladies' Benevolent Society
held a meeting at the residence of Hon.
Jas. Pursell on Saturday last, and cleo
ted offers for the ensuing year as fol-
lows; President, Mrs. S, A, Rector;
Vice-president, Mrs. H. II. Edwards;
Treasurer, Mrs. j. W. Gillespie ;Secre-
tary, Mrs, j. S. Gold. The next meet
ing of the Society will be held next
Saturday afternoon, at the residence of
NJ. S. Sager.
-Fayette county now has nine in
mates in the Soldiers Orphans Home
at Xenia, which is one more than twice
the number the county is entitled to.
All the counties in the State are entitled
to representation in the House accord
ing to population, but some have no
children in the institution; hence other
counties are allowed to send more than
their proportion. The whole number
at the Home at present is 5G5.
H. E. w. Campbell, of Cincinnati,
Deputy Supreme Regent of the Royal
ArCanum, is visiting our city for the
purpose of organizing subordinate
council of this Order. This is a bene-
fetal secret society, instituted in Bos-
ton, June %, 1877. The deputy informs
us that there are eighty-three councils
in Ohio, over four hundred in the
United States, and total membership
of about 10000. We hear the Order
highly spoken Of.
The Catholic Church of this place
now has a resident priest. Father
Feldman, lately Of Dayton, has been
stationed here in charge of the church,
and they now have regular services ev-
cry Sunday. 1t is the intention of the
church to build a house for their priest
next spring. They will hold fair at
City Hall during holiday week, for the
purpose of raising money toward the
building of the house. The church
has a membership of about 15O, and is
out of debt.
The Court street railroad crossing
has become a dangerous place for
teams. The three railroads all cross
this street within few yards of the
bridge over Paint creek. Besides the
regular trains, there is good deal Of
switching done across the street, and
trains all there almost constantly. Per-
sons driving through the bridge are
unable to see a train approaching the
crossing until they come right upon it.
A guard should be stationed there to
prevent accidents.
"A colOred man named John Brooks
was arrested last Thursday, charged
with an attempt to commit rape upon a
young colOred girl named Kane, aged
eleven years, on the evening previous.
The assault as charged was committed
on the stairway leading to the rooms
above Brown Brothers, drug store,
about seven o'clock in the evening.
Brooks had an examination before
Mayor Barclay, which resulted in his
being bound over to court in 5000 bonds.
Failing to give bail he was sent to Jail.
The dog tax of the present yearin
this county will amount to $4,000, to be
applied to payment for sheep killed
and injured by dogs. Under the law
all money in excess of $1,000 remain
ing in the dog tax fund on the 1st of
of each year, is required to
be transferred to the school fund. Last
there was 81 400 in the dog
tax fund in the treasury, of which $400 |
was transferred to school fund and |
81 900 left for the payment of damages
to sheep. This, with the $4,000 to be
collected from the present duplicate,
will make $4,000 with which to pay
such damages the present year, which |
will be largely in excess of the amount
required, and leave considerable bal
ance to be carried to the school fund |
next September.
The teachers and pupils of our
public schools enjoyed Thanksgiving |
hugely, and went to work again on the
next day as though they meant bust
ness. 1t was disappointment, no
doubt, to many of them that the Board |
Of Education limited their Thanksgiv-
ing holiday to one day, as it has been
customary heretofore to allow them
two days for Thanksgiving. Custom
sometimes becomes law, but laws of
this character, like the statutes of a
State, are subject to amendment or re-
peal, and the board thought, in justice
10 the cause of education, there ought |
10 be an amendment to this two days
Thanksgiving holiday. They there
fore amended it by reducing the time
% one day, fully convinced that if
;eachers would be industrious they
could be as thankful in one day as they
could in two.
The Commissioners Of this county
few weeks since employed Mr.. c.
ofthe firm ofMorgantaler
Henderson, of Hamilton, o., to look
lp omissions in returns of property
o the assessors for:taxation in this
county. The above firm are engaged