The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1879-03-06
News Items.

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The Republican State Convention
will be held at Cincinnati on the 2Sth
day of May.
The town of Reno, Nevada, was al
most entirely destroyed by fire last Sun
day morning. Loss over a million dol
lars Five persons lost their lives.
News comes from Dutch Flat, Cali
fornia, that the last Chinese shanty has
been burned, and an indignation meet
ing has been called on account of the
veto.
Fourteen men were sent to the Pen
itentiary from Highland county at the
recent term of the court, and the pros
pect is that there will be a pretty full
delegation at the next term.
There were five fires in Columbus
last Saturday night, all caused, it is sup
posed, by incendiaries. A large amount
of property was destroyed, at one place
$4,000 bushels of corn being burned.
Pittsburgh. and Allegheny county, will
have to pay the railroad companies five
million dollars for the property destroyed
by the mob in the summer of 1877. 1t
will almost ruin the taxpayers, and they
want the State of Pennsylvania to as
sumo the responsibility.
The Philadelphia Times tells of a
young man who, while eating at res
taurant, swallowed his artificial teeth.
There were two teeth, on small plate.
1t lodged an inch and half above the
stomach. He died of starvation, after
seven weeks.
Paul Boyton (not Boynton, as many
papers have his name) is on his way from
Pittsburg to New Orleans, floating on his
back on the Ohio River, amid floating
ice. He will pass the extreme southern
bend of the Ohio River this week, passing
Gallipolis, Ironton. Portsmouth, &C., at
the rate of about four miles an hour.
"A house at Carbon Hill, ten miles
south of Logan, took fire from defective
stove pipe, last Friday night, and seven
of the family, named Lunceford, were
burned to death, leaving only Mrs.
Lunceford and her infant child. Mr..
Lunceford got out with his wife, and
then went back to try to save the chill
dren, and perished with them.
There was a regular affair of honor
at Louisville, Kentucky last Friday.
Hugh Bell, Police Sergeant, and Tom
Crittenden, son of the U. S. Marshal of
kentucky, fought in regular style. The
fight lasted one hour, when one of Crit
tenden's eyes was nearly pounded out,
and finger of his right hand was dislo-
Gated. Bells nose was split, and his face
sadly disfgured.
Governor Bishop has at last settled
the question of State Librarian.
Some weeks ago it was announced
that John H. Putnam, OF. the Ohio States
man, had received the appointment.
This proved to be incorrect, and now the
name of II. V. Kerr, editor of the Ohio
State Register, at Washington G. H., has
been sent to the Senate for confirmation.
AT Bridgeport, Connecticut, Frank
Bassett and Mrs. Alexander have been
sent to the State prison for life, for the
murder of Frank Weinbecker, known as
"Stuttering Jack" They murdered him
in order to sell his body to doctor.
They murdered him with chloroform,
and then crowded the body into barrel,
and hauled it to the doctor, but failed to
solo nd Io1 I, Lorn
out of the wagon, by the side of the
road.
Archbishop Purcell, of Cincinnati
has been in financial trouble for some
time, and the matter is assuming fearful
proportions. 1t seems that the Arch
bishop has been acting as kind of bank
er for the Church, and his Indebtedness
has now reached the enormous amount Of
between five and six millions of dollars
The property which he holds to secure
this is estimated at only $4,000. 1t is a
most disgraceful thing for the Church.
"A colored school teacher named J..
Q. Price was teaching school of colored
children near Samantha, Highland coun-
ty, some eight miles from Hillsborough.
His school was out, and he had an exhi-
bition at night. A drunken negro
named Fountain Peyton raised disturb
ance. when he was put out. Three or
four other roughs came to his aid, and a
general fight took place, in which clubs,
razors and revolvers were used. Several
men were dangerously wounded.
On the 18th of February two women
in costly apparel were walking along a
crowded pavement in the city of New
York. They observed two young men
apparently keeping in sight of them on
purpose. Suddenly the young men rush
ed upon them, and ierked a diamond
ring from the ear of one of the women,
tearing her ear. The ring was worth
$500. The robbers escaped, although a
crowd of people saw the robbery. One of
the robbers has just had his trial. and
has been sent to the Penitentiary for
twenty years. H. is only nineteen years
of age.
Cock fighting is becoming very popu-
lar among gamblers and rufians. A
great match came off in Philadelphia re-
Gently a description of which fills COL