Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1879-12-25

The next lecture n,the Washing
ton Lecture Association will be deliver
ed by Mrs. Mary A. Liyermore, Janua-
ry 18th. The subject of the lecture
will be announced hereafter.
Next Sabbath will be observed by
all the churches in town as "Temper-
ance Day." Each Of the six Sabbath
schools will have temperance exercises.
Each pastor will preach on the subject,
and union mass meeting at night will
be held in the Presbyterian Church,
which, it is confidently expected, will
be addressed by Rev. John w. Wait, of
Bloomingburg. The suggestions Of
Judge Thompson, of Hillsboro, con-
cerning the steps necessary to secure
local option will be considered.
Miss Bertha stimson, youngest
child of Mr.. A. NJ. Stimson, received
yesterday as a Christmas present from
Mr.. W. Stillwell, of Philadelphia, the
largest and finest wax doll ever seen in
Washington. 1t is about four feet in
length, and so life-like, that, like Bar
NUNS mysterious lady, the first inquiry
invariably is, "Is it alive?" This mys-
terry in wax will appear at one of the
large show windows of Melvin, Silcott
& Co, to-day, and each day during the
holiday week. 1t is handsomely attired.
The Xenia SaRltght says: Receiver
Gimperling is making our little Mar
row Gauge fairly boom with business,
this winter. He has placed upon the
track 213 coal cars and six engines, and
wheels over the road about so car loads
of coal every day, yielding to the COM
pany over $4,000 per month. And yet
the road is not accommodating all the
business which is daily demanded of it.
Every day shippers of corn and stock
ask for cars and are turned away because
they cannot be had. We doubt if there
is a railroad man in this country who
would haye accomplished so much in
so short a period, 1t gives us pleasure
to note the achievements Of master
in railroad management, as Mr.. J. E.
Gimperling has shown himself to be-"
DIR. Salisbury was called to the
country last Sunday night about one
O'Clock, on a professional visit, and
during the heavy rain storm an hour
later he went out to start home, but
was surprised to find that the horse and
buggy were not where he had left them,
nor could any traces Of them be found
amid the storm that prevailed at
that time. After a fruitless search the
doctor was forced to borrow horse and
returned to town on horseback, in the
rain, firm in his mind that his horse
had either been stolen or had run off
and smashed up and ruined the entire
outfit. The next morning he started
out on the pike in the hope Of learning
something definite in regard to the
mystery, and when opposite Judge D.
McLean's residence at the edge of town,
he discovered the horse and buggy tied
to the fence, with nothing broken or
injured whatever. Mr.. Mclean no
ticing the horse with a buggy wander
ing up and down the road, without a
driver, hitched it to the fence, where
the owner would be likely to find it.
The horse had come some three miles
from the country, and no telling how
much farther it had gone, during one
of the worst storms of the season, and
yet nothing was broken, nor the horse
the least bit frightened.