The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1879-01-09

put in blast. He also informed US ths
there was an accident at Eliza Furnace
near Wellston, on Friday last. An Ell
CINE is in operation, used to hoist th
coal from the shaft. The head blew ou
of the boiler, passing through the Office
Three men were injured, named Smith
Booth and Ferry. There was a mule il
the bank, but the men succeeded in gel
ting it out on Saturday
There was an argument on Saturda,
among some boys, the point being wheth
er a boy could put his tongue against tn
iron fence in front of the Public Square
and then take it off. One boy said h'
could, and he did; but he left part of hi
tongue frozen to the fence. His tongue
is OF SO long as it was, but it is thicker
being badly swelled Boys, this is a dan
gerous experiment. You might as wei
put your tongue to red hot iron, as tc
touch it to cold iron, when the thermom
eter is below zero.
The Stockholders of the Jackson Iron
g. Coal Railroad Company met on the 9th
inst. at the office of Moore & Leach, and
elected the following named persons Di
rectors of said Company: l.. D, Lively
Jesse Lively, JOS. P. Lively, james M.
Lively, Joseph Humphreys, John Hum
phreys, and Randall R. Lively. The Board
of Directors organized by choosing l.. D.
Lively President, James M. Lively Sec,
retary, and Joseph Humphreys Treasurer.
The meeting of the Women's Foreign
Missionary Society, at our residence was
pretty well attended, when the extreme
cold of the evening is taken into consld-
Grafton. The members meet once
month, at some private residence. They
take something to eat, and when all thus
contribute, it aggregates big supper. If
the heather have as good supper as the
members placed upon our table last Fri
day night, they ought to be happy, with
out ham kering after a slice of fat mission
ary.
On Tuesday night the negro who some
Glm6 ago IOOUGQ bu6 AOuoCo VI 49, wy
and Mr. O'Rourke, at Wellston, broke
Jail. He. broke the bars of his cell and
made small opening through which he
crawled, and concealing himself in the
hall, rushed out when the door was open
ed to take the prisoners their supper.
Only one prisoner is now confined in Jail.
No blame can be attached to the new
iailer, Mr.. Yancey Lynch, the Deputy
Sheriff, who took charge of the Jail on
Monday.
Eben Jones was quite successful with
his concert on Tuesday night of last
week. The Court Room was crowded,
and the singing was grand. No wonder,
for Mr.. Jones has been training about
one hundred children for months past.
He has been doing noble work.
Only about one half the programme
was completed the first night. and on
Wednesday night it was finished, a fee of
ten cents admission being charged.
DIR. B. F. Kitchen has come to Jackson
to practice medicine. He has been at
Winchester for many years, and for a
time practiced at Oak Hill. He has a
fine reputation as physician at the points
where he has been located. His Office is
at the Office of the late DR.. A. B.. Mona
han, on Main Street, opposite the Public
Square. His residence is in the Dever
property, opposite the store of Price
Brothers.
We will refer to DR.. Kitchen again,
when we have more space.
An old man named Policy, who resided
walking along Main Street, near Dauber's
furniture rooms. on New Years Day,
when he suddenly threw up his hands,
and said "Oh.'' and fell dead. DIR. Will
liams informs us that death most likely
resulted from paralysis of the heart, as
persons are not apt to die instan taneously
from appoplexy.
We had a very pleasant visit on Thurs
day night from Hon, 81. S. Bundy and
wife.
By the way; Mr.. Bundy would make
very available candidate for Governor
We do not know that he could be induced
to run, on account of his private busi-
ness. We never mentioned the matter
to him.
We have to send out some half.sheets
this week, as we received large orders
since the outside of the paper was printed
We received large order from Waverly,
on account of the lecture of John T.
Moore, which will be found in the paper
this week.
During the Holidays we received calls
from several of our young men who were
home from college. Among them we
may mention Mr.. Jacobs, DR.. Hays, Will
Longbon, and several others
We have had fine winter weather dur
ing the past week. The thermometer at
the N. E. side of our Office indicated IL
below zero on Friday morning on Sat
urday, and II on Sunday morning
E. B. Bingham Esq, was elected Just
ice of the Peace last week in Milton town
ship John Stewart and VIM. Cutter of
Berlin were also candidates-all good
men for the position.
Court of Common Pleas will commence
on next Monday. Judge DuHadway will
preside. Judge Trip will take charge
in February.