The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1879-03-13
News Items.

The British troops have defeated the
Zulus in South Africa.
Judge H. A. Towne has been nomi-
mated by the Republicans as candidate
for Mayor of Portsmouth.
A company has been incorporated to
build narrow gauge railroad from Iron
ton to Jackson. Capital stock $4OO, 600.
Mrs. Lunceford, whose husband and
six children were burned to death at
Carbon Hill, Hooking county, has died of
grief.
Paul Boyton, the swimmer, stopped
over night at Ironton on Saturday night,
and started early on Sunday morning.
He passed Portsmouth at noon on Sun
day, but he did not land.
Congress failed to pass some of the
most important appropriation bills, and
the President has called an extra session,
to meet on the 18th of this month.
-Elihu Burritt, the learned black
He was consistent anti-slavery and tenn
perance man, and did much good during
his life.
"A dispatch in the Cincinnati Com.
mercial of Saturday says that a young
woman named Jane Briner drowned her
self at Richmondale, Ross county, on
account of love affair with man NAM
ed Davis.
"A couple of young fellows got drunk
at Hillsborough, and on their way home
one of them was fooling with revolver
and shot himself through the hand. He
then concocted the story that he had
been shot by tramp.
The men who were engaged in the
brutal business of cockfghting near Iron
ton, were indicted, and plead guilty.
Judge Harper fined the spectators five
dollars each, those more directly concern
ed seventy,fve dollars each, and the man
in whose room it took place was fined
one hundred and fifty dollars.
"A young man named Ed. Simmons
went to Hillsborough, sold his horse for
$50, then got to drinking beer, from one
saloon to another, and about s o'clock at
night was found lying dead drunk, rob-
bed of $50 and watch.
-Eldridge and Locey, who were en-
gagged in stealing VIM. BENEFITS wheat,
in Scioto township, this county. have just
been sentenced to the penitentiary for
three years for burglary, in Lawrence
county.
A dispatch in the Cincinnati Gazette
Of Saturday says that o. A. Odell, of
Richmondale. Ross county, has been
reading the Bible and thinking of relig-
ious matters until he has become partial
ly insane, and thinks that during Lent
he must not eat any food, and that he
has not eaten for eleven days. He is
much reduced, and will probably starve
himself to death.
Engine No. 5 on the Narrow Gauge
railroad was again battered up to some
extent last week. 1t is the engine that
the drunken man ran off with some
months ago. This time the trouble was
caused by cross tie being placed on the
track The celebrated detective John T..
Norris has arrested a woman in Clark
county for the offense.
John Bennett shot at Hugh Sweeney
in Lawrence county in year 1875. Lew
Morgan arrested him three years ago,
and he escaped from the boat near Mays
vile. Morgan recently found him in the
Missouri penitentiary and brought him
back to Ironton. Judge Harper last
week sentenced him to the penitentiary
for 20 years. Bennett was sent to the
penitentiary from this county some years
ago, we believe for horse stealing.
There was a most daring robbery
committed at Wilmington on the might
of March 1st. An old man named Had
ley was pursued as he was going home
about eight o'clock at night, and when ii
front of his residence he was knocked
down and robbed of his pocket book ant
a gold watch. He remained insensiblt
for about twenty-four hours. The pocke
book and watch have been recovered, anC
the robbers, named George johnson ane
George Williams are in Jail.