The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1879-06-05
News Items.

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The Democratic State convention
will be held in Columbus on Wednesday
Of this week
The principal news that fills the dai
ly papers, as usual, is an account of MUIR
der, suicide and hanging.
Gen. James Shields, late U. S. Sena-
tor from Missouri, died suddenly on last
Sunday evening, at Ottumws, Iowa.
The Postmaster at Chillicothe, Geo.
P. Holcomb, died last week, his illness
being only of weeks duration.
Two girls, aged IS and IA, named
Eva Williams and Emma Davies, were
drowned at Columbus while bathing in
the Olentangy river.
On the 2sth of May, 1859, the great
Irish poet, Tom Moore, was born. The
one hundredth anniversary of his birth
was celebrated in New York last week.
A negro named Cook shot man in
Cincinnati, named Black, because Black
had discharged him from employment in
a tobacco house. Black lived two or
three days after being shot.
The Washington House at Hagers-
town, Maryland, was burned last week.
One man is known to have been burned
to death, and several were injured. The
loss in property is about $4,000.
A great excitement was gotten up
last week in political circles, to bring
William Allen out as Democratic and
Greenback candidate for Governor, but
Mr.. Allen utterly refuses to be a candi-
date.
John Hortsman, of Lancaster, was
shooting rats through the cracks of
corn crib. His wife was milking on the
other side of the crib. He lodged load
of shot in her breast. causing serious
wound
There were very destructive rain and
wind storms in Missouri, Kansas and Ne
braska last week. Ths storms were more
destructive in Kansas than in the other
States named, and very much property
was destroyed, and many lives lost
Nine children were poisoned in Yer
mont by drinking water from brook in
which the carcases of dead horses and
cattle had been thrown. Seven of the
children died in a short time, and the
other two are not expected to live.
The rebel Brigadiers passed another
bill last week, the substance of which was,
that sovereign State is ''biger" than the
United States. President Hayes plaster
ed it over with another veto. This makes
the third veto since the Briggs met in ex-
ira session.
"A negro preacher in Louisiana got it
into his head that God had revealed to him
that the only way for him to escape the
devil was to kill every one he met
He shot man and woman, and the
man will probably die The fanatic was
finally shot and killed, while he was at
tempting to break down a door with an
ak.
"A man named Walker went over Nj
agara Falls last week. He had been on
big drunk, and he and another man
drank nearly an entire keg of beer, when
Walker went in skiff, and was carried
over. The skiff struck rock before it
made the plunge. Walker was thrown
out, and his body was ground to pieces
against the rocks before it was carried
over. About five hundred people wit
messed the awful and sickening sight.
Asa Packer, of Pennsylvania, is dead.
He was IS years of age. When II he set
out on foot to make his fortune. At that
time his entire property was not worth
500. He learned the trade of carpen-
ter, and after working at that for some
time. worked several years as farmer.
He then went into the coal trade. He
served two terms in Congress. At the
time of his death his property was worth
from $25, 100000 to $30,0O0,00O. He
founded Lehigh University, and gave it
100000. In his will he gave large
sums to different charitable institutions.