The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1880-05-27
NEWS NOTES.

THE Anti -Third-Termers might join the Prohibi-
tion party.
CROP prospects in the far West are reported very
cheering.
CINCINNATI is proud of her May Musical Festival
And well she may be.
THERE is one consolation-if we have to shout for
Grant, it won't go awkward.
BROWN, the new Senator from Georgia, sis not a
friend to Ben. HILL WHO'S?
GRANT and Tilden should retire, and leave Reform
and Third Term to fight it out.
VICE PRESIDENT WHEELER prefers Hamilton
Fish a Presidential candidate.
''SHERMAN'' says the Cincinnati Commercial, will
go up like rocket" No, we guess not-scarcely
THE Reading Railroad of Pennsylvania, suspended
payment last week. being in debt between five and six
millions of dollars.
GEN. KILPATRIcK is reported saying that Grant
will be the nominee for President, and John Sherman
for Vice President.
THERE was great boat-race between Hanlan and
Courtney at Washington City, last week, which was
easily won by Hanlan.
WARNER NJ. BATEMAN will go to Chicago next
week to open up Sherman headquarters. A dry goods
box will be large enough.
AT a show at Coshocton, two lions quarreled over a
piece of food when seized the other giving him
wrench that broke his neck.
JONAH HUFFMAN of Troy, Ohio, man about 50
years of age threw himself out of fourthstory WIN
dow. and leaped over Jordan.
HAMILTON FISH is Grant man. Likewise, Ben.
Eggleston. Likewise, the great Republican party in
case Grant gets the nomination.
CHAsTINE Cox, the murderer of Mrs. Hull, in New
York, and who was to have been hung next Friday,
has been respited until July.
THERE'S no mistaking the growth of public senti-
ment in favor of Grant a monarch. Go into any
church and you will hear Lord Grant
HON. HORACE MAYNARD has resigned the Turkish
Mission, and accepted the Postmaster-Generalship,
and Gen. Longstreet will go to Turkey Minister.
MRS. FRANK COLLINS, of Urbana Ohio, has
brought suit for $4,000 against four doggery-keepers
under the Adair law. for selling her husband liquor
THE Democratic delegation from Minnesota is di-
rected to vote unit, without further instructions
he delegation stands Tiiden s. Thurman 2. seymour
and Field1.
THE rufhans who ran colored men away from the
polls at the Spring election In Shebyvie, Ind have
been arrested by Deputy US. Marshal, and bound
over in $1,000 EACH
GRANT gets nlinois-John Logan laughs-the SIN
dependents rave-and the great Republican settles
down a determination to vote for Grant if he is
nominated. 1t is well.
MR.. JOHN MCFADDEN, of Newcomerstown, Ohio,
writes to the Cincinnati Commercial that he will not
Grant. 1t cruel in McFadden to go back
the General and crush him. the of the Conven-
tion.
WARREN ROBINSON, near Wheeling, beat his wife,
Eliza Jane when she, Eliza Jane, aforesaid, pulled
out revolver and shot to death him. the said Warren
Robinson. All of which was eminently proper to be
done.
SENATOR KELLOGG arose in the Senate few days
ago, reply to Ben Hill and others, with regard to
the attempt to oust him, when Hill and his fellow
blackguard Vance fed to the cloakrooms and refused
to listen to Kellogg.
NEAR Fairview, KY, the other day, man was kill
ed by mob his head cut off and stuck up pole,
and his body burned to ashes. Brethren a collec-
tion will be taken for the Foreign Missions Fund.
Brother Snif1es, pass the hat!'
AT little village eight miles above Cincinnati,
Ohio, Mrs Schlenger was cutting grass for her cow.
Mrs. Bateman along and ordered her to stop cut
ting when she refused Mrs. Bateman emptied the
contents of a shotgun into her head.
GEN. Jos. E. JOHNSTON and Gen. Frank Cheatham
met last week in Alabama, and overoyed that
they both wept. This the first time they had
met since William Tecumseh Sherman thrashed them
together during the dark days of the war.
AN engineer near Richmond, Indiana, discovered a
little cn1lu on track. ana engine
down grade. He reversed the lever, and the fireman
got upon the cowcatcher and seized the little
lifting it onto the engine and saving its life.
JAMES F. SCOTT, Mayor of Akron, Ohio used to
sleep with two revolvers his pillow, but he
thinks of quitting it now. He dreamed the other
night that officer after him, and in taking out
one of the revolvers, shot himself in the head.
THE 'cheek'' of a Democratic politician mounts
away above and beyond anything else known to the
Universe. Ignatius Donnelly, the demagogue who
has been trying to steal the seat of Mr. Washburn has
modestly asked Congress pay him the of s4 200
for the attempted theft
GEN. GORDON having resigned as Senator from
Georgia and Gov. Colquitt having appointed j. E.
Brown to fill the vacancy the salwart Democrats of
Georgia are not well pleased. 1t is claimed that
Brown does not hate Gen. Grant with that degree of
intensity that would be pleasing to the Bourbon ele
ment of Georgia.