The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1881-02-10
NEWS NOTES.

NEW YORK is having good deal of smallpox.
the South.
THE population of Indiana is l,s7s,S62. There are
$4,000 colored people in the State.
DURING last week there tremendous freshets
in California doing much damage.
GEO. II. THOMAS was the greatest fighter of the
war. His widow receives.no pension.
GEORGE EDWARDS and Thomae Lynch were killed
by the breaking of fy-wheel in rollng-mill at
Youngstown, Ohio.
JOHN P. o'BRIEN editor of the Cleveland Sunday
Times, has arrested for sending obscene litera-
ture through the mails.
THE English statesmen do not always tread paths of
The residence of the Premier Gladstone has to
be guarded by policemen.
ApAssENGER car on q Minnesota Railroad jumped
from the track and rolled down embankment sixty
feet high, seriously injuring several persons.
A MEDICAL student named Henry Fairbanks, at Ann
Arbor, Mich, sat up until midnight, playing cards
with couple of women, then shot and killed himself.
suAMUs O'BRIEN of Urbana, is again in trouble.
He has been bound over to answer for highway rob-
berry, 1.-THE bravest and thruest boy iv them al' will
probably go TO the Penitentiary.
PHILIP FINDLAY, of Cincinnati, went home drunk
and the young went to work on his step-father
with a razor, almost scalping him.
THE New York. Chicago & St. Louis Railroad Com
pany has been organized, with capital stock of
sl6.OOo,oOo. The Company win build and operate a
trunk line from New York to St. Louis.
A CATHOLIC PRIEST, Father Audran, of Jefferson
Vile, Indiana, in recent sermon, came out strongly
In favor of temperance, and Immediately organized
Total Abstinence Society in his Church.
MEMBER of the Maine Legislature, named Swan.
has been detected in conducting swindling operations
through the mails, and the Clerk of the Maine Legis-
lature calls his name in vain. He is not there.
MRS. ANDREW McBARRoN, of Harrison County,
Indiana has brought suit for $4,000 damages against
Lawrence Steerstetter doggery keeper, for causing
the death of her husband through delirium tremens
A coLoRED girl of Montgomery County, Nd, at
tempted poison a whole family by putting arsenic
in their buckwheat cakes. The family consisting of
eight persons became violently Sick but escaped with
their lives.
THE Government has purchased whaler to send in
search of the Jeanette. which sailed for the Arctic
region 1879 and of which all has been lost
She is believed by old sailors to be frozen in icefeds
off Wrangal Land.
| GEORGE w. FLOWERS colored In prison al
Muncie, Ind. hung himself with blanket from his
bed Being cut down and resuscitated. he afterward
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was almost dead when found
THOMAS BUFoRD, the Kentucky murderer has been
Asylum for the Insane, and attorney has
been allowed 200 for acting Prosecuting Attorney
in the Bufords insanity consisted in shooting
| a Kentucky Judge, with shotgun.
A NEW method of producing heat FOR steam boilers
| has been discovered. 1t is produced by combina.
tfon of dry steam with crude petroleum, flowing
through different pipes and joining certain point
where the heat is produced. successful experiment
was recently made in Jersey City, Nj.
ard has taken charge of West Point. They ought t.
start Freedmans' Bank for his benefit" Time was
away back in the past, when Putnam's Democratic
Howard's neighborhood. Or any ether convenient
| thing to hide behind.
| On last Thursday, at Williamsport, Pa, Mrs. Mil
Ter and George Smith were hanged for the murder o
Mrs. Miller's husband. On the scaffold Mrs. Miller
was complety broken down, but Smith. who testified
that he the real murderer, humbly thanked tn,
Lord that he ready and prepared to go. Of
this murderer went to inherit eternal glory but where
| did the poor, sinful, murdered man go?
A SAN FRANCISCO man had the contract for ship
ping Asiatic elephant from San Francisco to Phil
| adelphia. The railroad company would not allow
in the and the animal could not stand cold
The contractor hit upon novel plan for producing
heat He placed the elephant in box car and piled
stable compost around it, just leaving its head above
the heap. When the temperature lowered water was
thrown upon the heap, which ferment. and produced
warm vapor. In this manner the animal was con-
veyed, safe and sound, to Philadelphia. -