The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1881-02-17
NEWS NOTES.


SMALLPOX prevails in Jersey City, n. j.
this Spring.
CHILLIcoTHE has had big cock-1ghting match.
Chilicothe is a sweet place.
+ DAVID HuTsINPILLER. of the Oldest residents |
OF Gallia County, died on last Thursday.
IN Tuscarawas County, Ohio. on last Friday, thou
sands of acres ofland we're under water.
THE great storms last week temporarily suspend
ed travel on several of the Ohio Railroads.
KENTUCKY scored another murder on last Thurs
day. That of James K. Mccormack, at Hustonville.
THE old Depot of the New York Central Railroad at
Buffalo. N Y, fell Wednesday last week. killing
five persons.
DURING 1880 512,ss12 letters passed through the
q. S. Mails. Postal cards, 1853 Oisel2; newspapers,
1870 ,1se.
THE Census Bureau furnishes some interesting fig
The municipal Indebtedness of300 cities aggre-
gates s66t.ooo,ooo.
THE total earnings of the railroads of Ohio $780,
from all sources ss ss3, 1857. Increase
1879 $s4 ,5i5oeo.n
BoDY-sNATcHERs attempted to steal corpse in
Cincinnati. few honrs after death, while the watch
were out of the room.
TIE latest remarkable pedestrian feat is that ofa
Fifth Avenue dandy in New York. who, on a wager,
walked ten miles in THREE HOURS.
MIss FLLEN,F. GILBERT. an estimabe Young lady
of Norwak. Ohio. struck and killed by the cars,
at that place on Wednesday of last week.
THE American Rarid Telegraph Company has been
organized TN New York. At recent trial of sneed
message of 500 words transmitted in 80
Cor. FsTF died,in Now York City last Wednesday,
was Colonel of the 18th Ohio during the war-suc-
inc a>ftIa
RowELL and Vaughan. the great English pedestri-
ans. arrived in New York Friday. They are en-
gage in great walking-match in that city, early in
next month.
"CARLYIE loved an old clay pipe."-cine inaati
The Commercial has heretofore spoken of Carlyle
"a sad old man." No wonder!
coLoREp man named Fred. Dickinson purchased
tuition in a college at Poughkeepsie. n. " but when
| the PRINCIPAL HIS color he refunded his money
and refused him admission.
THERE was fire damp explosion in the Northern
part of this State. last Thursday killing six
1t at the coal mine of p G. Manser Co., on the
| Niles & New Lisbon Railway.
DR.. WILLIAM TREvITT. an old time Democratic
politician died at Columbus Ohio. last week. He was
time Secretary of State and held other offices.
He died in his seventy-second year.
1T is said that Gen. schofeld who has assigned
New Orleans. is determined not go there but go
ST. Louis instead. Possibly the obstreperous
eral may be persuaded to obey orders.
! GEORGE HURD. at Springfield Ohio, fell down on
last Friday with load of melted solder which he
carrying. splitting the metal in his eyes, mouth and
| ears, burning himself in horrible manner.
GEORGE ScHRoLL, young German of Crawford
Co.. o.. has three young wives-but he isn't married
| to either of them. The Court of Common Pleas will
try at its next term to make George behave himself
THE Whitaker Court Martial is in progress In
New York. 1t would seem from the testimony that
General schofed and all the Cadets dead in love
with Whitaker. and very that he tied his own
hands and afterwards chewed his own ears.
| WILLIAM and Jane Bancroft of Marysvile, Ohio
lived together for twentysix years. few days ago
on petition of Jane, they were divorced. Inside o.
| twenty hours they were married again. They
never knew how much they liked each other unit
they were parted.
THos G. STUART, editor of the iWinehester, Ky.
Democrat called A. O. Quizenberry. editor the
liar and a coward1y puppy" then, without ever
seeing Quizenberry. had him arrested under peace
warrant and sent to jail. Both men are candidate,
for Representative.
Gov. MCCLELLAN, of New Jersey, has been elected
| President of underground Railway in New Yorl
City. The General ought to have grasped the ide;
sooner. If he had possessed underground railroad ia
cilties early in the war. he might have succeeded IL
getting into Richmond.
THE Society of the Army of the Tennessee Withhold
its annual union at Cincinnati, April 9Th and 7th
the anniversary of the battle of Pittsburg Landing
= We notice among the names of the Committee ol
'Toass.' that of A. B. Isham Asa is an old Jackson
County boy and was wounded in the
A SHORT time ago Col. Ingersoll lectured at VIII
mington. Delaware. his subject being "What Shal
We Do to be Saved?" At the opening of the Februar
term Court that place the Judge called the at
tention of the Grand Jury the lecture, and init
mated that the should be indicted for bias
phemy. He was not indicted.
Mr.. LrcEY of Medina County has n bill before th
Legislature providing for reform In the managemen
of the Ohio Penitentiary. The bill prohibits all crue
and dangerous modes of punishment provides tina
any convict who behaves well during Imprisonment
shall be furnished with certificate from the Warde
setting forth his good behavior. upon which certf
after the prisoners discharge the Governor sha
restore him to citizenship, and providing for man
: other humane reforms.
MAYNARD SICKIssoN, of Belmont Station. B. {
r. r., was Clerk in hotel. He eloped with his en-
ployers daughter and went to Zanesville-ostensibl
get married But arriving there he registered III
der an assumed name, representing the girl as h
wife. After they had retired to room. two police
men came along and marched them both to the cals
boose. Thus girl was saved from ruin, and viai
induced to take short walk
THE little Kentucky village of Tateville has mys
terry. James Barnett hearty dinner and went OIL
to chop wood. Becoming sick, he told his wife
call in the neighbors, as he going to die. Whe
the neighbors came he was dead. His son-in-law al
at the table, became sick threw up his dinner,
dog ate it and died. Then cat went into the rool
where the dead father-in-law lay, when 1t immed
ately stood on its head and continued to stand Il
head until 1t was killed. We do not vouch for I'll
truth of this story they make good deal of whi
ky in Kentucky, and other animals than cats stand
their heads over there.