The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1883-05-31


Sunday, cloudy forenoon. steady rain afternoon.
Monday, cold rain forenoon, cloudy afternoon.
TueeAay, cold rain all day.
Wednesday, cloudy.
Thursday, fine.
Friday, very fine.
Saturday, shswery.
DAILY OBSERVATIONS.
WEDNESDAY
Hon. II. s. Bundy is spending the day among
friends in town..
J.R. Booth is in very poor health.
Col. O. F. Moore, of Portsmouth is in town
to-day.
Mr. and Mrs. w. ]. Kirkendall spent the day
n.town.
John d. Davis, of Jefferson Furnace was in
attendance at the Huron sale to-day.
G. Rice has been laid up, sick for several
days, but is able TO be about again.
The brick are being hauled for DIR. Laird's new
residence on Broadway, near Mr.. Armstrong;.
( Miss Minta Stephenson, daughter Of John n.
Stephenson, is in very poor health, from lung
trouble.
Jones' Music Hall was gay last night with
rolIer-skating parties. The Band was out, and
there was lots of fun.
Marcus Kimberling and daughter left for
West Virginia on Wednesday, carrying with
them the good wishes of hosts of friends.
1t is as cold as ordinary winter weather-a
cold western wind blowing, yet the sun is max
ing a desperate effort to shine, occasionally.
Huron Furnace was sold this afternoon, by
Sheriff Cherington for sSo,OOl This leaves .
nice little balance yet due the creditors. 1t was
bid Off for Jackson and Portsmouth Banks.
We received a letter yesterday from Benz.
= Easterling. ofBaird's Furnace, Hooking County,
containing list of new subscribers. We are
always glad to hear from Ben.
Eldrigge Blackhart is at Oakland, California.
Eldridge has not been in Jackson, we believe.
for more than twenty years. He was play
mate of the junior editor of the Standard.
Well, there, we have missed it again! Occa-
sionally we have slight cold, and many of our
friends have cold, catarrh, headache, etc. But
to-day there called at our residence q travelling
doctor, with powder done up in wooden boxes,
which powder would absolutely cure anything,
from q running nose to case of pneumonia.
"After all doctors had given up" a patient, this
powder would perfect cure in a very short
time. Yet knowing our danger, and in the face
of this unhealthy weather; we didn't buy. He
generously offered us taste of it, but we would
not even taste. Man is pe-verse.
Yesterday there was storm. Yes storm.
The Democratic party of jackson County was
shaken from stem to stearn-especially the
stearn Sheriff Cherington tore the mask off of
somebody in a card in the Herald; a somewhat
prominent young Democratic statesman
thought 1t meant HIM, and he and the editor Of
!. the Herald fell upon each others peeks, on
Broadway Street, and breathed out their woe.
1.-The last we saw of them, together, they were
going into Billy Ryan's to talk it over.l Moral:
man may be too keen to rush into the news
papers.
THURSDAY.
Our latest advices do not state whether the
Sheriff of Pike County had gotten home from
the hanging or not.
Messrs. Summers & Horton, of the Music
Store, have presented Prof j. w. Hank with
an excellent organ. This is good gift, worth1-
ly bestowed.
Sheriff Cheripgton is driving his sorrel-and-
black team around town to-day, for training.
The black has improved wonderfully since the
Sheriff got him.
Elder ]. P. Ewing of Ripley, Ohio, writes to
friend here that he was chosen to deliver a
memorial address at that place on last Sunday,
as services were to be held on that day instead
of on Wednesday-decoration day.
Many persons expressed willingness to as
sist the Reading Room enterprise, after it be-
came fixed institution. Now the Room has
been running along smoothly and successfully,
Hr1fT ma
The Scott Law is working beautifully. A
prominent citizen of Bloomfield townships
man of ability and education-has been reeline
about the streets, drunk, for two or three days
To give his name would only anger him, per-
haps, and do NO good. But why, in the name
ofHeaven, will such men act in this manner
It is narrowing enough to see the drunken
loafers of jackson tumblipg about the streets
It is still more so to respectable men volun
tarily dragging themselves down to a level witt
street loafers and bummers.
ssTAs DeusI and the Dutch and the 5rorn ft,"-
We spoke some time ago of the terrific en-
counter between Gus. Bleichart and Billy Bic
gle. These bruisers had another bout yesterda.
evening at the hell-hoIe kept by Pete Fischer
It was a sort of free pftch-in, but they seemed t
all pitch into Bleichart. Gus. appeared upol
the streets this morning with his face resem
bling a pounded beef-steak, on one side, and
rotten pumpkin on the other. He had Begl
arrested and brought before Mayor james
where Bicycle offered to enter plea of guilty
but the Mayor regarded the case as aggre
waited one, and bound him over TO Court c
Common Pleas in the sum of one hundred do
lars. The best thing the authorities could d
would be to put these two fellows in an encos
ure som mewhere, and let them eight it out.
II they should succeed in killing each othe
the public would try and stand 1t, somehow.