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The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1884-02-28

A few days ago three persons
old man, his wife, and adopted daugh-
ter-all colored, living near Avondale,
a suburb of Cincinnati were murdered
for the purpose of getting their bod
les to sell to Medical College. Their
house was then fired and burned. The
Marshal of Avondale found their bod
les at the Ohio Medical College, where
one of the Professors acknowledged
to a reporter that he noticed their
skulls being in a crushed condition
when they were brought in. The
bodies were taken away from the Col
lege. What pity it is that the laws
are not such that the managers of
Medical Colleges could be made par
ties to the murder, in all such cases.
Grave-robbing itself ought to be made
a capital offense, but when the eager
ness to make money by selling bodies
reaches the point of murder in order
to get bodies, it is time little legis-
Iation was done for the benefit of the
Colleges"
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An Evening at the Mayors Office!

On Saturday EVENING" we dropped into
the Mayors Court to see how things were
running, and found that the Court was
in session. Sitting near the stove was a
square built, stout-looking fellow who
gave his name as James Thompson, and
his occupation that of umbrella-mender.
His head presented a horrible appearance.
There was a great peeled spot above his
left eye; his left cheek was dreadfully
bruised and swollen; and his left eye
closed. He had no shirt on, and claimed
that he had to take it off to bandage his
head with. In arresting him the officers
were compelled to handle him roughly,
and he had fallen upon the pavement
striking upon his face.
"Mr. Tompson," said His Honor, "you
are charged with disturbing the peace by
being intoxicated in the streets. Are you
guilty, or not guilty?"
81 suppose might as well plead guilty,
but 1 disturbed nothing!
"Were you not drunk, and setting down
in the street attracting public attention.
II was sittin' there, drunk, and told the
officers I would go with them, if they
would let me alone
"Well,' remarked Mayor James, Il saw
you resisting the officers, vigorously.
You must pay fine of five dollars and
costs, and stand committed until fine and
osts are paid"
Il have no money!" said the gentle
Jimmy, and Tom Grifiths, after having
sponged him off so that he would not
Ell foo h{Y,,f fo oil
At this point young man came in and
informed the officers that two men were
lying helplessly drunk in front of the
doggery at the corner of Pearl and Ports
mouth Streets, and that the wife of
doggery keeper was sick within the
house. A sweet place, certainly, for
woman to be sick, where they sometimes
forget to close up even on Sunday. Then
there was no uneasiness felt for the wives
of these drunkards.
So the poor devils, after having spent
all their money, and gotten drunk in the
saloons were dragged off to prison, and
the doggery-keepers began looking out
for their next victim. The pocket-book
of one of these men was brought into the
Mayors Office, and contained ta0o cents!
The Chilly Man.
A tall, lank man, with an innocent
looking countenance, and wonderful |
flow of CAB, was escorted in by Officer
Griffiths. He huddled up to the red-hot
and tried to shiver. We saw
at once that his leading characteristic
was chilliness.
"What is your name?' asked the May
Or.
"My name is William Frakes," said the
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Total for the week.
Court off Common Pleas,

The Grand Jury got through Wednesday, and
made the following report:
To the Honorable James Tripp, Judge of the Court
of Common Pleas, Jacksln County, Ohio
The Grand Jury of the Court OF CommaA Pleas of
county, the February Term 1884, beg leave to
that they have been in session three days. and
herewith return 70 the Court the indictments pre-
sented by said jury. We have carefully examined
into all such such matters have legitimatey come
to notice having examined over forty witnesses,
covering thirteen cases. and eight bills and
ignored five cases considered by u.s. The business
has been transacted in as expeditions a manner as
possible. During our session we have visited the
County Jail, and made complete examination there
and find that the rules prescribed by the Court
the care thereof and for the government of Its
mates been carried out and properly enforced.
Confined in said Jail found two persons under
sentence of death. one charged with burglary and
larceny, one charged with incest, and charged
with assault and battery We also found one person
in said Jail insane but harmless, and not kept in close
Respectfully Submitted,
ANDREW HENSON Foreman
February 90, 1884.
The indictments are for murder in the first de-
gree, (Friley) for incest for throwing into
car three assault and battery and two for assault
Report ofresolution adopted by Bar Association.
Feb. 20, 1884. Feb. Term, Court of Common Pleas,
Jackson County.
Atameeting of the Bar Association of said county
and Court held this day. the following unanimous
ly adopted: Whereas domestic afliction of severe
character has invaded the home of the Clerk of this
Court in the OF his wife, who is the daughter
the presiding Judge, therefore, be 1t resolved that
1t the unanimous opinion of this Association that
private affection and public duty will be alike
served by an adjournment of the present term to such
date the presiding Judge may indicate, and that
Brother Laird behalf of the Bari present this
solution to the Court.
JOHN T. MOORE President.
j. NJ TRIPP Secretary.
pursuance ofthe foregoing resolution 1t is order
ed that Court adjourn to and half O'Clock Monday
morning, February %, 1884,
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Death Of Mrs. L. P. N. Smith.

'Our readers will be panied to learn
of the death of Mrs. Rebecca Smith,
wife Of the late L. P. N. Smith, which
occurred at her residence in Sciotoville,
at 10 o'clock yesterday forenoon. Mrs.
Smith was operated upon for cancer
twice in the past year, and the excit-
ment incident to the food probably
hastened her death"
We find the above in the Ports
mouth Times. Twenty years ago, as
Assistant Assessor, we had business
often at Jackson Furnace, where the
Smith family then lived. We often
stopped there over night, and found
Mr.. and Mrs. Smith to be most hospi-
tai and kind. Mrs. Smith was 63
years Of age, at the time Of her death.
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John w. Brehmer, a farmer in
Coshocton County, went home from
Newcomerstown, drunk on last Thurs
day night, and tried to kill his wife
with knife. His son interfered,
when the drunken brute got a shot
gun and fired into the sons breast,
mortally wounding him. Yet some
scoundrel in Newcomerstown, who
keeps doggery, got Brehmer's mon
ey, s'to help mine poor vanity along, !"
and the public opinion Of that place
will perhaps recognize him as a pub
lie spirited ''peesness" man.
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TOLoNo, ILLINOIS,
nnl LOO
FEB, 10th, 1854.

l am a son Of John Conner, whom
you know. I send you a few lines to
the firm old Standard, of which we
are all constant readers.
| have just returned from Kansas
This is my 23rd birthday. Father and
mother got up a good old Buckeye
dinner for the occasion, and called in
a few friends to partake Of it with us
l am we'll pleased with Kansas, and
intend to make it my future home.
Crops were good last year, and good
for wheat SO far the coming
year. Marion county is Republican
by large majority, and it promises
for the future.
Yours With Respect,
c. L. Gomez.
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The body of Salmi Morse, author
Of the passion Play" was found
floating in East River, New York, on
last Friday. He was a native of Ger
many, born Of Jewish parents. He
had devoted nearly his whole life to
Biblical studies, and regarded the
passion Play,", which illustrated
the life and work Of the Savior, in
senic displays and impersonations up
on the theatrical stage-as the culmi-
nation of all his study and the crown
ing glory Of his life. He was sixty
years Of age, and claims to have spent
one hundred and fifty thousand dol
lars upon the play, yet the New York
authorities would not permit the pre-
sentation Of the play in that city. 1t
is thought Morse committed suicide
from disappointment.
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ST A N D A R D
EXIT RAJ!

On Friday evening, February Goth,
we will issue a small extrl, containing
an account of the murder of Ander-
son Lackey by Luke Jones, William
Jones and Laban Stephens, their
trials, the hanging IF the hanging Of
the Jones Brothers, with their correct
likenesses, which we are now having
engraved in Philadelphia. The price
of the extra will be 5 cents, to any
place in the United States. 1t will
be for sale on the streets of Jackson
in twenty minutes after the murderers
are dead.
A few advertisements will be taken,
if sent in at once, at 5 cents per line.
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Before the Committee of Tnvestiga-
tionof tLs Danville massacre, appear
ed a white haired old villain named
Graves, who testified that he had pur-
chased and carried a pistol as meas
ure of safety from "the naggahs sah!'
Senator Lapham asked the long-hair-
ed statesman if he had ever been as
saulted by colored people and he read
lily replied in the affirmative. Upon
being requested to elucidate, he stated
that ''niggah" woman walked too
near his wife on the street, and he
caught her and threw her off Of the
pavement. At other times colored
ladies had unwittingly run against
him. And those were the assault"
which the murderous old dog claimed
were justification for his carrying a
revolver and shooting at colored men.
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man, "and / live in Hamden--make pick
handles for all Wellston-sometimes take
orders, sometimes cash-sell some in
Jackson-some to Mr.. Gibson-came
down this morning and was going back
to-day-don't kno7O aOhy I didn't go''--
Haven't you been shut up in the lock-
up?"
"Why y-e-s-mighty cold in therein
allus chilly-thought was put on ice"-
Were you not drunk on the streets ~
"Oh, no! No SIR! Might a. took a glass
or two of beer for bad cold-you know,
Squire, I'm allus chilly
Here the officer stated that the man
was drunk and fell through the window
of McGuire's saloon.
"Oh, no-no-no-that was my head
Squire, I've got the staggers in my head.
sometimes stagger when don't drinkp'
"Then what do you drink for?"
"Only for cold, Squire-honest truth
die in minute-only for a chilliness-
come to think, was little staggery
when I got up this morning. Fact is, 1
can't remember much about it,"
"Did you ever carry any weapons?"
"Oh, no, nothin' but my pen-knifer'
Here the Court brought forward the
most murderous looking jack-knife we
ever saw. The handle was about five in
ches long, and the blade perhaps four and
a half. The man declared that he only
used this "pen-knife" to scrape pick-han-
dies with.
did you ever fight any2" asked His
Honor.
"Oh, yes, I've had some pretty hard
ones"
"How did you come out?"
"Only jist middle'n'w
"Well, what say you to this charger"
"How can I say what you charge ?
Make out the bill yerself, Squirer'
'Well, I'll give you the lowest penalty
one dollar and COSTS" The man bright
ened up.
"How much is the costs, Squire?"
"Three dollars and sixty cents
Gee aOhiz!"
"Well, you know" said the Mayor,
laughingly, "that the officers get out of
flour and meat once in a while"-
Eyes, but what'l do for flour an meat,
Squire, eff have to pay this? I've got no
money"
"Then go to Jail, and work it out on the
chain gang, at Is cts. day." replied the
Mayor.
But the mans eyes looked like couple
} of peeled onions at the thought of jail
and the chain gang. He protested that
he had the staggers in his head, that he
only drunk beer for bad cold, and that
all Wellston would suffer for pick-han-
dies, if he were incarcerated. "Then,'
said he, "spos'n some O. the newspapers
I'D git holt O this. an publish that Bill
Frakes got tight. They'd never let up on
me, about Hamden. 1 tell ye, Squire
they don't treat man this way in oul
. town. And he began to enter into neg
citations with the Mayor to trust him
until he could go home and make more
} pick handles, and send him the money
He was dreadfully afraid of the Jail
"An' Squire" said he, "ef it's flour and
, meat ye want, jist come up to Wellston
where I sell pick-handles, an I'll pay ye il
J orders"
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JOHN MACKLEY.

Last week we printed 1908 copies
of the Standard, and by noon on Sat-
urday, all were gone. This week we
add another quire.
We do not regard the number Of
our subscribers as anything extraordi-
nary, but we do feel little fattered
I~ the character of our subscribers.
There are very few who do not pay
honestly and promptly.
Call in and look over our printed
subscription list.
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Master Commissioners Sale.

State of Ohio, Jackson County, IS.
Court of Common Pleas.
Berry q. Jackson ct al. VS.. Robert NJ. Kent ct al.
In pursuance of an order and decree made by
said Court in this cause, and pursuant also to
an order OF sale issued therein by said Court and
to me directed as Master Commissioner thereof,
1 will offer for sale at public auction, on
Saturday, the 1st Day of March, A.
d. 1884,
at one O'Clock P. M, at the door of the Court
House, in said county, the following lands and
tenements, situated in the county of jackson,
and State Of Ohio, and bounded and described
as follows, to-wft:
The n. e. or. of the n. e. or. OF Sec, Is, Tp, q,
Range 20, Appraised $2S0.00.
The s. e. or. of the N. e.. or. of Sec Is, I'd, G.
Range 20. Appraised at $4,000.
The n. e. or. of the s. e. or. of Sec. 10, I'd, 6,
Range 20. Appraised at $4,000.
Also the following lands and tenements in
Pike County Ohio, to-wit:
D The n; ". OR. OF the n.w;qr:; of Sec. 10, TIP. o,
The "a OF the 8. W. or. of the u, W. or. of Sec.
10, TIP. 6, Range 20. Appraised at 5000,
Terms-Cosh In hand on the day Of sale.
Given pnder my hand this 96ih day Of Janu-
ary, A. ID. 1884. J, W. LONGBON,
janSlw5 Master Commissioners.
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Fire Damp.

At Leisenring, Pennsylvania, lit
tie town four miles from Uniontown,
on last Wednesday, (2Oth,) twenty
one miners were at work in a shaft
mine, when there was an explosion of
fire damp, eight hundred feet from
the bottom Of the shaft, making such
a conclusion as to break the top off Of
a derrick on top Of the ground. Two
Of the twenty-one men escaped. Nine
teen dead bodies were hauled out to
tell the sad story Of the horrible work
of the explosion.
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ing, but was not past going. john
son staid at my saloon until about 10
o'clock, my shutting up time. did
not see see anything strange or unus-
ual about johnson when he came
back after starting home with Nc
Cloud.
John Conrad.
William Tuttle being first duly
sworn deposes and says:
I am 63 years old. Live in Berlin.
I keep grocery and saloon. | have
seen Benjamin F. McCloud once be-
fore the Goth of Feb, 1884, and knew
him that day when l saw him. He
came into my place, and johnson,
was sitting there, and they shook
hands with each other. McCloud
then sat down in chair next to the
stove. l also sat down. | think he
had been drinking some before he
came there, but did not think he
was much intoxicated. His conversa-
ton was too good for that. He asked
me if l had any good cigars. told
him l had not He then gave some
money to boy to go to McKeever's
to get him some cigars. He and
johnson went over in Berlin, then
they came back and came into the
house, while we were at supper, and
johnson called for supper, and ate his
supper, but McCloud did not eat. AS
soon as johnson was done eating he
said, now, McCloud, I am ready, and
then they both went off together, and
I did not see them any more that
night, but johnson knocked at my
house door and 1 would not get up. l
understood he said fellow wanted to
see me up on the corner. I had gone
to bed, and did not get up. This, l
think, was little before s o'clock.
Wm. TRttle:
Henry Black being first duly sworn
deposes and says:
am 25 years old On Wednesday
evening I went into Ccnrad's saloon
with Benjamin F. McCloud. He call
ed out the drinks. | drank some
whisky. Hepoured out some whisky,
bat did not drink any. This was af-
ter dark. I saw him before that. He
said he got off at the accommodation
train. I saw George johnson there
in the saloon talking, and drinking,
and eating at the bar with McCloud
when I left. When I came back
Johnson was there, but Mceloud was
not hid not 600 NeCloud after that.
johnson staid in the saloon "i'if
about 10 o'clock at night. McCloud
was drinking more than I ever saw
him drink, and I was pretty well &C
quainted with him. Johnson was al
so drinking considerable. thought
both Of them staggered some. don't
recollect of seeing them any other
place in town that evening.
Henry Black.
There were several other witnesses,
but their testimony had nothing ma
terial in it.
Coroner Smith gave verdict that
McCloud came to his death by vio-
lence, at the hands Of parties unknown
to him, and was placed upon the rail-
road track after being killed.
Johnson had preliminary hearing
at Wellston on Saturday, was bound
over, and returned to Jail.
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Died.

ofconsumption, in Jackson, o., on the 18th Of Feb
ruary 1854, Elizabeth Reynolds consort of Mr.. John
Reynolds, aged thirty-thr years, two months and
one day Her maiden name Stone, and she was
married to John Reynolds Dec 25 1870, in Seioto Co.
She leaves two sons and two daughters, the Oldest
being daughter of twelve years. She resided with
her family in Jackson for nine years past except
short residence in Hooking Co., o. Deceased was an
excellent Christian woman, faithful wife and moth
er and an obliging neighbor. She was n member, in
good standing in the Christian Church. and endured
her long suffering with patience and fortitude born
only of Christian Faith and Hope in both Of which
she died triumphant. Her funeral took place from
the Christian Chapel in this place Feb 10, conducted
by Elder s. H. Bingham, of Wilmington, o., and at
tended by large number of sympathizing friends.
The bereayed family have the sympathy of the entire
community. Mr.. Reynolds intends to keep his family
together If possible. May the Divine blessing be with
him and his. S.H. BINGHAM.
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w. I'll. Barnum, Chairman of the
Democratic National Committee. ex-
pressed the belief, in recent inter
view, that Senator Payne is too old to
run for the Presidency. A Democrat
too, old to run for office? Blow, Ga
hriel. hloMi
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"a man in Wheeling had $270O OF
gold in his house when the flood struck
him, taking house and all. He lost
the money.'-Ironton Register.
That's the great danger of keeping
so much money. It has been long
time since we kept twenty seven hum
dred dollars in our house.
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Our thanks are due to Senator John
Sherman for his speech on alleged
outrages in Virginia and Mississippi,
and to Charles Rhodes for copy Of
the report of the Auditor Of State.
We will have use for both Of these
documents hereafter,
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From Illinois.

From Illinois.
ToLoNo, ILL,
Feb, 90, 1884.
To the Editors of the Standard:
You will please send me the extra,
containing the account of the murder
of Anderson Lackey, by Luke and
Bill Jones, and Laban Stephens. l
used to be we'll acquainted with An
derson Lackey-we were playmates
together.
You will please send me John
Mackley's P. o. address, as | want to
write to him.
Yours with Respect,
JOHN Conner.
John Mackley's P. 0. is Concordia,
Cloud county, Kansas. Ed
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Bro. Wilson, Of the Ironton Regis
ter, has made the discovery that these
big, destructive floods come after a
Democratic victory in Ohio. Well, il
there ever was time when flood OF
water land soap, too,) was more neces-
sary than Immediately after Demo-
cratic victory, we would like to know
when and where.
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Ietal Disbursements .,.,s..r:.'tf..'';it: ff'' =
The committee are also gratifed to be able to re-
port that of the promptness of our people
in responding the call for help, they were enabled
to send the first load Of supplies to both Ports
mouth and Ironton, which supplies were thankfully
and gratefully received by the people Of those places
The following resolution was also unanimously
adopted:
Resolcsd, That the thanks of this Committee
hereby rendered Jno. L. Davies and B. Watson, for
their services in preparing the above report.
On motion D. D. DUNCAN, Treasurer, was instructed
to keep the balance aow in his possession, viz sos2
until otherwise directed By this Committee.
We made an earnest effort get the balance of this
report committee in time to get 1t in the
per this week, but did not succeed in getting it
until Monday night and 1t then too late We will
publish it next week.-[ED. STANDARD.
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Subscribers are pouring in for our
extra from every direction. We have
subscribers for it in Iowa, Illinoise,
Kansas, Missouri, Colorado, &c. On
Monday we received 80 names, with
the money, from Ben. Easterling, of
Baird's Furnace, Hooking county,
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A dispatch from Columbus to a
Cincinnati daily, states that the pres
ent Legislature has SO bungled its
work that there is a prospect OF "ful-
ly one half of its work being defect
ive." It will be subject for congrat-
ulation if all Of its work is not sadly
dofaofiva
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LETTER LIST,


List of letters remaining in the Postofice at jack
son, Ohio, for the week ending Feb. 23, 1884.
Auer, John K. Burce, Martin.
Corn, Miss Allie. Davis, Mrs. Mary G..
Deal, John. Douglas, Lafayette.
Houton, VIM. j. Jones, Miss Maggie.
Minnix, Miss Sarah A. Martin, Mary.
Maon, Mrs. Eliza. Montgomery, Lizzie E.
oliver, Miss Loucinda. oliver John M.
Thacker, Miss Susan. Vitita, Mrs. James.
Wise, A. J. Jones, John Jas.-Foreign,
Jones, ,Joshua-Package. in care of T. Williams.
Persons sending for advertised letters, will please
send written receipt
If not called for in four weeks will be sent to Dead
Letter Office.
Persons calling for any Of these letters please say
advertised" and give date oflist.
B. F. HoLCoMB, p. NJ.