The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1884-09-18
DAILY OBSERVATIONS.


afternoon. ...... The boys at school &C
in their work this afternoon in a game c
ball Johnny Grassland was watchin
some boys playing ball, when ball wa
knocked against him with great force
striking him in the jaw, knocking som
of his teeth loose, and bruizing him Sc
verely. 1t is a subject of wonder tina
some of the little fellows are not kille,
by this dangerous game within the nar
row limits of the School yard. Large
stout boys, will bat hard ball through
a crowd of little fellows, regardless of wh'
gets hit 1t was proper in Prof. Kinnisol
to stop ball playing by the larger boys il
the grounds. ........ We had a pleasant
call to-day from our old friends Mr.. anG
Mrs. L. d. Lively. They were accompa
MED by their pretty niece, Miss Carrie
Morton, of Gallia county ......A gentle
man coming in on the Ohio Southern
to-day stated that one of the train men OF
passengers propounded this conundrum
"Why is the Maine Senate like Heaven
After all had given it up, came the an
swer: Because there are no Democrats
thereP' Well, it wouldn'r be like Heaven
to a Democrat, if he were there. .........
Jacob Bertsch struck Gustav Geiger be-
tween the nose tonight, and Gus got mad
over it.
THURsDAY.-John Wilcox, jr., of Niles,
Vinton County, called to-day. ......T. J.
Williams, of Buckeye Furnace, is in
town. Poor and Hoskins shipped
three cars of stock to-day, and Oppenhei-
mer shipped one car. Poor and Hoskins
bad to call the police to run the boys away
from their stock-pen. This is danger
Gus place for boys at best. go. Mr. and
Mrs Aaron Mclaughlin called at this Of
flee to-day. 49,. Tremendous excitement
to-day over the ball game in Chillicothe,
and late tonight men are swearing mad
at the telegraph for not bringing news of
the exciting contest. The mob and rabble
at Waverly was about to devour Powell
at Waverly yesterday. The police
brought up before the Mayor tonight
Chris Halterman, "the Mormon Preacher"
The boys made Chris believe there was
terrible state of affairs in the jail-that
the prisoners were numbering one another
right and left. The prisoner begged pite-
ously not to be sent to jail-he was afraid
to go there. But Chris. had "grieved
away the spirit" and the officers hardened
their hearts. Mrs. J. E. Kinnison has
been suffering severely for some time with
fever. .... Well, the "cold wave" came;
he weather cooling off in the night to a
regular fall breeze.
FRIDAY.-William Emmons, Abe Ran
zin, and sevearl other citizens of Wash
ngton township, are in to-day, as wit
lesses before the Mayor. "A Demo
;rat who had vastly more conceit than
was spouting to crowd of
7oung fellows on Broadway, last night,
lpon the tariff question-declaring that
the tariff only benefited the rich-that
The poor man would be benefited by Free
Trade" A young man in the crowd
asked him if he regarded the delegates to
he National Democratic Convention as
)eing all poor man. This was a settler.
He knew that very few of them were
Door men, and that their platform means
Free Trade. viii Nealey has just
inished painting his big house on Ports
mouth Street. ....... They have begun
operations in the removing of the Gala
ooose and other buildings on the Corpor-
ttion lot. There came near being fire
o-day in the house owned by Edgar
Thompson, on Bridge Street. The roof
,aught fire, from defective fiue, but Sam
stevenson and others discovered it in time
% prevent serious results w j.
was in town to-day, and in his
social, friendly way, got into little ar
sument on Prohibition with Lincoln Carr,
when he asked Lincoln why he didn't vote
or st. John and the Prohibition party
Lincoln studied moment, and replied
oh, ye're too fur behindw
SATURDAY.-The Council have sold the
"trip, 36 feet wide from the corporation
OF, back of Marshman s. Co.'S and Olen-
lorf S, to Mrs. Chris. Bertsch, for $3.50,
md thrown in the calaboose building.
Now, wfrat the Council need in handling
make everybody respect the rights of the
own in the premises. -. old Pap Baker
S out strolling about the streets to-day.
Gen. Jones, of Waverly, addressed
arge meeting at the Court House to-
night. The band was OUT the Glee Club
sang, and there was good time general
". J. M. Trip made short address at
5he close of Mr., Jones' speech. Mr.. Trip
was compelled to go into the space out
side the door of the Court Room, while
Gen. Jones was speaking, and sharply re-
prove some young women and men who
were disturbing the meeting. tits one of
the mysteries why persons who do not
know how to behave themselves will per-
sist in going to public assemblies. .....
Charlie Mitchell, son of E. w. Mitchell,
got into difficulty with Currie James,
son of the Mayor, this afternoon, and
struck Currie in the head with a cinder,
cutting a severe cash. Both are boys.
. The Jackson folks have had lots of fun
over the Chillicothe' papers to-day, the
Leader speaking words of praise of the
Jackson folks, and the Daily Neeos speak
ing words of idiocy. Misses Hattie
Rhodes and Lizzie Hood are visiting in
Coalton to-day. 49,. Charley Williams, of
Wellston. is here tonight. -. David F.
Edwards, Manager of the Wellston ball
club, was here this morning, and was
asked if they wanted to play our boys.
"Don't you think we have sense enough
to keep our hands off a red-hot iron ?" he
inquired.
SUNDAY.-A delightful day.. "A.
W. Long and daughters have returned
from West Virginia, bringing with them
Miss Bertha Savage, daughter of Jesse
Savage, of Charleston. Prof. Hank
was on hand at M. E. Sabbath School this
morning. He has been over in Gallia
County for some time. C. A. Atkin-
son returned home this morning from
Jefferson township With one more