The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1884-10-30
DAILY OBSERVATIONS.

this and adjoining counties. We suggest
ed that we were tired of hearing of poll
tics, when he laughingly remarked that
the subject had become so stale that he
was tempted to go and buy a nickel nov
ell, for divesion. Politics are like a ia.
nous bitters-"everybod takes it." .....
A friend informs us that he has just re-
ceived letter from Jesse S. Savage. He
has not been in very good health for a
short time, and thinks the news from
Ohio perfectly awful. The widow
Martin house, Broadway, is empty.
Our old friend W. w. Morgan, of Oak
Hill, called to-day. Mr.. M. looks to be in
splendid health. :. The latest novelty
in prizes for baking powder is an alarm
clock-a beautiful. nickel-plated affair,
which may be set to play tune at GER
tain hour.
THURsDAY.-Cold and wintry. .....A
somewhat novel picture of forcing the
season" to-day, was an old citizen walking
down Broadway, wrapped from head to
heels in huge overcoat, and wearing a
straw hat. -. DIR. Jacobs has begun the
erection of a new residence in the old
Fair Ground property. Mr.. Levisy is the
mechanic who is doing the work. .....
Grandpap Elihu johnson was out on the
street for while to-day, but is becoming
quite frail. .Aten & Marshman have
the largest bid in for the strip off of the
town property back of their shop and the
barber shop. The bid is sixteen hundred.
| 49,. The ladies have an apple-cutting
tonight at the residence of W. T. Price.
| 49,. The business houses have lit
their fires for the winter and
the citizens congregate around them
and talk away the evenings. There are
the men who can tell funny stories, those
who can tell improbable stories, and the
man who always tells the truth-but he
hasn't much show. w......W Wanted-to find
"a crowd where they don't talk politics. |
FRDAY.-Some of the funny features
of contracts were brought out in con-
versation with mechanic this morning |
A mechanic took contract for building, |
at certain price, and other mechanics
made estimates of the cost of material,
showing that the materials would cost
fifty to sixty dollars more than the build
ing would come to-. The annual
slaughter of rabbits has begun. Mar
shall Owens has paraphrased the song
"Pansy Blossom" and adapted it to poll
tics. Get him to sing it. The first
ice of the season appeared this morning,
goodly quantity being frozen on pals
and basins in the houses. The ladies are
busily engaged in hunting UP winter
quarters for their house-piants. We
speak in another place of the Democratic
colored mans paper, "The Anglo-Afri-
can" We have since learned that thou
sands of these papers are being sent to
colored men in all parts of the State,
in the back townships. 1t is
not likely that any colored man can be
found in all the broad State of Ohio
either ignorant enough, or mean enough,
to be led into voting in the interest of
the party that treated him as beast of .
the field. 49,. "A striking picture of &C
commodating ones self to circumstances
was seen to-day in front of Kimberling's.
They had set post in the ground, to
brace a large sign, when a man came {
along and contentedly hitched his horse {
to the post. i
SATURDAY.-A small crowd in town,
but merchants report a fair trade. .....
Marshal Owens went out to a fox-chase,
this morning, near HulPs. but the fox
was shot, by Bill Radcliff, just as Owens
arrived. Another was started, but ran '
clear away. -. Lewis Vonschriltz has {
from GAINESVILLE, having traded /
off his fine horse, and brought back a {
lively little sorrel, and sulky. Our old
friend now has one of the finest travel
ing-rigs to be found anywhere. I've
had a pleasant call to-day from Mr..
Lewis, of Gallia county. He is son of /
our old friend Samuel Lewis, and was on t
his way out to visit the old gentleman. l
-. Mr.. w. I'll. Anderson, of Pearl Street !
puts in some straight shots on the politi,
cal target. A Democrat in conversation q
with Mr.. A. bitterly denounced Lot S
Wright and his U. S. Marshals. "Wen," I
said Mr.. A, won't you admit that with
out the Marshals you would have carried
Hamilton countypn "Yes, we would"
declared the Dem. with vehemence that :
savored of Democratic trickery. Thus
the young man was tricked into admit =
ting that it was the Democratic inten- :
ton to carry Hamilton county, whether
they had votes enough, or not. -. The +,
of the M. E. Church are !,
making arrangements for renting Par
sonage, and the Charley Dickson prop
erty, on South Street, will probably be
the place. The old Church Parsonage is
considered unsuitable for the purpose for :
which it has been used so long, and this
will perhaps be rented. ..... Frank Crum-
it and Hiram Dickson, while in COlum-
bus few days ago, called on Milt. Kee-
nan, and found him enjoying himself as
well as could be expected.
SUNDAY.-Warmer weather, with rain
at night. -. There was fine illustra-
tion this morning, of the views of people
regarding the character and uses of the
Sabbath day. We attended oneof the
Jackson Sabbath Schools this.morning,
where there was large number of young
people. After the dismissal OF. the School,
we took a stroll, over near Huron Fur
mace, and from a point within the Cor
poration, could distinctly hear the sound
of a shot gun, over towards the edge of
Franklin, where some fellows were put
ting in the Sabbath morning hunting
rabbits. 80. This is a good time for
parents to use all endeavor to build up
the Sabbath Schools of our town. There
are hundreds of children who ought to
be in Sabbath School, yet who never at
tend. The keeping up of the interest in
the Schools depends largely upon parents,