The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1885-01-29
DAILY OBSERVATIONS.

. Observation-Disclosures blizzard strut
s5. this TOWN to-dav Yesterday w
md Evans was forty-five years old, and la
. night the Little 10 Band raided him
in his residence. 49,. Belle Vonschriltz r
n turned from Waverly. Remains
Col. Dobbs arrived by express. -. M
and Mrs. Thomas Griffiths went to Well
ne ton to attend the funeral of a RELATIVE
le ...... Mr.. Madison Crabtree called t.
day. He has been in Missouri. M
III Herb and Miss Mary Summers were a
ID M. f. Church tonight, coming from
distance in the country. -. .Excellen
skating on Globe pond. -. Some of tn
1t boys at school invented new play da
L or two ago which was as comic as move
They took boy at recess. and pretended
that his leg was broken. Procuring SOM
boards and splints, they bound him up 81
- - that he could not move, then laid him OF
board and carried him so1emnly toward
the School House.. The northwest
l. wind played sad havoc with the new sigr
l. of Miller and Williams. .. The ice-croI
i is being gathered in large quantities. -.
Miss Belle Swanson is visiting friends in
Coalton.. u. Conner Jones, of Oak Hill
is perambulating about the streets here
:, to-day, greeting friends. 80. Meeting at
M. E. Church tonight, led by A. W.
Long. Mrs. N. J. Graham has been
sick for some days. -. To turn corner
, suddenly to-day is like jumping into a
pond of ice water. Mr.. M. Davis, re-
siding near Gustav Geiger's, is dead. Bur
led at Gepharts. s......W. M. johnson is
on the sick list. 49,. 1t will be pleasant
thing to the west-enders when Ports
mouth street shall have been built up SOL
idly all along. The wind comes across
the commons now like Western cyclone.
By the way, we heard of some two or
three citizens who declared that the heavy
wind of Sunday night was veritable cy-
clone, and passed above the house-tops,
for they sdao it, There's good deal of
wind in the story, but there was a good
deal of wind blowing at the time. 800.
Lige Meacham has changed his mind, and
will not move out of his present Ports
mouth Street residence. ...... When one
sees the moon shining brightly on such a
horribly cold night as this, he can readily
account for the hallucination of the
| drunk man who laid down, held his feet
| up toward the moon, and said: "Boys
| (hic) pile on little more wood"
THURsDAY-Whewl Old Boreas is off
for regular tear among the shivering
people. Every man one met this morn
ing looked as though one degree more of
| cold would have driven him entirely
through his overcoat. IA sensation
was created to-day by slip that was
handed to ]. W. Gum, Mail Agent on the |
Ohio Southern, at Coalton. 1t read: "Send |
word down to Jackson that Tom Andres |
was killed at Altoona" Word was i'm |
mediately brought to Joseph Andres,
Toms brother, and he got ready to go to |
Altoona, but before he could have had |
time to get there the remains" came
walking into the Standard office. They
were fully six feet tall, and although the
word was that Tom had been kicked to
death by mule, these remains" looked
as though they could kick to death any
mule in Christendom. Tom is ready to
give the lie to any man who says he is
dead. -. Ice from five to six inches in
thickness IS being put up to-day. 49,.
1
mons and expounding sound doctrines at
Christian Church. 80. Installation of
officers at Jackson Encampment, I. o. ..
F., tonight. The fire company is still
without a Captain. The result of this lack
of complete organization will be costly
failure to do effective work, some of these
times. .... Price will ruin the chrome
market, if he does not quit issuing, gratis,
his fine "oil-painting" insurance adver-
tisements. Several parties here got
postal card invitations to attend revival
services at Gallipolis tomorrow. -. An
old citizen boasted tonight that he had a
boy nearly twenty years old, who had not
learned to chew or smoke tobacco, or
swear. And he was right. What grand
record-yet one that should be made by
every boy in the community.
Moderating. John @.
Elliott says that his father, Thos. FL. Ell
lott, of Liberty Township, is in very poor
health. The old gentleman is now in his
eighty-eighth year. He is one of the old
citizens of the county and has a wide cir
Gle of acquaintance who will wish for
his speedy return to health. John
Phillips, of Jefferson Township, in town.
..... .Pelow Graham and mis- grandmoth-
er arrived on the mail train this
afternoon, after travelling by slow
process from Indianapolis. The old lady
is very feeble. -. Rhodes and Jones,
Representative and Senate Clerk, arrived
at home, to stay over Sunday.
heavy fall of snow this afternoon is blast
ing the hopes of many of the young peo-
pie who were laying off a Saturdays skat-
ing, but the snow turned to rain and sleet
in the evening. .......At the Christian
Church tonight we believe there were
two young men, by the names of Kessin-
ger and Brunton, baptized. This church
has had somewhere near dozen acces-
sions since Elder Bingham began his Sc
ries of meetings. -. Charles Meacham
is in town to-day, suffering from severe
cold, caught while on business trip up
the road. 49,. Judge Delaney is in the
Hunsinger, Peters & Co. basement.
A plasterer says tonight that workmen
are now anxiously waiting and longing
for an early Spring. Will. Nealey is
going off for visit of some days in Gal
Id CouHty .OdW oui olu lIienu OWeH
Davis in the street, looking healthy and
happy. 80. Mrs. Ewing, in the death of
Mrs. Dora Foster, has lost her last daugh-
ter but one. The old lady is not stout.
..... 1t is something remarkable that
there are two or three-possibly more
persons who know, actually k7looO, that
Maxwell was perfectly sober the night he
was killed. This reminds US of Jackson
saloon-keeper we noticed, some years ago,
standing at the door of his place, where
young man had just struck him. He said
81 don want to fight. Of 1 (hic) vos hic) |
drunk, would not plane him so mooch."
The poor fellow was then so drunk he