The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1886-07-29
Daily Observations

WEDNEsDAY-A grand time was en-
joyed at the picnic and surprise party a
Franklin Valley yesterday. JOSEPH
Humphfres met with a terrible piece O.
bad luck last night. While attending t.
the horses in his stable, one of the horse!
became enraged and kicked him in tht
face, after which he was thoroughly
stamped and crushed, in the stall. He is
terribly cut about the face and entire
head, and badly bruised about the body
The accident, aside from its dangerous
features, is all the more distressing as
he is right in the midst of hay harvest in
his big meadow, north of town. Mr.
Humphfres is Township Trustee, and is
well along in years. He is one of the best
known citizens of this community, and
has countless sympathizing friends. 49,.
Sam Wagner has been sent from Logan,
Ohio, to Charleston, West Virginia, in
Salvation Army work. :. James Meach-
am to-day began the work on Mr.. Kratz's
new house, in Kahn's Addition. B.
Kahn and wife have been spending sew
eral days among their many friends here.
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the country, where he had been attend
ing the funeral of brother-in-law. .....
Squire Armpstead Scurlock called this
afternoon. He is in the midst of hay har-
vest. .....W. Thurman Lewis, the minis
ter, an old Jackson County boy, is here
to-day. T. T. Jones, of Oak Hill, is in
town to-day. IA pretty sight tonight
was four large plump young ladies piled
into one small buggy, taking a pleasure
ride in the streets.
THURSDAY - The Sons of Veterans
from Wellston and Keystone came in to-
night in vehicles, to attend the entertain
ment. When the Sons of Veterans
were marching up Pearl Street this even
ing, the Salvation Army was marching
down the hill. The two armies met near
Miller's corner, and the crash of sound
was wonderful. The Band footed and
drummed, the clarinets shrieked, but the
Salvation Army kept up it's end of the
string with remarkable success. We
called in at the Gibson House, just before
midnight, to see the beautiful might
blooming cereus" plant. This is the plant
we saw in bloom some two years ago at
Mrs. Edwards. Then it had but two
blossoms. Tonight there are eight, large
and beautiful. We doubt if nature ever
produced richer looking blossoms than
these. They are white, as large as tea
cups, and in the tenderness and delicacy
of their finish, perfectly exquisite. The
room was strongly filled with their fra
GRANGE. There was lively runaway
in the west part of town to-day. A man
who is dealing in teas and coffee, left his
team momentarily, when they started,
near Clay Murfn's, flying down the hill
to Portsmouth Street, up Portsmouth to
Broad, thence to Broadway and around to
Delays Stable. Coffee and glassware
were freely distributed along the streets.
49,. Delay has his steam threshing ma
chine engine out on the street in motion,
with a pair of mules to hold the tongue
up. ~. B. Howe went to Rio Grande.
FRIDAY.-J. III. Harding, Captain of
the Fire Company, assisted Delay out to
Dave Nichols this morning. with the
steam thresher. ...... ID. w. Jones and
others bought thresher from Agent j.
B. Howe, and took it out this afternoon.
1t is fine looking machine. ..... DIR. w.
E. Williams suggests that as all Army
and Navy commands have their Society
organizations to perpetuate the memories
OF their trials and sufferings, the COM
mand that fought the Battle of Chicka-
mauga, down in Gallia County, should
organize. The DR.. tells some funny per-
sonal recollections of that campaign,
though he was but a boy. John Har-
per went to Liberty to-day to attend
lawsuit before Squire Stevenson. DIR.
johnson White conducted the case on the
other side. H. W. Coultrap, of Vim
ton County, is in town. The night
blooming cereus plant at the Gibson
House will bloom again this year. ..
Nat. Hoover is in town tonight. He
says the storm, few days ago, gathered
his fruit for him about as thoroughly as
he could have done it himself. It blew
dreadfully hard in Liberty. ...-.. Miss
Hartinger was out with the Salvation
Army tonight, having been sick for a
day or two. The Harris boys are
sinking another well on the George Dever
property, on Portsmouth Street. -. 1t is
amusing to see how zealously a doggery-
keeper will scheme to get man away
from his den after the mans money is all
gone. On Broadway this afternoon an
old drunkard was leaning against dog
gerry, too drunk to walk, and the labors of
the keeper of the den to get him away
were agonizing, though, like Senator
Payne, he didn't go out himself, but sent
his agents. The old man finally tumbled
along the street-perhaps into the hands
of the police.
SATURDAY.-A novel sight to-day was
a steam engine running down Main
Street, with all the ease of a locomotive
upon railway. This is an engine of the
Springfield Thresher and Machine Com
pany, and was on its way to Rio Grande,
Gallia County, to run a threshing ma
chine. These engines travel over any
kind of roads, without any assistance
from team, and make reasonably good
time. This was the first one to pass
through Jackson. J. b. Howe is agent
for this Company. Samuel Horton,
of Scioto, is in. He has his harvest near
ly all in, and informs US that d farmer
named Johnson-Robert Johnson, we be-
lieve-had considerable wheat burned,
few nights ago. Albert Harper, of Lib
erty, called. -. Stephen Vaughn is in
town to-day. ..... Uncle Aleck Poor is in
town tonight. VIM. j. Kirkendall is
chatting with his Jackson friends to-day
Uncle George Dever paid the
notorious AL Castor out of Jail to-day
........A lady is reported to have clean
ed out Portsmouth Street doggery to-
day, but there was great mistake made
again-she ought to have clubbed the
proprietor of the place. ........A new ad
dition to the official force of the Saliva
tion Army tonight. Political argu-