The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1886-01-28
Daily Observations !

WEDNEsDAY.-TodJ johnson was hel
Yesterday Tod is fine-looking fellow
..... Buck Bratton removed his two ell
er children yesterday to Macarthur, pla
ing them in charge of his father ......
A little furry of excitement this morr
ing, caused by finding sign of oil in tn
sand in the gas well. The gas burn
strongly at the top of the well. .Littl
Ten Band practicing tonight at the res
idence of M. D. Jones. The boys mea
business now, and with short season Q
good practice will be one of the bes
bands in Southern Ohio. Their playing
last night under the leadership of Damn
Jones, was as well executed as plucky
....A Jackson lady sat this evenini
solemnly and quietly inhaling medicin
with an inhaler. pausing long enough t.
remark that she "intended using it fo
five minutes" and carefully looked at th'
clock. The old clock had been stopped
for two weeks. She gave it up...... .Jo
Phillips, of Jefferson Township, is visit
ing Sheriff Cherington.. 49,. Another
u6dty ldlu bl1lo OSVAAAAAS 49, 80 $1,000
are fiuctuating. Last night s. M. POLLOCK
declared he would not sell his stock with
out several dollars premium, when Uncle
George Brown offered him dollar and a
half for all his stock.
THURsDAY.-B. F. Scott, of Coalton,
and Joshua Perrin, of Nebraska. called to-
day -. Capt James johnson is in town.
The gas well burned beautifully
casting fierce flame a distance of ten
feet high. Mr.. Grove was pleasantly jok-
ing some of his friends on the discovery
of the 'lower" vein of coal, and showed
specimens. 1t looks considerably like
coal, being black shale, and brittle. The
drill had gone thirty-five or forty feet
through this. The well is nicely
cased, and very little dampness is shown,
it being necessary to pour in water in
drilling. The Grove boys are pushing
things vigorously. Dick Stiff1er, the
constable, rather has the joke on our
neighbors, the Journal boys. Attention
was called in this weeks issue to vile
den back of the Presbyterian Church. 1t
was proper to break up the ranch, and
Dick, in obedience to writ, went around
last evening and moved the inmates and
property out, when they Immediately
moved into room over the Journal
Office :. Mrs. Shropshire, of Samson
vile, in town. -. The music at the M.
E. meetings is furnished by a choir of
ladies assisted by T. S. Vaughn, who pos
sesses as fine tenor voice as there is in
the county. These people make splendid
music.
FRIDAY.-Robert Ralston and his son
Sam are in town. IA slight sleet to-
day 1T. M. Varley went to Ports
mouth to stay over Sunday. AT the
M. E. Church tonight there were three
at the altar and one joined church. One
joined last night. The meetings are in
creasing in interest -. Frank Smith is
going to sell fruit trees in this neighbor-
hood. -: Mrs. Ratcliff, a lady living in
the old frame building back of the old
Jail, is very low with consumption.
Some of our folks think they are going
to have good joke on a prominent fur
naceman of this place, who made the re-
mark that he "would agree to drink all
the oil taken out of the well now being
bored here" Some of the more enthusias-
tic ones declare they will have a greasy
lunch for him yet. 1t may be. Who
knows? But the furnaceman is the one
who laughs until the oil appears. IA
railroader at the o. S. yards to-day took
an old bottle. partly filed it with water,
put some black oil into it, and unblush-
ingly exhibited it as the product of the
oil well. The critical examination given
it by many persons was quite amusing.
SATURDAY. Another cold snap. A
slight falling of snow-f1akes Tonight.
J. S. Baker and Henry Jones took little
jaunt of eight or ten miles in the country
tonight. Miles Rigdon, of Coalition,
called. ....J John Stephenson of Scioto
Township is in town-also John C. Ste
venson of Liberty. M. Gilmor called
to-day. The Journal Office will move
in the upstairs of Hunter and Boggess'
building. ... oil well one thousand and
fifteen feet tonight. -. Quite number
enjoying the Rink-with music by Little
Ten. Sam Sternberger is in town..
Morris Sternberger got home from the
Operators Convention at Columbus. -.
Mr.. Sam Eisnaugle, during recent trip
West, saw Bill Dewberry at Brazil, Ind.
James Hewitt, formerly of this place,
lives at Brazil John Darling laughs
adjoining county in 1868, just after the
Vallandigham campaign. With John
was a cavalryman from this county, who
had a huge revolver swung to him. The
couple met man riding, who asked them
where they were going. John was on
business, but the soldier declared he had
heard there was a man in that county who
had voted for Vallandigham, and he "was
going to shoot himp The man rode
along until he espied the revolver, when
he began vigorously kicking the sides of
his horse, and lit out. John was satisfied
that that was the man that did it, but
what he wants to know is, whether he is
going yet.
SUNDAY-Warm, and snow on the
ground. 49,. The gas well was piped last
night, and tonight the gas was lighted,
and burned brightly at the side of the
derrick. .... "A large congregation at M.
E. Church, and several at the altar. Meet
ings every night this week.
MoNDAY.-The birthday of Robert
Burns was celebrated in various ways
to-day. At the Isham House dinner
was given, and pleasant programme was
carried out, consisting of sketches, music,
&c. Those in attendance highly enjoyed
the affair. In the Schools, recitations
from Burns works, and other appropriate
exercises were carried out. -. The gas
well is over eleven hundred feet, and in
black shale. The leasing of land is in
order now -. The Young Peoples Class
Meeting, M. E. Church, was well attended
tonight, and a rousing Church service,