The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1886-03-18
Dali y Observations

old friend Lewis Shots was on Tn
streets to-day. He gets about as well a
ever. - George Grace has Joined tn
Little 10 Band, as snare drummer. 49,.
Large crowd at Presbyterian Church to
night "A young gentleman name'
Cline, connected with the Ohio Penlten
tiary, called to-day. From his converse
ton we gather that Peter Becker is II
good standing in the prison, but woult
like to get out if possible There is con
siderable sympathy felt for Pete -.
Will Horton tells an old asaecdote to
night. that is not too old to be amusing
On certain occasion the late H. G. Mes
senger. the late James Exline, and per
haps others, were pitching horse-shoes
Messenger and another man had discus.
sion as to which was nearest the meg
and Messenger was down measuring the
distances. Becoming impatient, Exllne
picked up couple of shoes and called
out: "Look out, thar, I'm gwine to
pitchp' Messenger kept measuring away.
"Look outl' called Exline, but the meas
uring went on. Taking sight at the
meg" Jim let fly with shoe, and
struck Messenger laundering whack In
the back of the head. The latter turned
around in surprise and anger, put the
only satisfaction he got was: Il told ye
1 wuz gwine to pitch!'
THURSDAY-In the Whitcomb Cher
ington case the Court discharged the de-
fendant, Cherington, as his alleged Of
fense was.in charging Alva jenkins with
incest, and charging the one party
amounted to nothing. -. Marcus Shu-
mate called to-day. e. w. Mitchell is
moving away the boilers of his foundry
to-day. They will be taken to Missouri.
-. Elder Kyle is holding services at
the Christian Church tonight. Elder
Kyle is an excellent minister, asld good
man in every way 49,. Rev. t. Henry, OF
Franklin Valley, is in town. ...-. Miss
Annie Grassland came home to-day. ....
A citizen who recently boiled down some
of the salt water from the new well SAID
that he got about forty per cent OF salt
from it. Mr.. Grove, the oil well man,
is back w. G. Logan and Mamie
KILN were married tonight. -. Jesse
Laird is practicing upon the trombone,
and making fine headway. ....... DAVID
Montgomery is in town. The Cornet
Band serenaded the bride and groom to-
night, at the house of Joseph Killin.....
Robert Rice got judgment against the
Railroad Company, for killing his cow.
FRDAY-A cold, drizzling rain......
Mr. and Mrs. Logan went away on
al ic on0pd for
the new building to be erected by b.
GRAY, on the corner of Pearl and Broad
way. We had the pleasure OF exam
lining an excellent piece of portrait work
by S. K Ewing, to-day. Mr.. Ewing is
son of DR.. G. A. Ewing, and is as yet
mere boy. yet has developed phenome-
nal talent as a portrait artist. This pic
ture is portrait of w. B. Cherington, and
is as natural as picture could be. 1t IS
a large, crayon drawing-not drawn from
an enlarged print, but drawn absolutely,
from small picture. This young man
is a genius. -. The Cornet Band went
to jamestown to serenade VIM. Olendorf
birthday. Among the many humor-
GUS experiences of the past related to-
night is that of number of Jackson men
in Portsmouth in the early days of the
war. This company contained such jolly
men as w. d. Trago, 60" Rathburn, Geo.
w. johnson and others. They put up at
the Biggs House, or tried to-as the house
was full. By some good luck they Sc
cured keys to couple of rooms and went
in, but had to turn out when the men
who had rented the rooms came in, about
two o'clock. AS they were sitting drows-
lily in the bar-room, about daylight, an
old man and boy, who wanted to catch
a boat, came down stairs and inquired
for the landlord. Hes out" said one.
Pretty soon Rathburn, who had been out
washing, came in, when the old man said:
Landlord, what's my bill? How much
did you have?" asked 90" Supper and
bed," was the reply. "W ell" said Rath-
burn, "it's war times, and, well-I aoo1at
charge you anything. just go right along,
and if you come this way again, come
and see mel" The old man thanked him
politely and left, while the real landlord
was in bed, asleep.
SATURDAY-T. B. Walker, the fruit
tree man, has been on trip to Scioto and
Lawrence counties. 49,. Warrants were
sworn out for the arrest of two young
men named Conrad, charged with shoot
ing into the clubhouse of the Mt. Zion
School House with pistol. 1t was GER
tainly strange and dangerous method
of target practice. -. "A meeting of the
oil and gas company was held tonight.
No further attempt at boring will be
done by the old company, but new sub
scription will be opened. 1t is probable
that another well will be put down be-
fore long Drunkenness seems to be
picking up" metaphorically speaking, as
quite number of men are reeling about
the streets, a couple of them getting clear
down. =. The Rink was fairly attended
tonight. There are couple of old
shafts in town that need a safe covering
of some kind, and this should be attended
to at once. -. There was tremendous
shower of snow to-day, but it melted as
fast as it fell. A part of the time the sun
was shining while it was showing.
SUNDAY-A glorious day of sunshine.
singing birds, and invigorating breezes.
80. AT the M. E. Sunday School this
morning the attendance was Ais. There
were 76 heads of families, ia young men
and women, IA youths and 81 in the pri
mary class. This is certainly remarka-
BILE Sunday School gathering, and there
are are indications of a still further in
crease in numbers. One good feature
about this work is the large number of
heads of families attending. If parents
attend the children will attend. Every
effort is made to render the sessions of
the Sunday Schools in all the churches
pleasant and profitable, and there are
hundreds in town and vicinity yet who
ought to attend some of the schools of
this place. -. - The anniversary of the
Bible Society, Eeld at the M. E. Church
%o ;cr1,% tor orin 70 OF