The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1888-02-02
OUR NElGNBORs.
The Doines Of Surrounding
Counties

A Culled from Their Local Pa
pers, with Occasional
Comment.
A very rare bird, q white chicken
hawk, has been shot in Fayette county.
The New Vienna Council has repealed
the prohibition ordinance by q vote Of
four to two.
Two hundred and eleven civil cases
were fled in the Brown County Clerks
Office from January 1, 1887, to January
1, 1888.
The next meeting Of the Clinton
County Teachers Association will be
held at Sabina on the second Saturday
in March.
Clinton county Is in luck. Pleas Of
guilty have been entered to eight of the
fifteen indictments found by the last
grand jury.
The Auditor Of Fayette county reports
that up to the 18th Of last October the
funded and unfunded debt of that coun-
ty was $1e7 .S91.
1t is thought that Judge O'Neall, Of
Lebanon, will be the next Department
Commander of the Grand Army of the
Republic of Ohio.
The Fayette County Agricultural So
ciety are already actively engaged in
preparing to make the coming Fair the
best in the State. It will be held Aug
ust 3s, 20, 80 and 81.
The Bro,cn County Ne,s says that "a
comparison of the report Of Brown
County Commissioners with other coun-
ties in the State, shows that we have the
most careful and economical Board of
Commissioners in the State"
Mr.. Archibald Haines, an old pioneer
of Clinton county, died Tuesday of last
weed from injuries received from fall
on the ice few days before. He was
eighty years of age and had served sew
eral terms as County Commissioner.
A gang of hog.thieves have created
considerable excitement among the
farmers of Fayette county. Their scheme
is to gather up hogs in small droves and
ship to Eastern markets. Losses from
six to fifty head at time have been
complained of by farmers.
WINCHESTER, O., January 27.-Two
fellows, Fred Heddick and Thomas
Johnston, were arrested this morning
for breaking the windows in the g. U.
Church east of here land attempting to
shoot the preacher, Rev. s. Kreggs.
Three more of the gang are still at large.
|-Islegram.
Fayete County Republican: In all
probability the oldest person in Ohio
who can show an undisputable record of
her age is Mrs. Margaret Arnold, who
lives with her son, Henry Arnold, three
miles south of Pancoastburg, this coun-
ty. She was born in Augusta county,
Virginia, on the 4th of July, 1777, pre-
cisely one year after the signing of the
Declaration of Independence. Her
maiden name was Margaret Kiser. She
had six brothers and two sisters, her
brothers all being dead. der sisters are
still living, one in Iowa and one in Da-
kota.
Isaac Brown, feeble old man, almost
blind, living in the hills of Franklin
township, was arrested last week by off,
GERS from GAINESVILLE on the charge of
numbering A. J. Hyde at Dresden, O., in
1856. Brown at that time went by the
name of Richard Cassibone. Cassibone,
it is claimed, killed Hyde with q knife,
while the latter was interfering while
Cassibone and his wife were quarreling.
Cassibone had been convicted of the
crime and while waiting to be taken to
the penitentiary to serve term of six
years, escaped from Jail, came to this
county, and enlisted in the army, in
which he served bravely as Isaac Brown
and has been living in this county ever
since.
| The officers ct GAINESVILLE had been in.
formed of Cassibone's whereabouts by
Hyde's brother, who received his infor-
nation from Cassibone's sister.
After being tak ken to GAINESVILLE Cassi.
bone, alias Brown, confessed to the
murder and will be re-sentenced. Al
Cassibone is now very old man and
not likely to live but Q few years at the
most, he will likely receive pardon-s
petition to the Governor being already
in circulation ct Dresden Chi4icotht