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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 30, 1876
Page
5
Dr ME Mey 61 a physician successor to Johnson and Wilson permanently located in the practice of medicine and surgery at the old office on Main Street August 4 1875 a brief local notice announcing a new practitioner and address.
Diphtheria persists in Hibbardsville and vicinity. Mr L P Harper sent thanks for New Orleans papers. Mrs Jas D Brown visits sister in Ashland Ky. Charles Huddeson takes a similar railroad job. Winter weather steadies fall pastures. Nelsonville coal shipments reach 343 cars. rival mines 148. Van Vorhes heads to Washington to take Congressional duties. Christmas displays loom as merchants prepare. Grosvenor farm yields three bushels per twelve hills square. Nelsonville Gazette changes hands, Artz & Pritchard take over. editor plans Athens move. Hocking Valley to adjust winter schedule for local travel. California letter by F C Young featured. Ledger urges year-end settlements. Dr Lash notices. Charles Jones pioneers county jail occupant. Local editor quip about Allen O Meyers. John Dew killed by slate fall at Poston & Pendleton coal mine. widow and four children left. Ohio General Assembly laws and joint resolutions ready for Auditor distribution. Perry Thompson’s wife disappears with two children. a young man also vanishes. Davis sues Hocking Valley RR for 50000 over trestle collapse injuring him. Harry Selby case verdict 1300 goes to Supreme Court. Quail shooters fined for violating game law. O Brennis delivers jail keys. Athens County boasts well-planned, secure jail. College Mirror praised in Ohio University notes. Messenger prints Mirror content. Old Line train suspension disrupts mail. Tri-weekly trains resume. Mr Self, 60, killed by falling tree near Nelsonville. son present.
The report notes light snow on Saturday night and several inches by Sunday morning. A somber mood about winter gave way to pleasant weather, with mild conditions continuing afterward.
Dr Gundry accepts the superintendency of the Columbus Hospital for the Insane. His successor at this hospital has not been decided. He will move to the successor city to oversee furnishing the establishment and will depart sooner than expected.
A columnist criticizes the large number of nightly prowling youths in Athens. The piece condemns parental indifference and argues that without domestic restraint these youths are prone to bad outcomes, urging stronger parental oversight.
Clark Hill and Ed Brown of Albany Athens County traveled from Sewell Mountain near the New River falls in West Virginia. Hill killed five deer during the expedition and brought one back home.
The Columbus papers report a seventy year old man who had never seen a railroad train prior to arriving in the city on Thursday. He traveled with eight Nelsonville families totaling about forty emigrants bound for Michigan aboard the Hocking Valley railroad.
Gospel meetings led by Rev. H. H. Wells will begin next Sabbath at the Presbyterian Church in Nelsonville. A number of local residents plan to attend all or part of the series.
Mr. H. H. Kilburn, popular conductor of the Hocking Valley road, moved his domestic residence to Columbus last week. The change allows him to spend most off duty time with his family, which was previously impracticable.
The Tuesday Evening Concert pleased a large audience with fine weather and strong voices. Local singers teamed with guests from Marietta and Columbus, delivering varied music and several tableaux. The event supported a worthy cause and featured notable performances by Miss Frankie Golden and Mrs. Romeyne Bunn, among others.
Local notes report diminishing hard times and gratitude for reading a paper that first named Governor Hayes for President. A Millfield area poultry loss from cholera is noted. The column lists residents visiting and returning from the Centennial, a infant death, and local road conditions. Political jabs target Democrats as a goose metaphor.
State Mine Inspector Roy visited Nelsonville and nearby mines and reported all operations running well and profitable. He said mining in the Hocking Valley presents a cheerful outlook with a shortage of cars to move coal to local markets.
Florida dispatch from Attorney General Jno Little to Gen. Wikoff reports that certified returns show Hayes ahead in the state. He notes the Dode count will not shift the result much and, if full votes favor Tilden, Hayes still appears to lead. He predicts contest evidence will enlarge Hayes' reported majority before the Returning Boards.
President Grant authorized the Secretary of War to support Chamberlain as governor until further orders using necessary military aid. Rifle clubs planned to seize Columbia and the Legislature to declare Hampton governor, but the order blocked these revolutionary aims.
An affidavit on the third page discusses the investigation into Louisiana election outrages, claiming no Republican votes were cast in several precincts with prior large Republican majorities. It compares the alleged cruelties to the Spanish Inquisition and cites gruesome catalogues from the campaign in the interest of Tilden and Reform.
Three thousand more Spanish troops reached Havana on Monday, bringing total arrivals to 25,000. The dispatch notes that insurgent forces in Cuba are unlikely to be annihilated by any new Spanish force.
The article argues persistent abuse by influential Republican journals spread unaffordable misrepresentation of President Grant’s administration. It claims baseless third term rumors and whiskey ring charges harmed the party, costing votes and aiding the presidential defeat, despite Grant remaining personally popular.
A New Orleans Custom House affidavit describes a Ouachita Parish couple attacked after the election. The husband was killed for Republican support, the wife wounded, and their baby killed. the woman names suspects and details. The report ties the acts to efforts to suppress Republican votes in disputed Louisiana parishes.
Ohio cities and towns' educational exhibit at the Centennial will be sent back to Columbus for distribution to exhibitors. The display was to stay in Columbus, but Mr. Smart argues there is no suitable room to showcase it properly. The bulk exhibit would have been valuable here, but division will cause depreciation of the articles' value.
The dull season for grain trades shifts as war rumors and a tight U S supply lift demand for wheat. Prices advance five to ten cents per bushel, with February or March often seen as revival months. Market effects remain hard to separate amid multiple influencing factors.
The piece quips about Mississippi Republicans and Georgia Democrats, noting violent tactics and hidden majorities, while mocking Democratic editors and their explosive tempers. It mocks the sudden piety toward Judge Moses of South Carolina as a superficial flourish.
The speaker argues for strict construction and demands Kentucky electoral returns be excluded from the official count since no Democratic electors were voted for in the state, ballots directly favored Tilden and Hendricks, and a fair count is urged.
Reported plan from San Francisco contemplates a combined party to seize and develop mining operations and ranches in Lower California after difficulties in obtaining redress from Mexican authorities.
The undersigned earnestly desires to settle all accounts by cash or note before January first. All parties interested are asked to bear this in mind. 2w H. M. Lash.
It is stated tobacco employs more people than any other crop with Bozman Bros Cigar Factory in Athens Ohio a leading producer of superior priced cigars. Dealers are invited to send trial orders to Bozman Bros Cigar Factory Athens Ohio for quality cigars at competitive prices.
Dr Johnson says knowledge splits into two kinds. The article notes that at D Zenner & Co. every department offers goods at lower figures than ever before imagined in Athens. Holidays at Zenners provide liberal provisions with wide choice in quantity, quality, and price.
Baltimore market report dated November 23 1876 shows hog arrivals 8319 with prices easing to 7 7.5 cents, sheep arrivals 3029 with firm demand for good stock and some eastern demand underpinning prices, and cattle arrivals 8683 with a generally stronger wholesale but weaker retail, prices mostly 214 to 544.
William W. Gibson of Ohio and Sarah E. Willing, both graduates of the Ohio Institution for the Education of the Deaf and Dumb, were married on November 23 in a ceremony near CRS Vv 0 v. J. L. rrar.
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