Meigs County OhArchives News.....Meigs County Telegraph May 15 1855
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Meigs County Telegraph
Pomeroy, Ohio
May 15, 1855

ACCIDENT - A young lad named Philip Rider, had both his legs broken in 
Tracy's coal bank one day last week.  Particulars not known.

DROWNED - A man named George P. Kendall was drowned on Monday of last week by 
falling from the Railway at Peacock Landing - opposite Sugar Run Salt Works - 
while engaged in loading a coal boat.  His body was recovered on the same 
day.

FOUND - The body of Joshua F. Johnson, who committed suicide by drowning 
himself in the Ohio near Old Town, was found on Monday of last week, opposite 
S. 
Harpold, in Letart township.

MARRIED - By the Rev. C. H. Warren, on the 6th of May Mr. Wm. C. Corbett, of 
Columbus, Franklin County, Ohio to Hannah Jane Morse, only daughter of Moses 
Morse, of Meigs....... [rest of article missing]

NOTICE - On the 7th day of May, A. D. 1955, the undersigned was appointed and 
duly qualified by the Probate Court of Meigs co. as administrator of the 
estate of Joshua F. Johnson, deceased.  All persons indebted to said ……. [the 
rest of this articles is missing]

ELIZABETH COMSTOCK vs James M. Smith - civil action, --  The said James M. 
Smith will take notice that Elizabeth Comstock has filed a petition against him 
in the office of the Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, of the county of 
Meigs, in the State of Ohio, and which is now pending therein, stating that she 
demands of the Court, judgment against said James M. Smith for the sum of four 
thousand dollars, with interest from the 15th day of February A.D. 1853, and 
the said plaintiff assigns as cause for demanding said judgment against said 
Smith, that said defendant agreed to marry said plaintiff within three months, 
next, after the said 15th day of February; and the said defendant has wholly 
disregarded his said marriage contract and still refuses to perform the same, 
and 
the said James M. Smith is further notified, that at the instance of the said 
Elizabeth Comstock, and order of attachment has been issued in said case and 
levied on the goods and chattels of the said defendant, in said county, and 
duly returned, that unless said petition be answered by the said James M. Smith 
on or before the 9th day of July next, that at the term of said Court, thence 
next ensuing judgment will be taken against him as demanded in said petition 
at said term of the Court.  
N. SIMPSON, Atty for Plaintiff
May 15 - w6 

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