Meigs County OhArchives News.....Meigs County Telegraph February 10 1857 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/oh/ohfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Connie Cotterill Schumaker Schumaker4@aol.com December 23, 2004, 3:59 pm microfilm Meigs County Telegraph Pomeroy, Ohio Tuesday, February 10, 1857 The coroner held an inquest on Tuesday last, on the body of John Davis, who was found on the morning of that day, in the upper part of town, frozen to death. It seems the deceased was an intemperate man, and on the night previous had become so much intoxicated as to be unable to reach his home. In his mental and physical prostration, occasioned by liquor, he mistook the side of a shanty for his bed, and stripped himself, lay down on the icy ground, in which position he was found in the morning still breathing, but past all recovery. We learn that he obtained the liquor from a man who had only a short time before served a term of twenty days in jail for selling liquor illegally. While the Coroner is holding the inquest over the murdered body of poor John Davis, the Probate Court is in session with some fifteen cases before it for keeping doggeries contrary to law. Some of these will doubtless be sent to jail. Some may perhaps escape the penalty altogether, and those who have money enough or can give the needed security will remove their cases to a higher Court, if for nothing else, to gain time and get the advantage of the possible death or absence of the witnesses in a future trial. Well, this is a very free country, and whisky is cheap! Davis is out of the way, and his murderer probably made two cents clear profits on that drink that finished him. ATTACHMENT [abstracted] Guian S. Guthrie filed suit against Jacob Price Jan. 17, 1857 for an attachment which was issued by S. S. Paine, justice of the peace for Salisbury, Meigs Co., Ohio. Hearing set for March 7, 1857 asking for judgment on two promissory notes for the amount of $104.01. G. S. Guthrie [abstracted] NOTICE was filed by Abijah Hubbell, et. al Feb. 5, 1857 asking for part of the east street in town of Rutland, Meigs Co., Ohio east of Lots # 16 & 25 be vacated except the part of the street that is crossed by south street and connects with the state road that leads from Athens to Gallipolis, Ohio. Petition to be heard at the March Term 1857. Abijah Hubbell NOTICE [abstracted] The property of Aaron Bratton et al. appraised at $12,00 by suit of Thomas Sharp Jr. will be sold March 18, 1857 at the courthouse in Pomeroy. Land begins at the east corner of lot 4 in section 16 township 9, range 15; goes to the northwest corner of lot 5 and east to creek, then south to the beginning, contains 80 acres. J.V. Smith S.M.C. SHERIFF SALE [abstracted] The property of George W. Congrove appraised at $350.00 by suit of Samuel Buffington will be sold at the courthouse in Pomeroy March 18, 1857. PROBATE COURT OF MEIGS COUNTY John Cartwright, administrator of Lewis Reihart, dec’d vs. Emma Reihart, Augusta Reihart, Amelie Reihart, Mary Hornung, late Mary Reihart, and Anton Hornung. The above named parties will take notice that on the 9th day of February, A. D. 1857, said administrator filed his petition in the Probate Court of Meigs county, Ohio, the object and prayer of which petition is, to obtain an order, &c. on the 11th day of March next, for the assignment of dower to Mary Hornung, (late the widow of said Lewis Reihart, deceased) in and for the sale of the following real estate of which the said Lewis Reihart, died seized to pay the debts of said decedent; to-wit, that part of the seven acre fraction of 100 acre lot No. 299, which is known as the brewery lot. Containing about the ¼ of an acre, and is fronting on the Ohio river, and on the upper side of, and adjoining to the lot owned by the heirs of the late Dr. A. J. Phelps, dec’ d J. Cartwright, Administrator of Lewis Reihart, dec’d PROBATE COURT, MEIGS COUNTY [abstracted] Final Settlement of Accounts J.R. Ellis & J.R. Philson, Exectuors of Thos. A. Pinnell deceased Francis Russell, Administrator of Daniel Russell, deceased Accounts will be heard and settled March 7, 1857 DISSOLUTION The copartnership heretofore existing between the subscribers, under the firm of Harris & Co., was this day dissolved by mutual consent. The business will hereafter be carried on by John Harris, who is duly authorized to settle all accounts of the firm. Dated Oct. 20, 1856 A. Harris Henry Harris Thos. Owens Geo. Addison Transcribed by Connie Cotterill Schumaker File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/oh/meigs/newspapers/gnw67meigscou.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/ohfiles/ File size: 5.0 Kb