Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1866-05-10
General News Items.

The President is so beset with appH-
cation for Office, that he has to leave
home to get rid Of them,
Nearly "a, 900, 600 worth of corn was
raised in Kansas last year. 1t is conf
dently expected that at least double that
amount will be raised this year.
Captain Thomas Joycs, the first white
male born in Louisville, died in that city
'On Friday, in his seventy eighth year
II is reported that the Mexican Re-
publican Government has ceded the great
er part Of the Californian peninsula to
an organization of American capitalists
for mining purposes.
The fruits Of the Memphis outbreak
arc beginning to be seen in other parts
of the South. On Saturday night the
Freedmen's Bureau building at Meridian
Miss, was set on fire aud burned.
WIN. Hutchings, one Of the very few
survivors Of the Revolution, has Just
died near Bangor, Maine. at the ripe age
Of l02 years.
General Cass is dying Of softening of
the brain, and his family are in daily ex-
pectation Of his decease He is at times
rational, and able to converse with friends
but this is an exceptional state Of mind
He passes most Of bis time in sleep, m
disturbed. The General is now in hisi
eighty-fourth year.
Carriage springs, made Of hickory and
weighing but six pounds, is one Of theI
latest improvements in carriage making
They have been introduced by tho
Messrs. Brendters Of New York, one Of
the Oldest firms in the country.
In all the reports of interments in Al.
ALBANIA, the negroes outnumber tho whites
in the proportion Of ono'Ihird.
The Bucyrus Journal states, on the
authority Of reliable man, that two
boys, few days since, found $28 900
buried beneath an old water house on
the railroad. Six thousand dollars OF
this were in gold.
The men who skulked over the border
into the provinces to escape draft during
the war, now have to pay a crown tax
Of $3 each and become liable to do mil
itary duty against the Fenians or leave
the country
The Alabama Oil and Mining Com.
pany, Office located at Columbus, Miss,
has leased 10000 acres Of land ia that
portion Of Alabama
The statement of The public debt, May
/, gives the total at ~, 827, ,676,87 60,
AmoGa. in .he Treasury, Sl37 0S7 027.
Returned rebels are ordered by ciu-
zens to leave Washington county, Ten
nessee, on penalty of death,
A boy was killed by jumping on and
Off a COW catcher OF locomotive, in Chi {
esgo, few days ago.
General sickles declines the appoint
ment Of Minister to tho Iagno.
The aggregate appropriations ia tho
.hillLapaEia4!. ssE.4e Freadmgt'a Bpreau /
Tor the next fiscal year, Is $l0. .6s4 600 \
Frank Gurley, The murder Of General ,
Robert McCook, was reoa'od on parole, o
at Huatsyille, Alabama, April 2S.- t,
Guroy Is Sheriff of his county, and will d
soon enter upon the duties Of his office. Ii
Tho "Cairo Property Company has p
donated square to the United States Ii
for Custom House at that place, and
the building will be commenced as soon I
as the deeds can be made out, a
1t Is thought that Texas will produce Q
lho largest cotton crop the coming season u
of any Of the cotton growing States, q
and South Carolina the smallest. u
Governor Hawloy, Of Connecticut, in : ',
bis inaugural address, takes strong "
ground in favor of negro suffrage, and -
advises that it again be submitted to a +,
vote Of the peoplo Of the State. y
There are six papers in the South con s
.rolled by colorcd men,
Tho Methodist Conference in session
u New Orleans has Sot aside the proba-
ion system,
All the Richmond papers dcnouuco
he reconstruction plan and declare that
not single Southern State will accept n
The sanluslsy Register chronicles tho Dc
,atehiag Of Is lb white Gsh, the larg' al
ia, il thinks, ever taken from Lake OF
Erie. C
The riot al Memphis is al an end
The negroes and their teachers have left
he city. consequently the rioters have tr
20 victims left upon whom to wreak 70
heir vengeance General stonemAu did ti'
lot. as reported, reorganizoa disbanded ne
ebel regiment for the protection Of The ou
ity. =!
The President has suspended tho exc. SO
,ullon Of death sentence Of two South SO
jaroinians, convicted BY a military COM ju'
mission, Of murder in Charleston. ~
The Chicago Republican says that ., %
more than forty new factories, the ma aior' pl'
" Of them for the production Of woelen NJ
,sols, are 70 be erected in II inois this ool
ummer The capital employed in them "
yill exceed a million dollars. au
The ice-doalers in Philadelphia, Pa, snl
yill supply their customers during the lh,
eason At reduction Of about 20 per ,b'
enl. from last years prices. bo
The salary Of the Governor Of Cali. vel
orpia is 81 600 in gold
Mrs JEFF, DAVIS has arrived at Fort.
oss Monroe from Montreal ~
Il Is said that the price Of living in
ian Francisco has diminished one half the
. one year. th'
There Il great deal Of speculation at Ie'
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