Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1867-08-08
NEWS ITEMS.

Of 10000.
t A Savannah dispatch says the re
| ports Of the crops in the State are
encouraging.
: Nearly two millions Of dollars in
gold arrived at New York from Cal
; ifornia, August lst.
The coinage of the branch mint
at San Francisco for the last fiscal
year was over $l9,000,0O0.
The papers of Tennessee are urg-
ing employers to discharge their
hands who voted the radical ticket
The house Of Nelson Rush in
Columbus, was entered and robbed
Of a gold watch on Friday after
noon.
The President and his friends still
continue their war on Secretary Stan
ton, with the intention of forcing
him to resign
The United States steamer Resaca
had sixty eight cases of yellow fe-
yer on board during the voyage
from Panama to San Francisco.
There are reports Of fight
with Indians in the vicinity of Fort
Hays, in which the United States
troops were, as usual, worsted.
|
When the monitor Onondaga re.
turned to New York she had two
feet of water in her hold, and had |
proved very dangerous sea boat
The Republicans Of the Senatori-
al district composed OF Scioto, Pike
and Adams counties have nomina-
ted Gen. Wells S. Jones for Sena-
tor
The Tenement House Association
in New York for the Improvement
of residences for the poor, will prob
ably go into operation the coming
autumn
Fifteen hippopotamus hides were
recently sent to tannery in Boston,
Mass, to be tanned. They were in
halves, and weighed together $500
pounds,
On Saturday, July 9th, the stew
ard Of the Union hotel at Saratoga,
purchased 1900 chickens for Sun
day, and ordered 35 lambs for use
Monday,
Frank McLain, a lawyer Of Co
lumbus, Tennessee, went to bed on :
Friday night, not sober, and soon :
rolled out Of bed, breaking his neck
by the fall. +
While two boys about Is years old t
were returning from Sunday School d
in New Haven, Conn, Sunday, they S
had Il quarrel, and one stabbed the t.
other fatally a
The entire tankage capacity of il
Oil City, Pa, nearly two hundred p
thousand barrels of oil, is awaiting a
a rise in the river for transportation c
to Pittsburgh Il
The United States Express was il
robbed of$l, 700 near Mayvllle, La ?
fayette county, Mo, Friday morn c
ing. The passengers by the stage c
were also robbed, u
Republican mass meetings are a.
now in progress all over Alabama, y y
The total registration in the State = :
is 1l2,400 OF this number the q
blacks count up 50, =
A grain dealer at indianapolis es- a a
Inmates the wheat crop of the State fl
this year at seventeen bushels per +,
acre. The usual average yield is q
twelve to thirteen bushels +
Major Alden, Commissioner of o
in Nashville, has been ii
bound over for trial before the D
Criminal Court for issuing illegal a
certificates to colored men. Ii
Lizzie Carey, Of Columbus, at B.
jempted to commit suicide by taking W
audanum Monday, because her low a,
II escorted another girl to the cir W
,us, A physician prevented any o.
atal result l.
jeff Davis recently rode through cl
VT He was hooted and r'
lissed at nearly all who saw him, c'
md one old lady, who had lost Sc
'elativc at Andersonville, flung a =,
itone at him. 81
A man was arrested at Newburgh, Il
Y. Y, last week, and held in $500 -
,ail, to answer for cruelty beating ~
/ team of horses, trying to make " "
hem draw a load of sand weighing 10 10
800 pounds. e. e.
The fare on the Michigan South r,
I'm Railroad has been reduced to q S
rate of three cents per mile o.
III along the road and it's branches, Il
The new arrangement went into ef- q
ect August lst it
The income from the tax on dogs b
n Indiana this year will amount to A
nearly 100000. This is applied Ii
o reimbursing sheep owners for b
iheep killed by dogs, and the sur s.
,lus is devoted to the school fund. @
The President has authorized a "
statement that he never saw the rec q
to mercy in behalf of II
Mrs, Surratt; but in this, as in so v
many other things, all the evidence h
hat is worthy Of credit is on the s.
other side, :
The Maryland State Constitution a
Il Convention on Wednesday adopt .
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