Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1867-06-27
NEWS ITEMS.

1t is said that the ram Dunderberg has
sprung a leak.
General Longstreet was pardoned by the
President on Thursday last.
The President has been informed of the
arrivalof Santa Anna in Mexico.
Several spectators from Lafayette, In.
diana, have been made to groan in Chi
cago.
The President has issued a proclamation
announcing the ratification of the Russian
Treaty.
The Louisville Common Council has re.
fused to license colored men to keep a
tavern.
A lady in Michigan was stung in the
ball of her eye, by a honeY-bee, and died
in ten minutes,
The freshet at Sing Sing, New York,
last Tuesday week, did damage to the ex.
tent of 100000.
Steamship Catherine Whiting sailed
yesterday from New Orleans, with 25U
cmigrants for Brazil.
Five bank officers in Mobile were recent.
ly poisoned with ice cream that had been
made in a copper freezer.
Three or four houses and saloon in
Portlond, Ky, were burned yesterday
morning. Loss, $4,000.
The Masonic fraternity of New York
will receive the President with process
sion of Knights Templars.
An English paper reports that the earn
ings OF the Atlantic Gable for the last two
months amount to G7O,O0O
At Montgomery, Alabama, and Rich.
mond, Virginia, the blacks who have reg
istered outnumber the whites.
I. G. G Martin, OF Franklin. Tennessee,
had difficulty with one of his workmen,
Wednesday, and shot him dead.
A whole square of buildings corner of
Lake eud Clinton streets, ChicngO, were
burned on Friday night. Loss $3.50 900.
Gen. Sheridan has removed Texas
Sheriff and a constable for refusing to ex.
eeute warrant for the arrest of mur-
dercr.
The Supreme Court of the District of
Columbia has decided that combinations
of physicians to regulate their fees, were
illegal.
Thomas s. Smoot was fatally shot in
Washington, yeseerdqy, by Henry John
son, Jr., guilty of intimacy with the lat.
ter's wife.
relic in New Orleans has come to ligl t !
in the shape of $4,000 worth of Jewels
and gold packed away in barrel of dam.
aged pork.
The Connecticut Senate passed an ei~ht
hour law. 1t has already passed the
House, and goes into operation on the lst
of January next.
There were ninety marriage licenses is.
sued last week in Cook County, Illinois.
The total number of licenses issued since
January /, is l.754.
Judge Chase, it is said, has decided that
pPrties South owing debts North, who paid
Confederate receivers, are not discharged
from their obligations
A duel waS-lought near Charleston, 6.
@. ,oH&4dnesdaSr rhAwRn No South Car
olinlarA One acknowledgements and \
the othengaye himself up. y
Thcve IA rumor in Y tw York TINT the
old adventurer Santa Anna, had been cSp (
,tured in Mexico, subjected to military
trial, and sentePced to be hung.
The grosshoppers nre doing %Npt dam.
nge on both sides of the Missouri fi~river.-
For distance Of one hundred miles, gar.
dens and corn fields ara being desolated.
The Commissioners of Clermont and
Hamilton counties have decided to pur
chase the bridge over the Miami river at
Milford. The price to be paid is $25, 900.
In two wards of Petersburg, Va, up to
Wednesday evening, 4S6 whites and ,44r
negroes had been registered, There is
much apathy among the whites on the sub,
ject,
1t is reported from Cuba that royal
decree was received from Spain, freeing
all colored children, born of slave parents,
in the Island, on and after the first Of
July.
Major General Pope has telegraphcd to
General Grant that it is untrue that negroes
have been appointed in the municipal gov
ernment of Mobile, and says Offices are
now filled by the best men of the city.
Gen. Sheridan tclcgrnphed to Gen.
Grant last week that the last returns make
the numner of registered voters in Lonis
iana 81, ,4SS @here will be n large mum
ber of whites eH tiled to register who will
decline on account of objections to the mil
itary bill