Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1867-07-18
NEWS ITEMS.

for So per day and the latter for 8
hours.
The receipts of a Chicago theater
during Booths engagement, were
S26,500
Senator Morton, with somewhat
improved health, is on his way to
Washington.
All foreign representatives in Mex
leo, except those of the United
States, are preparing to leave the
country.
Masses have been said for Maxi
milan since his death, in the Cath
olic churches of Mexico and in New
Orleans.
1t is said that the wheat crop in a
portion Of the State of New York
will be the best gathered there for
twenty years.
Ex- Governor johnson, of Geor-
gia, has written a letter, advising
against accepting Congressional re-
construction.
"Oliver Optic" has completed the
first volume of his weekly juvenile
magazine. 1t has already gained a
good circulation.
A United States Marshal has gone
to Logansport to arrest the rioters
there on a charge of obstructing the
United States mail,
A cargo of five hundred Congo
negroes have been recently landed
on the coast of Cuba and divided
among the planters.
Contracts for the labor of 205 con-
victs in the Michigan State Prison
were let last week at tifty-two and
fifty-fve cents per day.
The Columbus City Council has
discharged all the Republicans on
the police force, and supplied their
places with Copperheads.
Among the failures in the dry
goods trade in New York are Fair
child & Fanshawe, Loeschick, Will
lard q Rhodes and VIM. Bruner &
Co.
The Sheriff of Steubcn county,
N, Y, has been obliged to call upon
the military to enable him to serve
legal processes upon the Anti Rent
ers.
A fashionable New York lady at
Saratoga, appeared last week in sew
en- different dresses on the same
day, and that the first day after her
arrival. {
Peter Cooper, who contracts for
the legs of all oxen killed in New
York, to make into parasol handles,
realized 100000 in the past twelve
months.
A resolution was adopted by the t
New York Constitutional Conven- T
ton on Tuesday, to submit the ques-
ton Of female suffrage to the elect
ors in 1868 or 1869,
In the interior parishes of Louis t
lana, General Sheridan reports more |
blacks than whites can sign their
names, when called upon by the
registration board to do so.
1t is reported that the War De- |
partment is in receipt Of informa- q
tion that the United States troops I
at Fort Mcdowell are trading in In
dian captives as articles of merchan-
disc.
DR.. Brice Cooper, formerlya Cap
tain of the 10th O. V. l., was mur-
dered at Samantha, Ohio, on Satur-
day evening, by John A. Starr, Of l
that place, during dispute about an
old debt.
There was some excitement on
Broadway, New York, Monday,
caused by one of the editors of the
N. Y. Times pulling the nose Of Cy- ,
rus W. Field, because the latter had
called him a liar.
The cholera has broken out at
Fort Harker, and a number of sol
liers have died There is also con- :
siderable sickness at Salima, Kansas,
occasioned by the floods. Several
citizens have died.
A Spanish paper in New Orleans
aments the death of MaXimillian,
md denounces those guilty of his
leath, among whom it mentions, 4
Louis Napoleon, Marshal Bazaine
lllu w ILL., H. O6WuIN'
Two female pickpockets lately ar
rived at Saratoga, N. Y. They put
up at a fashionable hotel, and have
been doing a good business among
the ladies. They tried it in one of
the churches during the morning
service and we're arrested.
A dispatch from San Francisco
says the Central Pacific Railway
Company have sent locomotives by
teams to the east side of the noun
tains, preparatory to laying a track
crossing the summit, intending to
complete the connection this fall,
The Lehigh Coal and Navigation
Companys office at Whitehaven,
Pa, was robbed on Sunday night of
S2S0,000 in notes and $4,000 in