Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1867-08-22
NEWS ITEMS.

Mrs. Jet1. DAVIS hTIlVeu III hIOh-
mond, Va, Saturday evening.
The deaths in st. Louis last week
were 206, more than half of whom
were children.
Martial law has been established
! in Julesburg, to suppress the rule OF
gamblers and desperadoes.
Santa Anna is confined as a pris-
oner in the Castle of San Juan D'Ul-
loa, at Vera Cruz.
Negotiations are said to be in
progress which will grobably result
in consolidating all the railroads
from Buffalo to Toledo under one
management.
The Montgomery Advertiser says
that General Pope has removed all
the civil officers Of Macon county,
Georgia.
A butcher was arrested and held
in $500 bail last week in New York,
for cutting off the hind legs Of two
COWS.
The man who murdered Hopes,
at Anderson, Ind, last Spring, was
on Saturday convicted of murder in
the first degree and sentenced to be
hung.
Of the $50 millions of seven thir-
ties due on the 18th inst, the time
for payment Of which has been ex-
tended thirty days, all but about
twenty millions bave been already
presented.
At a picnic near Vicksburg,
Thursday, poison was put in the re-
frcshments by unknown PARTIES
Five whites and three blacks have
died, and six or eight others are
not expected to recover.
The Richmond City Council have
adopted protest to General Scho
field, against having to support pau
per negroes who have emigratcd to
that city since the war.
On Tuesday last one drug store
in Atlanta sold 1000 ounces Of
quicksilver to parties engaged in
mining near Alatoona. ..
Several Militia companies of col
ored men have been formed in New
York.
A daily line of steamers has been
between Michigan City
and Chicago.
The damage caused by the un-
rain floods in Philadel-
phia will probably reach half a mil
lion dollars.
Yellow fever is raging, with un-
precedented fatality, at Galveston.
The funeral Of eX-Goy Wright
will take place in New York, Thurs
day.
There are nearly fourteen thou
sand Cretan refugees in Greece,
nearly all supported by charity
The French Emperor has bought
three of McCormick's reaping ma
chimes.
Dan Noble, q well known sport
ing character, has been arrested at
New York, where he was
living in grand style, charged with
having received 100000 Of the
ponds stolen from the Royal lnsur-
lnce Company.
The iron railroad bridge across
he Mississippi at Dubuque is to be
Immediately. The stock
S all subscribed, and application
was made for stock to the amount
Of 100000 after the books were
closed.
Thirteen of the Alabama emf
grants to Brazil returned home re-
,ently, thoroughly disgusted with
ihe South American Emf ire, They
say there are hundreds of Ameri-
,ans in Brazil without money or the
lbility to make it.
BY order of Secretary McCulloch,
sixty clerks were discharged lately,
embracing some from nearly all the
bureaus. About thirty Of those
dismissed were ladies'. A further
'eduction will be made in a few
lays.
A Mrs. Maker, ofDubuque, Iowa,
| few days ago fell into "mineral
loIe" 40 feet deep, and remained
here several hours. Though Sc
-erely hurt, her injuries were not
A Coon PLATFoRM.-Under the
aption Of "Our Platform" the Sa-
'annah Republican, the leading
of the State of Georgia,