Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1867-10-17

18th inst.
The Surgeon General has sup
piled disabled soldiers with 1881
artificial legs, 2,240 artificial arms,
% hands and 8 feet
| There is great soreness felt in tho
White House circle on account of
the splendid ovation which the peo-
pie are giving to Gen Sheridan.
Rev Calvary M. Webster expired
suddenly while the Rock River
Methodist Conference, in session At
Dixon, Was engaged in = love feast
Government is issuing fractional
currency to the amount Of S100,0 900
per day, that amount being necessa-
~ TO replace what Is worn out and
destroy.
A convict in the Columbus PEN
itentiary attempted to stab one Of
The officers, while going to chapel,
sunday, but was promptly felled
with cane. ao.
The car works of the Des Moines
Valley Railroad at Keokuk were
burned Sunday night The watch
man, while endeavoring to save
valuables, perished.
Treasurer Spinner has made q re-
port to the Secretary of the Treas
.ary explicitly denying the reports in
circulation about abstraction and
over issues of securities.
The Tennessee Legislature met
at Nashville, yesterday, and organ
lied i'll both branches. MAYNARD,
Stokes, Cooper and Fletcher are at
work for the Senatorship.
The stories published in the New
York papers regarding Mrs. Lin
coins property are believed in Chi
cago to be an advertising dodge, as
they are known to be not true.
The Campaign in Wisconsin is
becoming earnest Speaker Schuy-
Ter Colfax is doing good service for
the Union cause. Augustus Cesar
Dodge, Of Iowa, is speaking on the
Democratic side.
The committee sent from Eng
lane to this country to examine in
to the affairs of the Atlantic q Great
Western Railroad, has returned
home and made a report which is
regarded as favorable.
A man from Greensboro. Ky..
committed suicide at the Bates
House, in indianapolis, on Sunday.
He left letter speaking ofthe deep
disgust Of life he had acquired by
reading novels in his youth.
Returns from 40 counties in Ala
bama give 1000 more than the re-
quired number to authorize a con.
vention. Thousands of freedmen
were kept away from the polls by
representations that the election
had been postponed.
The investigation into the char
acter of the government of Mary
land, will soon begin. Twill prob
able be shown that the entire gov
ernment of the State has been put
into the hands of small oligarchy
living on the Eastern shore.
1t is stated from Richmond that
the trial of JEFF. Davis will certainly
begin the fourth Monday in October.
The indictment will charge him
with leyying war upon the United
States, which will be admitted, and
then the case argued on tie ques-
ton of treason.
The Secretary of the Treasury
has written a letter to a New York
gentleman, saying that there is no
reason for thinking the United
States will break its faith with those
who sustained its credit in the hour
Of need, or will pay the bonds be-
fore their matureity in deprecia-
ted currency.
The Freedmen's Bureau will pre-
sent an interesting report to Con
gress at its next session, regard the
relief afforded to the Southern peo-
pie by authority of Congress dur
ing the teriod of famine. Georgia
received more aid than any other
State, and Georgia, Alabama and
South Carolina more than half Of
the whole amount expended.
1t is asserted that an officer of
the government is about to instr
tute legal proceedings against Con
stance Cook and a man named Sher-
wood, ex-agents of the State o.
New York for raising coloreA
troops in the South, who, it is al
legged, did not pay the negroes their
full bounties, but pocketed $780,
600 of the amount themselves.
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