Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1867-08-15
NEWS ITEMS.

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Carallna are very favorable,
The Richmond Whig favors the
denomination Of Gov. Pierpont,
There were four fatal cases OF
sun-stroke in st. Louis on Friday
About 40 buildings in Benecia,
Cal, were destroyed by fire Sunday
night.
An asylum for the reformation OF
drunkards is to be erected on Ward S
Island, N. Y.
Gen. Rousseau is at work in ref
erence to the transfers Of the new
territory in the Northwest.
1t is now reported that the Amer
lean Rcdman gun proved failure
at the recent trials in England.
An underportel in the Indianapo-
| lis PostofIice has been arrested for
abstracting money from letters
The St. Louis Board of Health
| has prohibited the sale of fresh oys-
ters until the 18th Of September.
The Atlanta (Ga.) New Era no
tices q peach which grew in that vi
cinity which weighed 133 ounces.
A Chicago policeman was so Sc
verely set upon by a set of Chicago
rowdies that his life is dispaired OF.
The shipments of blackberries
from Madison, Indiana, amount
daily to about seven hundred bush
els.
A clause disfranchising prize
fighters has been adopted by the
Michigan Constitutional Conven-
ton.
A dispatch from Philadelphia,
says the loss by the late food in the
vicinity will reach nearly million
dollars.
A high and sudden freshet at
Newark, N. j., on Friday afternoon,
destroyed property to the amount of
100000.
Six horses which were at the
opening of the Narragansett Park,
at Providence, R. l., were valued at
$64,000
Steamer Lake, on the st. Law
renee river, was cut in two and sunk
by steamer Secret, Friday night.
No lives lost.
Reports from various parts of
Missouri are to the effect that if rain
does not fall soon the corn crop
will be ruined.
Postmaster General Randall hav-
ing received word that his wife is
dangerously i'll in Scotland, has sail
ed for Europe.
Mayor Gustavus Horton, of Mo-
bile, has been arrested and held to
bail in $4,000 for a violation Of the
Civil Rights law.
There is in progress at Boston a
grand festival of German Turner'S,
delegations being present from most
of the New England cities.
A Washington dispatch says all
the Surratt jurors born in the North
were for conviction, and those born
in the South were for acquittal
At Smaktown, Kentucky, Sun
day, there was "a fight between two
families of the chivalry, in which
several persons were seriously in
jured.
Accounts from the corn crops in
Mississippi and Arkansas are very
encouraging. Most planters will
make corn enough to last for two
years.
Two pretended United States rev.
enue officials were arrested in Bos-
ton, on Saturday, They were OBJ
tanning money in their assumed ca
pacities.
A report was in circulation in
Washington, last night, that Judge
Holt will be shortly suspended from
the Head of the Bureau of Military
Justice.
Two hundred and fifty thousand
sacks of wheat were received at San
Francisco last week-the largest re-
ceipt ever known in the same period
of time.
A street preacher named Simp-
son, while denouncing the Pope and
Catholicism, in Brooklyn, on Sun
day, was stoned, knocked down,
and with great difficulty rescued by
the police.
A gang of thieves, Sunday night,
entered a farmers house near
Greenwood, Ind, robbed him, and
then murdered him. Several 9th
er houses in the neighborhood were
also entered.
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