Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1867-10-31
NEWS ITEMS.

Treasury.
Only one hundred and twenty,
nine applications under the National
Banking law have been filed in In
diana.
Secretary Mcculloch denies the
story that he is about to write let
ter IN support of the President.
The Erie (Pa.) dispatch says -
The grape crop all over this neigh
borhood is very fair, and the quail
ty of the fruit excellent, The guam
tity is nearly double that Of any
previous year.
The Point Pleasant, West Virgin
ia, Register states that a company
has struck vein of silver in the
upper part of Mason county, near
Letart, and have been offered $780,
900 for their lease,
The number Of deaths in Now
York last week was AGA, The deaths
from 'foul air inaladies" numbered
| 10G.
The Lake Shore Railroad trains
are said to be running very heavy
with passengers just now, the coach
es numbering ss high as eight and
ten to the train. ..
Gov. Brownlow was, on Wednes-
day, elected U. S. Senator by the
Tennessee Legislature, by major
ity Of II votes.
The Missouri Democrat says the
official returns in Colorado show
that the Council will stand eight
Republicans, four Democrats, and
one Independent Republican. The
House will stand fifteen Republi-
cans, nine Democrats, and two In
dependent Republicans. The total
popular vote is 9,349, against 6,996
last year, when a delegate to Con
gress was elected.
The Daniel Webster place, at
Franklin, N, H., was sold at auction
on the 22d. The heirs Of the late
Rufus L. Tay bought the building
and home farm Of 200 acres for
$4,000
Carpenters, painters and uphol-
sterers are busily engaged preparing
the Capitol for approaching ses
sion Of Congress.
George Peabody has made a do
nation to Harvard College of $3.50, |
900, for the establishment Of a mu-
scum and institute Of archaeology |
and cthnology,
In Harrison, Pennsylvania, on
the 23d girl, eighteen years of
age, while returning home at an ear
ly hour, was struck by some I'M
known person, and knocked insen-
sible, and when found was terribly |
lacerated and outraged.
Seven thousand five hundred nat
publications have taken place recent
ly in New York city under the aus
niraa Of tho DcnIoCratlc Committee,
and five hundred under those of the
Republican Committee.
The Legislature of Tennessee has
enacted law making it punishable
for common carriers to make dis
on account of race or
color This places negroes on an
with whites on Tennessee
railroads, etc.
Robert L. Taylor, shipping mer-
chant of New York, has made an
assignment. His liabilities are said {
to be 81, 100000.
The johnson organs in Washing
ton are in a terrible stew because
clerks in the Washington offices
lre going home to vote.
b. H, Paine, who wrote a panph-
let to prove that the negro is
brute and has no soul, is on trial
for murder at Nashville.
The language, as well as the pn
yate talk Of the White House ring,
indicates that the Democrats are
afraid they cannot carry New York.
A whale.ship, which recently an
rived at San Francisco, passed five
whale.ships, which reported 5000
barrels Of oil, and 80, pounds of
bone.
Six pilots on the Red River died
last week of yellow fever, They
we're regarded us among the most
skillful and trustworthy Of the fra
ternity,
General Grant is still at work re-
trcnching the expenses of the War :
Department He has just issued Z
an order cutting down unnecessary
expenses in, the Government arscn-
als.
The President has issued his war !
rant Of pardon to Henry Golfer
who was convicted, at Albany, for
counterfeiting, aud sentenced to five
years Imprisonment in the Albany
Penitentiary, Is this time for en-.
couraging counterfeiting9
Some counterfeit $50 compound
interest notes of 1862 have beeAIe- I
deemed at the Treasury Department.
It is reported that movements
on foot to bring out Senator Har
Ian, Of Iowa, as a candidate for the
Presidency,
The first through car from Boston
arrived nj MINNEAPOLIS last Monday