Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1867-06-06
NEWS; ITEMS.

bOO acres Of Strawberries are under
, cultivation.
8 In Baltimore a man was fined SIC
: for cracking and eating peanuts in
6 a church, during divine service.
4 Gov Oglesby, of Illinois, is quite
b ill, and has been confined to his bed
2 for several days.
. Attorney General West will be a
candidate for denomination at the
Union Convention.
The lumber, turpentine and rosin
trade of Pensacola, Florida, is
worth $4,000,000 per annum.
Reports from the freedmen in
Virginia, Georgia and South Caro-
lima, represent their condition as
improving.
1t is estimated that the registry
in South Carolina, when completed,
will show $4,000 white to 10000
colored voters.
That very good friend of the
London Times, says our Govern
ment must intervene in Mexican
affairs.
Lieut.. Gen. Sherman was in Chi
cago Monday, and left for Omaha
to take command in person against
the hostile Indians.
The City Council of st. Louis has
passed an ordinance prohibiting any
person from keeping more than two
COWS within the city limits,
The fire at Idaho City, May II,
destroyed 452 houses, including the
post office and express office. The
loss is estimated at 81, 100000.
The Maryland Constitutional Con
stitutional Convention has voted
the new Constitution ought to ad-
NIT negro testimony in the courts.
A report comes from New York
that majority Of the judiciary
Committee is opposed to any furth, ]
er proceedings looking to impeach- j
ment.
Rev, Joel Lindsey, the child
murderer, Of Albion, N. Y, on his
second trial for murder was not
convicted, and then plead guilty of
manslaughter in the fourth degree,
and was fined $3.50. :
The National Republican news Y
paper Of Mobile, had its Thurs d
days edited suppressed for an ar {
ticle deemed incendiary, instructing Z
the negroes, when, where and how t.
to use fire arms. il
Last evening an attempt was \
made to seize and destroy the reg "
istration books at Washington City. o
Half dozen pages were torn from Il
one Of them before the bold villain I
was arrested. u
A rush toward Russian America C
from California has become so ex-
citing that the California papers ,
have deemed it their duty to eau II
tion people against being too \
fast v
A man was standing on the plat u u
form of car in Cairo paying his " ",
fair,when the money blew out of his ~
hand, In catching at it he lost his y, "
balance, fell between the cars and =,
was crushed to death. " "
There were judicial elections in al
Monday, but they OCCASION
cd little excitement. In Chicago
-he republican candidates were tc
elected without opposition. b
A boy II years old, captured by Ia
he Blackfeet Indians in 1865, and Al
stolen by the Cheyennes, 81
has escaped and reports that the In CT
lians have five white captive wo- $
men.
Gen. Brown, Of Virginia, has is =
ued vigorous circular, enjoining J
IN the sub-agents Of the Freedmen's
Bureau to see that the freedmen are
llly informed of their right to vote,
nd encouraged to exercise it.
From the returns made by the "A
assessor Of Internal Revenue, it VI
ppears that about 100000 barrels
I beer, ale and porter were manu-
lctured in Chicago from the 1st Of
lay, 1866, to the lst Of May, 1867.
One hundred and fifty acres Of Ke
round on Hampton crek, in Vir-
mia, have been purchased by the
merican Missionary Association, ST
which they propose to erect
aiming school for colored teach
s.
During the recent visit to Gen,
lridan to Galveston, texas, he
came convinced Of the disloyalty
the police force of that city, that
removed every man, from the OI
lief to the lowest subordinate, and
'dered the military authorities to +
t in their stead. olas
Two Of the persons nominated A'H
r registers of bankruptcy in Mary
nd, being Republicans, have been
iected by Copperhead Judge thai
liei Justice Chase upon reconsid-
alton has renominated the same AL
en-.
The State Department has pri-
tie dispatches from New Orleans -
lich state that rumor prevails in I've
at city that Maximilliau, and his -
nerals, were shot, the afternoon I
ter their capture, but the rumor w "