Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1867-03-14
CURRENT ITEMs.

, Secretary Seward has lately insure
! his life for 100000.
} AT least l 900 New Workers will be
J the Paris Exposition next Sumper,
Cincinnati has 1869 public lamps an
nearly 81 miles of gas mains.
The sum of $lO5,OO7 was expended
Cincinnati last year for boulderipg street
The Connecticut Millerfts are prepal
ing their lobes for another ascension on tn
10th of June.
In the Grisons, France, there has bee
fall of red snow to the depth Of 3 inches
continuing for two hours.
The Montreal telegraph company ha
bought up all the lines in Canada, and ha
a monopoly of the business
The Kentucky Legislature has passe,
Il bill declaring marriage between frs
cousins incestuous and void.
Baron Charles de Rothschild has beei
elected member of the Northern Parlia
ment by $500 out of 5,732 voters.
Murray, the London publisher, is salc
to have made three hundred thousand dol
lars last year, by his publications,
"A salt well in Tuscarawas county, 0.
yields 800 barrels of water in "a hours, 3!
gallons of water making bushel of salt.
Jefferson Davis is said to have received
$4,000 in subscriptions from his friendt
since his incarceration in Fortress Monroe
The U. S. steamer Tuscara was has
gone to the Fejee Islands to punish the say
ages for barbaraties upon an American sea
man.
Our Nil ister at London is 'delugeC
with letters from Fenian Agents, begging
HIM to assist them to rturn to the United
States.
The women of St, Louis are eirculat
ing petitions praying the Legislature tc
strike the word male from the constitution
of that State.
1t is published that 5000 men will be
thrown out of employment in Pittsburg
Pa, on the 18th inst, by the stoppage Of
of the iron mills. .--.
The Boston Transcript states that 9
banking firm in that city presented as &
Christmas present to each of their clerks
the sum of 81 600.
The fare for the round trip to Paris
and back, on the steamship Great Eastern
during the Exposition next Spring, will b.
about $50 in gold.
Mr.. George Peabody has made gift o
Sl5,n0O to the Middleburyport Public Ii
brary, the amount to be expended in ex
tending its usefulness.
The Assessors reckon that Calilornia
has increased $l0,0O0.000 in wealth sine,
1865, and can afford to pay taxes on $l92,
O0O,O 600 worth of property.
AT recent wedding in New York thC
BRIDES presents - silver, jewelry, leces
shawls, and the rest : were valued ut one
hundred thousand dollars,
1t is said that several thread and nee
die stores in New York violate the excise
law by selling liquorto women andin such
way as to battle the police.
The only Republican in the House Of
Representatives who voted to sustain the
Presidents veto of the Reconstruction bill,
was Mr. Hale, of New York.
"A pastor of Methodist Church in
Brooklyn, N, Y, was presented on Christ
mas, with baked potatoe, in which was
enclosed $500 In greenbacks.
The New York Evening Gazette says
an organiza ion is about to be set on foot
among the Spanlards of that city, to rev.
olutionize the Island of Cuba.
Bishop Whitehouse, of Illinois, (Epis-
copal } is the first Bishop in the United
States to have the honorary degreeof D. d.
from Oxford University, England.
"A one-gyed baby, otherwise proper
child, was recently born at Ottawa, O W.
The 'orb' was situated in the center of its
forehead, an inch and half from the root
ofthe nose. .'' 3"
"A story has gotinto print abouta hor-
rible Madame r who lives in Fifth Ave
nue., and is the fashionable abortionist of
New Y0rk. She has a big furnace to ourn
up the babies.
Z A boy attempted to kill the cashier of
the bank at Port jarvis, N, J d, the other
day,by diecharging a pistol in his face, in
tending then to rob the bank; butthe ball
missed its aim.
"A Gift Enterprise has disappeared from
Westerly, Rhode Island. with something
like 100000 forwarded by the deluded
people, in anticipation of grand distribu-
tioh Of prizes on the 28th'
Among the CHASTITY statistics of the
wear 966 are those furnished by the Cor
onor of New York City whointorms usthat
there have been 81 suicides since January
1865, and SO infantieides.
~. s. Commissioner has issued war,
rants for the arrest of five magistrates OF
the Corporate Court of Norfolk, Va, for
the,Givil Rights bill by refusing
negro testimony in legal proceedings
The New York Herald's Berlin cores.
pondent says that the Liberals have tri
umphed most signally 10 the late Prussan
Bismarck and every other Gen
eral Of the late war has been defeated.
Alta ball given in Hoboken on Friday
night, Mrs. Swenz, a lady only six weeks
entered the room and shot her bus-
band who had taken another partner to
the bali Hewas twice wounded, but may
recover. 6ln ~
During the past year, ia students
from an parts Of the Union, have attended
the Agricultural College OF Pennsylvania,
and it is stated thatiabout twice this num-
Der Will be in attendance during 1867, un-
der the new programme of labor and stud
les.
AN elderly gentleman who is troubled
with lameness wasassisted into his sleigh
at oneof the hoise.failroad stations in Bos-
ton, day or two since, by couple Of young
men, who, under cover Of this seeming act
Of kindness, relieved his pocket Of thesum
Of 81 500.
The quanttyo Of paper used every year
il England, represents weight Of about
POO 900 900 pounds France uses l95,OO0,- |
900 pounds, while the United States, with
4 much smaller population consumes more
paper than England and France put to-
gether, vizi 446,oO0,0OO pounds.
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