Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1868-07-23
NEWS ITEMS.


: neighborhood.
The Chillicothe Gazette reports a
J huge yield of blaekberries in that
! vicinity this season.
The whole business portion of
d Madison, Florida, was burned on
G the night of July l4th.
: A bad case Of cholera is reported
e as having terminated fatally in New
1 York, on Sunday.
Two neighbors in CoIumbiana
, county had ninety-two sheep killed
. by lightning on Wednesday Of last
: week.
Eight hundred glasses Of soda
: water were sold in one evening
last week at one fountain in Chilli
Q -cothe. J #a HGf
t II. Trapp, convicted a year and a
, half ago of presenting a false boun.
ty claim, has been pardonea by the
President.
Generals Grant, Sherman, Sheri-
dan and Dent left Leavenworth Sat
nrday morning for Denver, via Kan
; sas Pacific railway.
= The Cholera is fast disappearing
from the Island Of Cuba. The dis
ease is considered to be only spas
modic in character.
The President has nominated to
the Senate VIM. M. Stafford and
Hiram Knowles to be Associate Jus.
tices of the Supreme Court of Mon
tana.
The Senate, Thursday, alter
discussion, confirmed the nomina-
ton of Hon. William M. Evarts
for Attorney General Of the United
States.
At meeting Of master masons,
in New York, last Monday, it was
stated that the journeymen were
about succumbing to the ten hour
system.
Seymour said, 81 should be dis
hOnored if / accepted yournomina-
ton" And this before he knew
Frank Blair was to go on the ticket
with him. a.F
Mrs. VanSladen, wife Of a Chicago
druggist, took an overdose of chic
roform to relieve an attack of neu-
ralgia, and was found dead next
morning.
1t is reported that Ex-Governor
Greiner, of the GAINESVILLE Times,
has fallen heir to q fortune of $780,
900, in bonds and real estate, in
Minnesota. al d
A hundred guilders invested
in trade gives man meat and
wine the same invested in farming
gives him only cabbage and salt
The Talmud.
The British brig Mohawk, arriv-
ed at Gloucester, Saturday, with
several of the crew in irons, for
mutiny which had been quelled. One
man was shot.
- While the democracy of Des
Moines, Iowa, were firing a salute
over the New York nomination, a
gun prematurely exploded, and
John Mccarthy was killed.
The Lancaster Gazette says that
the bulk of the wheat crop IN that
county has been secured in fine con
dition, and the yield is said to be
up to the highest expectation.
The drought in France is so ex-
treme that the working. women are
gratuitously transported to the riv-
er Rhine by the railway companies,
in order to wash their family linen.
Weston, the pedestrian, failed to
accomplish fifty miles in eleven
hours, at the Forest City Park,
Portland, on Saturday. His time
was eleven hours six and half
minutes, II
The citizens of Sandusky are
protesting against the removal of
tho Confederate dead from John.
son Island during the hot weather.
They have represented the matter
to the authorities at Washington
Several passengers were robbed
on the mail boat between Louisville I
and Cincinnati on Tuesday morn
ing. The thieves, it is stated, got !
five gold watches, about $4,000
in money, and other articles of
value.
A gentleman who saw tho Hon,
John Bell, a few days ago, reports
him as partially paralyzed, but in
fair health Notwithstanding He
says he hopes to live to see Sey
mour elected, and to die a free
man. .. l
The POmeroy Telegraph says that
a few nights ago young gentleman
Of that place caught his foot in q
lady's hoop skirt and was precipi-
ted headlong into basement. That
was literally being under petticOat
government,
The Dayton Journal says that
several manufactures in Dayton
have suspended operations during j
the hot weather, We notice the
same course has been adopted in
other cities, II is said that the
workmen arc utterly disabled by
Abo baot