Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1868-06-11
NEWS ITEMS.

A New Yorker worth $4,000
is now confined in the Albany PEI
itentiary,
1t was so cold in Chicago MOI
day as to make fires and overcoa'
necessary.
Grasshoppcrs are destroying tn
growing garden and farm crops i
Central Iowa.
Three thousand six hundred an
thirty immigrants arrived at Nc1
York, Saturday.
The Richmond Whig heads tn
killing Of a. negro in Yorktown
"Onc Vote less"
Vessels arriving at New Orleans
from infected ports are ordered
quarantined for 20 days.
The President has nominated tc
the Senate 4. Ragan, Of Ohio, to be
PosrCaptain in the navy.
All the Chinese quarter of the
town Of Jackson, California, was
destroyed by fire on the fourth in
stant.
A nugget of gold and quartz
worth $4,000 has been found at
Remington Hill, Nevada county,
California.
After a recent shower in Pana,
H., several fish, from l to 4 inches
in length, were picked up IN the
streets alive,
The New York Sun suggests G.
w. Cass, OF Pittsburgh, son of Lew
is Cass, for Vice President on the
Chase ticket
A countryman blew out his gas in a
Boston hotel. 1t made him insane,
and he has not yet recovered the
few wits he had.
Mr. Joshua Leggett, Of Tuscara-
was county, sheared from four two
year old bucks, a few days ago, ~
pounds or wool,
There is Q disposition to take
from the Constitution of Georgia
the provisions which forbids the
payment of certain debts, &c,
The crop reports from Arkansas
and North Mississippi are very en-
couraging. The'yield Of wheat is
not large but of a superior quality,
1t is reported that Newton Craw-
ford, an examiner in the Patent
Office, was removed, on Friday, for
abusive language against the Presi-
dent.
A number Of persons in White
county, Arkansas, have been pos-
oned by crting muIberries in which
locusts had deposited eggs several
died
The Virginia State Auditor has
written aletter announcing that there
will not be money in the Treasury
to pay the July interest on the State
bonds.
One day last week, a Mrs. Wclch,
a widow lady, living in Salem, II.
linois, in running to give an alarm
of fire, tainted, fell and broke her
neck.
The safe Of Bancroft & Smith, in
Columbus, was robbed of 1924 Sat
urday forenoon, while all hands were
in front of tho store looking at a
circus.
The entire outstanding of the old
State Bank Of Ohio, on May 20 last,
was $407,52l, There was redeemed
during the previous six months
S23,209.
Passenger arrivals from New
York by steamer, last month, in
San Francisco, were 6,000-the lar
5est number ever known in the
same time,
The 0berlin News says that two
arge vineyards of Catawba vines in
hat vicinity have lately beer pulled
up, the land not being suitable for
heir growth.
DIR. j. G. Williams, whose home
IS near Bloomington, Ohio, com
nitted suicide at Monmouth, ILL.,,
morning, in fit of tempo
AIRY insanity,
One of the witnesses before the
impeachment Managers recently
stated that about $4,000 had been
collected to be paid to the Prosi-
lents counsel.
The La Crosse Democrat and the
Sew England Anti Slavery Associ-
ton have pronounced against
irant and the Chicago Platform!
thus extremes meet
The Republican journals in Cali.
ornia that bolted during the late
tate campaign, have all placed the
ames of Grant and Colfax at tho
cad of their columns,
John Fiske has been arrested at
hicago on the charge Of robbing
ohm Monroe & Co, of New York,
e confesses that he took $4,000, |
I'd that he had spent all Of it. /