Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1868-03-12
NEWS TTENTa.

A member Of tlie Virginia Const
tutional Convention was expelled
Saturday, for contempt
The amount of fractional currer
cy in circulation at the end of las
week was $299,749,745. ~.-
Louisville printers have each con
tributed fifty cents to q monumen
for the late Artemus Ward.
Two hundred and twenty-fou
patents will be issued from the Pat
ent office for the week ending tn
18th. .
Grant has revoked the order o
Hancock, by which the Street Com
missioner of New Orleans was re
moved.
S. S. Cox, Gen. Mcclellan and Mr.
Hubbel, as to their nominations fot
foreign ministers, are as dead al
door-nails.
-Four garroters robbed a decoy
man, in a lonely place, near Indian
apolis, last Saturday night, and are
now in Jail.
The President has pardoned 10C
counterfeiters and men imprisoned
for connection with the counterfeit.
ing business.
The office ofMajors' Express Co.,
in Belleville, Illinois, was entered by
burglars last Friday night, and rob
bed of S2,800
The Toledo, Wabash & Western
R. r. Co. have made arrangements
to attach a sleeping car to every
passenger train on their road.
The Senate, on Friday, in execu-
tive session, considered the nomi-
nation of S. S. Cox for Minister to
Austria. He will not be confirmed.
The amount absEacted from the
offices Of County Treasurers in
Iowa during the past three weeks,
by burglars, is not far from $685.
900.
At the city election in Bangor,
Maine, on Monday, A. D. Manson,
Republican, was elected Mayor
The Republican gain since last fall
is 157.
tits said that Gen Vickers, Sen
ator elect from Maryland, is pretty
certain to get into the hands of the
Judiciary Committee, under charges
of disloyalty.
A party of English tourists write
home that they found the salted
body of Lots wife near the Dead
Sea, and seasoned their lunch with
her, eye know"
Gen. Hancock has asked to be
relieved from the command of the
Fifth Military District, because he
can't see things thro' Gen. Grants
Union spectacles.
Mr. Johnson's friends urge him
not to employ the men who were
retained as counsel for JEFF. Davis.
They think such a course might
damage his prospects.
A policeman Of Kansas City, Mo,
had one of his ears bitten off, last
by a drunken man, who
pretended to have a secret to whis-
per in the stars ear.
The Louisiana Constitutional
Convention has adjourned, and it
IS not unlikely that before the end
If the week only the Convention in
Virginia will be in session.
During all this week it has been
aiming at St. Louis, and in almost
he whole country north and west
If there. The rivers are all open,
md have good stage Of water,
The Sons of Temperance Of Ohio
lave issued a circular, requesting all
'hurches of this State to observe
lext Sabbath March 15th) as
lay Of prayer for the temperance
ause.
Fanny Kemble drew $1.100
louse at her reading in New York
N the first. A large proportion of
he audience were elderly people,
vho had heard the lady read many
ears ago.
A snow shde, five or six miles in
angth, near Cisco, California, on
he Central Pacific Railroad, killed
tx Cinnamon, buried seven locomo
ives and destroyed considerable
ther property.
A louisville butcher named XII
murdered his wife brutalIy last
aturday, attempted to murder his
ter,in-law and failed, and, more
orrowful yet, failed in an attempt
, commit suicide,
The Senate has removed the in
motion Of secrecy from the pro-
ceilings in the Stanton case in Ex-
cutiye session, with view, it is
Md, Of furnishing the facts to the
npeachment managers.
A German doctor has invented
a apparatus by which thunder is
lade visible through the object
lass of a telescope. This is equal
as marvellous as the hearing Q
loud smell Of Linbarger cheese. :
1t is stated that the President,
revious to appointing Adjutant
eneral Thomas Secretary Of War
4 interim, rendered that position
, General Sciroield, who declined
in polite and respectful man.
er.
Heavy rain storms prevailed