Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1868-05-07
NEWS ITI1ds.

A great many young men are
shooting themselves for love in
Cincinnati.
It is reported that the public debt
statement will show a reduction of
Sl0,O00,OOO.
The wife of a distinguished nov
cl,sCin France has been detected in
shop-lifting. p
DR.. Lincoln Goodale, one of the
oldest citizens of Columbus died on
the Doth ult. .. a..
Work is to be commenced imme-
diately on the West shore Hudson
River Railroad.
A man in New Haven is said to
have committed suicide because his
rent was raised.
The receipts Of customs from
April goth to the 25th, inclusive,
were 81, ,4S4, AL.
The Commercial Hotel, at Indian
apolis, was sold at auction, Thurs
day, for $2S,100.
Within the last fifteen Years, 49,
500 children have been sent to the
w est from New York City.
A starch factory, capable ofusing
up five hundred bushels of corn per
day, is to be built at Edinburg, In
diana.
General Schofeld has appointed
| Allen McDaniels Mayor of Lynch
burg, Va, and a full list Of officers
for that city.
The estimated value Of the estate
ofthc late DR.. Lincoln GOodalc, Of
Columbus, is 100000. 1t is to be
divided among his relatives.
During the storm of Saturday
morning, there was an immense
fall Of rain at Louisville Several
houses were struck in New Albany.
1t is estimated that upwards Of
sixty thousand persons have at
tended the Sunday evening services
in the Boston Theatre this season.
A widow in Virginia buried all
her family iewclrY and gold during
the war, forgot the place, and was
unable to find it until terrier dog
dug it up few days ago.
The Louisiana Republican Con-
vention completed its nominations
Saturday. Two Presidential elect
ors, and several delegates to the
Chicago Convention, are colorcd.
The competition between the III
val lines of steamers to California
is flooding San Francisco with
more people than can find employ
ment or the means of livelihood.
Jno. V. Kendall, sentenced in Oc,
tober last, at Baltimore, to fine Of
S4 800, and Imprisonment in the
Baltimore Jail one year, for carry
ing on a distillery, without permis-
Some hounds in Hendricks coun-
ty, Indiana, captured a fox last
week, after eighteen hours chase,
but they we're so exhausted that they
had to be hauled home in wagon.
The New York Newsboy's Home
within the last fifteen years has pro
vided for 57,507 boys, and restored
1000 to relatives and friends, at a
cost of $65, 900, of which the boys
paid $4,000.
S. G. Herring, the safe manufac
turer, has a horse six years old,
nineteen hands high, and weighing
one ton. 1t comes of Canadian
stock, and rs said to be the largest
horse in America
The Second Revenue District of
Iowa contains thirty beer browerics,
which manufactured last year 81, ,ll2
barrels of beer using l02, 1886 bush
els Of grain. The value of the beer
is placed at $409, 344,
j. Brown, a messenger of the
Merchants Union Express Compa-
ny, on the Hudson River Railroad,
was robbed Thursday of l1,OOO,
by unknown parties, who gagged
and bound him on the train.
During the month of April last
there were received at Union Stock
Yards, Chicago, 85, ,l43 cattle, 100,-
36S hogs, and 40,635 sheep. The
shipments were 30,332 cattle, &c.
9l3 hogs, ind 1884 sheep.
Elisha Cook, Il California lawyer,
formerly OF Buffalo, has just receiv-
| 800, 900 as fees in a suit won by
him. Other suits, depending upon
the one just decided, will bring him
$3.50 900 more, Happy Cook!
Samuel Il, Van Campcn has been
arrested IN New York charged with
embezzling $36,000 from the First
/ National Bank of Elmira, and S5,-
600 from the Croton National Bank
oil New York. He had been Presi-
dort Of both banks.
In the United States Circuit Court
at st. Louis, Judgment was rendered
for $4,000 and costs against VIM,
B. Mann, for afflxing false brands
on tobacco. In the same Court,
Gerhart Alhers was held to bail in
$1,000, for the same otfense,
The Radical delegation in Con,
gress from Tennessee have written
letter to Gov. Brownlow, sug-
gesting the organization of a mill
tary force TO put down the Ku-Klux
Democracy, The Governor has
prepared a proclamation for the
purpose,
A terrific hail storm passed over
n nortion of Iowa. Friday evening.