Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1868-08-27
NEWs ITEMS.

Yorke City, ii about to erect q
mammoth art gallery, for the use
OF the public, at an expense oi
nearley S2,OO0,OOO.
The Hon. Thos. A. Hendricks
and Gov. Baker, Democratic and
Republican candidates for Governor
of Indiana, have agreed upon ajoint
canvass of the State.
The New York Times tenderly
assures the Government clerks who
are now being dismissed at Wash
ington that they can get five dollars
per day at brick laying.
The South Carolina rebels met
in convention on Saturday, with
Wade Hampton at their head, and
endorsed the platform and nominees
Of the New York Convention,
The Democracy affect to swear
at the reticence of Grant. 1t is not
so much that his tongue is still that
they hate him, as that his guns
were such terrific speakers.
A three column article in the
World, purporting to be written by
a distinguished general, against
Grants military capacity, is declar-
cd to be a forgery, made in the office.
The Democrats about Washing
ton are exceedingly vexed at the
prompt expression of opinion by
Chief Justice Chase that the 18th
amendment has been legally ratified.
A large part of Nashville was illu-
minated Saturday night, and there
was an immense torchlight process
sion in honor ofSeymonr and Blair.
The affair passed off without distur-
bance.
The $500 United States Treas
ury notes belonging to a Quidneck
bank of Rhode Island, distracted
from the Postoffice, in November
last, have been recovered in New
Jersey.
The Boston Medical and Surgical
Journal reports case in France
where Q needle six & quarter inch
es long remained in the heart and
thoracic cavity of a man thirteen
months.
Mike McCoole was married last
night to Miss Mollie Norton daugh-
ter of Daniel Norton, a rich con
tractor of St. Louis. The church
was densely crowded, and the street
outside was thronged. rrs
The Minister Of Customs has un-
der consideration the prevention of
importation to Canada of cattle
from the Western States, in conse-
quence Of disease reported to have
broken out among them. ay
Affidavits are published in the
newspapers Of South Carolina,
purporting to prove Comptroller
General Neaglcto be a forger Re-
publicans say that he shall either
disprove-the charges or resign.
Nine Christian churches of the
primitive Byzantine style of archi-
lecture have been discovered at
LalibaIe, the holy city Abyssinia,
which has not been visited by Eu-
ropeans for over three centuries.
Henry W. Shaw, ("Josh Bill
ings," is about publishing a col
lection of letters from Henry Clay
to his father, Henry Shaw, of
Lanesboro, who was Mr.. Clay's
chief political manager in New Eng
land.
A Washington dispatch states
that a favorfte negro servant of
Judge Chase was held to bail yes
terday for raping a mulatto girl,
whom he inveigled into the Judges
library and treated to the Judges
wine.
No further developments have
occurred of disease among the cattle
receivd at Hudson City, N j., and
it is believed the only cases were
those first noted, and which were
effectually disposed of by slaugh-
tering.
W. At a meeting in Baltimore
wednesday night, of influential Con
servatives who have worked with
the Democratic party, it was re-
solved that Conservative Union
men be invited to support Grant
and Colfax.
The pearl fisheries recently dis
covered in Western Australia ex-
tend along the coast for one thous-
and miles. 1t is stated that over
sixty tons of pearl oysters were
fished up in December last, and sold
for $500 per ton in gold.
Mayor Alden and q committee OF
citizens are investigating the charge
ofa plot to burn Nashville and 9th
er towns. 1t appears that the mat
ter was urged upon the colored men
by John Carper, an old Union man,
who is regarded as a monomaniac,
A dispatch from San Francisco,
August 7th, says the Central Pacific
Railroad is now built to the Hum
boldt river, $50 miles east of San
Francisco. The earnings in July
were S260,O0O in gold, the road be-
ing operated from l54 to 100 miles
during that period.
On and since the 1st of the month
there have been large number oi
removals from the New York Gus
tom House, and the rumor is credit
ed that removals will be the erdel
for some time to come. It is said