Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1868-07-02
NEWS ITEMS.

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feF-Chase.
Senator Henderson was married
last Friday to Miss Mary Footo.
Mrs. A. Lincoln and Tad are 60
ing to Scotland for their healths.
TheErasshoppers are doing hav-
oc to the crops in portions Of Iowa.
A California paper nominates
the Rev. II. W. Beecher for Presi-
dent.
The wheat crop near Kalamazoo,
Michigan, is said to be ruined by
midge,
There is some complaint of the
weevil in the wheat in Highland
county.
The wool crop Of Morgan coun-
ty for the year 1867 was 3l4,54l
pounds.
Haynau's executioner, Strasser,
has committed suicide. He was 70
years old.
The vote for Gen. Mcclellan in
1864 was l,S11,754; for Lincoln,
2,223,035.
Three thousand persons have left
St. Louis to be in New York on the
4th of July.
Gen. Jasper Packard has been
nominated for Congress in the Col
fax District.
The Michigan Southern Railroad
earned, during the third week of
June, $Sl,0l3
The first lot OF new Virginia
wheat sold in Richmond, Saturday,
at $3 per bushel.
The shipment ofspecie on Satur,
day was one million and forty eight
thousand dollars.
A man IN Sandusky county has a
potato patch of one hundred and
thirty-fve acres.
Southerners are going to the Pa
cifc coast in large numbers for Il
permanent residence.
Wheat harvest was commenced
In Adams county on the 22d-ten
days earlier than usual,
A feet of barges, from Saginaw,
with one million feet Of lumber, ar
rived at Toledo. on Thursday.
Several master masons in New
York have conceded the terms de-
manded by the rick-layers'
The Indiana Methodist Female
College was sold on the 22d inst,
it having proved financial failure.
A flowing spring ofsalt water has
been struck at the depth of 800
feet, in Hawkins county, Tennes-
see.
The Rothsehilds have obtained
the monopoly Of the tobacco traffic
OF ITALY for twelve millions OF
francs.
The baby woman of Chicago, is
drawing crowds every day to sec
her She is nearly three years old,
and is developed like full grown
woman,
The Legislature of South Carroll.
M Is to meet on July @, for the pur-
pose of ratifying the Fourteenth
Amendment.
The Merchants National Bank Of
Memphis, suspended Saturday NOR
ming. IL Is said that assets will ex.
ceed liabilities.
The number Of letters sent from
the Chicago Post Office for the past
year wers fifty millions, and forty
millions were received.
Recent heavy losses in mails dis
tributed at Cnlpepper, Va, Court
Mouse, led to the arrest of G., M
Cook, Deputy Postmaster there
He>confessed the crime.
Adyices from Bremen says there
viii be an unusually large emigra
ton Of Germans from that country
to this the coming autumn,
A few DAYS ago two whito men
named Wyatt and Hacklar and {
colored man, we're killed by one
stroke Of lightning, near London
Kentucky.
The Michigan Labor Union State
Convention. which held a score
session at Detroit, nominated Fla
vius ], Littlejohn, Of Allegan, fo
Governor.
Jefferson Davis, while coming
down stairs with his children in BIZ
arms, in the hotel at Lennoxyille
Canada, fell and somewhat inluret
his back.
An individual representing him
selfas "Mark Twain" has been edo
ing the good people Of Wellington
LoFaIn county. A landlord was th'
woret sufferer.
Chief Justice Chase and Henry
A. Wise, Of Virginia, have takeI
rooms together at the St. Clou'
Hotel, in New York, in anticipation
OF the Democratic Convention.
Advices from idaho announce tn
capture Of sixtyone Indisns, b
Lieutenant Stanton's party. Thes
India0R profess to desire peace, an'
have promised to return stole
property.
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