Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1868-02-27
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NEWS ITEMS.


General Fremont is in Washing
ton.
There are ,23O families in Bu0a-
10 living on charity
The late Justice Wayne was the
last man Of Southern birth on the
bench Of the Supreme Court.
Near Boston, there are thirteen
blind children, the descendants of
one blind man residing in that city.
1t is said to be so cold in Monta-
ma that eggs freeze under the hens,
bnt we are not informed how the
hens get along.
The report that Senator Guthrie,
Of Kentucky, had resigned his seat
in the United States Senate, has been
confirmed. .U
Fourteen camels, raised in Texas,
are on the way to New York, to be
placed in the New York Central
Park.
The famous United States steam
or Kearsarge, which destroyed the
Alabama, sailed from Boston for the
Pacific ON Tuesday.
Resolutions for the submission
Of the negro suffrage question to
the people have been introduced in
the Wisconsin Legislature.
The lower House of the Mime
sofa Legislature has passed bill
leaving capital punishment, for
murder, at the discretion Of juries.
1t is feared that the late cold
term has seriously injured the peach
orchards in the fruit region along
the eastern shore of Lake NIichi-
gan.
The House Committee on Freed
mems Affairs will soon report in
favor of the continuance of the Bu- !
reau in Maryland. Kentucky and
Tennessee.
A schooner has arrived at New
York from New Orleans, with H.
900 bushels ofcom--the first cargo
Of grain in bulk ever shipped from
New Orleans.
Snow and strawberries seldom
come together On Jan. 80 the
editor OF the New Orleans Plea
yune had on his table snow. balls and
strawberries, the latter raised in
open air.
Cheyenne papers state that the
road from Salt Lake City to the
Sweetwater mines is lined with pros
pectors, who are determined to
reach the new mines at whatever
cost.
1t is said by an Indiana paper
that upwards of ten thousand per
sons have become church members
in that State as the results of the
recent revivals experienced there.
There is said to be man in New
York city who has expended $50,
600 on tickets of Havana lotteries
without ever receiving cent of re
turn.
No person who has lost any por-
ton Of his property by gambling,
within four months of his applica-
ton, can receive the benefit Of the
bankrupt law.
Joseph Smiths widow has re-
ceived by a revelation from the sonl
of her departed husband a revised
edition ofthe Mormon Bible, and it
has just been published at Plano,
Illinois.
Mr.. Stevens resolutions looking
to the impeachment of the President,
were tabled in committee by vote
of 6 to 3. Messrs. Boutwell, and /
Farnsworth, besides Mr. Stevens,
voting against that disposition Of
them.
Several private cases, involving
the const nationality of the Legal
Tender act, are before the Supreme {
Court, on which Attorney General ,
Stanberry desires to make an argu-
ment, and has requested that the {
decision of the cases may be post :
poned till next term
Aroom full Of people in attend
ance at a donation party to Rev.
A. p. Field, in Russelville, Boone
county, ILL.,, was, by the breaking
of the floor, let fall into the cellar.
The stove set fire to the ruin, and
most would hayep perished, had not
there been enough present who
did not fall tc drench the floor with
water. Nobody was killed, but ev-
erybody was bruised.
A musical dog in New Albany, !