Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1868-03-19
NEWS ITEMS.

10 OfuefS.
The Wabash river IS very high
, and fears Of a disastrous overhoV
are entertained. -~----r.7.
Hendricks, of Indiana, sayshe il
not a candidate for the Presidency
Who said he WASP
Z The Hudson river at Albany, N
Y, has risen ID feet, and yet th'
ice has not broken.
There is a disastrous freshet al
Binghampton, New York. Sever
al bridges have been carried away,
The loss by the food at Daven-
port and Rock Island will reach @
quarter of a million. M
The nail factory at Greencastle,
Indiana, is now turning out one
hundred and fifty kegs Of nails pei
day,
The wire for the Denver and
Mexico Telegraph Company will be
laid to Santa Fe within three
months.
In Utica, NeY York, two hun.
dred and twenty-five buildings were
erected last year at a cost Of ST..
956,OOO.
The U. S. Supreme Court has
granted leave to file q bill in the
case Of the State of Ga, VS.. Gen.
Grantand others.
The Centenary Methodist Church
in Chicago was dedicated Sunday,
and contribution Of 100000 made
toward paying for it.
The Ohio delegates to the Ma
tional Republican Convention at
Chicago, have secured quarters at
the fremont House. Uaa
The failure of the Farmers Bank
at Madison, Wisconsin, is much
worse than at first supposed. The
creditors will get very little.
The Supreme Court of California
decided that the State stamp tax on
passenger tickets violates the Ma
tional Constitution, and is void.
The Dayton Journal says one or
more applications in bankruptcy are
being made in that place every day.
Eighty one have been issued in the
district. uU
One of the principal hotels in San
Francisco has 600 to 700 regular
dodgers, l,200 to 1 400 daily board
ers, and library Of nearly 1900
volumes.
Mr. Barnum announces that he
has dissolved with the Van Am
burg Company, and does not con
template engaging again in the mu-
scum business.
1t is stated that the Louisville,
New Albany and Chicago Railroad
Company will lay down about twelve
tons of new iron on their
track this season.
A State Convention of the Pres
byterian Churches is in session in
Chicago. The object is to forward
tho ,~srIs or uniting the Presbyteri- I
IN organizations.
The President took o walk alone |
Sunday, and reconnoitered the sit
lation at the War Office from a con
distance. He made no hos
lille demonstration.
An air line railway, from New
York to New Orleans, is in rapid |
process of completion. 1t is one
hundred and seventy miles shorter
han any existing route
The election for the ratification
If the new Constitution of South
Carolina, and for Congressman and
State officers, will take place on the
-4th, 18th and 10th of April,
The University of Pennsylvania
leld q centennial commencement
friday afternoon. One hundred
md fifty graduates received the de-
groe of Doctor of Medicine.
A kerosene lamp exploded in the
cambria Hotel in Scranton, Pa, on
he 10Th, and the building was con.
umed. The adjoing buildings were
'adly damaged, Loss $4,000.
A young ex-rebel, on Friday last, :
lear Columbia, Tennessee, deliber-
tely shot and killed two negroes,
Thom he overlook on the road,
nd boasted Of the deed. He is in [
all.
Advertising is valuable in Paris.
IN agent there has just paid $780,
90 for the privilege Of hanging
ramed advertisements in the Grand
lotel and the Hotel dc Louvre for
We years, ''
A gentleman who has just arriv- !
d at st, Paul, from Fort Ransom,
)acota Territory, reports that the
indians about Fort Totten are star
ing, and that the garrison itself is
n half rations,
The United States gunboat Saco {
as gone to Venezuela with Captain
.obbins of the American whaler 7
I0nnah Grant, a portion of the
rev of which were made captives
y the Indians, n
A writer in the Scientific Ameri- II
m asserts that onions eaten dur
g an epidemic aid in spreading the
lsease, but that they are a good
if sliced and exposed
the sick room.
The members of the Wisconsin :
legislature are now paid $3.50 each
year instead Of by the day. The
me plan is proposed in the new
institution of New York, only s.
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