Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1868-08-20
NEWS ITEMS.

The Akron, ONO, matcn factory
was burned Friday afternoon. To
tai loss, $4,000; insured for
$4,000.
Three cases ofcholera are repor-
ted in the town of Westchester,
New York, and one or two in
Morrsana,
Two hundred and eighty-eight
barrels of condscated spirits were
sold at auction in New York,
Thursday, for 64@65c.
A Fenian meeting numbering
three thousand persons was held in
Brooklyn on Thursday, Two
special ENJOYS from Ireland are said
to have been present.
The master masons and brick
layers have failed to compromise,
and the strike goes on, the former
are adopting the original motion to
employ but ten hour men.
Ayoung girl named Kate Con
ner, fifteen years of age, who was
arrested on suspicion Of stealing a
watch, died in New York station
house on Wednesday night. Her
death is presumed to have been the
result Of shame and grief.
Vallandigham says we have "two
currencies, gold and greenbacks. :"
We can't see it-haven't seen a
gold dollar or a gold eagle current
among us since the first year after
the Democracy rebelled and upset
every thing, the currency included.
A Democrat in the interior of
Ohio says he opposes the Republic
an ticket because "the United States
are now in debt about $500, and
the most Of that was made in buy
ing bureaus and other expensive
for the negroes South, and
Id if I'll vote with a party that
lays out money that way"
- The Clermont Courier of the
18th inst, says: 1--WE have seldom,
if ever, seen q finer prospect for
corn than there is in our county
just now. Potatoes, also, are
and a protusion of the
good things Of earth crowd the
boards Of the farmers throughout
,he county.
At Franklin Tennessee, on Sat
lrday night, at midnight, a party of
Seymour and Blair men of the Ku-
klux order amused themselves by
going with masked faces to the
store of Prussian jew, named
3ierfeld, who had committed the
otfense of being a Republican, and
shot him and his colored clerk,
Killing Bierfeld instantly, and NOR
ally wounding the clerk,
A brick made on the 25th ult, at
Helena, Montana, was worth about
twenty seven thousand dollars; it
was of gold and W ighed 1900
ounces; the largest ever made in
lhe territory, and required three
hours to melt the gold Of which it
was composed. Such brick as
that in ones hat would make Lin
Cleveland Herald.
- The indianapolis Journal says
IN old Democrat came into Frank
in, johnson County, a few days
since, and inquired of a citizen "if
t was true that a mob had hung
seymour for being concerned in an
express robbery :" When the prop
n explanation way made the old
veteran seemed considerably reliev-
I'd, and remarked, II thought it
little singular"
A Milwaukee paper gives some
statistics of the beer trade of that
city and enters into some calcula-
lions which are worth repeating
For the year ending June 30th,
1868, beer stamps were sold in Mil
waukec to the amount of$101 ,6S6
which represent so many barrels of
beer, equivalent to about Al, 800, 900
Of pint glasses. This would allow
524 glasses of beer to every man,
and child of the $4,000 in
labitants Of Milwaukee. This, at |
,ents a glass, or $26,29 for each
nhabitant, would yield the snug
little sum of 80, ,226,064 and as the
cost of this beer to the retailer is
but 81, ,2l2,032, the net profit fig
Tres up Sl013,033. No wonder
hat there are 447 places where beer
ID sold NV the plass.