Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1869-06-17
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NEWS ITEMS.

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A running spring of petroleum
has been found on Kansas farm.
Nearly 1000 persons arc said tc
have starved TO death in Londor
last year.
A French doctor prescribel
sparkling Moselle as certain cure
for grout.
Failure to pay a hotel bill is de
cided to be a penitentiary offence
in New York.
The Central Pacific Railroad Co,
has discharged about 1000 men
already.
Capital punishment was lately
enforced in Paris for the Grst time
in fifteen years.
A Hartford lady is said to be the
best chess and backgammon player
in Connecticut.
The Richmond Enquirer thinks
there is a majority of 5000 white
voters in Virginia.
Within the past week three con.
victs in the Ohio peHitentiary have
committed suicide,
Rust has appeared in the wheat
in Virginia, and the crop about
Richmond will be reduced one-half.
Hon Geo H, Pendleton is still
confined to his bed from the iDjur-
les that he recently sustained BY be
ing thrown from his buggy.
A Republican newspaper is to be
established in Louisville by joint
stock company with a capital ot
100000.
Jno. M. Langston, having declin
ed a mission to Liberia his broth,
er Charles has been appointed in
his place.
Two kernels of new wheat reach
ed Chicago, from Mississippi, on
Thursday--a first shipment by let.
ter.
The Fremont O., postofflce was
broken into and robbed Wednes-
day night, the I'd inst. The thieves
destroyed large number ofletters.
Several clerks, and six out of
nine watchmen, in the Navy De
partment, have been dismissed, ow
ing to reduced appropriations by
Congress.
Three children, attendinga school
near Marietta, have died within the
last ten days from eating some poi
sonous root, supposing it to have
been "swoet sicily
The Painesville Telegraph says
potatoes are down to 20 cents there,
and shippers are not anxious at
that price, rejecting all except the
best.
Gettysburg invites all the organ
izations of the country to partici-
pate in the dedication of the Sol
diers' Cemetery at chat place on the
LIST Of July.
There is official authority for
saying the rumors circulated about
a disagreement between the Presi-
dent and Commissioner Delauo arc
wholly untrue.
The Assistant Treasurer at San
Francisco writes the Treasury Dc.
partment that he has $6,O00,O0O in
the Sub treasury at the disposal of
the Government.
Albert Crofoot, a lawyer of De
troit, has been arrested on com
plant Of the sheriff, charged with
assisting prisoners to escape from
Jail last Sunday.
The grasshoppers, which last
year overran the southern part of
Huron County, are coming again,
1t Is said, with the prospect Of un-
mitigated destruction to every
thing green.
Mr., Henry Reed, formerly an at
tache of the Cincinnati Enquirer,
and recently connected with the
Missouri Republican, has become
associate editor of the St. Louis
Times.
Detectives McCune and Connel
have been arrested and held for tri-
al, in Memphis, for tieing prisoners
In the station house up by the
thumbs in order to make them con
fess.
The Brlcklayers' Union, Of Wash
ington, at meeting Thursday night,
adapted a resolution for the imme.
diate strike of biicklayers Mt the
Navy Yard, unless two colored |
workmen they employed be dismiss
cd.
Chas. Kendall was found dead,
last Friday morning, in an iron
cage in which he had long been
confined, at the County In6rmary,
Wilmington, Ohio. lie is sunpos-
ed 70 have been smothered during
a llt.
An ungrateful alligator seized
aud badly mangled the hand Of
Prof. Noble Of the Savannah (Ga) |
Museum, the other day, while that |
gentleman was cooling the animal
Off by pouring hot water on its
back.
Wednesday night a party dis.
guised went to the Jail at Frankfort,
North Alabama. and, after forcing
the jailcr to surrender the keys,
took out two horse thieves, named
lnman aud Anderson, carried them
TO the wood aud shot them.