Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1869-03-11
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NEWS ITEMS.

Over $4,000 emigrants arrived
Chicago in 1858.
Piekpockets attend church prt
fessionally in Chicago.
Americans use a million postag
stamps a day.
One Cincinnati firm is said to
making 1900 velocidedes a week.
Mr. Greeley's salary as editor {
the New York Tribune is S7,500
The New York Sun was the frs
paper printed by steam in thi
country,
GSn. Thayer, the first superin
tendent of West Point, is still liv
ing, at the age ofS4.
A Michigan boy nine years olt
recently deliberately killed hi
cousin with a gun.
A Hebrew Bible, printed OF
parchment in 149l OF 1492, recent
ly sold in London for $500.
The Nebraska Senate has voted
down the abolition of capital pun
ishment.
There are $1,000 acres in Flori
da subject to location under the
Homestead Act.
The Chicago tunnel drips SO
much dirty water that well dressed
people shun it.
1t is thought that over a million
acres of new prairie will be cultiva
in Iowa this year.
A boy of fourteen was recently
married at Holly Springs, Miss, tc
a woman Of thirty-two.
A home has been established II
Florida for children whose fathers
have been killed by the Ku-klux.
Some counties in Wisconsin arc
already agitating the subject Of or.
ganizing old settlers societies.
The shrinkage of flannels is pre-.
vented by putting borax into the
water in which they are washed.
A new gold field has been dis
covered in South Africa. 1t COW
ers an area Of two thousand square
miles.
A couply were recently married
il Kansas City, Missouri, in less
than one hour after being intro
duced,
Five men recently arrived in San
Francisco, with fortunes OF 800,
600 each, from the mines of Sill
Yerado,
A Boy IN England pIayfully
snapped an empty pistol at his
grandmother, and the old lady fell
dead, by Imagination.
A colony of beavers have settled
ON the Appomattox river, virginia,
and are cutting down quantities of
Bhrubbery and young trees,
A matchmaker in Rochester has
just finished a watch movement
which will run eight days without
winding. 1t has two mainsprings,
A melo. dramatic fellow out in
Minnesota gave a wine supper, and
when the fun was at its height, put
a dose Of stryehnine in his LASS,
drank It, sang song and died.
Time and vegetation have almost
oblitterated all traces Of war from
the Spottsylvania battle. field in
Virginia, including the once form.
idable earth works.
Isaac Angevinc, blacksmith,
aged l06 years, died last week, near
TarrytoMn, New York, For thirty
years he had not been five miles
away from his little farm.
Many Of those ladies' who were
disappointed in being refused the
franchise are now contented to DO
without q vote; for they have been
told that one of the questions elec.
tors are bound to answer at the
polls Is, What Is your age ?"
A dangerous convict became un-
manageable while in a New York |
Central railroad car When his at
tendant called for assistance it was
ascertained that out of thirty.two
male passengers, tWenty.nlne had
Tcyolvers in their pockets,
During the last thirteen years
622 homicides have been commit
ted in New York City. 1t has new
er been discovered who perpetrated
l55 OF them, which shows the ex-
tent 10 which "murder will out"
The Des Moines Register says,
the grasshoppers recently ate up
half an acre Of tobacco for man
near that place, and when the own.
er went out 10 look at II they sat on
the fence and squirted tobacco juice
in his face,
The New York World, says -
"Commodore Vanderbilt made ten
million dollars in one day recently +
80 Il was stated In open court, yes
terday. If this Is true, and ii prob
ably Is, II Is undoubtedly the lar.
gest sum ever made in the same
time by one man since the begin.
ming Of history.
Had Adam commenced counting