Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1869-10-07
NEWS ITEMS.

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The women pantoiooh makers OF
Boston, are organizing 70 strike for
higher wages
The wheat crop Of Montana for
the present year Is estimated 1T S.
900 bushels.
: Chief Justice Chase Is said ID
} have invested S22,0 in a tract Of
land With fine residence, Just out.
side Of Washington.
l DR. Robert J. BreclkenFideg bSA
resigned his professorship n tbs
Danyille tKentucky) Theological
Seminary, which was accepted Sen:
tember 18th. -.
BY the purchases of bonds By the
Government on the 29th of Sen.
tember, s2,66S,OOO currency was
released, giving TEMPORARY ease to
the market.
The Indians in Montana bsye
run off nearly every herd Of stock
in the. vicinity of Silver City, and
committed number of murders.
The United States Courts, in San
Francisco, yesterday, granted ah
injunction against several dentists
in Goodyear rubber patent suits.
An aspiring widow, of Sioux
City who resides in mud cabin,
refuses to buy her daughter a pi.
ano, because "such things are get
ting altogether too common"
The Grand Lodge OF Odd Fellows
has postponed the consideration of
the amendment to the constitution
changing the title of the Grand
Lodge to "Supreme Grand lodge"
until the next session.
The steamship Dovah, which sail.
ed from New York, on the 25th, for
Bremen, took one million and
quarter in Mexican dollars, Which
arrived on Wednesday from Vera
Cruz, per steamship Cleopatra.
A farmer Hamed Cox, and his
wife, living near Kingsville, John.
son county, Missouri, were murder
ed last Thursday. Their bodies
were Shockingly mangled with an
axe. There is no cleW to the dis
covery of the murderer orthe cause
Of the deed.
Colonel Thomas W. Napier,
Sheriff of Lincoln county Ken.
lucky, was shot and mortally woun.
ded, on the 25th inst, by Samuel
Holmes, Jr. One of his deputies,
E. M. Davidson, Marshal of Stah.
ford, was also shot and badly
wounded.
A sidswheel steamer, iron built,
70 feet in length, arrived in Chica:
go few days ago from Baltimore
via the Erie canal and the lakes
She goes thence to Bayou Tescil
via the Illinois d Michigan canal
and the Illinois and Mississippi
rivers.
Senator Wilson contempiates III:
Producing bill at the hext session
of Congress to stop the operations
of gold gamblers in Wall street.
He designs to make it. a penalty to
sell orpurchase gold, unless the full
amount of coin sold is actually de-
liYered.
At last sensible--John G. Breck.
enridge moved, in u Kentucky
Court, few days ago, that at the
bar all military titles should be
dropped, and that in place of Cen
eral, Colonel, Major, or Captain,
plain Mr.. should be used.
Ex- Governor Charles A. wick.
life, of Kentucky, is seriously i'll
at Baltimore, with but little hope of
bis recovery. He has been entirely
blind for several years, and recent
ly went to Baltimore to have an
operation performed on his eyes,
Attorney General Hoar is report,
ID to have given an opinion that
he Provisional Legislature of ,Vir4
yinia, after Organization, will have
authority to elect United States
Senator's, that not being regarded as
business.
A mass meeting Of frishHieh was
leld in St. Louis Saturday night,
which elected ten delegates to the
National Irish Emigration Con4en:
ion to be held October s. Duties
lumber Of prominent and inftenl
ial Irishmen were present, and 4
'ery deep interest was manifested
n the object of the convention.
The Alliance Horse Fair closed
-esterday. The two principle fa-
es were one of sweepstakes for
hree hundred dollars, won by Sir
Yaltsr, of Cleveland time, 2:4S:
Te trotted the mile in 2:33 after
lie race. The running race was
ON by General Meade, Of Mead
lille; time, ;46 and 1853.
A gentleman of Prince George
'unty, Virginia, says that, as al
stance of the severity Of the
rought there a well fed pond near
IS house is now dried up for the
'st time in twenty years. A fire
the woods has passed over and
armed the crisp leaves on its bot
i'm.
= In Western Texas uncultva-
d lands. possessing q rich, deep
Ill, easily prepared for plahtingf