Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1869-06-03
NEW WS ITEMS.

I raising tunds TO relleVe their breth'
rem in the East
5 A national convention of the op-
, ponents Of secret societies is to
be held at Chicago in June.
> The first shipment of new wheat
! was received in Memphis. 1t CON
sisted Of 5000 bushels, and classed
as fair.
, A consignment ofnew fall wheat,
reaped in Pamela county, Misslssip-
pi, was received in st. Louis mon
day morning.
. Strawberries are arriving in Chic
ago at the rate offive or six car loads
day, and mostly over the Illino s
Central Railroad.
A young man named Goss died,
Sunday last, near Ashland, Ohio,
from injuries received last fall in
base ball playing.
Chicago claims to have the most
valuable horse in America, ''Ba-
shaw, Jr,," for which $4,000 has
lately been refused.
White River, Indiana, only lacks
a few inches of being as high as at
the flood of ten years ago, The
Scioto is also very high.
Prentice thinks if a young lady
has a thousand acres of land, the
young men are apt to think that
there is sufficient ground for attach
ment.
Parties in New Orleans have
brought suit recontesting the valid
ity Of Mrs, Gaines title to the prop
erty recently decreed her by the Su-
prqme Court.
A few days ago little girl near
Fayette, Iowa, sent on an errand to
a neighbours, was overtaken by
prairie fire, and her charred remains
were found next morning.
A COW, in Henrietta, Jackson
County, Michigan, in less than three
years, has produced six calves-one
in June, 1866 two in 1867; one in
1868; and two this spring.
Mr.. Nelson, of Memphis, on Fri
day tried to beat his wife to death
with billet Of wood, He failed.
He then shot her, inaicting a dan
gerous wound, and left for parts
unknown.
Toombs boasted that he would
call the roll of his slaves from
Bunker Hill monument, but it turns
out that he has to call for his let
tors at the hands Of the colored
Postmaster of Macon, Georgia.
PostmNstep Eastman, ofChicago,
appointed G. B. White, an educated
young colored man, a native of
Chicago, to a clerkship In the office.
This is the first appointment of the
kind in the West.
Geo. j. Howard, alias Green, and
Edward Dennis, parties arrested on
Friday for robbing the Harnden
Express messenger, were indicted
in the Criminal Court Of Baltimore,
Of SIG, 1870 stolen, $12,500 were re,
covered.
The Stockton, California Gazette
says that an aspiring town, on the
Sacramento river, boasts that its
population has increased fifty per
cent, in eight monts. The town
was established about nine months
ago, by Il newly married couple.
James Wilson was found in the
hold of the steamer Rising Star,
upon her arrival at New York, on
Saturday, He was accidentally
shut up in the hold when the yes
sci left Aspinwall, and had been
nine days without food, He will
probably survive.
A telegram from Fort Wallace
states that fifty Indians ran of 800
private mules from Sheridan, Fri
day noon, Two Mexicans were
wounded. About 100 citizens i'm
mcdis tely started in pursuit, but
the telegraph being down no news
has been received Of them,
A woman with two children, trav-
cling to meet her husband at Fond
du Lac, Wisconsin, became insane
on the train, between Cleveland and
Toledo, on Thursday, She had
thrown away her baggage checks,
and tried to jump overheard at
Clyde. Anxiety and apprehension, .
it is supposed had affected her mind \
Albert Tyler (colored) was exc 1
cuted at Richmond, Virginia, Sat
urday, for poisoning P. Hubbard
(also colored,) whose child Tyler
to outrage, and who had 4
threatened to have him arrested - !
Tyler, who seemed little better than
a brute in intelligence, confessed
his crime on the scaffold. He died !
instantly, A large crowd was pres {
ent,
The town of Shipman, Macoupin
county, Illinois, was destroyed by
n hurricane Friday night, Brick /
and wooden houses, alike, were
prostrated or unroofed, The wa Z
ter-tank, windmill, and the build /
ings Of the railroad company, were
blown down. The damage is i'm
mensc. There are no particulars
as to the loss OF life or personal in
juries.
A YOUNG MAN, said to be from
POmprnV OhtO oop,n,itto1 an ant ! /