Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1869-11-25
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gloves with twelve buttons.
Henry Ward Beecher's salary
last year was s28,OO0, This year
II will be S21, 1000.
In the Warren County Court, last
week, twenty-five hundred dollars
damages were awarded to r. G.
Dowdall, against the Cincinnati,
Montgomery and Clarksville Turn
pike Company, for neglect in re-
pairing a chasm into wich he fell
on Christmas night, 1867, and broke
his leg. He claimed five thousand
dollars.
The Bible question in school was
discussed at Lebanon, Ohio, on
Friday night week, at public meet
ing, and q resolution that no teach
er or School Board should enforce
the reading against anybOdy's CON
scientiOus scruples, was voted down.
The wife of saloon-k keeper, in
Defiance, Ohio, to check her hus-
bands inclination for strong drink,
drugged the whiskey in his saloon,
thereby making, not only her hus'
band, but several others sick.
The through line from Chicago
to st. Paul, by way Of the Cedar
Valley (IowO) Road, will be com
pleted by the 1st day of December,
it is thougt.
A shinplaster of the denomina-
ton of fifty cents, issued by the
town Council of Lancaster, Ohio,
December 80, 1887, was presented
to the City Council for payment,
and paid on Tuesday last.
On the evening of Friday week,
twenty deer and one black bear
were shipped from Alma Station,
ON the Dayton and Michigan Rail
road.
Jefferson Davis received one vote
for Comptroller Of New York. Hor-
ace Greeley was SCRATCHED" to
make place for it.
A negro orator in Mississippi
looked at his watch and said he
must close his remarks, as it was G3
minutes past half after nine"
The Desert News says the Salt
Lake Theater was, perhaps, "the
first and only theater upon this
continent that was ever dedicated
by prayer"
Miss Susan Fox, of Maumee city
Ohio, was married on the I'd inst,
and died on the Sth, Of pneumonia,
caused by a cold taken on the
bridal tour.
Pittsburg has at present thirty
two rolling mills, seven steel and
two copper works.
The Governors of thirty one
States united with the Presidnet
in recommending Nov IS as a day
Of Thanksgiving and Praise.
Col Elliot, in his speech at Hous-
ton, Texas, last week, said; "My
niggers are worth more to me now
than they we're during slavery. =
The Colonel is q Democratic candi- |
date for Congress.
The foundation stone of the new
Catholic Church of St. Bridget's,
capable of accommodating l,5OO I
persons, was laid Sunday in Jersey
City by the Very Rev. DR.. Carri- |
gan, Vicar General Of the Diocese T
Of New York. v
The funeral of General Wool I
took place at Troy, New York, Sat :
lrday. There was a very large at 6
tendance, many distinguished Off a
,ers of the army and prominent
citizens being present. ,
The Treasury and PostofIlce De !
were both closed Satur- |
lay, the former in respect to the e
memory of Robert j. Walker and 7
he latter to that Of Amos Ken q
lall. a
The fall racing of the Baltimore y
Club closed Saturday. In the last t,
ace Dot beat Patchcn, Jr. Best Al
ime, 2:34. e
Several banks in New York and a,
are said to have suffered
OSs by the operations Of Howe, 9
he arrested forger. "
The snow storm Saturday was
general throughout the North, and 4
IS far South as Washington. y
Baltic Peyton has introduced a
ill in the Tennessee Senate provid-
ng for o monument to John Bell
Alger's boot and shoe store, and r
IoWenbach's notion store in Balti Z
nore, were burned ON Friday night
.oss $4,000; fully insured.
The funeral of Hon. Robert j. Il
Walker took place in Washington,
saturday, and was largely attend
d Many prominent persons were
resent.
Captain D. Pierce, a recently par
oned convict, was arrested in Lou.
'yille, Sunday morning, for deal, l.,
ng in bogus bank checks,
An autograph letter Of Washing. J
on, at Independence Hall, in Phil -
delphia, Is a forgery. A man =
amed VIM. X. Emerson, now un. ~
Ter arrest In New York, proves to IN
'e the author.
The late numerous incendiary \
res, In Ncwburyport, Mass, have 4
lduced the city government to
fer a reward Of $1,000 for the 4
election Of incendiarics. aa aaaa,