Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1869-09-16
NEWS ITEMS.

- The first lessons of wisdom
may be learned from the blind, who
never take step till they have
first felt the ground before them.
- 1t is the privilege of the
lover to be at one and the same
time in two situations. When be-
side his sweetheart, he is also be-
side himself.
The crop prospects in Louisiana
are less favorable. The cane is
backward, aud it is reported that
the caterpillars are damaging the
cotton in several parishes,
A Paris establishment manufac-
lures genuine" Egyptian mum
mics out of a skull, two fillets Of
veal and u dog skin for each sub
ject.
The recount of votes in San Fran
cisco is completed. Discrepancies
were found in ncarly every ward
Selby, Hanna and freeman are
elected beyond dispute. Selby's
is ITO.
An incendiagy fire destroyed
nearly the whole Of the business
portion Of Martinsburg, Lewis
county, New York, on Friday
Loss, $4,000; insured for $16,-
900.
Sake, the poet, says he ran twice
as Democratic candidate for Gov
crnor Of Vermont, and came within
one Of being elected each time
That one was the candidate who
ran against him.
Six vessels went ashore near
Holmes Hole, on the New England
coast, on Wednesday night, and
several Others were damaged and
lost masts and spars. No lives
lost.
Prince Arthur was the guest of
Lieutenant Governor Wilmot, at
Princeton, New Brunswick, on Fri
day. Saturday he arrived at Wood
stock. He had a public reception
at both places.
Daniel Richardson killed Silas P.
Casey, opposite Henderson, Ky,
Saturday, by striking him on the
head with a gun barrel Both were
aatboatmen. The murderer was
- An American steamboat has
been put upon the Rhine, and as
tonishcs the natives. For years
the only steamers on that much
travelled river have been little, mar
row, slow boats, with subaquean
cabins,
- The Sisters Of Mercy in the
convent in Framwell Gate, Durham
have departed in a body
leave from the proper au
insufficient allowance
of food being TIVE alleged ground
)f their desertiont
General Sherman's commission
as Secretary Of War appoints him
until the end Of the next session OF
Congress. The law does not pre-
vent him from holding the two of
fees of General and Secretary of
War, but he must elect which sala-
ry he will accept.
- The recent nomination of
John Quincy Adams for Governor
of Massachusetts, recalls the joke
that some one perpetrated after he
was nominated last year, 1t was
that he was too young a
man to hold so responsible an Of
flee. "Never mind" was the reply,
she will be old enough before he
gets elected
- The St. Louis Republican pub
fishes the following recipe, rs a |
certain preventative of cholera,
cholera morbus, or dyspepsia, and
. sure regulator of the bowels:-
With good wood ashes make a weak |
I've, about as strong as common
lea put it into bottles, and drink |
after every meal about half a wine
glass of it. This has been tried by |
steamboat captains on the Missis-
3ippi river for twenty years, with
complete success,
- Startling screams were heard
from one of the hot sui
1hur bathins rooms at Sharon
Springs, New York, the other
The attendants burst
he door in, expecting to find some
lody cooking from accidental ina
oility to turn off the hot water
But, no; for amid the artistically
curling vopors of the bath stood a
victim of cnameling, gazing direct.
Y at mirror, which showed her
ACE and bust gradually turning
Jlack under the combined influence
IS of sulphur and enamel BY the
lCxt conveyance lady left the
springs, wearing q very thick veil
- 1t appears that in the number
If the Cincinnati Commercial from
which Mr., Pendleton quotes to
show that men are out of employ