Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1869-03-25
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NEWS ITHNrs.

Cuba supplies one-third OF the
worlds sugar.
West Virginia put up 5000
school houses last year,
The Quakers Of Pennsylvania de-
cline to pay the militia tax.
A cargo Of ice has been shipped
this season from Boston to ia.
pan.
The Confederate loan is still
quoted occasionally in the London
Stock Exchange.
The richest copper ores on the
Western side of this continent are
found in Arizona.
290,s35 letters were delivered by
carriers in Cincinnati during the
month of February.
A subscription has been started
in Kentucky to buy a residence for
Mrs. John c. Breckenridge.
The Austrian Ambassadress in
Paris gives her cook 5000 a year;
he has thirty servants under him.
A citizen of Council Bluffs, Iowa,
has follen heir to a yard of
ten acres in Kalamazoo, Michigan.
White satin waistcoats, white sat
in cravats, and blue coats with gilt
buttons arc coming into vogue in
Paris.
A woman was founddead in her
room in Jersey City, having been
locked in and starved to death by
her husband.
Mrs Harriet Beechcr Stowe has
sailed for Florida. She has just
completed her new novel, cold
Town Folks"
Debates in the Louisiana Legis-
lature are conducted partly in Eng
lish, partly in French, and some
times in German.
A new Swiss historian denies
that there every was any William
Tell, or Gesler, or any apple shoot.
ing in that country.
The Hartford Times wrote that
Mr.. Stewart was the greatest sim.
porter" in the country, and printed
that he was the greatest "impostor."
The Philadelphia Directory for
1859 contains over 10000 names,
from which basis a local paper
foots up total population Of 924,
900.
The new York Mail reports the
marriage of a grandson Of Wash,
ington Irving, which is funny, in
view Of the fact that Irving died a
bachelor.
The Spanish troops in Cuba are
committing horrible atrocities. La
dies have been dragged for blocks
by the hair, and then hendishly
butchered.
The mammoth OK General Grant,
which has been on exhibition, in
Washington, for some time past,
will soon be sent to the Presidents
farm, in Missouri.
The Wisconsin Senate have re
Gently declared in favor of n new
State, to be formed Of part of their
own territory and Michigan. Its
name to be Superior,
New Orleans papers print start
ling stories of the rayages of a IT,
ger in Jefferson parish, La. His
last victim was a girl Of eight
years, Of whom he left only wa.
terfall.
The ship Bosworth, from Java,
which has arrived at New York,
lost six Of her crew on the passage,
from jungle fever, and left six
more in hospital, at the Cape Of
Good Hope.
John Thomas was murdered at "
Big Bethel, (the scene of General
Buffers great military achieve.
ments, on the 18th inst by three 1
unknown negroes, whom he sur,
prised while robbing his premi,
scs.
The wealthiest man in America A
Is young Stevens, son Of the late n
Edwin A, Stevens, Of Hoboken,
who, when he reaches bis majority,
will be worth $4,000, 900, by the {
advance of his estate in New Jer
iey. "
The committee on umbrellas and
coats, Of the late Inauguration ball,
ldvertises that they have n large 4
lmOunt Of clothing yet in their -
possession, which, owing to the 4
am, we're left IN the dressing.
'ooms on that occasion.
A mathematical Blind Tom has
made his appearance in Richmond i
lie Is but seventeen years old blind,
md entirely uncducated, yet, by
iome mental process, he solves the 10
most difficult problems in figures (
with rapIdity and precision. '
The coffin Of young lady bur.
cd few years ago near Allegheny
vas recently opened, The body
vas turned over aud the clothes
orn. It was evedent that she had I
'een buried alive The mother, >
Who saw the remains, has become
insane, and Ia now In the Dixmont
Asylum. /
The first oysters sold in Chicago
EeFe brought from FaIrhaven, Con