Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1869-12-02
A Little of Everything.

DR.. Albert Day. Superintendent of
The State Inebriate Asylum at Bingham.
ton, New York, was assaulted by an in
mate named e. s. Blakely, an ex-rcbel
soldier, and severally though not danger
olsly wounded with knife.
At Niles, Michigan, Robert Cambell,
scotchpan, aged about seventy, and an
old resident, hung himself with bed
cord to his stairs, on the 18th.
O. Borokmeier lost his life recently, at
Baileyville, 0gle County, Illinois, while
trying to save two thousand dollars, which
was In his burning house.
Asa King, Of Athens county, Ohio, last
year moved to Jasper county, Missouri,
with wife and eleven children. He hasI
returned with one child left alive.
There were two hundred and twenty
two convicts n tho Iowa State Prison on
October 81, all ofwhom were males, twen-
ty-nine being natives Of Ohio.
The schooner D. H. Hodgkins was
seized by the Custom House officers at Bos
ton yesterday, for violation of the revenue
laws, she having from three to four thou
sand dollars worth Of snluggled liquors
on board
One Of the colored policemen. on duty in
the metropolitan force of the District of
Columbia, was appointed United States
Detective on Thursday, and reported for
duty at police headquarters yesterday
morning.
Tho telegraph poles for half mile be.
tween Wescott and Rosemont, Wisconsin,
on the Milwaukee and NJ, Paul Railroad
were sawed down last Friday, by some
malicious persons.
At Windsor, Vermont, young lady
named Lizzie Bishop fell dead while cross
ing a room, a few daysago and was raised
up lifelesS bya young man who was to
have married her soon.
Five men were legally aogged at New
castle, Delaware, on tho goth inst
New York had q remarkable number of
deaths the day after Thanksgiving,
A London tradosmAn advertises himself
as "Eradecator Of Bugs to the Royal Fam.
ilY."
A. r, Mcourdy, a merchant tailor of
Cardington, Ohio, shot and killed his son
on Thursday. A family difficulty gave
rise TO thSahair.
The Common Council Of Louisville has
voted to purchase the right for using the
NiOolson pavemonts for thatcity, for $d2,.
900.
When Bsnjnmin GoFham was sent to
Congress in 1920, from the SofOlk Dlstrect,
Daniel Webster received two votes.
The custom receipts last week were
three million one hundred and twenty. five
thousand eight hundred and ninety four
dollars.
MFs. Esther +. Cooper formerly of New
Albany, Indiana, committed suicide re. /
Gently at sturgis, Michigan, by tying a I
heavy piece Of iron around her neck and I
Jumping into eistern. :
The cost Of supporting the Missouri State {
Psnitentiary for the past twenty years |
has bsen over 81 100000 above the income !
derived from the labor Of the prisoners or
a lOsA Of $4,000 yearly. ID
ALAG. Robinson & Co., extensive
tobacco manufacturers, Of Louisville, made
an assignment yesterday. Liabilities
amount to nearly 5000 ,000
Two boys hunting in the woods last
week near Dayton, Wisconsin, were at
tackled by Lynx, which fastened itself
upon the shoulders Of one Of them, when
the other, who carried shotgun, imme-
distelv placed the muzzlc against the ami
NAL and hred instantly killing it.
Three fine horses, valued at $500 each (
belonging to the Fire Department Of st. '
Louis, died on Saturday from the effect Of {
oVerdoses oferoion oil. j