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

the Sth and 9th of June.
The registration of Memphis in
dicates 3,03S white and 5,072 blac
voters.
The liquor dealers of IndianaE
oils have agreed to close their Sc
looms on sunday.
Mrs Harriet Balch Macomb, wild
ow of the late General Macoml
died on the 21st,
The Departments at WashingtoI
will be closed on Decoration Day
the goth inst.
Two colored men were appoint
ed to positions in the Baltimore
Custom.house on Thursday
J. NJ, Hoyt, of Cleaveland, has
been elected President of the Bap
tist Home Missionary Society fol
the next year.
The graves of the Confederate
dead at Louisville were decorated
with appropriate ceremonies, on the
goth.
In tho future all American yes
sells entering the'ports of Cuba will
be charged the same tunnage dues as
Spanish vessels.
The Royal Canadian Bank at To
ronto, closed its doors yesterday
moaning, announcing its suspen-
sion
Senator Sumner is frequently in
receipt of fabusive letters from Eng
land and Canada, in reference to
his late Alabama claims speech.
Extensive preparations are ma
king by the citizens Of Chicago to
decorate the graves Of the patriot
dead in the various city cemeteries
Edwin Booth and Miss Mary Nc.
Wicker are to be married early in
June, at the house ofMr j. H. Nc
Wicker, at Long Branch.
Ministers of the Presbyterian
Church (Old School,) are en-.
joined to preach on the duty Of to-
tai abstinence on the third sunday in
December
Strawberries are beginning to
come into the Chicago market free
ly, and sold yesterday at from 80 to
As cents a box. The price a few
days ago was 81 box.
Josh Billings divides the human
race into three classes "Those who
think it is SO, those who think it,
isn't so, and those who don't care
whether it is so ornot.'
In a trial for assault and battery:
Council will now introduce an
witness of the affair; Samuel
Smith What is your occupation,
sir" "Blind beggar"
The salt we'll at Muskogon, Mich
igan, has been completed andpump-
ing begun. The brino is pronounc.
ed equal, both in quality and quan-
tity,to that in Saginaw.
A letter from China says the in
habitants of Swataw and vicinity
have formed league against for
cigners, and posted plaeards offer
ing fifty dollars each for heads of
Europeans.
The President, accompanied by |
his wife, will leave for West Point
about June |, and spend few days
there during the examination of ca
diets. A son Of the President is in
the Military Academy.
Victor Sardon, the French writer,
who was turned into the street by
his obdurate landlord, ten years
ago, now receives q thousand francs
a day from his pen, and lives in al
magnificent chateau.
Chief Justice Chase, who arrived
Rt Charleston, South Carolina,
Thursday night, presided yesterday
In the United States Circuit Court,
He made short speech to the mem
bcrs Of the bar indicating that he
will remain there about two weeks.
An escaped nun, Louise Renetts,
from Nice, is creating quite n stir
in the cities of Southern France by
her lectures on what she saw and
heard in an italian convent, In
Toulouse the police refused to grant
Aer permission to lecture,
From tho proceedings Of the Old
School Presbyterian Assembly on
Saturday, it appears that all hopes
of union between the Northern
and Southern branches must be
abandoned for the present
One firm in Madison, Wis, sod
in the past year S630,Q00 worth Of
reaping machines. They have or.
dered six thousand machines for
the coming season, over one thou.
and Of which have already arrived.
A Wall street broker named Dea-
con has disappeared with $50, 900
worth Of shares Of the Chicaho and
Great Western Railroad Company.
New York Central and Hudson
River roads, which he obraincd on
forged checks. {
A proclamation, relating to the
proper observance of the Eight
Hour law, has been prepared, and h
will be issued from the Department /
Of State, 1t provides that the pay Z
for eight horus' work shall be the n
same as for ten, in all the Govern r