Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1870-12-29
General Nows Items.

San Francisco has a suit in pro.
gress which is conducted by 270
lawyers.
Hon. Byron Kilbourne, an old
resident of Milwaukee, died on Fri
day, at Jacksonville, Florida.
Senator Drake was, yesterday,
nominated and confirmed as Chief
Justice Of the Court Of Claims.
A new society has been formed
in Springfield, Mass, entitled "The
anti gong rell- ringing and steam
whlstle-society."
Diamonds of extraordinary bril-
Iiancy have been found near the
Cape Of Good Hope, and great ex-
citement has followed.
On a gate post in front ofa farm
house out West, is a sign reading,
mo life insurance or sewing ma
chimes wanted here"
The Chicago Board of Educa.
ton has adopted a rule prohibiting
teachers from receiving presents
from their pupils, on pain Of dis
nissal.
Two boys, sixteen years old,
while intoxicated, attacked and
murdered another boy who was
sitting quietly on a door step, in
Philadelphia.
The girls at the Normal School
10 Randolph, Vt, threw away their
iute switches in terror, the other
day, on hearing that they were in
habited by dangerous insects.
The weather at Albany, New
York, Friday, was very cold, and
the river full of floating ice. The
New York boats had not arrived at
noon, having grounded just below
the city. ~.
VIM. j. Purdy, of Marlborough,
Mass, raised this season, from 1 Of
an acre of land, 1900 baskets Of
strawberries, which cleared him on
an average six cents a basket, or
$1,000.
The first day little boy went to
school, the teacher asked him if he
could spell, and the boy told him
that he could. "Well, then, how
do you spell boy?" "Oh, just as
other folks do"
One of the Hutchinsons lately
called at the Denver (Massachu-
setts) Pottery, for a wagon seat
that had been forgotten by him
thirty years ago. 1t seemed to be in
a tolerable state of preservation.
Chivalry is on the wane in the
Old Dominion. A member of the
Virginia Legislature, the either day,
refused to accept a challenge to
fight duel, on the ground that the
State Constitution disfranchised du.
elists.
The Pittsburg Commercial is rev.
olutionary in its head lines. The
last number has an editorial head
ed, ''Society Responsible for the
Fisks," and letter from Tullaho-
ma, Tennessee, under the caption,
New Yankee Land"
A man in Buffalo pulled off his
coat and jumped into the canal to
save woman from drowning, when
a pickpOcket stole his pocket book
from the coat, and the woman
abused him for pulling her hair in
his efforts to save her.
The drouth has been so great
down East that at a Connecticut
hotel, lately, a visitor who called
for a glass of water was requested
to take cider instead, as that only
cost seventy five cents barrel,
while water cost dollar and
half.
The entire stock of the Ameri-
can Steamship Company has been
subscribed at Philadelphia, and
double the amount required was Of
fered. Offers have also been made
for bonds to be issued, secured by
the Pennsylvania Railroad Com
pany.
The following is verbatim copy
of the remarks accompanying the
return of postmaster out Vest
Il hereby certify that the four
going A count is as near rite as |
| know how to make it. If there is
any mistake it is not dun on pur-
pese."
Six young men, boarders at a
Chicago house collected several
hundred bed bugs, pinned them on
a sheet of paper IN divisions and
regiments, and labelled the paper,
"Operations on the Rhine" and
left the seat of war to be studied
by the landlady.
The Chinese in California have
a burying place in San Francisco,
where they go twice year to dis
tribute food upon the graves OF
their deceased friends, and throw
pcices of charmed paper to the
winds. with a view of exercising
evil spirits. Nearly $500 Celestials
recently participated in a ceremony
of this kind.
How Congressman used to 60
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