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

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Western members of Congress
will urge the passage, at this ses
sion, Of the Appertionment bill,
Somebody has discovered that in
forty years a snuff taker deyotes
twenty months to blowing bis
nose.
Frank J. Kremple, real estate
agent, has been arrested in Pitts
burg, charged with passing a mum
ber of bogus checks.
Senator Schurtz, ofMissouri will,
when his amnesty resolution comes
up Thursday, review the late cam
paign in his State.
The shock of an earthquake was
felt at Golden City, Colorado, on
Sunday morning, which extended
southwark to New Mexico.
"Waiter, this bit Of turbot is not
as good as that you gave us last
week. Waiter Beg pardon, sir ;
it's off the very same fish,
The President has informed his
friends that General NJ. D, Legget,
of GAINESVILLE, is to be appointed
Commissioner Of Patents.
The Governor of Missouri, has
appointed D. T. Jewett, Of st.
Louis, to fill the vacancy caused by
the resignation Of Senator Drake.
A lady sometimes keeps charms
upon her watch guard; but it is
more important that she keep
warch and guard upon her charms.
DR.. Andrew Lewis, the former
Collector of the First Indiana Dis
trict, has had a warrant issued for
his arrest on a charge Of emDez-
element.
The House has adopted a reso-
luton by Mr.. Kelley favoring the
abolition Of all internal revenue
taxes excepting those on whisky
and tobacco.
The administration is quite anx-
ious to have Geaeral Schenck leave
for London within two weeks, and
he is busy arranging his affairs for
an early departure.
e The special election in Philadel-
phia yesterday for member of the
State Senate, resulted in the choice
a Democrat, thus making that body
Democratic. The House is Repub
lican. o
To make a valuable specified dog
bullet.proof, take of his hide and
line it with iron. Russian iron is
the best, and is slicker and more
snowy than the common kind.
Dogs prepared in this way do not
mind bullets.
We pity, from our inmost heart,
the unhappy man who has bad
wife, She is shackles on his feet
a palsy to his hands; a burden on
his shoulders smok3 to his eyes
vinegar to his teeth thorn to lis
side, and dagger to his heart.
Some men seem to delight in
wanton destruction. An exchange
says that two men were lately seen
, tearing up the street in a neighbor-
hood city. and on the same day
several persons were observed in
the very act of pulling up the river
The total debt Of the city OF
Boston, December 81, 1867, was
Sl3,G45, 1886 "A. The total debt on
the 30th day Of April, 1870, was
s2L,SIS,41l 03, an increase Of SS,-
1908 SO, or very nearly three
hundred thousand dollars per
month,
Tuesday night the United States
authorities at Detroit seized two
hundred new breech leaders and
eight cases of Fenian uniforms Sc
creted in the house Of James Hol-
than They are supposed to have
been sent there for use prior to
last springs Fenian faseo. Hol-
than. the Treasurer Of the Detroit
Fenians, is under arrest.
A vessel il fitting ont at Boston
to take men to the newly.found dia-
mond fields OF South Africa, and
already thirty persons have secur-
cd passage in quest Of wealth, and
at least one ofthem Is entitled to
be called strong minded persevcr-
ing ct least, for he has spent TWEEN
tv years Of his life in digging for
treasure in different parts Of 'he
world, and is still poor !
The ex,rebels Of North Carolina
che ose darkness rather than light,
because their deeds are evil. Since
the war closed, and excellent edu
cational system has been in oper.
alton in the State the Superinten-
dentof Public Instruetionreceiying j
s2,400 per annum. A bill has
been reported In the Legislature
reducing bis salary to $50 a year.
Ifthis measure is carried out, Of
COURSE no man can be found to look
after the schools, and for want Of
a head, their discipline and proba-
bly, their existence will soon be at
IN end,
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