Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1870-03-24

Justice Chase, is about TO publish
! a book Of tile nursery songs fsey,
eral lands, sach one with an origl,
fnal Illustration Of her own,
Elenor Kirk, in her hook "Up
Broadway, conveys her idea OF
marriage about va follows That 1t
Is about the same as renting q
housc--if the roof leaks, or the
Chimney smokes, all you have to
do is to rent another.
/ Two strangers recently stayed
over night at farmers house az
F. Guhdy Centre. iowa. The next
morning one hired tue farmer to
take him to his destination Dur,
ing his absence the other ran away
( with his wife and children.
/ There are l54 widows in the
town Of Thomastown, Me. The
population Of the place is 5000
There is a bank in the town, ma
Jority Of shares Of which are owned
by women, aud in the choice of Of
fcers their vote elected the entire
Board Of Directors.
Miss Robertson is the leader of
the woman suffrage movement In
ireland, where 10000 persons have
petitioned for woman suffrage.
At Mentone, IN the Mediterrane-
an, no invldious social distinctions
exist among the poor. Men and
women alike dig the ground for 30
cents day.
1t was DR.. Holmes, we believe,
who said that easy-crying widows
take new husbands soonest. There
is nothing like wet weather for
transplantlng.
"Man, the weaker SEX" is be-
coming a common head line Of
newspaper contributions wherein
women serve up the short comings
of their "oppressors."
Gossips link the names of Gen.
eral Sheridan and Miss Harris, a
Washington belle and blonde, in
their matrimonial talk. ...
An Illinois woman, who wanted
to 60 to a masquerade party as Ma
ry, Queen of Scots, looked thro'
the Bible to ascertaing how the
character was dressed.
The National Woman's Suffrage
association will hold its regular an
nual meeting in New York, begin
ming on the l1th of May, and con.
tinuing three days. 4.
A Cincinnati man compelled his
wife to give him her wedding ring,
that he might pawn it for rum,
A California paper heads an arti,
Gle. Remarkable GOODNESS of a
young LADY, She passed another
woman and never turned to sneey
at her bonnet. t. .r
According to the Revolution.
there is faro bank in Fourteenth
street, Washington, kept by wo-
man, where the women clerks of
the Treasury go to gamble their
salaries away. JsHs a5a.
Prosser, of Tennessee, has deter.
mined to appoint negro to West
Point; Mccormick, of Arizona,
announces that he will appoint an
Indian, and the delegate from wy
oming declares that he will send
woman.
Olive Logan and her"girls" rode
on a special train from Omaha to
Des Moines. one night recently, at
the rate of seventy miles an hour,
1t is said Olive held her hair on
with both hands.
Ellen Sandorson-we don't know
whether she is a Miss or Mrs.-sub-
scribes herself P NJ. (Which is
Postmistress at Springfield, Ohio,
She has more trouble with the
males than the mails.
BY hard labor an industrious res.
ident of Alexandra. Va, had earn
ed enough to enable him to lay aside
S3,40O. A designing woman re-
Gently ascertained the fact, married
him, and in short time decamped.
taking the s3,400 with her, and
leaving him Wifeless and penni-
less. HFh u 10
Since the story has been told of
how Judge Breckenridge married a
girl whom he saw jump over rall
fence with pail on her head, the
girls in Orange county, N. Y, are
said to spend their time in watch,
ing the road; and whenever they
see carriage approaching with
man in it. they seize their pals and
go for fence, .e1
The Doc AND TURTLE I'm New
York, q man was carrying a live
turtlei along the street, when an
Irishman came along followed by a