Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1870-01-27
A Little Of Everything.

A committee of citizens of Washington
= called on the President on Saturday an,
SAID the talk about Loving the'Oapltal il
injuring the business Of the city.
Direct taxes have been abolished in Gu
ba, and hereafter the revenues will be OBJ
tanned from Customs duties only.
Wheeler d Wilson's sewing machine
factory, in Bridgeport, Conn, burned on
Saturday.
The fathers at Rome are protesting
against the excess of laymen editors Of re,
ligious journals.
There is a surplus in the treasury of
Hayti,an the taxes will be materially re-
duced this year. n
A Pittsburg Alderman has been sen
fenced to ten months in the Work House,
for misdemeanor in office.
The imports other than dry goods into
the port OF New York, last week, exceed
three millions of dollars.
Mr. Delano estimates that it will cost
5000, 600 to collect the revenue for the
year ending June next.
Right Reverend Carleton Chase. Bishop
of New Hampshire, died on Tuesday
night
The remains of the late Governor Dur
kee, OF Utah, were inferred at Kenosha,
Wisconsin, Sunday.
The Iowa Senate yesterday ratified the
10Th Amendment by n vote Of IA to g.
The House viii vote to-day.
The Iowa Legislature in Joint session,
on the 2vth inst, ratified the election 81
G.. 9, Wright and j b. Howell as United
States Senators from that State, '.t
Imprisonment for debt ceased in Great
Britain with the year lob9. At midnight
on the Jlst oI December the prison doors
were opened, and the inmates set free.
Although the French Government an. ,
nouneed mat foreign papers were to be t
freely clEculated In France, some Belgian y
papers Were yesterday seized in violation !
81 That promise. &
Il. Il. Revels, colored member orthe
Legislature, from Natclez was 1
elected United States Senator a
Or one year, m !
The iowa House Of Representative yea IA
erday ratified The Fifteenth Aaiohdlaent. d
y a vote Of 50 to IL. es - - .
+ L, Aig tpttsehalk, the eminent rAmeri!
an piahlstHnd composer, dieu at 4 uuca, e,
ear lIo Janeiro, on the IoJh Of Decenl Der y
An additional weekly mail is TO b. sent :.
? Great Britain by Une Hamburg line,
lAkiDg three mails week to England - f.
he same line viii carry mail to France,
II two cents per letter, thus making 70
leap mali service to That country also. ~
All the tobacco factories in Arkansas, on M
le oorocrs OF the Indian lerritvFl have W
cen hbeled, and the owners bound over br
+ erinlual prosecution by che Gourts.- Il,
elanO refuses to stay the proceedings. 2O
Thelower house of the Kansas Lssisla- pr
re, has PASSED the resolutloh Frat II,
1lng eaFitteenth AmenumenU 1t had
eyl9uSIy pssq adopted by-Gle, Senate. 70 70
The sub-6onmittee on Franking Privi. 81
Se have mace their report u the 59 y.
,mu,itlee OF Postal Affairs, IN laYor vf as iI
9 a5ohelon Uftle privilege, and The Com W
ttee viii 50 report TO the House. a
A resolution in reference to negro testi- 10
my was introduced in the kentuckyl w
glslature on saturday. COpsiderabie
;lJenient Was created aud the resolution
. laid over for Che present. r0F Ed
The Rev. Mrs. Van Cott, the licensed .
nale preacher OF tie Methodist Ellisou. wv
Hhurch has recently closed an engage fol.
MT 1.-Two weeks IN the church ut SPRING S
d, Mass, 10 which large meetings aud t9e
conversions are reported. She IS said II
be good preacher, and Gdmimble IN and
duct OF prayer meetings. w "