Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1870-01-06
A Little of Everything.

About two hundred and fifty
buildings, costing S800,000, wer,
erected in 1869, at Quincy, Ill,
A. d. Smith, of Danbury, Conn.
ran down Ton lis own legs), anC
killed fox the other day.
- Horatio Seymour was thrown
from his carriage recently, and
had his shoulder dislocated.
Well executed counterfeit 20s
Of the late issue, on the Trades,
mans National Bank Of New Yolk
are in circulation.
A little girl died at liberty, Mo,
recently, Of lock jaw, produced by
running a splinter into her foot.
A State Temperance Convention
will be held at Columbus, Ohio, on
the 18th and 18th of January.
The girls of Gloucester, Mass,
got up dancing party the other
night, to which they invited their
gentlemen friends, and then paid
all the bills.
Maine papers are arguing wheth-
er a Sunday.school in Bangor
which requires the constant pres.
ence Of two policemen to preserve
order is a success.
Nine passenger conductors on the
Pittsburg, Fort Wayne q Chicago
Railrad have resigned in a body,
without assigning any cause,
- The report that many Of the
Virginia SherifFs had proved de-
faulters turns out false. Only two
are such, and the amount of their
misappropriation will not reach
$4,000.
Dr. Oliver, an Englishman Of
prominence, was shot and killed,
Thursday, at Charlottesville, Vir-
ginia by George Ayres, Of FOuquier,
who charged him with having Sc.
duced his daughter.
- Miss Emily Moore, of Albany,
N. Y, has just recovered $4,000,
half of what she asked, from John
Grimrcd, OF that city, for breaking
his promise to make her Mrs. G II
The jury averaged the loss at ST.
$50 per year from the time of the
engagement.
- A committee appointed to in
vestigNte an alleged charge of un.
due punishment inflicted by a
school teacher, reL orted "that the
was not actuated by
malice, but was occasioned by an
undue appreciation of the thickness
Of the boys pantaloons,"
The receipts of American
wheat in England have been very
large, and there are large Nccumu.
lations at London and Liverpool,
1t is asserted there are seventy
four cargoes more bound for Eng.
land now than at this time last
year.
-- All children under the age OF
sixteen whose fathers lost their
lives in or from services in the
Union army, are entitled to and
can receive n home and education
at the Soldiers Orphans Home,
near Xenia, upon application per.
sonally or by letter to A, Saunders
Piatt, West Liberty, o.
-- The New York dealers in coun.
.erfeit money had the impudence to
20 to Washington and demand the
'eleNse of their letters seized by
he Postoillce Department, on the
,round that only rogues were de.
eived by their swindles They
Vere sent away with aeas in their
ars.
The Schenectady Star is puz
ling itselrover the conumdrum why
iris can dress as thinly as they do
nd still keep warm, and relates the
blowing startling experience -
We once rode with girl in an
pen cutter Is miles on one Of the 4
oldest nights Of Winter, and while 9
e sat frozen nigh as stiff as q stake, "
ur teeth ehatterlng like castincts, \
he kept up an animated conversa- l
on,eyery now and thenexclaming AT
Oh isn't this delightful! Don't y
ou enjoy it,----p When we ar a
Iyed at our destination, notwith. tb
we were dressed great Of
cal warmer than our fair compan nc
IN, she had 10 lift us out of the DC
ltter, and conduct US to the tropi.
ii atmosphere Of the kitchen Of 7
irm house. On the return trip we !
ere frozen to death, and she drove
le corpse home. 1t must DO that II
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