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

The London Times says the Le-
gal Tender decision has restored
English confidence in American JUS
tice.
The Maine Senate has voted to
abolish capital punishment, and the
bill stands Il fair chance Of passing
the House.
Gustave Flourens, the French ed
itor, has been sentenced to three
years Imprisonment for assisting
soldiers to desert.
There has been plenty of rain in
California, and the farmers who
were very Respondent over the
crop prospects are now very hope
fdl and jubilant.
The Tennessee Senate Friday
concurred in the House resolution
rejecting the 18th Amendment.
The bill chartering the Louisville
and Chattanooga Railroad has fl
nally passed the Tennessee Lcgis.
lature.
The New York Senate has finally
passed the bill abolishing the con,
tracting system on canals, and the
new Excise bills.
The Senate of Maine, Friday,
passed to be engrossed resolution
to pay all contracts made prior to
February Is, 1862, in gold.
Golladay, Of Ky, and Deweese,
of N. c., by resigning their posi-
tons in Congress, yesterday, con
fessed that they had sold their ca
detship appointments.
A train on the Mississippi Cen
trail Railroad broke through tres,
tie near Oxford, Friday, and was
precipitated to the ground below, a
distance OF 80 feet Seven were
killed and Is wounded.
The West Virginia House ofDel-
egatos has passed a resolution to
submit an amendment to the people
striking from the Constitution the
word "white," as applied to the
suffrage question; also, restoring
to suffrage those dist'ranchised by
participation in rebellion.
1t IS proposed in indianapolis to
celebrate the semi centennial ami
versary of that place. The first
house was built by a white man
February 26, 1920.
1t is probable bill will be pass
ed by Congress leasing the seal
fisheries of Alaska to a stock com
pany.
The Bishop of Laval proposes to
die sooner than aid certain projects
announced at Rome. He neglects
to tell what these are.
1t is rumored in the Fifth Ohio
District that Mungen, the Congress
man from that district, is to be
brought up for selling cadetships
A petition bearing $4,000 sigma
lures will be presented to the May
or of Chicago to-day in favor Of
closing the liquor saloons on Sun
day,
The Secretary of the Treasury
has ordered the Assistant Treasur-
or at New York to sell one million
in gold on each alternate week
in March, and the purchase of one
million in bonds on each alternate
week,
Ben. Wade is in Washington on
private business.
Owing to heavy disbursements
by the Treasury during the current
month, the forthcoming debt state
ment will propahly not show a re
duction exceeding three and a half
millions.
Parson Brownlow, in a letter to
the Knoxville Wing, predicts that
Government will set aside the pres
ent State Government of Tennessee
and undo all the work of the pres
ent Legislature,
New counterfeit twenties on the
Market National Bank, of New
York, have made their appearance.
The Treasury Department has
received several specimens of the
now one-dollar counterfeits. They
are the most perfectly executed of
any yet put in circulation.
The movement for the transfer
of the capital of Wisconsin to Mil
waukee is gaining strength, The
reasons urged in favor of removal
are poor hotel accommodations at
Madison, and the fact that nearly
all the members have to pass thro'
Milwaukee to reach that point,
The public debt statement shows
a decrease 6,500,000. Amount
of coin in the Treasury. $l02, ,000,-
900, and currenco $l0,000,000,
At Edwards Mine, on Lake Su-
perior, on February 22d, the ther-
stood 80 degrees below
zero The mercury froze in the
at Negannee.
The Ohio House Tuesday recon.
sidered the action on the Woman
bill, and allowed it to be
printed,
Since the beginning Of the revival
now going on in Dayton, 700 per
sons have been converted and join
ed the church. In Montgomery
county, 800 more have joined.
Minister Motley telegraphs the
State Department that the British
Steamer Bombay collided with the
Irritnd Ctotns stcnmpr Onnida near