Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1870-01-20
A Little of Everything.

ment of Cinclnnati for 1859 was
S2,128,, 100.
There were 2,GOl marriage Ii,
censes issued by the Probate Court
in Concinnati last year
The Police Court fines of Cincin-
natl amounted to over $4,000 last
year,
Two hundred and eight houses
were erected in Portsmouth dur
ing the past summer.
Only 100000 persons paid an in
come tax last year, out Of pOpu-
lation Of 39,000,000
The deaths in Cincinnati during
1869, numbered 3,97l.
There are twenty-five thousand
more boys than girls in Ohio.
There are 10000 tenement houses
in New York, occupied by 100000
persons. ..l
A Chinese Sunday School Of 1870
pupils is the boast Of San Francis
co.
An infantry officer mentions
twins as pair-of,pets attached to the
breastworlls.
The sale Of pews in Beecher's
church on Tuesday evening netted
| ffty-seven thousand dollars.
OF the sixty-fve United States
Senators, ten we're born in New
York and six in Ohio, Fifteen
States have no native Senator.
Robert c. Schenck, Of Ohio, is
the "Father" Of the House of Rep
resentatives, having been first elect
ed to that body in 1913.
There are now but three daily
Democratic papers in Ohio, the
Cincinnati Enquirer, the Ohio
statesman, and the Cleveland Plain
dealer.
The Navy Department has intclli-
gence that the funeral fleet with the
remains of Mr.. Peabody, will arrive
at Portland about the 26th.
Rural visitors to New York com
plain that the city whisky is strong
er than they are used to in the
country.
Bingham's bill declaring Virginia
entitled to immediate representa-
ton in Congress, passed the House
yesterday after a long discussion,
by u vote of l42 to 40.
A letter from Rome, received in
Brussels, says the Pope is very
much chagrined at the drift Of the
Ecumenical Council, and will prob
ably dismiss it before midsum-
mer.
The Kansas State Legislature rat
ilcd the Fifteenth Amendment on
Thursday last.
No business has yet been matur-
eel for action in the Tennessss Con
vention.
Rain, for the past few days in
California, has revived hopes of a
larger agricultural yield the pres
ent year than ever.
The House Committee on ways
and Means yesterday voted against
reduction of the duties on btu
minous coal.
Both Houses Of the Minnesota
Legislature have ratified the Fif-
teenth Amendment, The vote in
the House was 2S to l5.
The Jewish citizens of San Fran,
cisco have decided to erect an Or
phan Asylum at the Home for the
aged and indrm lsraelites of that
city.
An iron bridge has just been fin
ished across HarpaS Creek. at Cir
oleville, Ohio.
A golden net full Of golden fishes
is the gift of the ladies eff Lima to
the Pope,
The sunken monitors in Charles
ton harbor are to be blown to
pieces and raised.
Professor Agassiz has recovere
from his illness, and is already to
lecture again.
st. Louis thinks 1t can raise by
subscription $2,000,000 for its pro
posed Worlds Fair
There are now to be seen, thro'
powerful glasses, six clusters of
spots upon the sun.
The Marion (Ohio) Mirror wants
100000 tons of hay on sub
scription and other dues,
Burlington, vt, is to attempt to
make paper from pine shNvings,
The shoe towns of New England
are rapidly gaining in prosperity
The "Marseillaise' is to be re-
stored to the military bands in
France,
Many fashionable young ladies
are suffering with abcesses and Ill
GERS on the feet, caused by wearing
French heels on their boots.
A Bible Society has been lately
founded in Russia, which has al
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