Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1870-10-06
News Items.


to succeed Motley as Minister to
England.
There are 1900 youths in Day
ton between the ages Of i've aud
twenty-one.
The Trustees Of the Ohio Agric-
utural College adjourned until
October II.
The Russian Prince Imperial
contcmplatcs visit to the United
States next spring.
Three companies Of the troops
recently sent into North Carolina
are to be keep there.
Several inches of snow have
fallen at Sherman, Wyoming, with
in the past few days,
The Union Wooden Mill at Gal.
lipolis, owned by Leclercq Il Bro,
was burned Loss, $4,000.
'Ex- United States Supreme Judge
Robert c. Grier died on Sunday
evening, aged seventy-seven years.
The yellow fever is raging in
Mobile. Thirty cases were repor-
ted IN one day, and the disease
spreading.
The magnetic well in Chicoga
having been thoroughly tested, the
citizens think they prefer whiskey.
Boston past.
A Havana dispatch says the
priests refused to bury the body Of
Consul Parsons, but the Governor
compelled them to do it,
The Government will send two
parties to Sicily to observe the
coming eclipse Of the sun The
coast survey will SEND two more.
The vomito is raging terribly at
Barcelona. Spain. Seventy thous-
and people have fed from the city.
The disease was brought from Cuba
The population of New York
City is 885,026. To call it a mill
ion is an exaggeration, but almost
while we write it ceases to be an ex
aggaration.
Mahlon Chance, Consul at Mas
sau, is now in Washington. He
contemplates resigning, if the pros
pect ofyellow fever at his post con
tiuues until November.
The census of Illinois las been
completed, and the population is
2,j67032, In 1860 the population
was 1,71l,954, showing a gain of
S55,O78, or fifty per cent
Flowing up potato fields late in
the season, will be the means of
killing great many potato beetles
by freezing; the ground in some
sections is full of them already.
In Chicoga while some boys were
playing base ball lad named John
O'Grady, aged thirteen years, was
struck in the pit of the stomach by
A ball and almost instantly killed.
Credence is given in official cir
,les in Washington to a report
hat admiral Porter is to be relic
we'd from further duty at the Navy
department., on account of falling
health.
The Trustees of the Ohio Agric-
lltural College adjourned Friday,
until October 18th. The institu-
ion will probably be located about
me and half miles north of Co.
umbus.
A census taker in Missouri has
ound one unmarried woman who
acknowledged to the age of thirty.
lie wrote "heroin" opposite her
Iame, Later-It is since ascer-
aimed that she is a widow.
Shooting and killing is getting to
e so common in New Orleans,
hat when a man hears a shot he
ooks himself over to see if there
re any fresh holes in his hide, and
soes on about his business.
There is the best authority for
enying the report that Fish has
nstrueted Washburne that he can
10 nothing in behalf of our Gov
rnment TO mitigate the suffering of
he Germans expelled from Paris.
A paper encourages the young
y the example of a "youth who
ormerly lived in a hovel; vet with
'nly his two hands and a crowbar
pened ajewelry store; and now be
) living in large stone residence
j Sing sing"
The signboard of a tavern near
trasbourg, France, bears the fol-
wing inscription: "Strong beer
nd wine of the first quality. Gus
omers drinking more than twelve
lasses will be sent home in a cab,
&c of charge, in case they are un.
Die to walk"
YOUNG WOMEN, you don't know
ow much influence you have
yer young men. II you would
hOr earnestly, we should NOT have