Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1870-08-11
Little of Everything.

- A number OF American lauleS
in Paris have taken the step toward
forming an International Commits
sion TO aid wounded soldiers.
~ The Postmaster General has
made arrangements to send our
foreign mail by the English line
without any increase of rates, al
though they have doubled their
rates for freight
- "A young man who left Louis
willie, Ky, q few years ago, almost
penniless, returned there the other
day from California, with an income
Of $4,000 per month, all made by
sheep raising.
1T is said that a dozen lives per
day are lost by trying to kindle
fires by pouring coal oil on. Don't
try it unless you want the under
taker to call
- No statuary that the rich man
ever placed in his window is to be
compared with the little expectant
face pressed against the window
pane, watching for papa" when
his days labor is done.
- The Irish Fenians held meet
ing in Chicago Friday night to dis
cuss the European war issue, and
continued until a late hour. Most
of the speakers took the side Of
Prussia, but there was an evident
strong feeling in favor of France
in the audience.
Two female clerks in the Treas
ury Department were last week put
on duty at 81, 200 each, thus giving
effect to the recent act of Congress
authorizing the appointment ofwo-
men to clerkships at the same rate
of pay as men receive,
"A great demonstration was
made in Dublin on Saturday night
in favor ofthe French. A meeting
of five thousand persons was ad.
dressed.
--Adviees from the agricultural
districts of Northern and Central
Russia represent the crops looking
well, and promise yield above the
average,
- The Rev. DR.. Newman, of
Washington City will start in q few
days for Utah, to deliver an argu-
ment to the saints against polyG-
amy.
"A Memphis dispatch says that
the crop reports continue favorable
except from Mississippi, where the
clterpillars have done some dam
age.
Potter Palmer, the merchant
prince Of Chicago, has given a new
100000 hotel on State Street to
tAeyoung lady whom he is to mar.
ry in a few days.
- The Scandinayians OF Chicago,
who sent a telegram Of sympathy
to Napoleon in his war against
Prussia, have received Il dispatch Of
thanks from him.
- The census returns thus far to
the Census Bureau indicate that
quite number Of the chief Western
cities will fall far below the esti
mates Of their population made by
their citizens.
- BY virtue Of the law abolishing
brevet rank, the War Department
has issued an order to its officials,
directing that co nmunications be
addressed to officers with their ac-
tual rank only attached
- During the progress Of fire
at Joliet, Illinois, last week, man
was told that his house was in
flames. lie rushed home, ran in
aud worked few moments on tile
fire, and then ran out and fell
dead
An exchange recites the quail
Gcations of a good editor thusly:I
He is expected to know everything,
tell all he knows, and guess at the
rest to make his own character
good, establish the reputation of
his neighbors, and elect all candi-
dates to office; to blow up every
body, reform the whole world, aud
live for the benefit Of others In
short, lie ia a locomotive running
on the track of public notoriety
his lever is his pen, his boiler is
filed with ink.