Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1870-09-08
News Items.

at New York City last week.
Mr. ShelIabarger has wriasn 4
}. letter accepting tho nomination u
Congress in the Seventh District.
Springfield, Ohio, Is making
arrangements to accommodate
10000 visitors to the State Fair
The Omaha and Southwestern
Railroad expects ID complete thelr
first twenty miles ofroad on Mon.
day.
| "A Kansas editor does NOT con-
/ slider contemporary a gentleman,
because he wipes his nose on his
sleeve"
During the first six months of
this year 1859 passengers came
East from California, and il,S04
went West.
A druggist has this cheerful
invitation in bis show window:
"como in and get twelve emeti,s
for one shilling"
The spinners of Fall River have
appealed for aid to the Labor Or.
| ganization in New York to sustain
! them in their strike.
The Treasury Department has
ordered ths purchase of seven mill
ions of honds and four millions OF
gold, during September.
A Wisconsin paper mentions
case where burglars broke int
store, but the goods we're marked
so high that they would not take
any away
A question for Americans;
viii the inundation Of the Depart
ment of the Moselle by the French
Government water the sparkling
MoselIe Of 1870?
The arsenal at indianapolis was
closed yesterday by order OF Major
General Dyer, Chief Of Ordnance,
because of the want Of an appro:
priation to carry on the work.
A we'll. known and lively lady
novelist of rank is said to be abOuS
to PUBLISH a fresh book with the
amusing but decidedly novel title,
Naughty, Naughty, but So Nice r
Baron Gerolt, the German Min:
iSter at Washingtoa, has received
instructions to file protest with
our Government against the con-
tinued firing by the French on dags
Of truce.
"A man and his wife recently
celebrated their Silver wedding
A week later they quarrelei over
the presents they had received,
and the husband applied for d
divorce.
A man out West, hearing thai
dry copperas put in a bed Of anfa
would cause them to leave, put
some in his mother-in- laws bed I'd
see ifshe would go, He says she
was there at last account.
A Dayton dispatch says q dgposs
it of nickel has been found in a
bank Of the mud lick, which is he:
lieved to extend through the hilh
A company is being formed ID
work it,
New National Banks have been
in Charleston, W. Way
and Stanford, Franklin, Somerset,
Lexington, KY. A. Corbin and
others of New York city have AP.
piled for a charter for a gold bank
The Cuban news brings a report
hat a Spanish column recently had
an engagement with the insurgents
in the jurisdiction Of SantO Espir.
ta, in which the Spanieh less Was
Dix hundred men, killed, wounded
and missing.
The Ft. Wayne, 1tuncie h Gina
,innati Railroad was completed on
Saturday, making q continuous line
from Cincinnati to TT. Wayne, 175
miles in length. At Ft. Wayne it
will connect with the Grand Rapids
road, 200 miles long. All ef this
s expected to be in operation by
he 18th Of September.
A down-eastpaper says that per-
3uasive and humbugging agents are
that region selling light
ling rods. One old lady told an
agent that she had no fear Of light
ming, but she always had been
afraid of thunder. "Just sO," he
replied, " we can meet yOur case
exactly. The square rods are light
ling, and the round ones thunder
'ods."
The home and tomb 81 Thomas
Jefferson are said to be in q neg
ected and desolate condition,
The gate of the burial enclosure
las fallen from its hinges, long
,rass and foul weeds are growing
n rank luxuriance around tA5
raves, and cattle and hogs hhdA q
and grazing place ovef
he very remains of the great apos'
lie Of democracy and his 2onsort
- There is no other spoken laA'
uape so eheaD and exBressiY8