Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1871-08-10
NEWS ITEMS.

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Ninety thousand baskets of peaches
arrived in New York from Delaware
Saturday.
General McQuade, of Governor
Hotfnlan's staff, has written a letter
saying the governor did not know of
Kelso's infamous order before it was
Issued.
The sub ku-klux committee has re-
turned to Washington. Its investiga-
tions discovered a most horrible state
of affairs in South Carolina.
Twenty eight thousand claims for
pensions by surviving soldiers and
sailors of the war of 1882 have already
been audited, and it is thought many
more will be received.
Owing to the lateness of the season
the president has, on the advice of
General Sheridan and others, post
poned his trip to the Pacific coast till
next spring.
The postoffice robbers are still con
the make" They went through the
office at Lima, Allen county, Monday
night, securing about $500 in money
and stamps.
Upwards of three thousand persons
exist they can hardly be said to live
in a single block of tenement houses
near the Five Points in New York.
The Indiana Den ocratie State Cen
trail committee has declared unani
mo cIx~E To- Il - l.
for President in 1872. Where is Buck
eye?
The interest of the state of Penns-
ylvania il the Atlantic & Great West
ern railroad was sold at Philadelphia
on Saturday, and bought in by the
trustees.
- During thunder storm the Y York-
vile, n. Y, bell tower, one hundred
and thirty feet high, with five thous
and seven hundred pound bell, was
blown down.
The first bale of the new crop of
Texas cotton was sold at auction at
noon yesterday, in front of the Cotton
Exchange, New York, at forty three
cents per pound.
The Chicago common council, on
Saturday, rejected the mayors nomin
ations for prison commissioners, on
the grounds of the nominees being
American born and Presbyterians.
The New Orleans Custom House
officials assert that the receipts during
the last month arc greater than any
preceding June for ten years, while
the expenses are near 2 per cent. less.
The County Treasurer's safe at
Ottokee, Fulton county, Ohio, was
blown open yesterday morning The
hinges of the chest door were not
opened Thirty thousand dollars en-
closed are supposed to be safe.
There are one hundred indictments
against members of the ku klux in
North Carolina, and the number is in
creasing every day, so that by the time
the court meets there will probably be
a thousand cases to try.
The boiler of Staten Island New
York; ferryboat exploded Sunday,
killing and scalding large number,
and in addition many were blown over
board and drowned. The number,
is supposed to have been one hundred
and fifty.
In speaking of General Noyes, the
New York Tribune says "he will walk
over the tradk all the better because he
has but one leg with which to do it,
having left the other, during Sherman's
Atlanta campaign, at Nicojack Creek
He is sterling Republican and will
make an excellent Governor"
The agent of the Havana Associa-
ton of Cigar Manufacturers, repre-
senting sixty millions of dollars of
capitol, is now in New York, procur-
ing evidence against domestic manu-
facturers who sell their own goods as
imported brands.
Joseph H. Fore. who shot Munson
Beach on his doorstep at St. Louis,
Monday night, surrendered himself
yesterday, and is now in confinement
He says that he was crazy drunk that
night He recollects firing off a revol-
yer, but does not remember shooting
Beach.
GeneralJ. T. Boyle died at Louisville, Ken
tucky, the other day. Hewas brigadier gen
eral in the union army during the war. and at
one time military governor of Kentucky.
The report that the Germans would evacuate
he enVirons of Paris on the 3lst of August is
untrue. The evacuation will not take place till
900, 100000 francs of the indemnity is paid
The London Times thinks Governor Hoffman
made mistake in his course in reference to the
New York riots, and that the state should
all professions, of both Orangemen
and Ribbonmen.
Three loads of silk from Yokohama,
Japan, to Liverpool passed through Fort
Wayne the other day. thirty four days out
Alfred zeigenmeyer was the other day SEN
fenced to the Illinois Penitentiary for life: the
first day of January and June in each wear to
be spent in solitary confinement.
The Legislative Assembly has passed bill
for the organization and discipline
of the military of the District of Columbia.
Very extensive fires are raging in the woods
on the line of the Northern Railway, in the
neigh borhood Of New Lowell, Canada. It is
reported that three children perished in the
flames.
On Wednesday night Engineer Thomas, of
the Pan -Haddle road, when near Logansport,
Indiana, in looking out on one side of the en-
slne' struck his heac against q cattlechute
causing Instant death.
The question Of the ballot is under debate
in the House of Commons. It is too carly as
yet to indicate definitely what the result is 10
be, but the friends of reform are aanguine, that
they will be able to accomplish much