Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1871-07-27
NEWS ITEMS.

Five columns was the length of Alexander
q. Stephens political leader in the Atlanta
Sun of the 18th inst.
It is proposed to erect in Brooklyn docks
fire-prOof warehouses with storing capacity |
for one hundred thousands bales of cotton.
A Chicago gentleman mistoOk the corrosive
su5limste for the porte bottle. He smiled =
sort of sieklY smile, and curled up on the floor
The capital invested in vessels on the MIS-
sissippi river and in the eargoes they are con-
stantly earryingis estimated at 81 800, 900 600.
The Red Cloud band of Sioux are reported to |
be getting ready for the warpath. Littlegangs
are out stealing stock to facilitate their opera
tions
A consignment ef ten live elephants from
Ceylou has reached Boston per bark n ehemiah.
Three native keepers attend. the geological
invoice.
One of the band ofku klux recently arrested
| in Kentucky has turned states evidence and
tells all about the organized bands in Estill
county.
| Paper is manufactured from hop vines at
n arsalles, France, and is said to be strong,
flexible, white and soft, and much liked in
the tregion.
The Conservative State Executive Committee
at Virginia have decided to call convention
on the 3Oth of August for the reorganization
of the party.
/. The Central Park pronerty of New York
cost $500, ,3sl, and up to the first of this year
there had been spent, in improvement and
elaborations, Sc, ,337, ,732.
Mr. W. B. Hall, of Barren county, Ky. has
some Norway oats. raised by him this year,
that are six feet high and have two hundred
and ten grains to the stalk.
The gas well at the Seminary in Painesville,
Ohio, is being tubed at depth of seven hun
dred feet, gas having been found sufficient for
all the Purposes of the inststution.
A hurricane passed over Bellevue, Kansas, on
the 18th, aad blew down houses and trees in
its track, and scattered crops in every direc-
ton, doing good deal of damage.
A valuable discovery was recently made in
North Carolina, Of large deposits of mica, an
article which have heretofore been COM
PEELED to import from foreignsplaees.
Under the act to issue more national bank
circulation to states not having their proper
ton, Ohio has received $3.50, 600; Indiana,
81 ,I74 900, and Kentucky, S2,200,00
The commissioners of Connecticut have hap
sixty million young shad Matched by Seth
Green, and turned them loose in the rivers ofthe
state. In three year. they. will be ready to
eat.
The corners jury in the case of the rioters
killed in the Irish riots in New York city re-
, turned verdict that they came to their death
by gunshot wounds inflicted by persons un
known.
From the lst to the 18th instant $685.,
1893 of the July interest of the states debt a,
paid. Theremainder, $22, ,765, will be paid al
the office of the sinking fund commits siOner il
4 Columbus.
| They have an nnti-horse thief efassociation il
2 Riley, Ohio, that has been in successful opera
5 tion for twenty six years-not one horse haV
ing been stolen from any of the members il
! that time.
The price of Bible in the time of Edward
First was thirty seven pounds. while the prie
of days labor was three half pencei at whicl
rate it would have take over fifteen years t,
earn Bible:
Palmer and Powell, living at Warren Fork
No, Suarreled about Pamer's wife, from whom
he had once separated, but was living witt
: again. The next day Powell met Palmer an,
shot him dead.
q Jacob Baughman, table in'Green Coun
! ty, Mo-, was dangerously shot the other day
While trying to arrest desperate named Arm
= strong. Baughman then shot Armstrong 6
n killing him instantly.
' Rhode Island claims to have the oldest bel
/ in the world. The ancient bell what use'
S to be known as the Butterfly Factory" il
Smithfeld, bears the date 1853 1t was brough
e from Cuba many years ago.