Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1871-08-03
NEWS ITEMS.

Piano making at present takes the third rank
among the manufacturing interests in the
United States.
A portion of the Soldiers Home at Dayton
was damaged about $4,000 by FIRE on Sun
day.
1t is said that tourist travelling eOntin-
uousIy without any stoppages can now
round the world in eighty days.
A good newspaper does more towards build
ing up town and country than any other
public institution, and gets less for it.
/ A Boston paper writing Of a recent address
there, Gays: "The discourse was an hour in
length, and was listened to with ability"
The rush of visitors to the Yosemite Valley
is very great this year. Among them is Lord
Campbell. brother to the Marquis of Lnrne.
The cattle-traders of Chicago are making
enterprising attempts to secure the immense
cattle trade of Texas now coming northeast
ward.
Mrs. Potter, of Jacksonville, H., replied to
an attack on her house the other night with
pistol shots. One of the assailants retired
physically demoralizad-ie.. fatally wounded.
A recent engagement in Cuba Is said to have
listed five hours, and resulted in the capture
of six hundred Spanish prisoners. In another
forty five spaniards were killed and one hun
dred and fifty prisoners taken.
story is told this morning of traveller who
left satehel. containing S15O. 900. unders car
seat. at Harrisburg. Pa, while he stepped out
to get some refreshments, and found when he
returned that the satchel had disappeared.
DR.. T. T. Sherman, the Washington CITY
abortioni ist, was sentenced to hard labor in the
Albany penitentiary for two years and half
So the same pains that he has inflicted on his
subjects are now visited on his own head
Rev. DIR. Saunders, of Philadelphia, "a na-
tive of Morris county, New Jersey.) has given
One Hundred thousand Dollars to found Pres
byterian Hospital in PhiladelPhia, similar to
the LenOx Presbyterian Hospital, in New York
Henry Keiser aged So years of Evansville.
Ind, fell upon revolving circularsaw recently
in J. A. Reiz's saw mill, and was cut through
from the cOrwn of his head to the hips He
leaves a wife and FIVE children in Carrelton,
Ind.
As result Of the exposure made by the New
York Times of the stealing done by the Tam
many city officials, a number Of the leading
capitalists of that city have determined to in
stitute legal proceedings to have the state of
the city finances cleared up.
Mr.. Baldwin. of New Albany, owes it to two
policemen that he still lives, for on Wednesday,
when he had the deliTium tTemeas, he walked
into the Ohio River and did his best to drown
himself, in which he would have succeeded but
for the two policemen, whose names are mod
estly withheld from public mention.
A German miller in Hardin county, Ky, on
Thursday the 18th inst. saw, for the first
time, young faaulein. fresh from the father
land; on wednesday he applied for license to
make her his wife. and on Thursday, seventy
two hours after the first acquain tanee, they
were made man and wife. After this what7
The first drove Of Texas cattle, numbering
about l 500 head, have arrived at Abilene,
Kansas. Old drovers who have used this
rout for year past estimate the number of
cattle to pass over the Kansas Pacific railroad
at 200 head, or teven-tenths of the whole
number that will be driven North.
Eighteen months constant care of her lately
diseased sister Alice, and the grief consequent
upon her death have left Phebe Cary in
condition of nervous prostratiOn that Awakes
the earnest solicitude of her friends. She has
gone to the sea-rhore at Newport, in the forlorn
hope that the bracing breezes may reinvigorate
her, but her physicians are all snnguine of
permanent good results.