Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1871-07-06
News Paragraphs.


The country north of Day ton was visited on
Friday week by heavy hailstorm.
The internal revenue receipts of the fiscal
year to bate amount to $I44.278.O63.
seventy-eight women are now regularly or
dained preachers in the United States.
The term ''gilt edged hell" is applied this
season to John Morrissey's gambling house at
Saratoga.
The latest adviees say the famine in Persia is
unabated. In one place 500 children have been
killed and eaten.
In an address at Bloomington, Indiana. on
Wednesday evening, Senator Morton came out
strongly in favor of woman suffrage
Make careful nominations for the Legislature,
and we shall carry Ohio by such majority
we have not had since BsougI,'s election.
An Iowa woman has begun her suicide BY
marking the place on her throat where she in
tends to cut hen she gets her courage up.
Twenty FIVE hundred women, convicted of
setting fire to buildings in Paris, have been
sentenced to trans portation to New Caledonia.
An Albany domestic left her mistress be-
cause she was not allowed to receive her lover
in the drawing room and treat him to twenty
four-year- old port from the wine vault.
On Tuesday night Mrs. Elizabeth Stark, of
Cleveland, O.. attempted to extingulsh coal
oil lamp by blowing down its chimney. She
leaves husband and four children, the young
est but seven weeks old.
The Suez Canal is said to be filling up with
sand. The Khedive of Egypt declines to be
come owner by purchase of the ins titution,
even though thesuggestion tt at he buy comes
from ''his imperial brother. the Sublime Porte
Asingular snlt has been brought, in Boston.
by Martha Davis and Sarah Gooch, against the
directors of .'the home for aged and indignent
females for turning them out of the institu.
ton They demand SO 900 apiece for the al
| legged outrage.
An immense number of beautiful women are
gathered at West FONT to f1irt with the young
sters; and the New York Commercial SANDER
ously hints that the presence of young Young,
from polygamous Utah, has had some influence
in drawing them thither.
The president having found that the govern
ment was being seriously damaged by reason
of having appointed those recommended by
Senator Spencer to office in Alabama, has. in
opposition to that person, nominated Senator
Warner as collector of the port of Mobile.
The trial of VIM Foster, for Putnam's muir
der, cost n ew York County about So 600 for
entertainments of the jury at the AstOr House.
where the choicest viands, the finest cigars, the
most costly refreshments were spread before
them The articles are said to be charged for at
reasonable rates.
That portion of the democratic party of Iowa
displeased with the departure recently
made by the state convention has called another
state convention, to be held at Desmoines Au-
gustl3, LIE Grand Byington, who heads the call,
and Henry Clay Dean will be leaders of this
latest new departure.
party of women went to the house of man
in Fitchburg, Massachusetts, on Monday night
last week, took him from his bed and admins
tered to his bare back one hundred and thirty
lashes. He had been guilty of W hipping his
wife, poor, frail woman, who has not been
able to leave her room for twelve months past.
Aninebriatcd individual fell down a flight
of stairs one night and passer- by, fearing him
seriously injured ran to pick him up. But the
man majes tically staggered to bis feet and in
response to the proffered aid roared out: "Now
you jes' lem me alone Wan no slobberin
round me. allus come down stairs that way
A terrible rain storm, accompa panied with hail
prevailed over the entire center of Iowa, on
Saturday night and Su nday. doing great dam
age to the growing crops, especially wheat
A severe storm prevailed in Omaha and vicin
ity, extending as far west as Cheyenne. Al
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down.
A Memphis dispatch says there was an i'm
: portent decision yesterday in the Second chan
Gerry court in reference to the county bond is.
} sued by the county court in 50, to support the
wives and children of confederate soldiers
} The chancellor decided the bonds illegal, beine
beyond the scope of the powers ofiustices, and
were intended for illegal purpose, viz: fol
levying war against the United States.
: The printers profession has been duly hon
ored. in the choice of the State Convention
: General Noyes is an old printer, as is Prot
Harvey Both have worked at the ease, anC
worked themselves up to the high standard
they now hold. Certainly both are living ex
amples of the value of Republican institutions
We honor such. They are worthy of the high
est honor. IL Wilmington Republican.
Thetrio of Kiowa Chiefs-Satanta, Santauk
F and Big Tree-were exceedingly anxious to
take Captain" Sherman alive; but Captain
Sherman has now got the three Chiefs. or rathe
he did have them, and turned them over to tn,
civil authorities of Texas, who have already
ifreport be true, permitted one of the three tc
escape and go back to the agreeable amusement
of border warfare.
D. H. Wilsev, alias half dozen other names
, has been playing sharp little game in the
, scrapiron trade. He claimed to be authorize ed
by Louisville company to take the old stuff
aud agree to replace it with new. He took the
old, but put the proceeds in his purse At At
lanta, Ga, the voice of the law has spoken tc
; him, saying. ''Steal no more" And he probably
will not till he gets good chance.
Captain Hall has finally succeeded in secur
ing the services of an efficient astronomer, in
the person of Mr.. R. W. D. Byran, graduate
: of Lafayette college, Elston, Pennsylvania
Mr.. Byran, who is bnt twenty-four years ofage
has been for some time under the careful tut
tion of Prof. Hilgard, of the national academy
Of science, and is said to have made wonderful
progress in his studies on astronomy.
While nearly every body seems to be under
the impres sion that Louis II. the young king
, ofBavaria, is one of tine most popular mon
archs that ever came of the house of Wittels-
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