Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1871-06-22
NEWS ITEMS.

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the State Convention, to be held on the
2Ist.
A dispatch from Berlin says the en-
peror of Germany has decided the San
Juan question in favor of the United
States.
c. G. Bowen, ex member of Con
gross, has been convicted of bigamy,
for which crime be has been on trial at
Washington
The army has been reduced to a
peace footing, in accordance with the
act of Congress of July, 1870. The
entire number of officers and men is
1924.
F. F. Milne, of Philadelphia, gave
the Lafayette College at Easton a COM
plete locomotive model, constructed in
England at a cost of over one thousand
dollars.
The climate of England does not
agree with the ex-Empress Eugenie.
and she is anxious to go to some
Southern country, but is restrained by
political considerations.
The body of John NJ. Woodbridge,
a merchant, was found in the the Mus
kingum River at Marietta, yesterday.
Mr.. Woodbridge disappeared from his
home last Febuery.
Nearly half of the population of
Massachusetts live in its cities, while
in New Hampshire the cities have
population of only about a fifth of the
whole number in the State.
Ex-Representative C. c. Bowen was
yesterday sentenced at Washington to
pay fine Of So, $50 and be imprisoned
for two years in the penitentiary for
having committed bigamy.
Hon. Edward Mcpherson, Clerk Of
the House of Representatives, has in
the press work entitled The Politi-
cal History of the United States during
the Period of Reconstruction"
Miss Winnie Ream, the sculptor, is
now engaged upon a natural sized fig
ure called 1.-The Spirit of the Carnival"
We suppose it is akeg OF whisky
bust ed.-NeU Orleans Times
Every seventh person in London is
in receipt of public charity. The cost
of aiding this class has increased dur
ing the past ten years sixty eight per
cent faster than the growth of the
great metropolis.
An Indiana county clerk has found
in his Office a certificate which reads:
'This is to certify that I, William
Sands, is agreed that Jim Brown shall
hev mi daughter Patsey to wife this
18th day genewerry, 1911"
The commissioner of internal reTe-
nue. has directed the assessors to still
further reduce the force of assistant
assessors. The whole number is now
1,SOo, which, by the end of this month
will be reduced to 1 400.
Father HyScinthe has written = let
ter showing the evils that have come
upon France are only the legitimate
results of the moral degradation of
the people. A goddess people has
wrought It's own destruction.
Bishop Price, of Utah. claims to
have seen snake sixty feet long in
Utah Lake, and the Salt Lake Tribune
calls upon him to have it caught and
expose it for show in public to save
his reputation for veracity.
A. C. Jones, who was recently ar
F rested in St. Joseph, Missouri, for for
ging the signature of Thomas A. Scot,
President of the Union Pacific Railroad
to free passes, was yesterday sentenced
to three years IN the penitentiary. =
A young man named Atkins, and
his wife, fell distance of $50 feet
from a peak in the Blue Ridge noun
tains few days ago. The body OF
Mrs. Atkins was dreadfully mangled
but, strange to say, Mr.. Atkins is still
alive, and hopes are entertained of his
recovery.
bridge Observatory can be heard il
San Francisco. This is done by con
Meeting the pendulum of the clock Will
. the telegraphic wire in such a mannel
! that the main circuit is broken and in
! stantly closed again at every swing o
! the pendulum.
V Two clergymen, late editors of tn,
: Ministerial Union, a Christian paper
Il which appeared for four consecutive
i weeks in Chicago, valedictoried az
follows: Chicago is a good place
/; for religious paper, providing tina
e three pages serve Satan, and the othe
II one is mixed"
W. T. Seaman, an Omaha merchant
, recently found mouse nest in hi
; store, which he started to destroy
when he discovered that it was mad
J up entirely of bank bills aud scriI
: from ten cents up to So, large sun
having thus gone as material for tn
= expensive lodgings,
/, The ice crop is so large this year
S and the competition between the com
panies is so great, that agents are go
ing round to the dwelling houses in tn
upper and central portion of New Yorl
! City to receive orders, offering to sup
= ply customers at the extraordinary rat,
of othing week for the first par
8 of the season, in order to get their Gus
;; | tom for the remaining DOrtiOn of tn