Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1871-12-14
NEWS ITEMS.

The Ocean Bank of New York city
has failed.
The river and harbor appropriation
bill will probably call for S4,O00,000,
Speaker Blaine is reportad to be the
Pennsylvania candidate for Vice Pres
ident.
A bill has been introduced in the
German Diet reducing the taxes on the
lower classes.
There have been twenty new cases
and three deaths from small pox since
Saturday in New York.
The strike of the telegraph opera
tors in England is becoming general,
and threatens to cause much trouble.
The Bureau and Statistics gives the
value of the imports last year as S51s,
759. SIS, and the duties as Tz0z ,446,-
E670.
Forty five Senators have signed the
request to Secretary Fish to retain his
place in the Cabinet
The cold weather of the past
week has interfered seriously with cot
ton picking in portions of the South
The Episcopalians of South Carroll
ma are endeavoring to establish a
Home for Invalid Clergymen'' at
Aiken.
The crew of the Hornet threaten to
blow her up rather than surrender to
the Spanish authorities. The Haytiens
sympathize with the crew.
A passenger on the steamer West
phalia, on its trip to Europe, was a.
rested for smuggling a large amount
of diamonds and other jewels.
The proprietors of assienatiou
houses in Brooklyn are decamping, as
two of their number have been sen.
fenced to six months in the peniten.
tiary.
Senator Morton's pocket book which
was stolen from him in getting on the
cars at Jersey City, was returned thro
the Chief Police, minus five hundred
dollars.
The Chicago Post says the bell worr
by the COW that kicked over the laml
that set fire to Chicago is on exhibi
ton in that city in sixty-one differ
ent places.
The House Foreign Committee ha
instructed Mr.. Banks to report a reso
luton prohibiting American citizen
owning or dealing in slaves in foreigl
countries.
The Washington Territ.ass5e-convfct
have drawn up resolutions to the effec
that if they are not furnished with to
bacco they will feel impellel to leav
the prison.
A correspondent of the Indianapoli
Journal, writing from Clark Co., say
there is regularly organized gang G
Ku Klux, whose object is to drive th
negroes from Southern Indiana.
The Rev. C. D. Parsons died recent
\ ly at his residence, in Louisville, age
D sc. He was for fifteen years prom
nent actor, and left the stage for til
ministry of the NJ. f. Church,
Isaac Clark left indianapolis to com
> to Fulton county. O., where he
!, charged with opening the Treasurer
J safe Sheriff Brigham, of Fulton Co
Is Isaac LfaVelng companion.
: An old man named Edward Gun
g ming, living at Enon, Clarke Count.
# Ohio, was killed last week by a res
q dent of the Soldiers Home, at Da7
Y ION, named } ohm Patterson, aided b
4 one Geo. Anderson.
:. The jury in the case of Brookly
1t Election Inspectors, charged with ba
5, lot stuffing and fraud. were discharge
e. failing to agree; The bail was il
, was ordered for Thursday.
~ A Postal Convention, establishir
10 10 and regulating exchange of CORE
pondence between the United Stat
and Denmark, has been concluded, al
in it will be carried into operation on tt
4. 1st January next.