Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1871-08-17
NEWS ITEMS.

New York brlcklayers want an in
crease of wages from 81 90 to 81 so
per day.
A new three per cent, tax on all
bonded goods, except corn and meal
is proposed in France,
German democrats ofBrooklyn have
adopted a platform denouncing the
Sunday and prohibitory laws.
The bill for the emancipation of
slaves has passed its second reading
in the Brazilian chambers.
A Chicago rabbi who broke his fast
by eating ice cream was, Saturday,
driven from his synagogue.
Mrs. Isaac Toucey, widow of the
late secretary of the navy, died sud
denly in Hartford Sunday.
The Piutes in Nevada, have declar-
ed war against another tribe over
disputed boundary question.
A man who lost his money in the
Buffalo races, last week, drowned him.
self in the Niagara river.
The Pennsylvania company has Sc
cured control of the Jeffersonviile
Madison d Indianapolis railroad and
also the Cincinnati and Louisville
| bridges.
Two thousand persons have made
application to the American Colonial
ton society to be sent to Liberia on
the ship that sails for that region No
vember next.
At Fon- du-lac, Wis, on Monday,
young man named Pedlow, while in
his room engaged in prayer during a
thunder storm, was struck by light
ming and instantly killed.
An experienced engineer testified
yesterday that in his opinion the ex
plosion of the Westield's boiler was
due to the carelessness of man, and
not the providence of God.
Alfred Wass, a young gentlemen
travelling from Cincinnati to Philadel-
phis, had a carpet bag, with sixty
dollars worth of clothing, stolen
from him yesterday at the depot,
Secretary Boutwell, has withdrawn,
for the present, the new loan, with the
exception of the five per cent offered
the national banks by the circular let
ter Of the 10th inst
The announcement that the repub-
lican state central committee of this
State had resolved to tax the Ohio
clerks at Washington for political
purposes, is denied by the committee.
P. T Barnum and General Schofield
and brother have purchased 10000
acres of land in Colorado. They will
stock it with 1000 head of fine cattle,
and if these prove profitable will fol-
low with larger investments.
The Emperor of Germany has con
ferred on w. H. Russell, Ii. D, the
Iron Cross of the second class, with
the White Riband, in recognition of
his services as special correspondent
of the London Times.
} - The number of bronze statuettes
of Colonel James Fisk, displayed in
Broadway windows, have been decorat
ed with white bandages around the
ankle, and labeled, "The Hero of the
Ninth and 18th"
The party of twelve japanese gen.
tlemen who have been officially in this
country and Europe, studying Amer
ican and European institutions, are in
New York, visiting the city officials.
and yesterday went to see the Govern.
ment forts down the bay.
According to the census reports
there are 164, ,607 males in New York
City over q years of age. Of these
71,342 are of native and, and 112, ,265
of foreign birth. OF the foreign born
the largest number, viz: 55,447, are
) Irish.
At Seneca, Crawford county. Wis. or
the night of the 9th inst, two little
daughters of the late George D
Clarke, were killed by the explosion
of kerosene lamp. with which theil
brother was engaged in kindling fire
| 1t is rumored, but not believed
5 that Victor Emmanuel has offered tC
restore the Quirinal to the Pope, anf
f enter into a league with France and
5 Spain to secure the perfect indepen-
t dence of the Holy Father.
Three infants, said to have beer
, farmed ont to an old woman, Juli:
Callahan, in East Cambridge. Mass.
died recently. The woman is unde1
arrest on suspicion of killing then
with opium. A coroner's jury is in
; vestigating the case.
Last Saturday fatal affray occurred
at pic mic four miles north of Salem
Indiana, in which a man named Jack
4 son received wounds from q base bal
bat and a knife, from which he diec
: Tuesday. A blow with bat was in
: fiicted by man named Bemberling-
/ Who did the stabbing is not known.
- There is 4 movement in the Yves
to lessen the number of official Meth
odiet papers, giving greater facilitie
. to the few, increasing their size an,
augmenting their resources thus max
ing them the leading weeklies of tn
country. We apprehend that local in
terests will defeat this measure.
Many Mormon women are desert
: ing their husbands to leave the coun
try with other men. Nothing remark
a able in that; many Christian womeI
= arc dOinO tho same fhiuo-sor atin7a q