Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1871-03-02
General News Items.


as Governor of the District of Co.
lumbia.
A terrible colliery explosion in
Wales, on Saturday, killed over
fifty persons.
The opening of the German Par
lament has been postponed until
the 10th Of March.
During March the government
will buy ten millions in bonds, and
sell seven millions in gold.
The striking coal miners in
Pennsylvania are engaged in throw
ing the trains off the track of the
Reading Railroad.
A band of incendiaries visited
Quincy, Illinois, lately, and sue
ceeded in nearly burning up the
town.
A muskrat made hole through
the dam Of a Wisconsin farmers
trout pond and thirteen hundred
trout escaped therefrom.
Mccartney, the notorious coun,
terleiter and "stool pigeon" of de-
tectives, was jailed, on Saturday,
at IouisVilIa
The Ku-klux, Saturday night, re.
leved a man named Scroggins,
from jail, ia Frankfort Ky. His
crime consisted in killing a negro.
A temperance revival is in pro-
gress at Quincy, and the whole
town is excited. All the ministers
of the city have joined in exhorting
to abstinence.
Winona, Iowa, has subscribed
$780, 900 and 10 acres of land for
the erection of Presbyterian
College at that point.
Lancaster, Ohio, is hard up.
1t wants to borrow $4,000 for five
years, on which she will pay s per
cent interest. payable semiannual-
ly.
A bond was presented to the
City Council of Detroit, on Tues
day, for payment in gold, whioh
was issued fifty years ago, and has
just come due.
The United States steamer Wor-
cester was loaded at Boston on
Saturday last, with provisions for
France.
Platt's oyster packing establish
nent, in Baltimore, was burned ON
Saturday night Loss $4,000,
Omaha's jailer George A. Cross,
IS now ircarcerated in his own jail
or forty days, because of big
lrurk.
Mr.. Isaac Bali, a Terre Haute
undertaken, is said to have buried
} 900 people.
The Wheeling Savings Bank has
allied with liabilities of S150,000.
The defaulting cashier is in Jail.
The New York French Commit
ee send out another urgent appeal
o the farmers for seed grain to
iend to France.
Henry d. Cook, of the banking
lrm of Jav Cools = ev., mas been
.ppomUed Governor Of the District
If Columbia.
1t commenced showing at an
,arly hour Sunday morning, in
Chicago, and continued till A 0, clock
,. NJ, from five TO six inches hay
ng fallen.
The whisky business is said, at
Washington, to be looking up.
During January more than forty
Iistilleries which had suspended
tarted again.
Spain and Egypt have come to
about an insult offer
d to the clerk of Spanish Con-
III, and Spain has sent her ulti-
latum to Egypt.
The fears of an absolute coal
anime in New York city are about
ver, as an abundant supply of
luminous coal can be had over
he Erie Railroad
The material for steamboat to
I'm on Great Salt Eaixr, frVuI
'errinne to the neighbofhood Of
he mines, has arrived at Corrinne,
nd workmen are putting it to-
ether,
Accounts from the interior of
llssouri indicate that the wind
TORN on Thursday night week did
luch damage to towns, fences,
ouses, &c, in its track.
According to Mr.. Mcpherson,
'lerk of the House of Representa-
yes, the next House will have 1870
.epubhcans, 96 Democrats, 3 va
lncies, and IA in States not hav.
lg elected yet. Two, possibly
lree, of the Democrats are inelegi-
le under the 14th Amendment.