Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1872-01-11
NEWS ITEMS.

ed with smallpox.
The Union Pacific Railroad is still
blocked with snow.
Vice President Colfax says he will
not decline denomination.
Victor Hugo has been beaten for the
French Assembly by large majori
ty.
Laura D. Fair enjoys good health,
and is confident she will not be hang
ed.
Baltimore papers announce that
| Archbishop Spalding's illness is feared
to be beyond hope ofrecoyery.
L. A. Wright, of Springfield, Ohio,
where his wife lives. has been arrested /
for bigamy, at Chillicothe, Missouri.
Jacob Deffenbach, assaulted and
robbed near Harmony, Clarke county,
O, Thursday, died Friday of his inju-
ries.
The Grand Duke arrived in ST.
Louis on Saturday. and Mayor Brown
bored him with the longest speech fired
at him SO far.
The Assembly offered a resolution
in favor of joint resolution asking
| Congress to pass an act restraining
Chinese immigration.
J. w. Wright, of Washington. has
been arrested on ala indictment for de-
frauding the government in the matter
Of Indian pensions.
Alexis sent Lydia Thompson hand
some diamond bracelet at st. Louis.
This was a compliment to her presen-
tation of the leg drama.
Previous to leaving Chicago, His
Imperial Highness Alexis handed to
Mayor Medill five thousand dollars
for the benefit of the poor.
Madam Vincent and Eliza Merri-
weather, female property owners at
Memphis, both voted in the municipal
election there on Thursday.
Mr.. Stevenson yesterday introduced
the bill to appropriate 100000 to i'm
prove the falls the Ohio, aud another
for the erection of public buildings.
AS no money can be furnished to
pay the expenses of the trials in Utah
until Congress makes an adpropria-
ton, the criminal trials have been post
poned until March.
There was an uproarious scene III
the French Assembly on Saturday,
caused by the reading of number of
petitions praying for the restoration Of
a monarchy.
Judge Russell, of the Fifteenth Ju-
! dicial Court, of Texas, has decided
| that the school law is unconstitutional,
: and has issued perpetual injunction
against collecting tax under it.
The Commissioner of Internal Rev
enCe declares that persons engaged in
a wholesale and retail business in the
same premises cannot Wholesale and
retail out of the same packages.
, J. B. Whites extensive fruit house
and grocery at Fort Wayne. Ind, was
destroyed by fire on Saturday evening
about o clock, with several adjoin-
ing buildings. Total loss S150,000.
A Chicago tax-collector is charged
with altering his schedules so that tax
/, payers were obliged To pay him from
twenty to sixty per cent above the
lowest rates, he, of course, pocketing
the surplus.
f The seventh span of the new high
bridge across the Missouri River at
Omaha is nearly completed. There
are but eleven spans to be put up, and
all are expected to be completed by
the 1st of March.
! The Ku-K Klux trials at Columbia, S.
t c., are finished for the present. Forty
5 eight Ku- Klux from Spartansburg
I county, who confessed, were sentenced
to imprisonment ranging from one
month to two years.
The thieves Of New York have a
special antipathy for Indiana Senators
They depleted Senator Pratts pocket
of Sol currency, $500 draft, and
other valuable papers, yesterday, in 6
a Twenty third street stage.
The London Times discusses the
: Alabama claims, and says that the
f American argument embodies an entire
misconception of the aims and feelings
: of the English Government at the out
e break of the shareholders war.
The total number of deaths from
l small pox in London during the las
: year was eight thousand. The average
!, of thirty-one years preceding is sir
i hundred. The medical journals cal
attention to the alarming increase o
: the disease.
o A delegation Of Creek Indians ar
n en- route to Washington, where they
l. will oppose all schemes for the abro
cation of their tribal organization, ano
It will seek to hold the Government a
s closely as possible to the law and treat,
f stipulations. -------. -
Q General Kryzanowski, Supervise
e of Georgia. indicted last August 70
# the embezzlement of Government
: funds, was arrested in Washington
|. Yesterday, at the instance of his bonds
q men. He denies any design of depart
n ing disreputably.
y According to the forthcoming re
port of The Commissioner of Educa