Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1872-01-18
NEWS ITEMS.

maSeQa from CnOa.
The news from the Utah mining
districts is highly favorable. The
weather is pleasant.
San Pedro, California. was flooded
by the high tide on Thursday. The
first time in ten years.
The miners strike at Nelsonville
and Straitsville, Ohio, has about ended,
the miners being beaten.
Ex Gov. Cox denies all knowledge
of any Anti Grant movement, with
which his name has been connected.
= The Rev. Mr.. Watson, who has
been on trial at Chatham. England, for
the murder of his wife, has been found
guilty.
The Hon. James Brooks has re-
turned to Washington, and the Ways |
and Means Committee will be able to
go to work.
The New Hampshire Republicans,
at their State Convention last week,
declared for the re- election of Presi
dent Grant
The Chicago Times states that
Chaflotte Cushman has been offered
one thousand dollars n night to read
in that city.
A widow of Liverpool has recover
ed 81, 500 in damages from the owner
of a mad dog, through whose bite her
husband died.
The Republican caucus of the Iowa
| T Iclo hoe r
Allison for United States Senator in
place of Harlan.
Two hundred people were arrested
at cock fight at Hoboken, N. J.,
on Thursday, and released with a
slight reprimand.
President Thiers has requested
Gambetta to discontinue his public
addresses. Malice says Bismark insti-
gated the request.
There is report that a newspaper
in the interest of the Mormons is to be
published soon at Salt Lake, with
Tom Fitch as editor.
The people of Virginia are to vote
on a constitutional clause fixing II
per cent. as the maximum legal rate
of interest in the State.
The Republican members of Con-
gress seem to he desirious of an ad-
iournment before the meeting Of the
Republican convention.
A Washington dispatch says an ap-
ology or a fight will be demanded of
Spain. Another dispatch fixes up a
| Russian muss also for us.
The amount of defalcation in the
Rhode Island National Bank is about
100000. The amount recoverable
may, perhaps, reach $4,000.
The Arkansas State Board of Edu-
a cation has passed a resolution memor
ializing Congress for the endowment
of the free schools of that State.
F. A. Marden v as yesterday con
victed of the embezzlement of $4,000
2 of Government funds while employed
as clerk in the Treasury Department
James Hunter, liquor seller, shor
. Mary Brown, his mistress, at his store
t. on Fulton street, Brooklyn, yesterday
Hunter was arrested. The woman
t died.
The whole of the press of the Pacific
$ coast, Democ1 attic and Republican
alike, eulogize General Halleck The
| flags are everywhere at half-mast il
$ respect to his memory.
Agricultural College landscrip fol
s 100000 acres of land, given by the
United States to the State of Georgia
n has been sold to G. 7. Lewis, O
Cleveland, Ohio, for 243,O0O.
: Senator Cameron says the results O
; the investigation at the New Yorl
S Custom House are such that they car
: not be ignored. 1t is thought th,
President will soon take very decided
action.
y Hon. Thomas Settle, who recently
y returned from Peru, has rendered hi
: resignation of the position of Ministe
n to Peru, and will become a candidate
;, for Governor of his native State
North Carolina.
: The pail bearers at General Hal
e leck's funeral at Louisville, were Gen
T erals L. D. Sturges and Weitzel
) Colonels j. F. Flynt and Alexander
/ Hon. Bland Ballard. T. NJ Shirley
q John Carpenter, and W. B. Belpnap.
It A license liquor law has passed tn,
e Illinois Legislature providing that nc
It one shall sell liquor without a license
J. and no one can get a license withou
II giving a bond, with two sureties, tina
) he will pay all damages to any person
/, or property resulting from the sale o
r Hquor.
The jury in the trial of Foster fol
the murder of Hatfield in Indian
apolis, some weeks ago, after being
out over forty hours, returned a yer
II dict, yesterday afternoon, of murde
n in the first degree and sentence of i'm
! prisonment in the Penitentiary 70
life.
l. In the Supreme Court of the United
f States, Yesterday, the opinions wert
IF delivered in the legal tender cases
e Justices Strong, Swayne, Davis, Mil
s Ter, and Bradley affirming and con
! stitutionality of the act, and justices
d Chase, Field, Clifford, and Nelson op.
of posing.
The Cincinnati enquirer" still ad
p vocates the nomination of Colone
Thomas A Scott as the Democrat,
= candidate for President It think
: that the Democrats have more to hop
from favorng PENNSYLVANIA than an,
= other State, and this should have
much weight in the choice.