Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1872-01-25
NEWS ITEMS.

nations in two months.
Davenport, Iowa, improved to the
tune of $515, 800 last year.
The Dulutbians are sledging with
dogs, Esquimaux fashion
The wheat fields of Oregon at last
accounts were luxuriantly green.
The President does not intend again
to urge the purchase of San Domingo.
The prospects in Minnesota for a
large fur catch this season are excel
lent.
Six daily papers ceased to exist
during last year in Kansas and Miss
ouri.
A lot of colored emigrants from
Kentucky arrived at lola, Kansas, last
week
The rumored failure of the Manhat-
tan Savings Bank of New York is
untrue.
A decree has been issued in Russia
subjecting all male citizens to military
service.
The deaths from smallpox in Phil
adelphia last week we're two hundred
and nine.
Corn is selling at Spring Hill, John
son county, Kansas, for twenty cents
bushel.
Lyons, Iowa, has been made one
of the British international money
order offices.
The Mckay Locomotive Works in
Jersey City have stopped work on ac-
count of strike.
Fergus Falls, Minnesota, modestly
announces itself as ''the coming city
of the Northwest"
Owing to the scarcity of wood and
coal in Butler county, Iowa, the peo
pie are burning corn.
Mcdonald Cheeks second trial
for the Harrison murder began at
Brookville, Ind, last week.
The amount refunded to States for
expenses in raising volunteers, from
1851 to 1872, is s13,O)O,O0O.
Wendell Phillips, in lecture at ST.
Louis, pronounced the civil service
reform "magnifcent delusion.''
Our Minister to London has been
directed to protest against the expor-
tation of criminals to this country.
On the night of the 18th inst, one
half of the town of Monticello, Drew
county, Arkansas, was destroyed by
fire.
The coming wheat crop in Califor
MIA is estimated at 100000 sacks,
and worth at least $24,OOO,O ,OOOin gold
on the ground,
"A strong police force in Chicago
sailed on Saturday night and made
their way into the gambling dens, and
captured thirty eight gamblers.
At Louisville, lately, Theodore
Thorne, rendered insane by self abuse,
shot his sister and her two daughters.
Two of them will robably die. -
The city OF Newark, N. j., it is said
has been swindled by contractors out
of large amount of money by frauds
very similar to those of Tammany.
General Early has. been explaining
again how it was that General Lee was
i tie greatest General since Hannibal, !,
and yet had to surrender. He co IS it
eloquently.
1t is alleged that the Water Works
Board of Brooklyn, New York, has
unnecessarily incurl ed an expense of
about 100000 in the construction of
reservoirs.
A bill for a convention to prepare
f a State Constitution for Utah, finally
: passed the Territorial Legislature. 1t
provides for the submission of the
Constitution to the people.
The apportionmeat bill as reported
by the Senate Judiciary Committee,
, fixes the number of Representatives at
243. Ohio is to have IT, Indiana II,
Illinois Is, and Kentucky 8.
John Russell, messenger of the
Metropolitan Bank of New York, was
robbed in the street, about noon Sat
: urday, of S23, 900 in gold certificates,
: and quantity of notes and bonds
: The agents of the State of Ohio, in
4 New York City, paid from the 1st tc
the 10th inst, $259,S48 as the inter
o est on the debt of Ohio. The remain
: ing SLABS will be paid at Columbus
The Kentucky Democratic Legisla
i tive caucus, lately, nominated S. j. NJ
! Major State Printer A. c. Vallandig
Il ham State Binder. Gen. Geo. B. Crit
tenden, son of the late John j. Critten
den, was elected State Librarian by
acclamation.
a Reports from along the line of the
:, Union Pacific road, Sunday, gave no
0 tice of storms, blocking the road b,
: snow. The storm continued Monday
s and the road is reported hloal-e.a-bs9
5 tween CheHan44e-ssrzc laramie, and also
: between Laramie and Rawlins.
On Saturday last, at Grin. Henry
county. Illinois, farmer named Mi
: chael Kelley, went into John Mar
=, shal's whisky saloon, got intoxicated
was put out of the saloon and the
door barred against him. In attempt
Il ing to get in at a window, he was shot
n dead by Marshal. Kelley leaves a
e wife and nine children.
There is no difference between
. knowledge and temperance; for h,
= = who knows what is good and en-
- braces it, who knows what is bad anC
avoids it, is learned and temperate
But they who know very we'll what
: ought to be done, and yet do quite
otherwise, are ignorant and stupid.
K If men gave three times as mucf
!. attention as they do to ventilation
, and exercise in the open air, and only