Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1873-06-05
News Items.

NCWS AOCuASO
Hon Montgomery Blair is spoken
of as candidate for the Maryland |
House Of Representatives, on the Dem |
ocratic ticket.
Harry Abrams, a porter at the
Boody House, Toledo. shot himself
dead. Tuesday night, while carelessly
handling a revolver belonging to a |
guest.
Henry Burns has recovered SIO.-
900 from the Cunard Company for
four bales of goods delivered by their
agent to the wrong party.
Excessive rains all over Kansas have
raised the streams to food height
The Kansas River is higher than for
the past five years.
The gross receipts Of the Pacific
Mail Steamship Company for the year
ending May 1st show an increase of
over a million dollars compared with
last year.
1t is stated that many professional
thieves have left New York for the
East and West since the passage. of
the act authorising their arrest as sus-
picious characters.
John B. Gallagher, a Philadelphia
Alderman, was Tuesday convicted of
extorting illegal fees, fined a hundred
dollars, and sentenced to imprison-
ment for nihe months.
A coroner's jury has been investi-
) eating the case of DR.. Baker, recently
found dead near the residence of Lucy
Ann Mink, a widow living in Warren.
Maine, and find that he was shot by
Lucy Ann, who has been arresed.
is believed that the bonds found
on the burglar Brany, captured in
New York, Tuesday night, were the
prcc eds of tie rvbbery of the First
National Bank at Glen's Falls.
I Patrick Mahony and John Sweeney
+ quarreled aboat whisky bill in Bos-
ton Saloon. The negro bar keep r
promptly settled it by shooting both
of them-one in the arm, the other in
the leg,
2 The bonded warehouses of New
York are filled with imported goods,
witch the importers do not find profit
able to take out, on account of the
j high price of gold and the dullness OF
n the season.
d A young girl named Elizabeth Ar
a mold was strangled to death on Mon
g day at Pellin, Ill. She was climbing
out of a window, when the sash fell
) pinioning her in such a manner thai
death ensued before she was seen.
n An Altoona woman is ready to dix
now. She feels that her life-work i:
u ended. She has given birth to TWEEN
L ty.two children, and has no ambition
= to make up the even two dozen.
The residence of the late LeGrant
Lockwood, at Norfork, Conn, which
a. cost 81, 300, 900, has gone into tn
possession of the Lake Shore ano
= Michigan Southern Railway Company
~ ~ which held $4,000 mortgage OF
10 it.
in Enos T. Trooy, who was Governo
of of New York in 1881, is at his ole
% home near Auburn, still hale and Wig
E. erous though in his ninetieth year.
u Miss Rebecca S. Rice, a forme
teacher in Antioch College, who ha
y been studying in the University 0
IS Heidelburg, Germany, for more thal
ID two years, is expected to return t.
le Yellow Springs in July, when she vii
! accept professorship that is aw attn!
- - her.
,e Burglars are "doing" in Zsnesyille
le In one house a lady canght man
= thinking it was her daughter up in he
20 sleep. When she found it was a mar
if she held tighter and screamed for help
OF but before help coull come the MAJ
at made such threats that she let him &C
in and he escaped.
st Miss Hattie Frye, the young woma
IS, who was violently thrown from a bug
r. oy in London, Madison county, OF
OF week ago last Sunday, laid in sta
be of uncon ciousness for six days, wit!
OF out eating or drinking. Altho ug
'te dangerously injured, hopes are ente
rs tanned of her recovery.
Of A dispatch from Shanghai, gi
70 ing some particulars Of the capture
,ot the Chinese of Lalee- foo, in the Pro
ince of Yunnan, Southwestern Chin
no- SAYS the victorious forces fell uDt
n Gl6lE C1DlifGS anu IuSSSUGIGu luli
1ot thousand The Sultan poisoned hin
on self, rather than fall into the hands
en his enemies.
md Melissa, daughter Of Herman Coz
ten ey, of Troy township, Athens count
died suddenly without prior Indicate
lest of i'll health, at the residence of h
i've brother in-law, CAPTAIN Geo.
ere Campbell, near Coolville, on Frid
,ar. morning last. She remarked but
'm. few moments before her death til
vas those who desired to see her in |
OF would have to come soon, and scar
day had tie sentence passed her lips un
eff her spirit fed from its mortal ter
lge ment.
use
ght Railroad Time and Fares.
80 The contest between the farmt
e"o and the railroad authorities in Illinc
aT has reached phase which promis
W. very little in the way of reform. I
: farmers have lost their temper, a