Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1873-06-19
News Items.

Catterpillars are doing much dam
age to the cotton crop in North Mis-
sissippi.
At Indianapolis David Dumworth
shot Jack Pierce and Thos. Daily, the
latter fatally.
A dispatch from Berlin says the
Emperor continues very weak, and re-
quires absolute quiet.
An additional 100000 fraud, per-
.petrated by Tweed d Co., has been
discovered in New York.
Fraudulent Louisiana bonds to the
amount of S25O,OOO, in aid of the
Mississippi and Mexican Gulf Ship
Canal, are on the market.
In a quarrel between Brown and
Taylor (colored) }, at Springfield, ILL.,,
the latter killed the former and after
ward shot himself.
1t is said that Ex- Queen Isabella is
about TO proceed to Rome to confer
with the Pope upon the prospects of
the Bourbon family in Spain.
H. Jewett, a rejected suitor, shot
Ella Wood, at Hudson, N. H., Sunday
Jnorni4as. tfI6II eE66oua IJ6od to XIII fIer
father, and, failing in that, fatally shot
himself.
Physicians of Nashville differ as to
the presence of cholera in that city.
The average daily deaths recently
have been twelve to fifteen, mainly
among negroes.
DR.. Lewis, of GAINESVILLE, followed
married man, named Smith, who
was riding with Lewis daughter,
beat him severely, and shot him
through the lung. Smith will die.
Judge johnson has been appointed
to the Lieut. Governorship of Nova
Scotia, made vacant by the death
of the late Joseph Howe.
A fly wheel in the rolling mill of z
Robbins d Sons, Philadelphia, burst
ed Monday night, injuring six work
ingmen; John Murray fatally.
Hon. Joseph Brooks has com
menced suit in the CIRCUIT Court o
Polaski county, AK, against Govern
or Baxter for the Office of Governor.
The Legislature Of Texas, in viev
0 + the Mexican depredations on tht
border, have provided for the employ
ment of volunteer force for the pur
pose of protection.
Some questions very naturall,
suggest themselves to an inquirinj
mind. An amateur farmer wonder
"why, on all this fair earth, the -groun
is spread bottom side up, so that
must be turned over with a ploW be
fore crops can be raised"
President Grant has accepted an in
vitation of the Centennial CommissiO
to participate on the approaching At
of July in the ceremonies attendin
= the transfer of the grounds in Fail
e mount Park to the Commission 70
: the Exhibition in 1876.
About three weeks since Joe Woods
. colored, ra avished a white widow an
n knocked her in the head with an az
n in Rutherford county, Tennessee. =
I Saturday night party Of men too
q Woods and hung him. The lady hs
: died.
Judge E. North Cullom, of tt
Fifth Louisiana District Court, Satu
IL day rendered a decision of $10C
damage in the case of Josephine Dire
mir, againt the ownnr of the stean
Il boat Governor Allen, for refusin
plaintiff, a colored woman, cabin pa
sage, and such accommodations {
d were extended to white ladies. Th
e is the first decision under the Sta
IS law relative to common carriers.
: The Mexican Border Investigatin
: committee have returned to Washing
II II ton to prepare their report. The
- have been engaged constantly sinC
. January 10th, and have heard evidenC
in four hundred cases, and have secu
- ed in addition thirteen hundred e.
- parte afffdavits. Several women ar
= children who had escaped from the L
= dians, appeared before the commi
&c sioners and told the story of the
=: terrible sufferings. The Comanch
~ are said to be mainly engaged in tt
l" business of stealing and selling chi
dren and women of white settler
while the KickapOos, Lipans, al
is Mextcans disguised as such, chief
nd cOnfine themselves to cattle stealth
o. The raids Of these people are so fr
xt quent that stock raising within tV
ur hundred miles of the Rio Grande h
er been we'll nigh abandoned.