Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1874-06-18
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In the State Of Delaware there is pear or
ehard containing 10000 trees.
Some East Tennessee farmers think they viii
get forty bushels of wheat per acre.
South Carolina cotton is stinted for want
of moisture, and is month behindhand
The northern Texas wheat crop, now being
harvestd, averages twenty bushel per acre.
The high price of corn in Kansas has brought
down the price of hogs all over the State.
The Boston Brewers Congress selected Gin
cinnati as the next place of meeting.
Jefferson Davis sailed, on Thursday, for the
United States in the steamship Adriatie.
Fred. Ballard aged sixteen, jumped from a
train at PrincetOwn, Ind, last evening and
was killed almost instantly.
The TypOgraphical Union closed its session
in st. Louis yesterday, and adjourned to meet
at Boston the FIRST Monday of next June.
The widow of General Candy, murdered Dy
the Modoes. will receive six hundred doilafs
year as 8 pension, or fifty dollars nlohth'
It ia Estimated that 40 per cent, of the wheat
in Miami county, Kansas, mas Deen "lhteF
killed.
W;..onsin. Minnesota, Iowa and Nebraska
Dronise nearly hundred million bushels OF
wheat this year.
Some Michigan farmers have been buying "a
"
out to be very ordinary currant bushes
In kentucky, Central Tennessee and other
portions Of of the South, growing crops are be-
ing irremediably damaged by dry weather.
Reports from the cranberry marshes in Wis
eOnsin are to the effect that there never was
better prospect for heavy crop than at this
time.
The Secretary of the Kansas State Board of
Agriculture estimates that A 1881 head of cat
tie perished in the State this spri ng for want
Of food.
Italian papers report that the Pope received
10000 letters of congratulation upon his
eighty second birthday. Only ~ 600 ofthem
were from Italians.
on the cars recently, refused TO pay the con-
ductOF mere than three cents a mile The
company humored him.
Osssnyan Efendi, the Turkish Consul Gen
ernlat New York, has been cheated out Of his
pay foF seven years work in the Sultan's ser
vice, and is about to quit in disgust.
Hiram Smith. of Watertown, N. Y. found
guilty of being an aceomplice in the murder OF
Charls Winham, in January, 1873, has been
sentenced to be hanged July oath.
The funeral of N P. Fetterman, the Oldest
member Of the Pittsburg bar. took place yes
teTdeY dfternoOn, was largely attended by the
mem ere Of the Pittsburg bar.
There will be work for county map-makers
when the Mississippi flood subsidies. The
old Father of Waters has been remodeliDg the
country down there, without regard 10 title
deeds or county records.
The crusaders of Pittsburg are endeavoring
to start daily paper, to be entitled the Even.
ing Daily Crusader. They propose to organ
ize stock company, with a capital of 500
600, in shares Of 800 each.
A California man tied one end of a rope
around his waist, and lassoed COW with the
other. He thought he had the COW, but at tbs
end of the first half mile he began to suspect
that the COW had him.
ofcourse the Norristown editor, in writing
on the White House wedding, used the WORD
'tAuspfciouslyI" but the compositor knew bet
ter and made him say: "Few honeymoon
ever began more suspiciOusly."
: q The assignee in bankruptcy oft the Bank o
rMadisOnS w Wisconsin, invites bids for the col
lection Of coins belonging to the late Presid en-
James L. Hill, consisting of 5,482 pieces of al
Nations, many of them of great antiquity.
A vessel recently arrived at Pensacola from
Brazil with two cases ofyellow fever on board
The vessel was Hgidly quarantined and al
though reports Immediately went into circula
ton that the fever had spread to the town, i
is believed that the disease did not gain foot
hold on shore.
man called to see N.Y. Greeley, at Mem
phis, and asked him if, in his opinion, guanC
was good to put on potatoes. The good man
paused moment, and then said:
& %It may do, my son, for those whose appe-
tltes are vititated by rum and tobacco, but
like gravy the best
The King ofFiii has ceded his kingdom te
Great Britain on very liberal terms. This il
sbopt what he proposes: He is to remain
pensiOnsd, and salary paid to himself. Ht
gives Crest Britain the absolute sovereignty O
his debts. OF course, Great Britain can bu
jump at such munifeent iberality.
The proposed constitution will increased tn,
number of Judges by fifteen, making the tota
number seventy-twO. The chief practical diff
ference in organization between the old ant
new Bystems of Judiciary is, that the Distric
Judges will not be Common Pleas Judges re
viewing their own decisions as now, but vii
be Judges elected solely as District Judges
The facilities for delay by appeal from on
oOuPt to another are precisely the same in bot
syatems.-- %. s. Journal.
Persons wEo insist on using eoal oil as Al
AEtical Of fuel should take warning from th
fate Of Mrs. VRnderburg, who lost her life las
Sunday night from a coal oil explosion Mrs
X,,1who was married only three dOys befor
this accident occurred, had invited in littl
party TO tea. She was robed in her brida
dress, and having occasion TO go into the kit
ohen to make another brew Of tea, thought +
e1pedlte the business by pouring some coal oi
on the fire. OF course the can exploded, AM
enYeloped her in flame which was not extin
guished until she had been burned to a crisp
-[Hamilton Telegraph.
We have all heard Of Botany Bay, in Aus
tFailia, as place whittier convicts were form
erly sent. and where there was doubtless muc
swearing, but it is a new thing for botanies
names to be mistaken for osths The stor
goes that q man wrote to the editor of a hort
eultultural journal, asking what plants woul
bs suitable additions TO dried grasses for wint,
OTnRmsnts. The editor replied:
sAoPolinium Roseum, A. album, GOmphreI
giobosa and G.. globosR eamea.'
When the man read this, he fairly bold Ov
with rage, Immediately sent note orderir
his paper to be discontinued. He avered tn
an editor who swore in that way just becau
he was asked simple question, should ha7
no support from him.
RFtkaRyers Announce a Rise ina Wage
Police Dismissed.
NEw YORK, June l2-The bricklayers al
nounee that from Monday they will demar
p 5p for days wages, an advance of 81 {
the pFesent Fates