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Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1874-07-23

The cattle drive from Texas into
Kansas will number 155, 900, and it is
distributed as follows 1000 at Cof-
feeville, 10000 at Wichita, $4,000 at
Great Bend and neighboring points,
$4,000 at Ellsworth, r. 900 at Bunker
Hill and other places. These will be
marketed this fall, while the remaining G
"a, 1000 will be consumed on the front
ier in filling Indian contracts. Besides
these there are about 100000 wintered
Texans in Kansas and about 0,000 in
Colorado, which come into the market
this seasons, making altogether about
the same number as last year.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1874-07-23
Washington.

The issue of postage stamns this
year is fourteen and one half per cent.
greater than last
The Government loses between $780,
coo and 0,O00 by the destruction OF
the Chicago Postofice.
The amount of National bank notes
received for redemption under the cur
rency act to date is 81, ,862 ,O70.
George S. Bange, General Superin-
tendent of the Railway Postal Service
has gone to Chicago to look after the,
interests of the Postoffice Department.
According to the Star, ex-Postmas-
ter General CresWell has decided to
connect himself with his uncle, Jacob
Tome, of Port Deposit, Md, who pro
poses to go to Washington City and
engage in the banking business
! The Library Committee of Congress
have purchased recently Stuart's por
trait Of Jefferson, and Moran's paint
/ ing of THE Chasm of Colorado" q
/ companion to his celebrated "CanOn
of the Yellowstone The Stuart pic
| ture will be hung in the White House,
] anu DiuCG 1OE h4OIdll DiCLui6S VIII
be assigned to the Capitol.
The suspension of the Freedmen s
Savings Bank, which retains the sa-
wings OF many Industrious coloIed per-
sons, is the chief subject of conversa
ton among them. Three deaths have
resulted indirectly from the suspen-
sion, the victims being women who
went wild into a state of imbecility al
the loss oftheir savings.
The cotton planters reports ta--tIe
Department of Agriculture show an
increase in the condition of the plant
in every State The percentages OF
the average condition are higher than
in June by the following figures
Louisiana 4, Arkansas 6, Florida
South Carolina 8, Mississippi 10, Ala
bama II, Georgia -, Tennessee ant
Texas 13.
The National Republican learns from
leading Republican Senator, who ha!
had a recent conversation with Viet
President Wilson, that his (Wilson's,
resignation will soon be made public
i'll health being the cause of this extra
ordinary and unexpected step. Pei
contra, a dispatch from Boston say
the report from Washington of the in
/ tended resignation of Vice Presiden
Wilson has no foundation in fact
The Vice Presidents health is bette
, than it has ever been siLce his illness
: The Treasurer has decided that Ma
tional banks will be permitted to max
good amounts charged to the five pc
cent. fund for redemption of thei
, notes by the remittance of Nationa
: bank notes, thus saving the expense O
; remitting legal tender notes from vtht
Treasury Department in return 70
bank notes redeemed, and of the re
mittance of legal tenders by the bank
to make good the five per cent. fund
The first deposit of five per cent mus
however, be made in legal tenders in al
, cases.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1874-07-23
A Sad Accident.

On Monday last Jacob Stotler,
young man residing with his widowed
mother, living on the Washington
pike, about five miles east of Whining
ton, came to his death at the Texas
Mills, near his home. He had engaged
to work for one of the hands temper
arily absent from the mill, and few
minutes after beginning his engagement
while assisting the engineer in tight
ening some bolts about the fly wheel,
which was stopped at the dead point,
he leaned over and placed his hand on
one of the arms of the wheel, which
weight started the wheel, and his head
was caught between an arm of the
wheel and a timber of the frame, by
which his skull was crushed in such a
manner that he only lived five minutes.
His sudden death cast a gloom over
the whole neighberhood, and his be-
reaved mother and friends are enti-
tied to, and receive. the sympathy of
the entire community Wilmington
Republican.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1874-07-23

A young man tout in the country"
not exactly Of the country, tried milk
ing cow, and as he MIXED he smoked
his cigar. He got on very we'll, as he
believed, until he lowered his head
and touched the cows flank with the
lighted end Of his weed. The next
instant himself and cigar were dread
fully ''put out" The cow introduced
abont two tons weightinto one of her
legs, and then passed it under the
mixers left jaw When he ceased
whirling around and myriads of stars
had disappeared, he said farming was
the hardest work a man could put his
hands to.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1874-07-23

The world generally takes men at
their own apparent estimate of them
selves. Hence, modest men never at
tain the same consideration which bat
Ting, forward men do. 1t has not
time or patience TO inquire rigidly and
it is partly imposed upon and carried
away by the man who vigorously
claims it's rewards. The world, also,
never has two leading ideas about
any man. There is always a remark
able unit in its conceptions of the
characters of individuals. If an his
torical person has been cruel and moth
ing else, although he may have had
many good qualities, all not equally
conspicuous. If literary man is in
dustious in a remarkable degree, the
world speakes of him as only industri-
Gus, though he may be also very in
geniOuS,
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1874-07-23

"Mr Conductor, pray tell us how
you hold these cars when you want
them to STOP" said frightened lady,
while decending the almost perpen-
dicular road from the Tiptop House
on the White Mountains. eve ap-
ply the brake, madam" Suppose the
brake should give way, what then ?''
1--WE then apply the double acting
brake" "But, Mr.. Conductor suppose
that brake should not be sufficient, to
stop the cars, where should we go
then p MADAM said the conductor
solemly, 81 can't possibly decide
That depends entirely upon how we
have lived in this world"
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1874-07-23

The Council OF the incorp GRATED
town of Greenfield has passed the Nc
Connelsville beer ordinance, prohibit
ing the keeping of tippling houses and
places of public resort for tippling.-
We think that every one must by this
time be convinced that some restraint
ought to be put upon that kind of bus-
mess in this town. Tippling at the
numerous beer houses in this town
has become a terror to people of NOR
al habits and really a disgrace to our
town, and we say it is time
that measures were being taken to
close up these tipping houses, SO that
our town may not be disgraeed by the
frequent exhibitions of drunkenness
that have lately occurred in our town,
we think we but utter the sentiments
Of large majority of the moral and
respectable portion of our citizens.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1874-07-23

= Very painful news has arrived
from Jerusalem. A grievous famine
prevails there, and measure of corn,
which at 90 piasters would usually have
been considered beyond the reach of
all but the rich, is now sold for 42 pias-
ters. Jerusalem depends for its sup
ply of bread upon the crops raised on
the plains of Sharon and in the val
ley of the Jordan. But this year the
Jordon overdowed, and all the plains
on the Western side were converted
into swamps The consequence has
been actual famine in Jerusalem.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1874-07-23

Somebody writes of the college boy,
in the New York Tribune: "Some
day in middle age he wakes up to find
that he has slain no tyrant, heralded
no dawn that he, too, grumbles over
tickets or pores over financial col
umns that he has forgotten Kant and
Emerson and German infidelities, and
is given over to zeal in the sugar trade
or the spawning of fish, or to break
in the village church of which he is an
elder. Alma Mater and her lore he
remembers with good kumored laugh
and nod, but there is nothing so sa-
cred or dear to him, or so often re-
membered, as the simple teachings of
the old, fat, tender-hearted mother,
whom, when her work was done, he
laid reverently to rest in the church
yard.''
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1874-07-23

- Every man who votes should
vote understandingly, Some persons
have supposed that if majority of the
votes in the State were for license, that
would settle the question as to the
authority of the Legislature to author
ize the granting of license, although
a majority Of the votes of the State
might be against the adoption of the
new Constitution itself This is a
mistake, either one of the sections
of license or no license, becoming a
part of the organic law, only when the
new Constitution is adopted by ma
iority of the votes cast, and although
every vote in the State might be for IL
cense, that article could not be part
of the Constitution unless the Con
stitution itself should receive a major
ity of the votes cast.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1874-07-23

Forty eight years ago Samuel A.
Girls void, editor Of the Gazette, Lam
caster, Ohio, VIM. Millikan, editor of
the Herald, Washington, Fayette coun-
ty Ohio, and John Millikan, editor Of
the REPUBLICAN, Plymouth, Indiana,
were printer boys in the office of the
delaware Patron" The Patron was
edited and published by Ezra Griswold,
Samuel A. Griswoid's father. A pair
of balls made of carded wool, covered
with Indian dressed deer skin, and a
Ramage press with wooden platten
and stone bed, served to print thu
sheets. The paper used was made by
hand, by D. Grouse, near Chillicothe !;
some of the sheets were very thick,
others thin. Four quires, in every
bundle Of forty, were made up Of sheets
full of holes, and part sheets, which
could be used only when cut in small
pieces-these were called quasiaquires.
Things have changed some since then
= Marshall Co. (Ind. Republican.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1874-07-23

One day recently a trunk was dis
covered a quarter of mile from the
residence of Mr.. Benjamin Malone, in
Huntington township, which had been
taken from the house unawares to the
family. From it the robbers took
about $50 in currency and $500 in
Government securities, none of which
were registered. At latest advices no
clue to the robbers had been gained.
Mr., Malone is now nearly 80 years of
age, and the loss to him is a serious
ONE Chillicothe Register.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1874-07-23
prises, but to fatten On its strength.

prises, but to fatten On its strength.
ELECT REPUBLICANS.
You are about to select Representa-
tives to a new Congress. We earnestly
entreat you to send the truest and
ablest Republican you have. But we
entreat you to send Republicans and
not Democrats. You will send one or
the other. No matter what the indi-
vidual may call himself, or what dis
guise he may wear, he will be a Re-
publican or a Democrat. There is at
present no room for any other style
in our politics. If you do not mean
to retrace the past you will select Re
publicans and not Democrats. If you
mean to go forward in the future you
will select Republicans and not Dem
ocrats.
OUR MISSION NOT ENDED.
| 1t is sometimes said the mission Of
the Republican party is accomplished.
| If by that no more is meant than that
the party has discharged every trust
heretofore committed to it, we admit it.
1t has been thought when one was
found faithful over a few things that
was a good reason for trusting him
with more things. Can you do better
than be instructed by such an example ?
Especially since you must employ
either the party which you say has
fulfilled every trust, or emplay that
only other party which has betrayed
every trust.
The occasion for political effort has
not passed. American progress is not
ended. Other labors lie before you,
ligter perhaps, but net light.
First. You have to see that what is
done shall not be undone. Republican
, ism offers you the best security against
retrogression.
Second. You have to see that the
work of reform goes forward. Three
great labors demand your present con
sideration.
The fourteenth amendment to the
: Constitution is not yet enforced by
appropriate legislation" Millions OF
| American citizens are denied even the
common law rights of locomotion be
{ cause they are black. IF such wrongs
, are to be redressed, the Republican
party alone can do it.
THE CURRENCY.
E The currency is in an abnormal con
dition, and must be reformed. It il
undoubtedly true that the Republican
party is not agreed how to effect tina
reform. Neither is the Democratic
party. Neither party, as such, ye
sees clearly the right way. But there
f are two reasons for believing that thu
Republican party rather than its riva
: can best treat this great question o
the finances:
f 1. AS the former has, hitherto
found the true way through grave
3 difficulties. so we believe it is NOR,
apt to find the true way through this
2 .. You already have abundant as
. surance that when Republicans dis
cover the true way they will pursue it
That assurance has not as yet beeI
given by the other party.
/ 3. The Republican party in future
S as in the past, will see to it that tn
q national credit suffers no detrimen
and that the national honor is preserv
al
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1874-07-23

- A man in Northern Indiana com
mitted suicide few days since by eat
ing opium, because his wife was
member of the M E. Church, and
tried to persuade him to become reli-
gious, and because she was crusader.
These things annoyed him.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1874-07-23
Beecher's First Sermon in Ply
mouth Church,

conversed with gentleman to day
who heard Mr.. Beecher make his first
sermon in Brooklyn. The site where
Plymouth Church now stands was con-
sidered sy unfavorable to public wor-
ship that DIR. Cox's Society abando n
ed it, and sold to the Plymouth people
for a song. Dr. Cox's people, owing
TO the visit of Mr.. Beecher, were
obliged to give up their church before
they were ready The lecture-room
being crowed, many of the old Socie-
ty went back to their old home. The
congregation that greeted Mr.. Beecher
half filled the house. Just before the
service commenced a rough looking
younster, with turned down collar,
with an air of haste and energy, took
the pulpit. He looked liked a young
farmer fresh from the plow. His dress
was soiled, hair in the utmost confu-
sion, clothes ill-fitting, stockinus blue,
shoes unblacked. Following DR.. Cox,
who was ultro- clerical, with his white
cravat and black silly gown, the young
Western preacher formed a marked
contrast He did then what he hes
done ever since, proceeded at once to
business without the formaiity of what
is known as private prayer. Before
the preacher got through his rough
Western look, his untidy hair, seedy
dress, blue stockings, short pants, and
coarse shoes, were forgotten. Then
nearly all the churches had service in
the afternoon. Young Beecher was to
preach in the evening. My informant
and his family vent leisurely toschurch
There was an acre of people outside
Even the standing room was occupied
before O'Clock. The disappointed
ones, as they went away, gave vent t.
their feelings in the original remark
GA new broom" etc. And the broom
has been sweeping away for twenty
seven years Burleigh's Letter to tn
Boston Journal.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1874-07-23
Safety of Ansesthetics,

Ifthe force of statistics be of any val
ne, ether appears, beyond question, to
be the safest anesthetic. By combin-
ing American and British data relating
to this question, the result shows CON
lusively the chlOroform is eight times
as dangerous as a mixture of chlor-
oform and ether, and, as far as expert
ence goes, it is more dangerous than
bichloride of metylene. The report
of the London ChlOroform Committee,
appointed to investigate this subject,
states that not only is ether less dan
gerous than chloroform, but that with
with every care, and the most exact
dilution of the chloroform vapor by
the most skillful hands, the state of in
sensibility may pass in few moments
into one of imminent death. =.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1874-07-23

- The Democrats of the State of
Indiana held their State Convention at
indianapolis, on the 10th inst. There
is said to have been fair showing of
the unterrified in attendance, and as a
matter of course a great deal of Dem
ocratic enthusiasm prevailed. The
Convention being organized, it pro-
ceeded to the business for which it was
called, which among other things, as
in duty bound, was to bring up very
frightful indictment against the Re-
publican party, and the laying down
of a platform for the occupancy of
their candidates, and all the rank and
file, who are not disloyal to the Dem
ocratic party. We annex a few of
their platform resolves, as follows:
Resolved, That we are in favor of
the redemption of the five twenty
bonds in greenbacks, according to the
law under which they were issued.
That we are in favor of the repeal
Of the law of March, 1869, which as
sumed to construe the law so as to
make such bonds payable exclusively
in gold.
That we are in favor of the repeal
of the National banking law and the
substitution of greenbacks for the Ma
tional Bank currency.
That we are in favor of q return to
specie payment as soon as the business
interests of the country will permit.
That we are in favor of such legis
lation, from time to time, as will adjus
the volume of currency to the com
mercial and industrial wants of tht
country.
That the act of February 81, 1873
commonly known as the Baxter Bill,
has proved a failure, and is in many
respects of doubtful constitutionality
and is no more efficient in restraining
the evils of intemperance than a judi
cious and we'll regulated license law
: therefore, we are in favor of n repea
of the Baxter bill, and the enactmen
of such license law as shall protec
society and produce a large increas
i of the school fund.
! After adoption of the resolution
: the Convention proceeded 10 nominal
: candidates for State officers
For Secretary of State, j. E. Nef
of Randolph; was chosen on the %
/ ballot.
; For Auditor of State, F. Henderson
of Morgan County.
Treasurer of State, B. C. Shaw, O
. Marion County.
Cu1No1i1fan1nnf oF
ton, j. H. Smart, of Allen county
Attorney General, C. A Auskirk. O
Gibson County.
; Judge of Supreme Court, Horac
P. Biddle, of Cass County.
Messrs. Henderson and Biddle wer
also nominated on the Farmers ticket
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1874-07-23
Address.

We make the following extract from
the address of the Union Republican
Congressional Committe to the people
of the United States.-The address is
lengthy, and we have not room for it
in full:
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1874-07-23

= Somebody has suggested that
instead of being candidate for Con
gress, Bloss, of the Cincinnati Enquir-
er, wait until the Democracy get ma
iOrity in Congress, and that they then
elect him Clerk of the House.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1874-07-23

The Princess Of Wales has persua-
ded her mother in law to allow her to
wear the Kohinoor occasionly, in Or
der to teach the Duchess of Edinburgh
her place, and convince her that her
new Ceylon sapphise isn't much, after
al Boston Globe.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1874-07-23

Hon. Mr.. Neal, the present men,
Der of Congress from the Chillicothe
district, from present appearances, is
likely to receive the nomination of the
Democratic party for reelection
Dunn, the veteran whisky seller, and
the late Judge Stafford seems to have
a small showing for the nomination.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1874-07-23

A Brooklyn young woman, who
abandoned her old husband, says -
He was too soft Icouldn't be hug
ging and kissing him all the while
it isn't my disposition. 1 couIdn' t
bear to be obliged to sit on his lap and
cuddle him every time I wanted a cent
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1874-07-23

A sheep stealer who had long es-
capped conviction, was recently caught
in the very act, and civilly asked what
excuse he had to offer. His answer
was apt. He had to admit that he kill
ed the sheep, but he added, with some
Indignation, "And if another attacks
me in that way, see if I don't kill it
toor
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1874-07-23

"Will you have some strawberries ?"
asked lady of her guest. Eyes mad
am. yes eat strawberries with enthu-
siasm." DO tell Well, we hav en- It
anything but cream and sugar for 'em
this evening"" said the matter-o f-fact
hostess.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1874-07-23
T EGAL-PROBATE NOTICE

T EGAL-PROBATE NOTICE
- State of Ohio. Fayette County, S. Probate
WHEREAS, Accounts and vouchers have been
filed in the Probate Court aforesaid for settle
ment by the Administrators of the following
deceased persons to wit:
AIRY Wright, Nathan A. Jones.
And by the Guardians of the following named
minors to-Wit:
Mary C., Simon and Abraham Taylor; Lawson
and Almer Hagler; Latham, Eleven and Harri-
son Doster; Eliza A. Yawn; James L. and r. f.
Doster; Minnie Veach. 2
Notice is therefore hereby given that said ae-
counts and vouchers are now on file in said Pro-
oate Court, being suspended tor confirmation.
Any person interested may file written excep-
tions to said accounts, any item thereof, on or
before the first Monday (being the Sd day. of
August next, when the same will be finally heard.
July 16 1874 s5w8
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1874-07-23

= Governor Allen, it is said, has
taken to reading the Cincinnati Times.
Il Cincinnati Enquirer.
1t was DR.. Watts, we believe, who
said, while the lamp holds out to
burn, the vilest sinner may return
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1874-07-23

Woman-like, At recent commence.
ment in the West, young girl read
fine essay. On the way home from
the hall she heard one of the lady list
eners remark to another lady "Wasn't t
that fine ?" eyes," was the cold reply j;
"but what mean little train she wore ,
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1874-07-23

Never burn kindly written letters,
the mute utterances Of those afar, yet
dear, whose faces you may never loo k
upon again. Remember how many q
little notion in tin ware they will pro-
cure.