Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1874-04-30
Scraps.

The aggregate of wheat, corn, oats, barley
and rye raised in Nebraska in 1873 amounted
to 9,0I9 $3.50 bushels.
Ell .Bargess shot his wife and then took
dose of poison, at Logansport, Indiana, Satur-
day. He died the same night.
A Councilman, named Stoll, of Fort Wayne,
Indiana, is accused of offering to sell his own
and two other votes for sixty dollars piece.
Johnathan Boyd, formerly Of the Pickaway
House in this city, has taken possession of the
Wardell House, Mt. Sterling.-T Circleville
Union.
1t is reported that the Pennsylvania Rail
road and the Baltimore and Ohio have about.
arranged their differences, and the war East
will cease.
The brig Aroostook, from Cuba. was wreck
ed Friday night on Nanset Beach. The vessel
and cargo of sugar were a total loss; insured.
No life lost.
Donald Mackay and his band of Warm Sprng
Indians, who figured in the Modoe war, are
giving entertainments on the Pacific Coast,
and will come East.
There is a report from Philadelphia that
Joseph Patterson. President of the Western
Bank of that city, has been offered the position
of Secretary of the Treasury.
- The Pittsburg, Ft. Wayne & Chicago
Railroad Company haye suppressed the selling
of all spurious liquors in the railroad hotels
and eating houses along their route.
The argument of counsel in the Blackburn
| trial at Cbillicothe was concluded Saturday,
and the jury. after few minutes retirement,
| broughti in a verdict of insanity.
The Mayor of New Orleans has telegraphed
to the Mayors of the principle cities North,
| asking aid for the sufferers by the overflow
| from creVasses on the Lower Mississippi.
/ John DoughertY shot his father, inficting
probably fatal wound. The trouble was about
| the young mans attention to a woman IN the
| neighborhood.
| "A meeting of policemen was held in
| GAINESVILLE on Thursday last, and these officials
received strict instructions from the Police
| Committee touching their duty as to enforcing
the ordinance against liquor
A fund of $4,000 has been raised and
some of the ablest attorneys have been employ
ed in Cleveland, to enforce the liquor laws
A corps of skilled detectives is being organ
ICED to ferret out yiolators ofthose laws
Philadelphia, April ia Sunday paper
today contains long account of a cremation
case in this city. A physician whose son died
Tuesday erected furnace in the cellar of his
house and reduced the body to ashes
= James Gallagher, who was fined so heav-
lily in the Congdon case, under the Adalr law
at our late term of Court, signed the pledge on
| Sunday last, and agreed to quit the business.
It would have been 50, 500 in his pocket if he
had signed and quit several years ago. Ma
rietta Register.
| - James NJ. Brown, the Coshocton county
| treasury robber, has returned from the Peni-
tentiary, having received pardon fol- the un-
| expired portion of his term, owing to ''strict
| compliance with prison discipline, and his
general good conductor Governor Aliens bos.
| ON vearns for these unfortunate men, [Guern-
| sey Times.
AIexandrew H. Stephens left Washington foT
his home in Georgia on Saturday. Before tax
| ing his departure he was called upon by a com
| pany of freinds, and during the conversation
| remarked that unless his health should become
improved by the trip he never again expected,
| to v isit Washington. He is a confirmed invalid
| and has not been in his seat on the floor of the
| House for the last two [Cincinnnatti
| Commercial.
The Toledo Blade describes a mammoth
powder horn, the property of Mr.. Keller. 1t
is handsomely carved with the British coat-of-
arms, a view of Lake George, and man -of-war
under full sail and is inscribed, HTheodore
Keller, his horn, September 5, l758." 1t was
made by the grandfather of the present owner
and was carried through all the dangers and
yicissitudes of the French and Indian wars,
and is now one hundred and sixteen years old
our friend, Rev. " M.Ferguson, the able
excellent and popular Presbyterian preacher Of
Washington, Guearnsey county, has been sent
| to the Ohio Penitentiary-as chaplain. bet
ter selection could not have been made.-[Stu
benville Gazette.
| Very many worse men than Mr.. Ferguson
have been sent to the Penitenhary. But serl
ously, we agree with brother Allen that ne
possesses peculiar qualifications for Chaplain o.
an institution of that kind Guernsey Times
Nothing is more unfortunate or more trying
to our patience than to have one OF these part
nerless editors call when we are absent. Why
can't they give US some intimation Of then
cominp2-T Bellaire Commercial
The editor of this paper is at present on
, | business trip to Woodsfeld, but will probably
be in BeIIaire about Sunday evening the 18th
instant-[ Caldwell Press.
Y To bring out the joke in the above it is only
! necessary to add that the editor Of the COHEaeT
ciaL is an unmarried lady, and Amos OF tn
, press is a MISUNDERSTANDING Times.
One of our most prominent physicians re
, marked the other evening that there was no
: ANYTHING in medical literature which gave 81
vivid an illustration of insanity did the
2 testimony given Wednesday by the aged moth
| er of John Blackburn. possessed of q strong
mind and of unusual descriptive power, TIM
venerable and now physically feeble woman
told in tremuleus tones her sad experiences
3 with her husband and son with aminutlse
: detail which showed the depth of the lmprln
her troubles had left upon her vigorous mind
. drawing a picture of insanity IN Its mlloel
form which only long practical aequalntaanIeSS 6
Herewith could enable one to produce.-l Ohll
/ | lieothe Register.
Heat of the sun.