Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1874-07-16

News of the Week.

Henry Boose, a boy 10 years old,
was drowned in the Ohio river while
Valentine VOLTS barn, near Aman.
da, Ohio, was struck by lightning and |
burned on the 9th. Loss $4,000.
A violent storm passed over Hoen
County, Me-, on the 9th, upreoting
trees, unroofing houses and prostra-
ting whole corn fields.
The case of cholera reported a few
days since in Louisville was the only
case which has occurred there this
season.
Eight or nine farmers, mostly Ger
mans, near Toledo, gotinto a drunken
brawl One was killed and another
fatally wounded.
Governor Caldwell, of North Caro-
lima, died Saturday evening at Hills
boro, in that State, of cholera morbus.
Official returns from all the counties
of Arkansas but one show majority
of 1880 for the convention at the
C1CCllOA OlA IAAC OOIA Va a ulAC"
A Chinaman employed in the Chi
nese laundry, Jefferson street, Mem
phis, died on Sunday from the effect
of opium which he had eaten.
W. F. Lavery, of Salem, Ross Co.,
was kill by the cars, while attempting
to cross the track in front OF a train
at Lynden, on the 18th, He was high
ly respected farmer of Ross
Anna Josey (colored), of Memphis.
becoming enraged at her husband,
day before yesterday, slashed him with
a razor in such manner as to cause
his death in few hours.
Mail adyices from the interior of
Nebraska state a very encouraging
harvesting being nearly completed,
and the frequent rains during the past
week have started corn, potatoes, &c,
anew.
They are going to have what they
call a Conservative Democratic Con-
gressional Convention in Bolivar,
Tenn, on September 8th, to nominate
Representative from the Tenth Dis
trict.
During a severe thunder shower on
Saturday, the house of Levi Harrison,
in Trumbull, Connecticut, was struck
by lightning, and Harrison, his wife
and daughter were killed.
D. OLeary commenced last evening
his attempt to accomplish the feat o.
: walking hundred miles in hundred
| consecutive hours, at the West Side
Rink, in Chicago.
{ James P. Everett Deputy United
States Marshal at Lynchburg, Tenn.
appointed to succeed Hildreth, who
/. was lately killed at Hillsboro, in the
same State, was found dead, with two
E ! pistol wounds i'll the head, near Lynch
! burg, last Friday morning.
John Mitchell, the famous exile il
! about to return to Irel and to becom,
3 a candidate for the British Parliment
Nearly $4,000 has been collected il
s this country and Ireland to defra
e Mitchel's expenses.
W. j. Mccormack, Collector o
s Custums at San Diego, Cal, VIII tol
e the story of having been robbed G
: about $4,000 in government funds b.
e two men, was arrested yesterday
), charged with having embezzled til
money. He was released OH $IO,O 90
: bail.
D Two men named Durfee and Hard
4 ing, residing on adjoining farms nes
q Rosendale, Andrew County, Ne ha
4 a quarrel Friday evening last, whic
4 resulted in Durfee striking Har ding
blow Oh the head with stick, crusl
ing the skull, from which he died
an hour. Durfee fled, and has not y
.e been captured.
n On Friday evening Mr.. Beecher sa
10 Il do not believe that, I have evt
N written line against any other d
20 nomination, except few letters in a
le obscure evening paper in Cincinnati
i. many years ago, against the Catholics
w I have treated all with manly frank
IS ness, as l would treat my own"
" 1t is something unaccountable no
ID these sober and sedate old fellows
soon as their families have gone to til
s. co untry to spend the heated terri
commence to wear their Sunday cloth
- every day and to argue that four hou
~ ~ sleep is all tina the human frame +
- - quires to be h ealthy.- Detroit FIR
J. ~ Press.