Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1874-09-03
SpIinters.
Hundreds of Eastern tourists are
visiting Utah this summer.

Hundreds of Eastern tourists are
visiting Utah this summer.
A man in Portsmouth. Va. has
eloped with his motherin law.
A fire at Joliet, H., August 18th, I
caused damage amounting to 100000
Sodus Point, on Lake Ontario, is
growing into Importance as pleasure,
resort.
Mr.. E. A. Heyt Of New York, has
been appointed to fill the vacancy in
the Board of Indian Commissioners.
Goldsmith Maid won the open to-al
race at Springfield Mass, making the
second heat in 2 :16, last week.
Over s6,O0O,0OO worth of property
has been buried in the American lakes
since the introduction of steam.
A shark measuring twelve feet in
length and weighing 600 pounds was
caught off Long Branch, last week.
Several Of the New York City street
railroad companies are laying their
tracks with steel rails Of an improved
pattern.
. A company is being formed to work
the great salt deposits west of San
Antonio, Texas. These are Of pure
salt, and the most extensive of any in
the world.
The steamship San Jacinto is load
ing at Galveston for Liverpool with
wheat and flour, now being received
from Kansas City.
Twelve thousand operatives have
been thrown out Of employment in the
anthracite coal regions by the dimin
ished business of the season.
Four thousand Indians attacked
General Clusters forces recently and
were repulsed with heavy loss Gus
ter's loss was fifty killed and wounded
A chap who spent 81, 900 to gradu-
ate from Harvard, is postmaster in To-
wa at S24 per year. Where would he
have been out for his Greek and Lat
in?
Mr.. George NJ. Stearns has given
authority for the announcement that
he will accept the Democratic nomina-
tion for Congress in Mr.. Dawes's dis
trict
Rector's Daughter to Sunday, sch ool
boy-"Oh, you have an elder brother :;
how old is he ?" Neutrality-suspicious.
no, miss, hut he has just started o.
swearing"
A frightful famine prevails in Asia
Minor. Five thousand persons have
died in single district Of starvation.
The horrors of the scene are said to
be indescribable.
- Several counties have been heard
from. They have told their delegates
to the Convention of Wednesday that
the people want more money Gin
cinnati Enquirer
Mrs. Anna G. R. Bacon. now resi-
ding with her son at Sherburne, N. Y,
attained her 101st birthday July 18th.
She is in good health and is the oldest
person now living in town
Illinois papers say that there never
was more real enthusiasm than now in
the Republican party The conven-
tions are crowded, and the leaders
look for victory this autumn.
During the first nine months Of the
P1eseAG year to,000 migrants were
entered at theport of New York, fall
ing off of los, $50 compared with the
corresponding period of 1873.
The Best Time Yet.--At Rochester.
n. Y, on Wednesday of last week,
Goldsmith Maid beat her record Of
2:153, at Buffalo, trotting a mile in
the extraordinary time of 2 :142
The failure ofsutton & Co., pub.
fishers of the Aldine is announced. Il
is asserted that Sutton & Co. owe
about SI8O,0O0 The publication of.
the Aldine will not be suspended.
The Boston Transcript says that
Chief Justice Waite's decisions are
short, pithy and pointed; and his
style is compared to the sinewy. d.
rect mode of'expression of the late
Abraham Lincoln.