Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1874-12-03

ephew OF w ashlngton irving.
A colored Christian association, WI
numbering one hundred members, Ne
las been organized in Savannah.
An Atlanta mans daughters, one Of fir
hem aged thirteen years and the other T
fifteen years, are both widows. is
It is reported that the Baltimore g'
md Ohio Railroad company has pur-
chased the Kentucky Central railroad. pr
There have been about 100000 tons p
Of coal less than last year, so far, sent
from the Pennsylvania coal region.
1t is estimated by those best inform n
ed on the subject that there are now Il
about two thousand invalids in Denver. b
Returns of the Kansas election COM :
plete except one small county give Os Z
born, Republican, a majority of Is AL. :
The Painesville and Youngstown t
narrow gauge railway is nearly COM i
pleted, the track being laid to YOungs {
town.
A London Madison county, firm
has been buying corn at the rate of
1000 bushels per day, at so cents per
bushel
A mare worth 5000 died of the pre-
vailing horse disease at Akron Mon
day. There are several other severe
cases under treatment.
Mrs Colman, wife of Benjamin Col
man, diamond setter of Cleveland died |
Monday evening, from an overdose of
morphine taken to produce sleep,
The annual meeting of the State
Horticultural Society will be held at
Akron, December 8, 10 and II. A pro-
gramme of exercises for each day has
been issued.
Wool, such as is raised in Tuscara-
| was and Harrison counties, Xxx Ohio,
is quoted in the New York, Philadel-
phia and Boston markets at 55@579
cents per pound.
Over 100000 feet of lumber from
Bay City, and over 24,00O,0O0 feet
from Saginaw, Mich, have been re-
ceived in Toledo by water this season,
since the opening Of navigation.
\ The engineer corps Of the Atlantic
and Great Western railway are en-
gagged in surveying the proposed rail
way route of the Atlantic and Lake
Erie railroad between New Lisbon
and Salineville.
The steeple of ST. Xavier's Catholic
T Church, in Cincinnati, will be, when
5 completed, 320 feet high from the
l ground, and will cost $4,000. It will
: be, it is said, the highest and finest in
| America.
The National Association of Wool
Manufacturers has ascertained that
producers of all classes of wooden
goods are now running their mills
four-fifths time on an average.
2 The cold weather causes much suf-
e fering among the destitute people on
e the Nebraska frontier About S17,.
: 900 in money and clothing has been
e distributed for their benefit
Five colored men have been elected
> to the next Congress, all new men
> Two are from South Carolina, one
from North Carolina, one from Ala.
bama, and one from Louisiana
/ Charles Benson, white, and Hattie
,e <Newl, colored, were committed to jai
n at Memphis yesterday, in default ol
$1,000 each, for having intermarriet
: in violation of the State statute.
n n The returns from Michigan show
y that the vote in favor of women suf
l0 frage was smallestin those places whert
- - Miss Anthony and her associates mad,
- - most earnest efforts in its behalf
IS A general orderI has been promul
as gated from the War department, an
nouncing that recruiting will be re
le sumed nnder certain restrictions.
IS John H. Young, nephew ofBrighan
III has been cut off from the Mormon
D. church for publishing a newspaper op
:. posed to Mormon principles.
d Rev. j. T. Byrne, agent of tn
N French Cena dian mission, fell dead q
at Albany New York, while Oh his wa
IF to the railroad depot Saturday
Us The Secretary of War has decide
OF to appropriated a quantity OF Govern
e, ment clothing, now at Jeffersonville
re Indiana, to the relief of the grasshop
n per sufferers in Nebraska.
oh ~, Texas is proud of DR.. Peter Gunso
lus, aged seventysiX, who has take
to himself six consecutive wives an
given paternity to fifty-four children
he The movement has again been start
n ed for forming a separate Territory
e and eventually a new State, Of tn
hit Northern Peninsula of Michigan.
tn Virginia has sent $4,000 pounds {
H. chestnuts North this season in on
It's consignment-the largest single e2
as aUop made
,a E. B. Wentworth, postoffce cler
20 was arrested at Montgomery, Ala
nd Tuesday, for robbing the mails TT
m stolen money was found.
he Col. Alexander Mcclure, it is sale
H. paid S25O,000 for a controlling inteI
i'll est in Forneys Philadelphia Pres
he This does not include the buildin;
i'm The politics of the paper will be ind
III pendent Republican.
S ,st Philip Cullen, confidential clerk an
Is, book keeper of J. j. McGrath, of Oh
- cago, has embezzled his employer
D' funds to the amount of 1926, 900 durin
the last ten years. He has been ARE
,rt ted in Pittsburg.
as About s6,OOO,OOO worth of sug,
ce was lost during the flood in Louisian
he OF the rice crop destroyed by tt
rs overflow, it is estimated that abo
he 5,031,9 $50 pounds have been los
o. which, valued at Ct cents aggregate
D. $311, ,996.
The aggregate number of hog
packed in Cincinnati, Chicago, s
"a, Louis, Louisville, Milwaukee and i
10 dianapOlis during the year endir
x Nov 90 1870 was 200 600 dnrir