Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1874-04-23

| aUIaCAeu ny savage Qog, who seized
her by the breast and tore it from her
body. The lover tainted with horror
at the sight, but the young lady, much
mortified, went for the dog with a
picket, remarking: e'That ere cost a
dollar and a half, and want made for
no dog to chaW up"
"A SCOTCH postmaster, puzzlinp
out very uncertain superscription to
an Irish letter, jocosely remarked to
an intelligent son of Erin, who stood
by, that the Irish brought hard set of
names to Scotland. "That's fact, yer
honor" replied the Irish, "but they
get harder ones after they arrive here"
= A Nevada Judge, after the iurv
had been impannelled and the counsel
ready to proceed, pulled out a revolver
and judicially remarked. eff any man
goes to frolicking around in this court
room during the trial of this cause, L
shall interrupt him in his career. :" The
strictest decorum prevailed in that
court room.
''To WHAT BASE Uses" ETC.-Evans-
vile, Indiana, repudiates the idea
that it has no frst-c class poets. Walter
Scott works in a sash, door, and blind
| factory; Oliver Goldsmith works on
farm; Thomas Moore is a fnisher, and
Robert Burns is in the city Jail.
AN exchange recommends that
when you buy new lamp chimney,
you put it in vessel Of cold water,
set it on the stove and boil. You can
never break that chimney, unless you
throw a fiat iron at it, and it won't
break even then-if you miss it.
A New Bedford paper tells sto-
ry about shop-keeper, who advised
ladycustomer to buytwo mohair switch
es instead Of one as the article was
becoming scarce. He said that the man
whom he hired to hunt NOES had only
cought two within a fortnight.
- The Harrisburg Patriot says:
sEMrs. Geary, the widow of the late
Governor Geary, has removed to Phil
adelphia, where, it is rumored, she
will soon be married to a prominent
practicing physician. ="
= Senator Summers pictures at his
house in Washington have been cata-
logued. There are ninety oil paint
ings, valued at $25, 1000, and more
than three thousand engravings, pho
tographs, etchings, etc, worth as
much more.
"A Chicago paper thinks that while
Potter Palmer could not have written
the plays of Shakespeare, neither could
Shakespeare have constructed such a
gigantic hotel as that lately erected by
Potter Palmer.
= Mr.. Summers house will be pur-
chased as an addition to the Arlington
hotel. Nothing can be done in regard
to the distribution of his personal
property till his sister, who resides in
California, can be heard from.
A LADY asked puple of a sunday
school, "what was the sin of the Pha-
risees ?" eating camels, ma'am,' was
the quick reply. She had read that the
Pharisees strained at gnats and swal
lowed camels."
! = Hereafter no portrait is to be
placed upon any of the bonds, secur-
tiles, notes, fractional or postal cur
rency of the United States, while the
original of such portrait is living.
7 = Millard Fillmore's ancestors, on
the mothers side, were clock-makers
near Apponang, in the last century,
and many of the clocks made by them
t a hundred years ago are running to-
r day.
-Reverdy ohnson now has client
in whose success he is wonderfully in
terested. tits Reverdy himself. and he
is suing the Baltimore and Ohio Road
4 for SIS, 900 worth of professional ser
vice.
II About thirteen hundred citizens of
Portland, Oregon, have petitioned the
N Common Council to place the liquor
dealers of that city under more strin-
at get order regulating their traffic.
Abraham Hemamann, charged with
4 swindling, H B.Clafin & Co., New
York, out of $13O,0O0. was arrested in
H. New Orleans yesterday, but treated
& with unnecessary brutality by the de-
IS tective.
The Cairo roughs who outraged the
a persons of two little girls have not yet
s been caught, and nothing has been
heard of Sheriff Irwin and his posse
s who pursued them.
Twelve members of the Printers
Union in Titusville, Pa, convicted of
:, conspiracy against the Daily Courier,
have been sentenced to % hours in
. jail and fine of $40.
). = Now it is the lawyers who are to
u be ruined by ''cheap labor" for q Ne
vada celestial is studying Blackstone,
g and of course will work at half price
- The executors of Edwin Forrest
n have effected settlement with the di-
o vorced wife of the deceased by paying
her S95, 900, she agreeing to forego al
v her claim for this sum.
At JefersonvilIe, Ind, the crusaders
y are much irritated by a report that
t. they were paid each 81 so per diem
r. for their praying.
> Charles Behrus, New Orleans, was
. murdered by Edward L. Coleman
They both ran donkey engine on the
4 levee for the Cromwell Line.
n In quarrel growing out of game
h of cards, Sunday night, in New York,
Thomas Corbett, coachman, fatally
,e shot Thomas Laddy, plasterer.
D. In Mt. Vernon, ILL.,, it is said two
y lady crusaders rendered their moral
o suasion effective by adding thereto the
/ more forcible persuasive OF loaded
revolver.
e 1t it reported that the California
l. desperate Tebuco Vasquez, and the
t, gang have been captured by the Sher-
l. if Of Los Angeles.
. James Shoaff, editor of the Paris