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Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1874-07-09
UT2SDAY
Prison z "a baritx.

The existing COT 1dition of things in
l be Missouri State Prison is thus de-
8, .Ribed by the ST Louis Democrat:
Work is still suspended, and will be
sus pended until W hat is called "disci-
pin lc'' is restored, or until a general
iail break is made, and mincemeat
man ufactured out of some contractors
and flicials. Meanwhile, the days are
being employed in dragging ont half
suffoca tied wretches from their 'blind
CELL wing them to 4 whipping post
and la shing them with a cat o'nine
tails, N; nufs ctured especially for the
purpose, till they faint away; where
upon Dr. Young hasteRs to feel their
pulses. ar I'd, as soon as he ascertalns
that the prisoners are able to stand
some NOR e lashing, without absolute
| ly killing Aaem, will give sign, and
! the excutiO ners renew their duty. If
we are not mistaken, the doctor has
confessed hi 1nself unable to, attend to
more than Eelye such cases a day,
and as the n umber assigned to ''pun-
! ishment'' is n Mentioned at two hundred,
it must take sibout twenty days-sup-
posing that religious considerations
do not permit him to officiate on Sun
day-befOre the whole lot is got
through with. How many of them
will die under or in consequence Of the
operation, will never be known, for
neither the doctor nor the penitentlary
officials are likely to diyulge it, and
no one else can know.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1874-07-09
Credit DIobilierism in Germany.

As it is very much tie fashion just
now in Germany to charge Ameri-
cans Unfortunately with dishonesty
in the administration of corporate
trusts, it may be well to note some
current indications of the state of cor |
porate morals in that country. We |
have already alluded to the fact that
German financiers are found more
willing than those of any other coun-
try to negotiate the most dubious class
of securities invented by our specuia
tors, and that the breakdown OF so
many railroad enterprises in this coun-
try is largely due to the fact that Ger
many has furnished bankers Ignorant
enough or corrupt enough to endorse
the bonds, which fact we again COM
mend to the consideration of our leu
/ tonic critics. 1t now becomes neces-
sary to remind our censors that Ger
many can get up railway swindles
as well as anv other country.
I 1t appears from the Augsburg All
gemeine Zeitung that two speculative
/ Princes, named respectively Putbus
and Biron, procured CONCESSION lof
the construction of railway (the Ber-
lin Northern Railroad) to run through
Pomeranio. Starting with such Prince
ly auspices, the undertaking instantly
commanded the twelve million tha-
lers said to be required for its compile
ton. The twelve millions, however,
disappeared, and yet the road was not
much more than half completed, and
! another five million thalers was asked
for. The stockholders declared the
scheme a swindle, and Lasker, the pop
ular Liberal member of Parliment, de
manded an inquiry at the hands OF the
: Reichstag. The demand had to p'
complied with, but the investigator
. unearthed so much Credit Nc obilierisn
and so directly involved persons IL
high official position, that the authori
n ties have not deemed it prudent u
IS publish the report, and sop wa
thrown out to the public anger in tn
n form of law to prevent the reenl
renee of such scandals.
Among the illustrious supporters c
the scheme was the Duke of MeckleI
4 burg-Strelitz. who is said to have III
IS scribed 100000 thalers on his own az
count and responsibility, and on tn
h discovery of the failure of the specl
% lation, charged the subscriptionto to Il
. State, and created 100000 of pape
money to represent the debt, theret
of making his 81, 900 subjects inyoiunt'
h, rv subscribers of S.24 thalers per hes
to a recognized imposition.--fN.
- Bulletin.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1874-07-09
RaiIroad Accident.

STONY CREEK, July GA train from
the Connecticut River for New Haven
ran off the bridge belo" this place,
this morning.
superintendent W. N: Wilcoxiump
ed from the train and was killed by
the cars falling on him. The baggage
car and five passenger cars went off;
three of them are bottom up. AS near
as can be ascertained, about fifty per-
sons were more or less injured, but
most OF them by bruises. sqperintend-
ent Wilcox was the only one who
jumped from the train, and he alone,
so far as is known, was killed. A
young man was found beside Wilcox
under the car, but he is only bruised.
Superintendent Reed is here with a
large force of men clearing away the
wreck. The rear car was the first to
leave the track. The whole train went
off, with the exception of the engine.
Various rumers are afoat as 10 the
cause of the accident, the most proba
/ BILE being that the switch was turned
before the last car left it. The bridge
is about ten feet high. Six physician
are on the ground attending sufferers
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1874-07-09
Par0OnSs

The Governor has been engaged
for several days in examining the par
don cases on file in his Office. The re-
suit is that he has disposed of the fol-
lowing cases: Theodore Wick, of
Clarke county, sentenced for embez-
element, pardon refused; James Will
liams, Cuyahoga county, sentenced for
grand larceny, pardon refused; Frank
Fuller, Cuyahoga county, sentenced
for assault with intent to rape, pardon
ed on belief of his innocence of the
crime; Sylvester H. McClain, Coshoc-
ton county, sentenced for three years
imprisonment for forging an ordor for
eight dollars; pardoned because there
was no evidence of criminal intent and
because he had already served term
of eighteen months, amply sufficient
for the magnitude for the oAense.-
The other cases were laid aside for fu-
ture action.-TO. S. Journal
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1874-07-09
A Hurricane at the Capital.
WASHINGTON, July 8

A terrible storm of wind and rain
passed over this city last evening"
Trunks of trees two or three feet5in
circumference were snapped by the
hurricane, and ornamental and shade
trees all over the city, including
number in the Capital and Presidents
grounds and public parks, were either
entirely destroyed or shorn of their
branches. Five houses in the city were
completely stripped of their roofs,
which were carried a distance Ofsever-
al hundred feet Sevreal carriages
passing along the streets were over
turned, and lady in one sustained Sc
we're injury. Telegraph wires to all
points were pFostrated. While q mum
ber of colored children were enjoying
themselves in hall, the roof fell in,
caused by the wind straining the raft
ers. Four of the children were in
iurcd. The steeple of tue Metropoli-
tan Methodist Episcopal Church, one
hundred feet in height, was moved five
feet from its perpendicular, and is now
in a dangerous condition.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1874-07-09
Mr.. and Mrs. TiItOn.

OF the other parties to the contro
versy, it is said by the Minneapolis
Tribune, whose editor is personally
acquainted with all of them, that Mr..
apd Mrs Theodore Tilton live togeth-
- - as husband and wife, and seem
happy lie -. IS ,aleaded for
this expose, and she n... -.
postponement. She is a delicate ;.
liable, sensible, refined, cheerful little
woman, with noble but handsome
lace, and pleasant voice; apparently
not at all frivolous nor caring for the
company Of any gentleman but her
husband, Of whose brilliant qualities
she is a constant worshiper.-EDes
N -. L -
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1874-07-09
CHERIFF'S SALE.

Milton L. Thomas, ct al, VS.. j. and J. NJ Bald
win.
BY virtue of an Execution issued in the
Pleas of Fayette county, Ohio, to me directed
and ill pursuance of the command thereOfI will
expose and offer for sale at public auction at the
door of the Court House. in the town of Washing
ton O., in said county of Fayette, on Saturday the
Doth day OF July A. ID. 1874, at 1 O'Clock D.
m. of said day, the following described lands and
tenementS to-Wit: situated in the county of Fay
cite and State of Ohio on the Waters of Paint
creek, and bounded and described as follows, to-
wit:
Beginning at two hiekories corner to Benja-
min HQugh's survey, No. G75T and corner to Sam
uel Norris and j, G. Myers; thence with Myers
line south 81 deg 45 min. east 122 poles to stone
hickory and huroak corner to said Myers; thence
poles to a stone, down blackjack and hickory, in
the line OF John A. Fulton's survey, No. $3.50
and corner to said Myers, and in the jefferson
vile road and corner to lot of land containin G
120 acres, conveyed by Benjamin Harrison and
wife to John Scissor; thence with the line of said
tract west PAS poles to q stone and down burOak,
corner to said tract and also corner to Samuel
Morris; thence with said Norris line south 30
| deg west 60 poles to the beginning, containing
| 1913 acres and 139 poles, being 80 acres and 147
poles in John a. Fulton's survey No. $50 and 10
acres in Cadwallader Wallace's survey No. r. T30
| and acres 152 poles in Peter Salmon's survey
| No. S30S.
The above lands and tenements to he sold by
| said court in said. cause.
| Appraised at $54 per acre.
| Terms of sale cash on day of sale.
| JOHN MILLIKAN, Sheriff
| june s5 1874 32W5 SI3T5
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1874-07-09
Brigham stin Courting.

1t is said Brigham Young is now
paying his addresses to a young lady
in the Seventh Ward, with the view
of crowning her with bridal wreath
and number somewhere in the twen
ties in the list of wives. He is most
devoted lover at any rate, and dimes
daily at the shrine of his hearts ador
alton. I am not acquainted with the
young lady. but I am told she is beau
tiful in her person and not over three
and twenty, while the Prophet is sew
enty-four, and, since the Order
of Enoch, is fast failing in looks,
health and strength. 1t is hoped the
Poland bill will prevent the realizatio n
of this scheme of Brigham's, and put
quietus npon all future attempts of
the Holy Endowment House to cele-
brate any more of these celestial mar
| riares. Inter Ocean.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1874-07-09

The men who are engaged in sell
ing Intoxicating liquors, or who want
to sell it, profess to be in favor OF
buying a license for the privilege, and
thus contribute something to the pub
lie treasury, Oh yes, they are all in
favor of license, and of selling liquor
and making drunkards according TO
law. But let US look at this PROPOSE
ton moment If liquor-dealers
think that by fixing the price oflicense
so high that but q few can obtain IL
eense, and by this means the amount
sold will be greatly diminished, they
will be the last men on earth you VIII
hear advocating the adoption OF the
lcense article in the new Constitution
They don't want license, if the price
of a license is put high enough to
amount to restriction upon the sales
But put the price so low that every
irresponsible liquor dealer can obtain
license and they will every one o
them be in favor of license-and it il
astonishing to contemplate what gooC
law abiding liquor dealers they will be
That is about the way they are IN ia
vor of the license article. Not tha
they wish by license to restrict or re
strain the sale, but that they wish t.
have the law on the side of the tratli
and have it's protection in carrying o
a business that has not a single goo
result to recommend it to public ia
vor, but everything to condemn tn
traffic.
Does license to sell intoxicatln
drinks make the traffic respectable
Our answer to that question is, that
adds 10 the responsibility of the bus
ness in the same ratio that licen'
to gamble or to commit larceny wouI
add responsibility to that kind
business. A license will legalize
business, but it cannot make bad bu
mess morally right or respectable;
is lust the same thing in its Eesnit
whether a license is paid for the prl'
ilege or not.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1874-07-09

The Democratic Convention to
dominate a candidate for Congress in
the Ross, Highland, etc. district, will
he held at Hillsboro on the 22d inst.
There is not likely to be lack of can
didates for the honor. The late Judge
Stafford, we notice. has aspirations for
bonors Congressional.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1874-07-09
A Provision that Should be in the
Constitution of West Virginia.


They have provision in their new
Constitution in Ohio which should be
in the fundamental law of every State
in the Union, that of West Virginia
not excepted. 1t provides that each
item of the general appropriation bill
shall be separately voted on, and upon
the demand of any member by yeas
and nays. Failure of any item does
not carry the bill with it, If objec-
tionable appropriations, not withstand
ing this process for pruning the bill,
remain in it on its final passage, the
Governor himself may cancel them
with his veto. With these provisions
which make members, and the Execu-
tive himself. responible Cor foolish,
extravagant use Of the peoples mon-
ey it will be very difficult indeed to
work into the appropriation bills items
designed for the peeuniary comfort
of the crowd of the camp folio wers
who identify themselves with parties
and hang about legislative bodies for
the sake of plumber. The committee
of the Convention is right in belieyin9
that "these provisions will result ii
an annual saving to the Treasury o.
many thousands of dollars. - Wheel
ing Inteligencer
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1874-07-09
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The Fourth Abroad.

LONDON, July 2.-The anniversary
Of American independence was cele,
brated at St. Petersburg with dinner,
at the United States Legation, Minis
-'vAti presiding. Fn Lisbon Q fete
ter Jeu~ heEacaA N minister
waa rivnn b,, en-, '~ndsome-
whose official residence was nu....
ly decorated
AT Parsi, there was libe raj display
OF American flags at the Legation and
elsewhere, but no formal celebration
took rlaee s
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1874-07-09

The Baltimore Sun says: "EN-Post-
master General Creswell was in Balti-
more on Saturday, and it was stated
would go to Elkton on Wednesday,
and thence to some of the watering
places, where he will spend a couple
of months more agreeably than if
he were in office In September he
will resume the practice of law at Elk
ton, and in Washington and Baltimore,
He does not desire a foreign mission
but, it is said, holds under considera-
ton until January the office ofthe Pres
idency of q bank in Washington"
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1874-07-09

The productions of precious metals
hv the Pacific Slope reached during
the las quarter Of a century $1,oSS,
.641 094 of which California mines
nrog,,nod IN zee fourths, nearly all of
which latter was in gold. The al2opnt
obtained is now increasing yearly,
partly from the openiL, Oh new mines
but chiefly from the int. oouotlon OF
improved methods of extra" "tlhg the
precious metals from the ores. Inc
yield of the Pacific Slope last year " as
$50, ,2G7 ,436, against s70,236, 913 in ,
1872. The increase is mostly in sill
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1874-07-09
The Vinton Record speaks of

= The Vinton Record speakS OF a
snake "about fifteen feet long and as
thick as a mans thigh" which was seen
one day last week on the farm of Mr..
Sherwood, near Macarthur It is sup
posed to be the same formidable rep
tile that has been seen in the same
neighborhood at frequent intervals
during the pastten years Chillicothe
Register.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1874-07-09
.John T. Alexander and Villa

John 7. AIeXanueT Nhu W IIIIam
Fitch, known as the cattle kings OF
the West, have begun suit against
the New York Central and Hudson
River Railroads for $250,000 and
100000 respectively, for alleged
breach of contract whereby they were
ruined financially. They allege that
the lowering of the rates of transpor
tation, because of competition, ruined
them by lowering the price of cattle
in the EAST Chillicothe Register
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1874-07-09
SaddIery and Harness
MAKING.

TINE subscriber having purchased the stock in
i trade in the Saddle and Harness making
business will continue the business in the rooms
lately occupied by Hamilton & Adams, on Fay
cite street. He has fine lot of harness and
saddles now hand, made in the neatest
and most substantial style and good material
and expects to continue manufacturing all kinds
times to fill orders at as low rates as the same
can be had at any establishment in Southern
Ohio.
He respectfully requests his friends and the
public to give him call, as he feels confident he
can give them good satisfaction in every article
bought at his place of business.
Feb. 12 1874. 1Jtf A. L. REID.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1874-07-09

The Richmond, Clermont county,
Independent of last week says:
For the July Whisky cases over
GOO subpmnas have been issued, and
ten members of the late Grand Jury
are subpened TO be in attendance as
witnesses from the 1st till the Goth.
Also, Rev. j. H. Harris, late Presi-
dent of Clermont County Temperance
Alliance.
It will be the longest court ever held
in the county running up to full nine
weeks
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1874-07-09

On the 4th 100000 worth OF
nropertv in Allegheny City, Pa ana
$780, 900 in Chicago, was deS'ioyea
nv fre.orackers, besides great fires IN
othor cities from the same cause.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1874-07-09
The Sex of the Comet.

There is no occasion to enter into
an argument to prove that the comet
belongs to the feminine gender. The
dead set she made on the sun, who is
an old bachelor. is evidence, not exact
ly of her sex, but of one of its char
acteristics. She carries q tail, and o
does every lady's dress. She is coy
and bold by turns, inconstant, err
ratio and perverse AS Virgil says.
ssVdrtun ct muta5ile geaaus." She
knows not her own mind an instant,
and when you think she is madly in
love with old Sol, straightway she
flies off to Mars, gets tired of him and
picks up acquaintance with Mercury.
Finally she is found in Irritation with
old Jupiter, and that's the way her sex
was determined. Then observe her
love of admiration-he excessive van
ity-showing herself off before every
star i'll the universe.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1874-07-09
Union Miners at StraitsViIe resolve
to Go to Work.

Few sTRA1Tsyu.LE, O., July 4.-Fhe
Union miners of this place held a
meeting last night, ah1! unanimously
resolved to abandon the Union ana
go to work at the operators, terms.
About three hundred went into tho
mines this morning. The Memphis
darbies are expected on Tuesday.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1874-07-09

The weather reports at Cincinnati
show that the month just closed was
hotter in that vicinity than the June
of any other year for nineteen years
past
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1874-07-09

The Stale Of Ohio, County Of Fage5te, SS' =
L, r. A. ROBINSON, Cashier of the above-named
Bank, do solemuy swear that the above statement
is true to the best of my knowledge and belief.
r. A. ROBINSON, Cashier.
Subscribed and sworn to before me- this 7th
day of July, 1S4.
Correct-Attest:
DAVID ROGERS,
ALLEN HEGLER, I Directors.
f. L. NTTERHoUSE,>
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1874-07-09

= The St Paul papers have dismal
accounts of the ravages of the. grass
hopper in Minnesota. In district on
the south western frontier, fifty 10y one
hundred miles square, and comprising
Mar lin, Watonwan, Jackson, Cotton
wood, Noble and Murray counties,
they have. like the locusts in Egypt
devoured every green thing. There is
a vast amount of actual distress among
the farmers, and it is thought the Gov
ernor will call a special session of the
Legislature to devise means for their
relief The plague extends into Iowa,
and the air in the districts invaded is
filed VITA the flying scourge of the
farmers.-T Gin. Com.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1874-07-09
-TiltOn saws, in retiring from

-Tilton says, in retiring from the
Golden Age, he is only carrying out
a long cherished purpose. This may
be true, but he could not have chosen
a more infelicitous moment, for his
own interest, to withdraw from the po-
sition. There is yell Of triumph al
ready, from those who declared at the
outset that he was at fault in the mat
ter of the Beecher scandal and they
profess to see in this retirement con-
fession of the truth of their assump-
ton. Theodore should have stuck to
the Golden Age until the matter was
settled one way or another.-l Cincin-
natl Commercial.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1874-07-09

An old French shoepake, who boas
ted that nothing could frighten him,
was put to the test by two young men:
One Of them pretended to be dead, and
the other, going to the shoemaker !n-
duced him to ''sit up with the sup
posed corpse. The shoemaker was in
q hurry with some work he had prom
ise6 to have completed the nextmorn
inc SO he took his tools and leather
and began working besides the corpse.
About twelve O'Clock at night cup of
black coffee was brought him to keep
him awake. He drank it and resumed
work. About / O'Clock, the coffee
having exhilerated him, forgetting that
he was ia the presence of death, he
Commenced to sing a lively tune, keep
ing time with his hammer. Suddenly
the corpse arose, and exclaimed in 9
hollow voice: "When a man is in the
presence of death he should not sing !''
The shoemaker started, then suddenly
,1eaIt the corpse blow on the head
exc,.'aimil,g at the same time; 'Wher
man is dead he should not speak
1t was tie last time they tried to scar
the shoemaker.