Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1874-04-23
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Ex-Judge Edwards, noted lawyer and
spi iritualist of New York, is dead.
Mosby will run for Cong ress in the Eighth
Virginia district next fall.
Most of the transatlantic steamers have been
delayed by heavy weather lately.
Galveston is the only town in Texas that
has yet ordered postal cards.
Memphis was visited with heavy fro st in
furious to the fruit crop, Wednes day night.
The terrible tragedy reported from Austin,
Nevada, Tuesday night, proves to be hoax.
A erevasse on Bayou La Fourche, La, is
now 200 fee wide, and fourteen plantations
have been overfowed
The city of Little Rock, Arkansas is in
bad condition financially. The city fathers
haYe turned off the gas.
Dooney Harris, a well known pugilist was
fatally shot in New York saloon, Tuesday,
by son of Prof. Clough.
Lead ore of superior quality has been found
in paying quantities in Randolph county, Ar
kansas
The Indiana Supreme Court has decided that
colored children have the right to attend pub
lie schools wherever separate schools are not
provided.
The treasurers of Fairfield and Orangeburg
| COunGeSy OOuGl CafOll0ay nave Deen arrested
on charges of embezzlement.
| The new railway tariff law of Wisconsin
reduces freights grain from twenty to
| twenty-five per cent. below present rates
Edward Clarey. a retired merchant of New
| Orleans, was murdered Friday night, and his
body thrown into the river basin.
Senator Schurz will deliver an eulogy on
| Charles Sumner at Boston on the 29th inst.
Wendell PhIl1Ina will iOtrOdI1ao tho
| New York workingmen are said to be pre-
pairing for strike in case master mechanics
persist in demanding ten hours as a days Ia
| Dor.
New York master mechanics have adopted
resolutions that on and after May 1st, men
should not be employed who will not work
ten hours.
An official of the National Bank of Brighton.
Mass, has misappropriated funds of the
bank amounting to from $4,000 to 100000.
Bishop Simpson, who has been in the CITY
of Mexico organizing missi ons for the Metho-
dist Episcopal Church, has returned to Wash
| ington.
- The Michigan Legislature has agreed to
| submit the question of woman suffrage to the
people. As this will afford the first opportu-
nifty of direct popular vote on the subject,
the result will be looked forward to with in
terest.
- Half pound of shot administered to
sympathetic cats at this season of the year
will bear fruit in increased hours of sium-
Der throughout the summer, and haye a
tendency to prevent a corner in the chicken
market.
= The editor of the Danbury News asks:
| "Can the watermelon be successfully cu1ti-
waited on sandy soil, in rural town of A.
600 inhabitants, and theological institute To-
Gated near oy, containing 100 students studying
for the ministry2'
- The Jersey City Journal asks, "What
will become of Brooklyn when Beecher dies?''
| The question is still undecided, whether or
not the best part of it will follow him.
Brooklyn Argus.
= Speaker Blaine has ordered the paren-
thetic words daughter" applause" )" "sensa-
tion, ,''&c.. omitted from the official reports
of the debates, as they only indicated the
fact that members had violated the rules of
the House.
= The Mayor of GAINESVILLE declined to is
sue proclamation against street demonstra-
tions in that city, when requested to do so by
the written petition of the saloon keepers and
others.
- Tho wholesale dealers of Davenport, Iowa,
haYe sent 500 wagon loads of liquors to Rock
Island to remain there until the temPera nee
fright is over. The women are circulating
pledges
In Rochester SO intense is the indigna-
ton at the gas monopolists that kerosene is
becoming the general illuminater. The Cor
oner remarks, with sly originality that he has
"struek oil at last;' and in nearly every fami-
ly the mother-in-law and the man who will
not sign the pledge are sent to bed with q
kerosene lamp.