Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1874-12-31
The O. s. journal collects the fol-
lowing items of Ohio news.


The Akron ladies are moving for
the establishment of a charity hospital.
VIM. Morgan, of Warren county, has
sold hog weighing 9O6 pounds gross.
John Boyer, an old settler of Craw-
ford county, died Saturday, aged 81.
Eli Long, formerly of Warren, was
kl!eo i at Fort Dodge, Iowa, by falling
in coal shaft.
Coal sells in ChiHieothe at l21c. In
Columbus the retail prices for the best
is only &c.
Tom Thumbs fortune is estimated
at $500, 600 Who says it does not
pay to be-little himself
The Ross child kidnappers, lately
shot in the act of burglary, are ex-
election marshals of New York city.
1t is noted as curious fact that all
the Democratic candidates for Speak
er (next House) are SO far hard mon
ey men.
The Baltimore and Ohio railway
buildings at Newark now cover fifteen
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The Atlantic and Lake Erie railway
will be completed between Moxahaia
and New Lexington within two weeks.
The firm of Updergraff & johnson,
prominent wholesale grocers of Mount
Vernon, have made an assignment.
The coinage of the United States
Mint for the past year is greater than
for any year since 1852.
A mortgage of three million dollars
on the Valley railway has been left
with the Recorder of Jefferson county.
During the last year seventy nation
al banks were organized, with an au-
thorized capital at $6,745,000.
A new horse distemper is raging in
some parts Of Michigan, said to be far
more fatal than the epizootic.
Joseph Cooper, once a prominent
Demo cratic politician, died at Cincin-
natl Tuesday, aged go.
The Blandys, of GAINESVILLE, shipped
wo portable engines to the South Afri
tea diamond fields last week.
The Canton firm of G. AuItman &
Co. has during its existence, manufac-
tured 81 900 mowers and reapers
James Emmitt, of Waverly, shipped
to New York during the month ofNo-
vember 874 barrels of highwines.
Don A. Pardee, just nominated to
be United States District Judge for
Louisiana, was originally from Ohio
A mortgage of three million dollars
on the Valley railway has been left
with the Recorder of Jefferson county.
Canton is trying to borrow $4,000
in order to make good a shoddy job il
the construction Of her water works.
DIR. Slingluf, one of the Directors
of the Northern Lunatic Asylum at
Newburg, died recently at Canal Do
yer.
There are now 2 ,O28 national banks
in this country, having an aggregate
circulation of S35, ,927, ,246. in bank
notes.
New Philadelphia feeds her tramps
ON sponge cake, boned turkey and
cranberry sauce. They also get sugar
in their tea.
The Mormon Temple at Salt Lake
was begun twenty years ago, and the
walls are now scarcely as many feet
above ground.
At Lancaster, Saturday, Hugh,
Hardwiek, for the murder of Robert
Hardwick, was admitted to bail in the
sum of $4,000.
A new paper called the Royal Pat
ron, S. j. Houshe editor, has been
started at Ripley. 1t will be the organ
of the Grangers.
Seven frame dwellings were burnad
at Brighton, a suburb of Cincinnati,
Sunday. Some of the inmates had
narrow escapes. Loss $4,000.
Mrs. Kroup. of Van Vert, has sued
a saloon keeper of that place, under
the Adair law, for $4,000 damages,
for selling liquor to her husband.
The books for the Miami Valley
Narrow gauge Railroad were opened
at Lebanon Monday, and in one hours
time $4,000 subscribed.
Mr.. B James Taylor has purchased
the one-half interest of Mr.. Laniestv
in the Guernsey Times. The other
half is owned by D. D. Taylor.
A Fairfield county farmer a few
days ago dug out of a stone pile and
killed forty-fo black snakes, many
of which measured six feet in length.
The Aldine Press Works of Canton
have received an offer of $4,000 for
the right to manufacture their presses
in England. They want $4,000.
The pudding department in the Ak
ron Iron company's mill has stopped,
temporarily, to await the action of the
Pittsburg manufacturers and puddlers.
The Cleveland Plaindealer says that
it is expected that the Valley railway
will be in active operation by the first
of July next from Cleveland to Canton.
In the Daniels murder case at Gin
cinnati, the jury has returned a verdict
of manslaughter, and the prisoner has
been sentenced to ten years IN the pen
itentiary.
A number of the young ladies of
Hudson have formed themselves into
u Shakspearean reading society, with
weekly readings and monthly socia-
bles.
VIM. Delhitt, who has served one
term as County Recorder of Seneca
county, and was reelected this fall,
died at Tiffin Tuesday, after a short
illness.
The Cincinnati police, Tuesday
night, raided eight gambling houses,
and captured number of prisoners
and large number of gambling i'm
! nlamenfS