Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1874-06-04
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Scraps.
Deep water. make still noise. So do deep
men.
wb..is the best advice to give justice Of
the peaee7 Peace.
A Supsmith's s shop is like a chicken pie De-
oanse h contains fowl-in' pieces.
A large mart of the to wn of Forest City Ark
,-ss burned on Friday. Loss not stated
r.. b,sts came in collision on Lake Ontario |
s.fur5av. and seven raftsmen were drowned. !
Ali the diferenOe-A thief running away is
= seamp but the polIeemAn's chase after him I
is q scamper.
Notices are posted in the st. Louis street |
cars announcing that "this car can't wat Tor |
ladies' to kiss gOOd-by."
The latest thing in music is "He Kissed Her
and She Kissed Him" Thweet.
An editor is somebody in Japan. He lux
uriatea in q sword, and hats are removed IN
mis- presence.
A chicken fight took place in Nevada, last |
week, for the benefit Of church.
The entire population of Australia IS estlina- |
ted at OOO, ,000 The island continent - 1As ~ |
area almost as large as the whole OF EuroPe'
A minister in Atlanta, Ga, says lotteries
are q sinful swindles. He Is out SSOO Dy Ihe
last Louisvillainous drawing
Men viii sometimes admit that they have
been disappointed, but it IL hard to hnd one
who will own up to blunder.
Money is like time-the more a man has on
hand of either, the more he wants, and the less
he knows how to use 1T.
The closer we get to great man the less he
appears to us. Distance lends her enehant-
ment in this case as liberal as in any other.
No man Of real genious has ever been able to
escape notice, but the world has allowed thous-
ands Ofthem to starve to death.
Secretary Richardson's friends are actively at
work to prevent the passage of a resolution of
eeneure.
DR. Fountain F. Pierce, delegate to the
Southern NJ. E. Conference at Louisville, died
Saturday Of Pneumonia.
The long-contested JumeI will case has at Last
ended in a victory for the Chase heirs. The
estate is valued at $6,OOO,OOO.
During the present year eighteen states will
elect governors, thirty five eengressmen, and
twenty-five United States senators.
Prof. Joseph Haven, D. D., LID, died at
his residence in Chicago early Saturday NOR
ming, of typhoid fever, in his ffty-ninth year.
The French Assembly has adjourned until
Thursday next to en- able the Ministry to ar
ange the order of business with the Constitu-
tional Committee.
A Daring but unsuccessful attempt was made
SATURDAY. morning to rob the vaults of the In
dianapolis and st. Louis Railroad office ct In
dianapalis,
In the Dunlap murder trial at Columbus, the
State examined fourteen witnesses Saturday,
rested. Testimony for the defense will begin
to day.
David B. Melish, Representative from Nav
York, who was removed to the Government AS
ylum for Insane about two weeks age, died
Saturday.
Another ledge of Cinnabar has been discov-
cred in Camp Floyd District Utah, claimed to
assay from twenty to seventy-fve per cent OF
quicksilver.
William Banker, conductor on the New Ha-
ven and Hartford Railroad, is under arrest,
charged with embezzling $50 900 during twen-
ty years service.
The Christian Chinese in San Francisco
recently began to hold prayer meeting OF
their own, which was well sustained; as many
as eighty having sometimes been present.
Weston failed in his attempt last week to
walk 500 miles in 144 consecutive hours. At
midnight Saturday night, when time was call
ed he had walked but 430 miles.
Could anything be neater than the old dark
ey's reply to beautiful young lady whom he
offered to lift over the gutter, "Lor misses"
said he, OPS used to lifting barrels of sugar"
A general enforcement of the laws in Cincin-
natl Is now loudly called for. We are likely to
see this policy carried out, and those who are
guilty had better put their houses in order
IGaEstte.
A professor who recently tried to mesmerise
o bull by gazing fxedly at the feroeious beast,
has just recovered from the effects of his lnvol-
untary aerial navigation, and has quite lost
faith in the power of the human eye over brutes
Three weddings are soon to take place in the
American Legation of Paris of merlcan beles
to noblemen- the Misses Jeanne and Forbes,
of New York, and Wiekershall, of Philadel-
phis, being the brides.
During the past ten years the screw has en-
tirely replaced the paddle in Transatlantic
navigation, the weight of marine engines has
diminished one-half, the steam pressure has
dnadrupled, and the consumption of coal has
decreased two-thirds
Several New Orleans negroes have obtained
judgements in amounts ranging from S25O to
81 900 each against parties who refused to ex-
tend them equal privileges with white people.
In a trot at Prospect Park Saturday for a
purse Of 81 900 between the PAGER Copperbot
tom and Lucille Golddust, the latter won easily
in three straight heats. Time, 2:277S, 2:2O,
2,2l7z.
George Roberts, telegraph operator at Mount
Vernon, Ohio, was Instantly killed Friday
Mr.. Roberts was assisting in moving piano.
when the instrument fell, crushing him in itH
fall.
Edward Taylor, postal clerk between Wash
ington and Lynchburg, Va, was arrested II
Alexandria, Va, Saturday evening, charged
with robbing mail. He waived an examina
tion and was committed to Jail in default o
$4,000 bail.
s'Well, Sambo, what's yer up to nowadays?'
"Oh, 1 is a GARNER and Finer" "He! I guess
yer is. What department do you perform p
"What department? Why, does the circular
work" 'iWhat's dat?'' "Why, turns d.
grindstone--g'way"
A colored gentleman having been brough
before magistrate and convicted of pilfering
vas asked, "Do you know how to read2'
Eyes, massa a little 1" 'Well, don't you eve
make use Of the Bible2' eyes, massa, stral
him razor on him sometimes"
Pining, slckly women should go to Oolorad,
If they want health and strength. Mrs. Prath
er was not able to sweep her own room wheI
she lived in Ohio, but the other day, after liv
ing in Colorado one short year, she chased he
husband half mile with pitchfork.
Hon. J. @. Smith has shown by his eours
inCengress that he understands that the grea
need Of the times is economy in public expen
diture and q sound currency. This distric
owes 1t TO ITSELF the country at large, and tt
MF. Smith that he shall be re-elected to hi
present POSITION Star Warren County.
How much money Rush R. Sloan succeeded
in stealing from the two railroads he was Pres
idsntof the railroad official have declined t.
make public; it must have been handsom
sum, as Sloan, returning from Belgium to Can
ada, has made, and the railroad companie
have acceptsd. a compromise by which he re
funds $2S0, 600
Gustave Stratham and Clemens Pulking en-
ioyed themselves on Wednesday of last Weel
by hlIing COW horns with beer and blowing tn
beer over the crusaders. There was change
however, when. after a hearing in the polio
court, Judge Marehant fined 'you blackguards
twenty-five and ten dollars respectively, will
costs.-[ Hamilton Telegraph