Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1874-05-14
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One way to get out of serape-Let your |
beard grow.
A Morgan county farmer raised 2IO bushels |
of potatoes on two-thirds of an acre.
The estimated annual capacity of the com
pleted iron furnaces of Ohio is 735, ,237 tons.
The next Uuiversalist State Convention will |
be held at Cleveland, commencing June a.
A fsh weighing 81 pounds was caught in the
Seioto river near CircleYille on Saturday
A private letter from General Sickles says |
he will return to the United States in two
months.
The State Legislature adopted resolution
memOrializing Congress in favor of the pay
ment by Congress Of the Morgan raid claim.
The Constitutional Convention has adopted
q provision that any Judge who becomes in
toxieated shall forfeit his Office.
The women crusaders at Portland, Oregon,
sentenced to pay a fine of five dollars, are each
serving out the time in Jail.
What is the difference between washing day
and permanent boarder? One is ipse dixit,
and the other tipsy exit.
A St. Paul school-boy spelled "sob," and
when asked to define it, blundered out, sit
means when a feller don't want to cry it burst
out ITSELF
Said Quaker TO q gunner: "Freind, coun-
sci no bloodshed; but if it be thy design to
hit the little man in the blue jacket, point thine
engine three inches lower"
~ s'pOss," remarked gentleman last night,
pausing to rest against aconvenient lamp post,
''1 s'pose I'm an animated g-gas- bill never
was so hic-high be fore in my Life"
The Cincinnati Exposition will be open to
the public from September I'd to October Sd,
and for the reception of goods from August 3D..
to September I'd.
S.B. Rounds of Lafayette, has a COW which
has given birth to seven calves in three years
In 1871 she had twins; in 1879 twins; in 1873
one; and in 1874, twins.
An effort is being made in Springfield to es
tablish Athenenm for the entertainment O.
young men. Subscriptions to the amount oi
$4,000 have already been obtained
A young lawyer of Dayton received within
ten days three sacraments of the ehurch-bap
tism, confirmation and communion, and vii
shortly undergo that Of matrimOny.
The Guernsey Times says: Freeport Obi
has boy who has been married served tim
as widower, married again, and voted at tn
State election last fall, but will not be twenty
one years old till next month.
The Brooklyn Argus claims new oath
I'm be cTeHsated if do!'' And yet the Argu
seems to know something about New Jersey
where the people have sworn for ages-'sI'l
be dad burned if I will"
A Chicagoan broke his leg On arrival @
the hospital some whiskey was brought to r(
Vive him. Not DROP said he. "If am t
die, will die sober" He was permitted
live as a dreadful example of the effect of tn
temperance agitation.
Said an eminent person, whose gift of none
making seemed to his neighbors to quite ou
strip his gifts of money: "True I don't Civ
much; but if you only knew how it hurt whe
give any, you would not wonder"
'What brought you to prison, MY colore
freind," said Yankee to nigger.
"Two constables, sah.''
with it!'
eyes sab, they was bofe Of EN- drunk
A poetlcally disposed country newspaper r.
marked that ''it is comforting to know tht
one eye watches fOndly for our coming, an
looks bright when we Gomez The other loci
paper condOled in its next issue thus; &C
grleYes us to learn that our contemporv's wi
has lost an eye.''
Patrick, dear, come in and 20 to bed list
SAID the wife of jolly son of Erin who ha
just returned from the fair IN decidedly "ho
come-you so" state. "You must be dreadf
tired sure, wild yer long walk" GArrah. Q
away wild yer nonsense said Pat. e'ItwasI
the length av the way fatagued me, twas th
breadth av it,"