Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1874-05-07
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DR.. Dunn, the Hlllsboro' lhJunctIonlst has
been arrested on a charge of illegal liquor sell
ling. and placed under reeOgnizanca to answer
in Court.
About 1900 citizens have petltioned the Port
land. Oregon, City Council to place liquor
dealers under more stringent orders regulating
their traffic.
On the 26th of January there were fourteen
saloons and one brewery in Morrow. Now the
brewery has closed and but one saloon remains
open.
At Springfield the crusade is maintained
with unabated vigor, many of the saloons be-
ing beseiged from morning to night, and neith-
er party show signs of exhaustion.
At Boughton, Ark last Sunday, party of
citizens had pitched battle with gang of
horse thieves. The former lost one man, and
the latter three.
The Kansas City, St. 10 & Omaha road COM
menced running day and sleeping cars direc
from Omaha across the bridge to st. Louis vest
terdaY.
George A. Hutchinson was arrested in New
York, Saturday night, at the request of the
Governor of Ohio, on a charge of having com
mitted forgeries in Cleveland.
An Iowa woman poured hot water down her
husbands back to cure the toothache, and the
Jury held that she was practicing without a
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The new Mayor of Lima says he will enforce
the prOhibitOry ordinance. The crusaders have
rallied from the partial defeat at the election,
and are in the field again in full force.
A large temperance meeting was held in the
Church of pilgrim, Brooklyn, under the aus
pices ofthe WOmen's Temperance League. Ad-
dresses were made by Drs r. S. Storrs, John
Hall and T. L. Cuyler.
A Cincinnati saloonist, troubled lest an ap-
preaching band of crusaders might obstruct
the sidewalk in front of his establishment, call
ed q policeman, who found nothing to remove
excepting few emty whisky barrels
Mrs. Hivling, who was thrown from the side
walk into the gutter by Xenia saloon keeper.
is in preoariOus condition, resulting from her
injuries. The ruffian who committed the out
rage has been bound over to court.
Gov. Hartranft has signed the revenue bill Of
the Pennsylvania Legislature, imposing new
system of taxation upon all the corporations of
the State, including a tax of three cents per
ton upon all coal companies, as also tax up
on dividends.
In Spencer County, Kentucky, Thursday
night, when the Sheriff was starting for Louis
vile with negro, Ed. Shields under sentence
of twenty years in the penitentiary, oand of
men seized the prisoner and hanged him from
bridge, where the body was discovered next
morning.
If it turns out as our indianapolis cores
pondent predicts, and Mrs. CIem is at last set
free, her case will be one of the mos@ remarka-
BILE in criminal annals. Four times she has been
tried; she has passed four years in Jail, and
two in the Penitentiary under life sentence
TCincinnati Gazette.
On Monday, Xenia saloon keeper named
Glassinger. seized Mrs. Hivling, member of q
praying band, and violently threw her off TIE
sidewalk into the gutter. Mrs. Hivling is a la
dy so years of age, wife of the President of the
First National Bank, and mother of member
of the City Council. Glassinger was arrested.
The saloon keepers of Clyde have resoled
not to sell or give away any kind of intoxica-
ting liquors ''for an indefinite period of time, ,
and ha7e pledged themselves not to deal with
any person wko has taken any part, directly
or indirectly, in the temperance movement.
General Francis A Walker Superintendent
of the census, is doubtless the only officer IL
the service of the United States who refuses tc
receive any salary. At his own request thu
word "emOluments'' was erased from his con
mission, and he would only consent to conti1
ue in the service on the condition that he re
ceive no pay.
At New Sharon, Iowa, few Sundays sine
a good deacoa, while passing the contribution
box, gently placed his heel on a bit of orang
peel in the aisle, and instantly measured hi
length on the floor, while the pennies and bras
buttons in the box flew in all directions H
knew what was the matter as soon as he struc
the floor
A New York lady proposes to conduct pal
tY of women of various ages (including girls
on a European tour of four months this sun
mer, starting in the middle of May and return
ing in September. The party is to be accomps
MED, according to her printed programme, b
can eminent professor who is not named
The expense is estimated at one thousand do
lars for each person.