Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1875-09-09

at maturity. They sometimes dress
$50 lbs. at from ten to twelve months
old, from eighteen to twenty months
old, 500 to 600 lbs The Magic hogs
have long bodies, short legs, broad,
straight back, deep sides, with square,
heavy hams and shoulders, dropping
ears, and are of fine style generally
Ohio Farmer
A Vicksburger who prides himself
on his choice language was over in
Louisiana the other day on business,
and stopped at farm house to get a
drink of water, the woman remarked
that the crops stood in great need of
rain.
Yes, rain is the great desideratum,
he replied, as he handed the tin dipper
back.
Mary Mary yelled the woman in
loud tones.
A white headed girl of sixteen came
out of the back room in response to
the call, and the mother continued:
"Take squar' view of him, Mary!
He don't look as if he knew enough
to plow cotton, and yet he just got off
a word as long as from here to the
mule pen and back, and he may be
! holdin' on to more!
The Vicksburger walked right away
from there
Ralston, the President of the Bank
of California, whose melancholy death
by his own hand is announced this
morning, was native of this regio n,
0F ETo,Fyy11JO OIiA "
years ago was second clerk on a steam
boat plying from this port. He was
quite poor when he left here to push
his fortunes in the far West, so much
so that he went away in debt to Mr.,
Thomas Hughes for a suit of clothes
an obligation, however, that he long
since discharged.-[W Wheeling Intelli-
gencer.
Jane has got very nicely turned
ankle, hain't she ?'' said John to his
wife the other day. And then John
noticed strange, .unearth1y CLEAN in
the eye of his spouse, which made
him feel very uncomfortable-he knew
not why. But the next day the place
which Jane had filed in the domestic
economy of the household was occu-
pied by middle-aged woman with an
kles like those of Mullingar heifer.
Allen says it only needs the govern
ment stamp on a paper dollar to make
it as good as a gold dollar. Then
why isn't it as good as a gold dollar
Why is it, you ineffable old blather-
skite, that it takes 1I44 cents of spa
per dollar with the government stamp
on it' to buy gold dollar, in the
market, to day? Are You in your
second childhood, that you go around
peddling such brazen-faced idiocy,
without fearing that the very children
will laugh in your face PIC S. Jour
nal
George Washington couldn't tell a
lie, and that's what ails the average
Vicksburg boy. The other day, when
one of them accidentally broke pane
of glass ina store wind0w,it was touch
ing to see him walk braveIy into the
store and up to the merchant and say
"Mr Blank, 1 broke pane of glass
in the window there, and you can
charge it to the old mans account
put it down as a pound of saleratus
and he'll never know the difference. ,"
A Detroit mother sent her boy tc
the store the other day to get her lin
en- dress, and he returned with four
teen yards of black cambria. Il tolc
you to get linen !'' she exclaimed
aghast 81 know it, but this is cheap.
er, and the clerk said that if any oi
US should happen to die, you'd have {
mourning dress in the house." was the
cool reply Free Press.
A resident of Detroit called at the
Central Station, Saturday, to relate
the fact that his wife had run away
"Well, We'll try to arrest her." replied
the sergeant, after hearing the partcu.
lars of the case. That wasn't what
J came here for" said the man with 8
disappointed look; 81 want to have
the detectives keep her on the rum
e An Exchange says ''the Sandwich is
} Landers believe that Beelzebub walks
: the earth in the form Of woman
> And now and then you will find a mar
: IN this country who believes so too
q and that ho has m rri od that rr0voo,,