Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1875-09-02
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cOnciliatiOn between Germany and the
Pope are denied at Berlin
An Alexandria paper states that
Egypt will probably soon become an
exporter of salt of India.
A cashmere shawl is being made as
a present in India for the Prince of
Wales, and to cost 5000 rupees.
The Russian aristocracy are opposed
to their Government taking any part
in the Centennial Exhibition.
The survivors of the once powerful
Narragansett tribe of Indians llVe on
small tract near Westerly, Il. l.
The old struggle in Quebec between
French and English and Catholics and
Protestants is growing very bitter
Some Newfoundland houses sell ST.
100000 worth of fish and oil yearly to |
the West Indies, Brazil and Europe.
A machine has been invented in En-
gland for making hay by artificial heat
at a cost of eight shillings per ton.
The assessment of Boston, just com
pleted, fixes the total valuation of real
and personal property at S793, ,767 300.
During the first fortnight of the new
tea season the exports from Haukou,
in China, were 24,000,O00 pounds
The ex- Grand Duke of Tuscany has
ordered all his property in Tuscany,
amounting to S1,400, 600 in value to be
sold.
There have been shipped from Au
gusta, Ga, this season, 164, ,581 mel
ons at an average price of twenty cents
each.
The mail steamship Boyne from Bra
lillian ports for Southampton with crew
and passengers were recently lost off
Brest
About $14, 600 have been subscribed
to erect an Educational Memorial
Institute to John Knox at Haddington,
Scotland.
The Cincinnati Society of Natural
History has lately received a bequest
Of $4,000 from Mr.. Charles Bodman
of that city.
The Prussian chambers have voted
the sum of $3OO,O0O to defray the cost
Of rebuilding the Academy of Art at
Dusseldorf.
At prize-fght recently heldin Liv-
erpoOl, England, the battle was de.
oided by one of the principals killing
mis- opponent outright
A dependent old man in New Or.
leans, upon hearing his son say that
work was scarce and poorly paid, shot
himself, so as to remove one burden.
Hon. D. M. Key, of Kentucky has
been appointed successor of Andrew
johnson in the U. S. Senate.
The Emperor William of German y
inaugurated the Hermann memorial at
at DetmOld, on the 10th inst.
The late Hon. Horace Binney OF
Philadelphia was the last survivor OF
the class of 1877 at Harvard College.
Among the cadets at the Annapolis
Naval Academy is young native OF
japan, named Matz Muller.
Mrs. Helen Stanbury, who died in
Louisville, KY, short time since, was
1000 years, Z months, and day old.
Enacn Morris, 81 years old has clear
ed this year, with his own hands, II
acres of new ground in Paulding
County, Ga.
Gen. Tom Thumb has been maxim g
trip along the New England coast il
handsome yatch which he owns.
Mr.. ColviA Smith, a Royal Acade
mician of Scotland, and an eminen
portrait painter, recently died at tht
age of 80.
By falling from his horse, on tn
10th inst, Prince Charles Theodore
great uncle of the King of Bavaria
was killed.
Mr.. S. T. Van Buren, son of ex
President Van Buren, has been take
to the Hudson River Hospital for tn
Insane.
Dr. Herman Groesbeck of Cincin
natl has been made a Fellow of tn
Medico Chirurgical Society of Edir
burgh, Scotland.
1t is expected that Secretary Rob-
son will deliver the annual address {
the New Jersey State Fair at Waverl
next month.
The famous danseuse, Fanny ElsS
Ter, is living at Bremen, the wife of
physician, and is a well-preserved wo
men of seventy one.
William Nichols of Richmon
Mass, lived through all dangers to /
81 years old and was killed lately by
bull in his own barn
Horace Binney, one of the mo
distinguished members of the Amer
can bar, died recently at his resident
in Philadelphia, aged 90.
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