Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1875-09-23
nTiscellaneOus Items.

NEAMAOAWg EAAcs ~--N I
counties, ia Pennsylvania, contain lO1
cheese factories, producing annually
1851, 700 pounds.
Atleast dozen of the more promI-
nent Pigtsburg iron mills report having
received orders which will keep them
busy for the next two months.
The salt trade of New Mexico Is be-
coming very large. The salt is gath
cred from the shores of the lakes near
the Tulerosa and Guadalupe plains.
The Mississippi Valley Trading
Company has five hundred thousand
live working members in England,
wish an active business capital OF sSzo'-
100000.
The annual consumption OF sugar
in England is 16.600,OOO hundred
weight; in the United States it is 15,-
100000; in France, 5000, 900; i'm
Germany, 6,120,000.
One hundred and twenty-one thous-
and, two hundred and sixty eight bar
rels of oil were shipped ever the
ShenangO and Allegheny railro ad dur
ing the past month.
A deposit of chloride of silver that
promises to occupy an important
place in business of the Pacific coast,
has lately been made in the Pinal
Mountains, Arizona.
The number of miles of railway in
the United Kingdom has more than
doubled since 1854, and the amount
Of paid up capital now invested in
them is s3,O49, ,479, $50.
It is claimed that Utah is destined
TO become one of the finest wool
growing territories in the Union, the
mortality among the sheep there being
less than in any part of the country.
The salmon season on the Columbia
river closed on the 1st ultimo. The
shipments to San Francisco up to Au-
gust II were $4,000 cases, and to
Australia direct69e0 cases.
The canning of tomatoes has grown
during the last few years in New Jer-
sey to be an important branch of in
dustry. One factory in Burlington
county alone employs 225 hands.
As might have been expected from
the bonntiful crops, peach brandy is
being made in very large quantities
this season. In Delaware alone more
than sixty distilleries are in operation
American Locomotives cost 25, ,OOC
silver roubles each, and German loco
motives 1000 to 10000 rubles, bu
the American locomotive is fifty pei
cent. more powerful than the German.
The two great express companies o.
the country, the Adams and the Amer
lean, employ about 5000 men, I,90(
horses, 1900 wagons, and use 3,00t
iron safes. Their agents travel NOR,
than 100000 miles daily or more thar
100000 miles yearly.
An estimate has been made of tn,
number Of persons that the great ca
thsdrals of the world will hold with th
following results st. Peters 81, 900
Milan, $1,000; st. Paups, London
$4,000; St. Sophia, COnstantinOple
$4,000; Notre Dame, Paris, $1,000
Pisa, $4,000; st. Marks, Venice, 700
A clergyman of the Church of En-
gland has been sentenced to five years
penal servitude for causing false en-
tries to be made in the church registe
concerning the death of one of hi
parishiOners.
During the past quarter of centur
the number of volumes in the Britis
Museum increased from 435, to 1 LOO
600; in Bib liotheque NationaIe, Pari
from $4,000 to 100000, and in th'
public Ii libraries in the United States
from 100000 to nearly 100000.
At recent art sale in Londor
Turner's picture of the "Grand Canal
for which the artist received E300,
is said was knocked down for 1851
the largest sum ever paid for pictu1
in an auction room.
More than 5000 bodies have bee
registered as having been inferred in
churChyard of less than half acre
Cornwall, England. A correspondel
of the Pail Mall Gazette, vouching 70
this statement, adds that the air of th
church is so infected that floral decor
ations turn black in few hours.
There is a good prospect that Anne
ican firms will secure the monopoly (
supplying Russia with locomotive
those already furnished giving gre
satisfaction. They are constructed
burn coal, of which large quantiti
have been lately discovered in Ri
sian territory.
For some time past the Goldfish su
ply has been gradually falling off, bo
in this country and England, OWL
to the indiscriminate slaughter of Il
fish of all sizes and ages, and the pra
tice of fishing in-shore as well as
sea, which has seriously interfer
with spawning.
Senator Thurman asked, "Wh
man ever heard of Catholic prize
being a candidate for Office ?' and a
swered his own question by sayin
81 know that 1 never did" And Fat
er Smyth, Roman Catholic priest al
member of the Board of Educati,
from the Democratic Eighth War
has his official seat net much over
stones throw from where Thurm
was speaking.-ICleveland Herald.
Curious Customs.
In Wendish Prussia there are v
lages where certain old custom &