Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1875-12-30
News Items.

The consolidation of collection districts,
now completed, will save about $25O,OO0
annually.
The recognfzances on seven indictments
against Tweed for felony, have been de-
elared forfeited.
News from San Diego says the reported
revolution at San Rafael, Lower Californ-
il, is a canard.
Julius Sheldon, of Manchester, England
is making a duplicate of Shakepeare's
house for the Centennial show.
An exhibition of specimens of needle
work done in the public schools of London
by the girls has lately been held in that
city.
A conspiracy against the Christians in
/ Turkey has been discovered, and thirty
six Turks implicated in it have been ar
rested.
First mortgage bOndhOlders of the Indi-
annapolis, Bloomington and Western Ex-
tension railway resolved yesterday to fore
close the mortgage.
The report that the Great Powers of Eu-
rope are about to unite with the United
States in intervention in the affairs of
Cuba, is not credited at Washington.
The Commercial Bank of San Francisco
| suspended on Friday Afternoon with about
900 liabilities, fully secured. The
President hopes to resume to-day.
| A Vienna paper reports that the Sultan
| is spending all his available money in
hastily arming his forces on sea and land.
Ships and cannOns have been ordered.
During cock-fight, early Sunday morn
ing, Mattewan N. Y, John Horne, a sa-
loOn-keeper, was fatally shot by man
named Mckinney, of Fishkill Landing.
Associate Justice w. c. Winston, of the
Supreme Court of Idaho, died in Omaha.
Saturday night, of paralysis, aged thirty
eight. He was en- route for Boise City.
DR.. H. T. HelmbOld, who has been at
liberty for some weeks past, was, Friday.
on the certificate of the examining physi,
clans, returned to the Pennsylvania Asy-
lum for the insane.
Prof. Strawinski, the Polish dancing
master who shot himself in the forehead
last Sunday night, at Erie, Pa, died Sun
day morning, having lain in an uncon-
scious stupor more than five days.
During the visits of Mrs. Joyce to hel
husband at the Jeffersonville (Mo.) Peni-
tentiary last week her trunks was search.
ed by United States officers, but no papers
bearing on whisky ring affairs were
found.
: 200 emigrants arrived at Galveston
Texas, recently, EN- route to the interior
of the State. 100 of them were from
Germany, and the remainder from Ala
bama and Georgia. More emigrants are
expected.
Moses A. Wood, in IA contest with two
burglars at his house in Cambridge, Mass,
Sunday morning, was stabbed three time!
and shot in the abdomen. The burglar.
escaped, but left $4,000 worth of booty
they had packed. Woods injuries are
believed to be fatal.
The Hebrew Charity Fair, which open
ened at Gilmore's Garden, New York, De
cember 6, closed on Thursday night The
receipts were $135,00O and the total ex
pense $25, 900 only; leaving $40, 900 ne
| profit for the Mt Sinai Hospital.
In the foreclosure of what is known as
the fifth mortgage bOndhOlders against thu
Erie Railway Company, proceedings il
| equity were commenced in the Pike Co.
; Pennsylvania Court Friday. II. j. Jew.
ett was appointed receiver; bond $50, 900
The Whisky Ring attack upon the See
fetary of the Treasury in the Chicago
4Hter ocean turns out to be as foolish as i
J was malignant. BabcOck denOunces it.
The responsible editor of the Inter Ocean
, repudiates it. Everybody despises it,
) All the evil stories about BristOw vanish
The budget for the city of Paris for tbi,
year amounts to about $40 ,OOO. 900. a LARGO
/: portion of which is to be expended i'm n6,
! belishments as well as improvements. Th,
! | receipts as well as the expenses of tht
: city have been quadrupled since l947
although the population in the same peri
Oh has not quite doubled itself.