Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1875-07-01
Lost Cow. BY shiminv.

As rule there isn't better class
of people in the world to deal with
than the Germans, but occasionally
you will find one whose ideas concern
ing certain business transactions are
amusingly peculiar. For instance:
A German subscriber to the Journal |
recently called to advertise lost COW, |
and according to the long established |
custom of this well regulated print
shop, we Immediately wrote up the
notice and figured up the cost of pub
lication.
'Vat ish dat?' asked our friend,
placing the butt end of his whip on
our little sum of multiplication.
We informed him that it would cost
him so much for advertising his lost
cow three weeks.
"You make me pay for dat?"
Certainly; we always take pay for
advertising
"YOu takes pay, eh? Veil, dat ish
Won tam shvindle. I shcribe NIT dat
Shournal papers desc tree years, und
now you sharge me yoost for that lit
tie advertise NV mine gow.''
''But we
"You shtop my bapers."
"But you
'You shtop mine Shournal bapers. -
'But see here, my friend"
81 go right away und dond got
sheated nit you, py krashus. Tink
you got some sleep NIT aveasel, dond
your Sharge me yoost for advertise
Won gov! 1t was better NV you dond
got me med ven I gone here, and
shcribe NIT dat Shournal more as tree
year, but you makes me med und you
stop mine bapers before l got it mex
! dime. Dat is vat man I am kind NV
; by shiminy!'
| We tried to explain, we tried il
vain; we lost him and a three weeks
advertisement of "lost Cow, py SHIN
= my p-LLowell Journal.
;, Richard Archdeacon has been ap
pointed storekeeper in the Seventeenth
Ohio district.
= Two hundred and ninetynine addi
, tional money order pOstofices will b.
. put into operation July 1.
News has been received that He
>, Msjesty's ship Myrmidon has gone t.
the relief of the wrecked Saranca.
d The President has signed the com
! mission of Jacob NJ. McGrew to b
?. the Sixth Auditor of the Treasury,
% A quantity of Western whisky sci,
l. ed as crooked, was condemned in Ne
" York Tuesday, no claimants appea
N ing
"a The Independent Convention of IL
}; Second Congressional District in Ca
If fornia, nominated Charles A Tut
for Congress.
'es B. H. Sage, late Superintendent al
}" Chief Engineer of the Atlantic ar
lg Richmond Air Line railroad, W,
y. found dead in bed in Atlanta, Gs
as yesterday.
A. An Arkansas woman has apple
for divorce, her complaint being, 81
been married 81 years, have worked ;
the time like slave, and have nevt
been to circus, or lived in a house th
ov had parlor- folding DOORS"
no Complaint has been filed in t
County Clerks Office, in New Yor
for the recovery of over S7,00O,O o.
III alleged to have been fraudulently a
'st stracted from the Treasury of t
st county by Peter B. Sweeney
At Bidwell, Illinois, on Mond
night, Patrick Mulligan dangerous
OF stabbed Policemen Sutler and Boz
ell who were endeavoring to arrest h
ke for abusing his family. Born then sh
'e- Mulligan, killing him instantly.
tie
A new and dangerous counterf
was discovered at the National Bal
ed Redemption Agency of $5 notes
raj the First National Bank of CantC
'h- Ill, and is evidently changed from
ICY nlate ON which a counterfeit on
uc Traders National Rank Of Chica
and First National Bank of Paxtt
.di- Ills, was printed.