Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1876-10-19


Gen. Bragg had his life insured for
$40, 900.
There ate2O.O0 newsboys in New York
City.
Prince 9th, brother of the King of Ba-
varia, is dangerously i'll.
Woodward, Tweed's partner, has been
committed to the Toombs, in New York.
Madame Blanc, who was shot by her
husband, in New York, few days ago,
died yesterday.
A suit for 1904. 4.5s for a dogs board for
over three years, is furnishing the Alba
ny lawyers with some bones to pick.
A man was found dead in a Georgia
well, and a local newspaper rashly con-
lectures that he either fell or was thrown
in.
Sales of copper are heavy, mostly on
European account, and as supposed, for
the manufacture of ammunition, Amer
lean copper being preferred to any other.
President Wells, of Cornell University,
who sailed for Europe on Wednesday,
has paired his vote with Democrat.
An English steamship cleared on Sat
urday from New Haven for Constantine
pie with cargo of Ii, 100000 cartridges
for the Turkish Government.
A monument is to be erected over the
graves of Bishops SouIe and McKendree,
on the grounds of the Vanderbilt Uni
versity at Nashville, Tennessee.
Mr.. WOlcott, who declined to run as
Independent candidate for Governor of
Indiana, when member of the Senate,
voted for Ben. Harrison for United States
Senator.
Charles Francis Adams has written a
letter complaining of "discOurteous treat
ment" from the city authorities of Taun-
ton, in delaying the publication of his
Fourth of July Grafton.
The Pope has determined, according to
the Berlin Post, to sOlemnize the anniver-
sary of the humiliating punishment in
fiieted centuries ago upon the German
Emperor Henry w., at CanOssa-
A Buffalo scold has just had her hand
some residence sold over her head by the
Sheriff, to satisfy judgment in favor OF
a young lady school-teacher whom she
had maligned.
It is reported that Mrs. House, who
killed her husband, the divorce lawyer
is soon to marry her brother-in-law. Tht
marriage of House divided against it
self ought not to stand.
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} Aurora, Indiana, last week, Frank Wood
fireman, was killed, and E. Goskell,
helper, and an engineer named Ross wer
injured.
The Coroner's jury in the Hampde
street accident, in Springfield. Mass, O.
: the 10Th ult., by which four men wer
: killed, censure the architect and contract
ors for the building which fell
: The salmon product of the Columbi
river, Oregon, this season, amounts t
4O,OO0,O0O pounds, and the value of tn
portion of this great product canned fo
: shipment exceeds $3,OO0,OOO.
: A commission of Americans have al
rived at Valparaiso for the purpose
: working the gold mines of Catapilco, an
| representing company organized in Ca
: ifOrnia with capital of 81 ,OOO, 900.
The Treasury Department rejects til
; claim made by Boston Sugar importer
that sugar from st. Domingo and Port
4 Rico is entitled to the same reciprocity {
2 Sugar from the Hawaiian Islands.
j Norwich Bulletin: A Connecticut ma
? has received prize at Philadelphia for
f ebay jumper" The hay jumper is sal
to be very ingenious, and it is to be hope
t that it will entirely supercede the grass
e hopper.
4 Burlington Ha,okeye: How many who
e families who went to the Centennial an
: took it all in and had splendid time, al
!. buying their winter potatoes by the ha
: peck and trying to perfect arrangement
e for getting their wood on long time.
IS The design for the window in memol
> of Bishop Berkeley, which is to be put
IS the new Yale College Chapel, will consi
e of the coat of arms of the See of whiC
o e Bishop Berkeley had charge in EngIan
y An enormous school of mackerel,
= mile long and fourth of a mile wild
was struck by fishing smacks off Ne
l. London, Saturday, and though many
le the nets had to be cut because of tt
l. weight, 100000 fish, worth $4,000 we
taken.
IS Commodore Vanderbilt may be 81,
E. unto death, but still talks business. {
- - Sunday he gave it as his opinion that Il
i present revival would continue, and tn
n the country would experience a new e
u of prosperity until over-production al
70 Over-trading produced another reyulsio
IS The stockholders of the Nevada Ban
E at San Francisco, met on Wednesday al
! reelected the old officers. A prOpositic
IL to increase the capital from five to tt
millions was unanimously carried, al
4 shortly afterward Flood and O'Brie
\ drew their check for the full amount
it their increase.
IS Foreign.