Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1876-01-20
News and PoIIt1caa Items.

A very severe earthquake shock was
elt at Bangor, Me-, Saturday night.
An earthquake visited Omaha on last
Thursday, doing no damage.
The President has nominated George S.
Bangs for Assistant Treasurer of the Uni
ed States at Chicago.
Miss Ella Martin has been admitted to
the Illinois bar, passing very credible
examination before the Supreme Court.
1t is reported that Speaker Kerr has re-
ceived 150 kilograms from Northern DEM |
Ocrats urging him to stop the amnesty de |
bate.
In the trotting match at Oakland, Cali |
fornia, Park, Saturday, a mile and quar-
ter heat, between Golden Gate and Aman- |
da, the former failed TO appear, and
Amanda secured the forfeit of $500.
A Detroit special says a widow of that
city named Williams, who has been an IN
valid for fifteen years, was lately restored
to health in almost immediate answer to
prayer The statements are vouched for
by Methodist clergyman named War
rem.
The ex-Confederates of Richmond, Va,
have made arrangements for celebrating
the birthday of General Robert E. Lee,
the 18th inst, by holding public meet
ing, at which Governor Kemper will pre-
side, and Captain J. Hampden Chamber
lain, editor of the Norfolk Virginian, will
deliver an Grafton.
Ben. Hill draws fine distinctions. Mr..
Blain read from rebel records to prove
that the rebels kept packs of bloodhounds
with which to run down and capture
Union fugitfyes from the Andersonyllle
dead line, when Hill denied that they
were bloodhounds, but admitted that they
kept dogs" for that purpose.
Governor Hayes has announced the ap-
pointment of Captain A. 7. Wikoff as Ad-
iutant General; Captain G. w. Karr, As
sistant Adiutant General; Captaini a. E.
Lee, as his Private Secretary; and Cap
tain Rodney Foos, as Clerk in the Gov
ernOr's office; Messrs. A. Z. Brinsmade,
of Cleveland, and L.. G. Weir, of Gin
cinnati, are appointed as his Aids-de-
Camp.
1t turns out that the Chicago distillers
of the crooked have been shipping their
product to the cotton-print mills in Mas
sachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island,
who, being consumers, do not have to
take out dealers licenses, and were ena-
bled to wash off the Government stamps
and return them without being suspect
ed. Three thousand gallons were shipped
to them.
The Washington correspondent of the
Baltimore American says it is generally
conceded that St. Louis will be chosen as
the place of holding the Democratic Ma
tional Convention, and that the 4th of
July will be the day. By that time the
leading citizens of St. Louis and those
best fitted to entertain the Democratic
delegates will be in the Jefferson City
Penitentiary.
The Cincinnati Gazette says: ''Some-
body is engaged in. mean attempt to sup
press the eloquence of Sam. Cox. The
Congressional Record will be scanned in
vain for those sudden and pungent utter
ances which thrilled the House during
the recent debate. Posterity will know
nothing of the Ciceronian flights ooh,
Blaine, dry up!'' 'FGood for Hill, - ''Well,
below away-you are hyena,' ETC., ex-
cept as they are handed down by tradi-
ton.
The Court of Claims decided, not long
ago, that the Arkansas Hot Springs prop
erty is a Government reservation, and
Senator Dorsey, of that State, has intro
duced a bill providing that the springs
| and vicinity be set apart for the benefit of
the public, under the supervision of the
Surgeon General of the army, the hotels
to be supplied with the water at nomi-
nal rental, in order to keep the premises
in order.
Both Mr. Hill and Mr.. Cox are catching
it on all sides, for the revision of their
speeches on the amnesty question, before
they would allow them to appear in the
Congressional Record. Even the New
York Tribune gets indignant and says
''There is no more disgusting piece of dis
honesty about Washington than this tam
pering with the records of debate. What
we want in a report is what the speaker
said, not what, some hours'or even days
afterward, he wishes he had said"
The Washington correspondent of the
Boston Herald has been studying the Pres
idential question, and comes to the con-
clusiOn that the nomination on the
Republican side now lies between Mr..
Blaine and Senator Morton, with very
| large possibility that Governor Hayes may
come in as compromise candidate. SEN
| ator Conkling, he thinks, is only strong
| in ''the ability to derange the plans Of
! those whom he deems his rivals" The
correspondent adds: EFThe two men to
whom the Democratic nomination to-day
is possible are Hendricks and Thurman. .
| The entire Southern members of a GER
| tain political persuasion would not scru-
| pie to block the wheels of Government
| entirely, if they possessed the power ratl-
| er than JEFF Davis should not again have
the privilege of being elected to the Uni
| ted States Senate. Was it not well to
know this fact, and test the temper of the
representative men of the South on that
| question, and also discover, if possible
| how much of real friendliness existed
| among the leaders of Southern opinion
toward the North? Having partially ac-
complished this, the popular branch OF
| Congress can try its hand at resumption
of specie payments, revision of the tariff
or economical use of the public money!
Boston Transcript.
A movement has been made in the Ma
sonic Grand Lodge of Ohio to recognize
the ColOred Masons. A committee have
reported that upon investigation they find
that 'Colored Freemasonry had 1egiti-
mate beginning in this country as much
as any other Masonry; in fact, came from
the same source;'' that E'Colored Freema-
sons practice the very same rites and cere-
monies, and have substantially the same
esoteric or secret modes of recognition az
are practiced by ourselves and by the uni.
versal family of Freemasons throughout
| the world Therefore they reported in
favor of recognizing the COlored Grand
Lodge as ''an Independent Grand Lodge
of Ohio, provided that the title be changed
to 'NThe African Lodge of Free and Ac
cepted Masons of the State of Ohio.'' This
report is yet to be acted Cincinnati
Gazette.
The Chicago DistilIers own the Corn
CHICAGO, Jan. 14.-The following whis
ky distillers, who are under Indictment fol
revenue frauds, appeared before Judge
Boutwell,, in the United States District
Court, to-day, and entered plea of guilty
on the first count of their several indict