Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1878-07-18
News Items

Deacon Barlow F. Coy's religious use-
fitness in Chicago has been abruptly end
ed bv the discovery of his extensive fOrg-
cries.
over sic, 900, 900 of appropriations by
the late House were for deficiencies
caused by the false economy of the pre-
ceding House.
Up to this time this year, 1,2ls dogs
have been drowned at the pound, in New
York; last year 1892 had been killed up
to July 1.
The Metropolitans who killed the Depu-
ty MarshaIs at East st. Louis recently,
are under arrest. The affair is to be in
vestigated.
Alex. H. Stevens spoke to an immense
crowd in Augusta, Ca, few days ago.
vindicating his course as to the Potter
business.
A. Il. Stephens has been driving
about Georgia, since his return from
Washington, in a chariot drawn by four
milk white circus horses.
A Jew married a Christian widow in
Jefferson, Texas, and when fifty boys
serenaded him discordantly he peppered
eight of them with bird shot.
The Italians propose next year to eele-
brate the century Of the eruption Of
Mount Vesuvius which destroyed Hercu-
laneum and POmpeii in the year 70.
Denis Kearney, the leader of the Work
ingmen's party in California, was born a
Oak Mount, county of Cork, Ireland, il
1s47; he is Catholic, married, and strict
ly temperate.
Wilbur F Storey, of the Chicago Times
was recently stricken with-a severe par
alytic stroke while travelling in Switzer
land, and is now in Paris under the charg
of DIR. Brown Sequard.
Probably the oldest married couple il
the country are Mr.. and Mrs. Robinson, o
Mountain City, Texas, who have lived to
l gether eighty two years. They are 10
and 102 years old respectively.
A boy OF five years, died in Manches
, ter, England, from hydrophobia, cause
n by the bite of a cat. The wound healed
and he appeared to be cured, until fe,
days before his death, when he began t
rave.
Five persons were killed, and sixtee
seriously injured at a picnic near Pitt!
: burg, the Fourth of July. They ha
sought refuge under tree, during viz
lent storm, when it was struck by ligh
ming, resulting as above.
A banquet in a western city was latel
given to twenty-five soldiers of the war,
1872; their united ages figured up
2 ,128 years, the youngest convive bein
f 81, and the oldest "a. They all still dra
pensions.
A farm sixty miles long and ten vic
+ in one tract, mostly fenced, is that @
J, Miller 6 Lux, cattle monOpolists of Cal
/ fornia. They have 80, 900 head of stool
!. own zoe, 900 acres of choice land, and al
/ rated as worth SIS 900 600.
Benjamin G. White has been convicte
4. at BelIefOntaine of burglary commits
il in 1865. Two others concerned in the a
n fair have served terms in the Penitentiar
a White escaped and was but recently a
l. rested.
is Forty years ago the only college in IL
A. world, it is stated, which admitted W
Or men, was in Oberlin, Ohio, and not
Of woman graduate there, was allowed
read her own essay. Now, there are Il
20 only Vassar, and Wellesley, and Smi
-. colleges, but a number of other colleg
~ which accept co-education, and in tht
"a all, including Oberlin, the ''girl grad
i ate'' delivers her own Grafton, or rea
her own ESSAY and the 0uestion is r
IL even asked whether it is proper.