Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1878-11-28
MISCELLANEOUS.

new singer just announced Is Mr.. /
Fish, or as he will be billed, Signor Fichi. |
He is probably bass.
Titus took Jerusalem a. D. 20, but who |
in thunder took our umbrella September
II, 1873 p Wheeling Leader
An Arkansas eonstable's pistol being
stolen, he advertised that if the thief
would return it he would give him the
contents, and no questions asked.
Chow shall 1 earn a living?'' is the
tile of an article in contemporary. Per-
haps it never occurred to the writer to go
to work. That is the best way we know
to earn a living.
a retired detective, in writing up the
records of his twenty-five years. expert
ence, was greatly surprised to discover
that on two or three occasions he had
come very near catching somebody.
A very ugly woman, toying with a pug
dog in front of a cafe on the boulevard,
said to Rusty: ''Kiss me and will give
you this piece of sugar!' A street Arab
passing by exclaimed: ''Don't she ask
high price for her sugar?''
How transient is popularity-how fleet
ing public affectioni The thermometer,
which, but few weeks ago, was an OBJ
| ject of universal solicitude, now hangs
dust-covered, unnoticed and alone!
A Western paper apologies thus: In
place of ''Mayor N. was tight last even
ing beyond Il doubt,'' pleas read ''Mayor
n. was right,'' etc. The compositor that
did the mischief has been asked to remove
himself.
'sSo,'' said lady, recently, to a mer-
chant, "your pretty daughter has married
a rich husband ?'' ''Well,' slowly replied
the father, 81 believe she has married a
rich man, but understand he is very
poor husband
little boy, weeping most piteously,
was interrupted by some unusual occur
renee. He hushed his cries for moment
the though was broken. Ma said he
resuming his snifie, what was I crying
about just now?'
A wag who thought to have joke a
the expense of an Irish provision dealer
said: Can you supply me with yard o.
pork p 'Pat,' said the dealer to his assist
ant, give this gentleman three pigs feet.
Taste-Donnelly, the Irish pugilist
when asked by novice in his science
what was the best way to learn to fight
replied, FOeh, sir, there is no use in lift
in a man learning to fight unless Nature
gave him bit of taste for it,
Fl. H. Neal, one of the oldest resident
of Gallipolis, died Monday, at the age o
70. He was the father of Hon. H. S. Neal
, member of Congress from the Twelfth
district of this State.
Mr.. Andrew Coulter, of Martinsburg
Knox county, arose as usual, on Monda.
: morning, and sometime after discovers
1 that he had lost his speech. Cause no
l known. but was probably paralysis.
Two strangers, giving their names as
B. Clark and w. H. Morton, at Sidney
enticed an old farmer, Squire Ludlum, t
a room i'll the Valley City House, and b
the cloth game swindled him out of $102
and Immediately skipped town.
A sensation was created in the street
: of Ashtabula, Monday night, by tn
n horsewhipping of boy of some fourtee
: years named Lyons, by Mrs. BrockwaJ
: for an attempt to outrage the person {
e her little four-year-old daughter.
Several prominent silver men of tn
last session have arrived in Washington
They declare with great emphasis ths
: they and those who acted with them wi
! oppose every attempt to limit the coinae
of silver, or to restrict its legal tende
, duality.
Ruth Noble vs. Haines and others, ;
Cambridge, for damages under the Ada
n law, obtained Wednesday a verdict fc
!, 1915. Her husband is a reformed MAJ
- of intelligence and considerable prom
nenee.
9 Ghouls attempted to rob the grave of
: Mr.. Wilkinson, buried at RTchfeId, Sun
Il nit county, Sunday night; but as friend
d who were watching the grave, came upo
: the robbers while at work, and fired
g them, they failed of robbing the grav
Il but made good their escape.
II Private letters from Kingstree, S.
l. bring information that many of tho
who furnished information upon whit
the Government made the late arrest
have been arrested by the local author
\. ties on the charge of perjury, and in mo
eases bonds offered for bail have been i
fused as informal, and the accused cor
- mitted to Jail.
,e The Memphis appeal lost during the e
a idemic book-keeper, eight composite
N and ten men from the press room, viii
II Sixteen members ofthe families of its Ell
K ployes died. The Ava5aRche lost its bu!
L. ness manager, two editors, five cOmpo'
tors, two pressInen, porter and two ca
riers, and the Ledger four compositors.
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