Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1878-11-21

bus, the 9th day of November, in the year
Of our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and seventy-eight, and in the one hum
dred and second year of the Independence
of the United States of America.
ORCHARD NJ. BISHOP.
By the Governor:
MILTON BARNES, Secretary of State.
MISCELLANEOUS.
More failures are reported in Glasgow
and London. And there is no Sherm
there.
The Florida Supreme Court has been
convened to consider the alleged election
frauds.
M.v. Terrell, from the Ohio Peniten-
tiary, will be placed on trial at the pres
ent term OF Court of Hooking county, for
the murder of Nancy E. Hite.
A Fairfield county woman has caused
the arrest of Albert Bush, at Logan,
charged with bigamy, he having married
Jennie Poliny, of Hooking county, while
being her husband.
One Hester Snyder, ofCoshocton coun-
ty, in the Court of Common Pleas, Tues
day, recovered 81 ,410 damages from Mr..
Jacob Wolf, on proved breach of con-
tract and seduction.
A man named McNeally was arrested
in Newark, and taken to Logan last week,
charged with getting goods under false
pretenses. Not being able to give bail he
was placed in prison.
Miss Anna Dickinson is living at the
Fifth Avenue Hotel in New York. She
spends her days in writing play and her
evenings at the theaters.
One reason why more people did not
get into the ark is that Noah neglected to
advertise. There is great moral lesson
contained in this fact.
One of the saddest and most vexatious
trials that comes to girl when she mar
ris is that she has to discharge her mother
and depend upon hired girl.
Hon. James Emmitt, of Waverly is now
paying the Government over one thou
sand dollars a day, as tax on high wines.
and is shipping about fifty barrels of high
wines every day, over the Scioto Valley
Railway, to Philadelphia.--Ch ChilHcothe
! Gazette.
An erring husband, who had exhausted
| all explanations for late hours land had O
! apology ready, recently slipped into the
house, about one o'clock, very softly, de-
| nuded himself gently. and began rocking
the cradle by the bedside, as if he had
been awakened out of sound sleep by
infantile cries. He had rocked away for
five minutes, when Mary Jane, who had
silently observed the whole maneuvre.
said, FFCome to bed, you fool, the baby
amt there.''
Another Eastern financier has gone
wrong. James H. Wheatley, the proprie-
tor of a Brooklyn sugar refinery, is mis-
sing with a quarter of million trust
funds belonging to the different estates
in that city. Mr.. Wheatley improved
upon the Fall River and Glasgow meth
DDS by absorbing the money, and then
running away. By this thoughtful pre-
caution he may live to steal another day
| General Sheridan thinks we should
have an army of 60, 900 to 10000 men tC
take care of the Indians. The saving tC
the government by the prevention of In.
dian wars would probably pay the addi.
tional cost, but there is no likelihood OF
the increase being made by Democratic
| Congress, which hates soldiers as cordial
| ly as the present one, The army will fare
well if it escapes further reduction mex
wintef.-Ctn. Gazette.
The oldest house in America stands il
Southold, Long Island, and from the date
of its erection in 1859 has been in contin
ued occupation down to the present time
In the year above mentioned a colony
of thirteen persons from England landed
in the harbor, among whom was Barna
bas Horton, the builder of the house. A
portion of the house was once used as
Court of Sessions, and the Judges bencf
remained therein until within few years
The house, as it stands at present, con
sists of three parts-the oldest being bull
finished in 1885.
Lo! the poor Indian! When he goe
home to his cherries wigwam in tht
evening he has no dime novel with whicl
to while away the weary hours; no frienC
next door to come in and talk politics; III
medical almanacs to read; no New Yorl
papers with full proceedings of the rae,
Vanderbilt will case; no money in a saft
for masked robbers to break in and stea
no civilized pleasures of this kind. H
simply hangs up the bloody scalps he ha
captured during the day, beats his squav
with a club, wraps buffalo robe arount
him and lies down to pleasant dreams. l
pale face comes within half mile of hi
! wigwam, the slumbering red man snuff
him afar, awakes, and goes out and shoot
him full of arrows.-NorrtstO1o Herald.
So far, the counsel for the Unite
: States, in the suit against Samuel j. Til
den, has succeeded in feriting out severa
hundred thousand dollars the old rasCa
received as income on which he neve
: paid any tax. Dispositions have been tax
EN- in Chicago, Lake Superior, Pittsburg
and other points where he had none
= paid over to him, all showing payment
that have been made to him as high a
l fifty thousand dollars at time. The cos
of prosecuting him and taking deposi
tions all over the country has been YER
e heavy, but, fortunately, when verdiC
: Is found against him, it will Include tn
cost, so the Government will lose moth
: Ing. He will have to pay over hundre
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