Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1878-10-17
MIsCELLANEOUS.

The Vatican has ordered the Catholic
bishops in Mexico to abstain from partici-
patton in political contests.
More than 400 Jews have perished at
Mogador, Morocco, from cholera, and the
disease prevails elsewhere.
DR.. Henry BlOdgett, missionary in
China, estimates the number of deaths
by the famine in North China at ten mil
lions.
An Episcopal church for the English
community in Rouen, France, has just
been dedicated by the Bishopeof London.
The American Baptist missionary in
Ongole, India, baptised, between June
l6 and July 81, S,691 converts from Hin
dooism.
Six Presbyteries have voted on the new
plan for the reduction of representation
in the Presbyterian General Assembly,
five in favor of it and one against.
A prostitute named Armstrong was shot
and fatally wounded last week in a house
of ill-fame near Jrbana by man named
Brown.
A woman named ColIett is on trial at
Salt Lake far completely in the murder of
five men who were passing through Utah
Territory in 1857.
One John Conquest and wife were muir
dered in their house near Clio, Michigan,
| one night last week, and their residence
was then fired.
The Vienna PreSSe announces that the
Land Credit Association have agreed to
advance $1O,0OO,OO for the maintenance
of the Austrian army in Bosnia during
November and December.
The Berlin National Gazette publishes
the following sensational news: An agi-
tation has begun in Russia to compel the
Gar to abdicate. 1t is reported that the
CzarOwftch will preside over a mission tc
draft a constitution.
State Treasurer Gates and ex-Treasurel
Mercer, of Missouri, have been arrested
on indictments charging them with hav.
ing unlawfully derived benefits from de
posits of public moneys and for embezzle
ment.
The result of the late election is not balm
to the jaundiced soul of the Louisvill,
Courier-Journal.
Senator Bayard is said to be "sans peu
ct sans reproche." But only let him be-
come candidate.
London World: Sentiment and servic
do not go well together; and when Low
: flies in at the kitchen window, domesti
usefulness at once departs out of tn
door. Servants minds are constructed S
as only to carry one set of ideas at time
The indianapolis journal has a lon
editorial on indianapolis as Summe
1 Resort, and never once mentions Bob II
gersoll.
John B. Cough went abroad, accordin
to his own statement, to obtain absolut
q rest for two years, but he has begun
series of lectures in London.
The second son of the Crown Prince {
n Germany is about to start on a trip aroun
p the world i'll German Corvette. Prime
q Henry holds the rank of lieutenant.
e Lord Dufferin is spoken of for Chi,
:. Commissioner during the organization
# the new system in Cyprus and the Eas
Il with salary equivalent to $50, 900 a yea
: Thomas H. Drew died in Richmond
: Va, last Wednesday, in the ninety-fourt
year of his age. In 1907 he was appointe
Deputy Sheriff to summon jury in til
: Aaaron Burr case.
u Capt. A. H. Bogardus, the famous sho
u sends to the Forest and Stream a lett
e announcing his withdrawal from Il
pigeon shooting arena for the coming tv
years.
. The Russian illustrated newspape
have copied Punch's cartoon of Lord Be
consfield as Humpty Dumpty. The
translated it Goompty Doompty, and c,
planned it as something big, broad, al
IS breakable as an egg"
n Wives should always sit up for the
st husbands, instead of getttag their Sc
u wants to do so. 1t makes two hours di
g ference in their arrival.
At Toronto, Archbishop lynch has
structed the clergy of his jurisdiction
ID appoint Sunday of the present mon
ii for the collection in aid of yellow lev
sufferers,