Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1878-03-07
MISCELLANEOUS.

The Eastern Ohio Trottlng Association
will hold meeting at Akron, on the 18th
of June. Twenty-one premiums, amount
ing to $4,000, will be offered, free for all
trotting,
1t is reported that Ben. Wade's estate is
valued a5 about $60, 600. The ex-senator
leaves a widow and two children, one of
whom is major in the army, and is sta
toned at present in New Mexico.
O'Connor, Chairman of the Military
Committee of the Ohio House, a self-cOn-
victed deserter and bounty jumper, Is be-
fore Congress for relief from disabilities
growing out of those Irregularities of
military oORdHct.
The Quaker City, Fairview and Free
port Narrow-gauge railroad, or ossing in
Guernsey and Harrison counties, capital
stock $780, in shares of $50 each, filed
a certificate of incorporation with the
Secretary of State last week.
Hannah de Rothschild, Lord Rosebery's
intended, is going to settle ESQ 900 year
on the lucky nObleman. The Prince Con-
sort got no more than this from Parlia-
ment when he married Victoria, and had
to maintain greater style than the hus-
band of the Hebrew maiden will have to.
General Ewing was the only Ohio mem
ber who voted against concurrence in the
Senate amendments to the Silver Bill
Being without any special record on the
silver question, he will have to embrace
| the rag baby with renewed Yigor during
the coming campaign, and in the present
obstinate complication of financial theO-
ries, may find it necessary to administer
an occasional spanking.-Ohio State Jour
nal.
Henry Thurston, the Missouri giant,
now a resident of Titus county, Texas,
has issued a challenge to any man in the
world to wrestle him, back hold, side
hold, or catch-as-catch-ean, best three in
| five, fair back falls, for $1,000 to $4,000 a
side, match to be held in Austin, Texas.
ThuPston is 3G years of age, weighs 800
pounds, and stands seven feet six inches
! in his stockings.
| A Washington special to the Cincinnati
| Gazette of yesterday contains the follow
ing: There was curious bill presented
| in the House to-day, proposing to give
DR.. Mudd, of Maryland, $4,000, for aiding
cholera sufferers at the Dry Tortugas.-
DIR. Mudd was the surgeon who set the
legOf John Wilkes Booth, and who was
sent to the Dry Tortugas for 1t. While
there he rendered humane and efficient
services to fellow prisoners taken with
cholera. He now asks for $4,000 compen-
sation.
l
Cincinnati Railroad Company held a
meeting at Baltimore on the 23d. About
one million dollars of stock WAS repre-
sented. The committee of ten, appointed
at previous meeting, reported that a
sub-committee of three had interviewed
Mr. John w. Garrett on the condition Of
the road. John King ir.. receiver of the
Marietta and Cincinnati Railroad com pa
ny, had told them that the Interest on fhq
coupons of the first MORTGAGE bonds
would be paid in April if the Court 81
ruled. An assessment of 81 for each SIO0T
, worth of bonds was levied to pav ex.
penses.
; Postmaster-GeneralK Keys has appointed
and commissioned Hon. Joseph Blackfan
, Superintendent of Foreign Mails, anC
Hon. J. n. Tyner, First Assistant-P Post
: master General, Commissioners on part O
: the United States to the General Posta
: Convention, to be held at Paris on tn,
1st of May next, for the purpose of revis
ing and perfeeting the General Posta
e Union Treaty concluded at Berne ii
: 1874. Nearly all the countries having al
: organized postal system are members o
!. the Postal Union, but invitations haV
been sent to the few countries which ar
I not members thereof to be present Ia al
advisory capacity.