Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1878-03-21

Professor John Brainard, ofCleyeland,
Ohio, died at Washington on Monday
night of last week, aged seventy.
Nebraska has over IO0, 900 school chill
dren, indicating total population of at
least $50, 900.
Henry Smith, wealthy citizen of Nor
row county, committed suicide on the 4th
instant, by hanging. No cause assigned.
The statue of General Thomas is being
erected in one of the prominent Govern
ment reservations in Washington.
There is trouble among the Episcopal
people of Lexington, KY, and the divis-
ion of the diocese South is probable.
A similar society to the one so success
full in New York has been organized in
Pittsburg to close all the saloons on Sum
day.
Who says the French are not polite? A
French wood turner in New York prom
ises on his sign board: can sorts of
reparation done.''
It is said that Mr.. II. F. Durant, the
founder of the Wellesley College for Wo-
men, is going to build preparatory school
near the college.
Sir Edward Thornton, the British Min
lister, occupied a seat in the Senate gallery
while Blaine was speaking on the fishery
award to Great Britain.
1t is said that Jim Keene, the Califor-
nian, has given the interest on $50, 900 for
life to Sam. Ward, known in Washington
for the dinners he gives as lobbyist.
Miss Carrie Beaumont, of McMinnville,
Tenn, has just been awarded verdict of
$40, 900 damages against B. c. Scott for
breach of promise.
Woodford Chief, celebrated trOtter,
property of Colonel Pepper, of Elkhorn,
Kentucky, is dead. He was valued at
SIS, 600. His record was 2 :26.
Mr.. S. w. Porter is town clerk of Spring
, field, Vermont, for the thirty-frst time,
and ably discharges all his duties, al
though eighty-five years old.
The strike in the Ohio Shoe Factory al
Tiffin has eliminated in the factory shut
ting down till the trade shall warrant the
prices demanded by the workmen.
} J. &. Sharpe, wholesale leather deal
er, real estate owner and speeulator, O
: indianapolis, Indiana, has gone int
: bankruptcy. Liabilities, $185, 900; asset
$s4e 700.
The Boston and Albany Railroad com
pany has notified its engineers, iremen
conductors, brakemen, and other EN-
ployes that prompt discharge awaits then
if they smoke while on duty.
The people living in the section of viT
ginia in which woman was Iynched b,
a mob the other day justify the lynching
and the county authorities have taken n
= steps to arrest the cowardly murderers.
Mrs. Lydia NJ Roosevelt, whose boas
h it was that she was the first woman VIII
descended the Ohio in steamboat, die
. at her home in Skaneateles, New York
= yesterday, aged SO years.
e The Charter Oak Life Insurance bill
} placing the control of the company in tn
hands of the policy holders, has passe
n the Connecticut Senate with sever;
If amendments, one of which extinguishe
i the present stock.
e The Kentucky Senate appropriated $40
/
i ridge, but rejected, % to 1, propositio
r to give like amount for a monument /
/ Union officer, General Nelson, frol
$ that State.
Rockingham County, Va, is the hon
of DR.. Mofatt, inventor of the celebrate
F liquor bell punch. He is one of the leaG
5e ing repudiationists in the Legislature an
le his constituency, although one of tt
IS wealthiest in the State, indorses him.
- - It is said that young Norwegian cir
who was taken to the Iowa Insane As,
lum some time ago, was discharged cure
: !. but had forgotten her mother tongue. R
- stored to her friends she began to regal
it, but as she reacquired facility in i
use signs of arrangement reappeared, ar
when she could again speak Norwegia
= fuently she had to be taken back to IL
- asylum.
n Poverty In Palaces.
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