Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1879-01-02
NEWS ITEMS.

NEWS ITEMS.
The schooner Ellen, from st. John for
New Haven, was wrecked on the coast OF
Maine, and the Captain and three seamen
drowned.
Eleven Western railroads have signed I
an agreement with Commissioner Fink,
at Chicago. not to issue passes hereafter
to shippers of freight.
The Cincinnati Newsboy's Union gave
their eighth annual entertainment at the
Music Hail. Saturday night, before sen
audience of at least {, 800 persons.
Colonel Edward wilkins, late Collector
of Customs at Baltimore, died Saturday
morning at his residence near Chester
town, Kent County, aged sixty years.
Saturday morning a fire occurred in the
| publishing establishment of Van Ant
werp, Bragg & Co., Cincinnati. The loss
on stock and machinery is estimated at
$lO,00Oi fully insured.
The Lehigh and Sehuylkin Coal Ex-
| change, of PhiIadeIphia, will maintain
for January the December prices for the
local trade, but will compete with New
| York in the Eastern trade.
| AT Nashville, Tenn, R. NJ. Porter has
brought suit against the Mary Anderson
theatrical management for SO, 900 dam
ages, for being elected from the Opera |
/
A Washington dispatch says about 14O |
railway and PostOffice clerks, route
| agents and local agents will be discharged |
and the pay of those remaining reduced, |
to bring expenditures within the appro
priation.
By the burning of barn at East Or
ange, n. j., two young men were burned
5 to death. An old woman and the watch
; man lost their lives by the burning of a
D small house attached to the Irving House,
b New London, Conn.
4 The dead body of man supposed to be
W. r. Clark, cattle buyer, of Kinsman,
> Trumbull County, Ohio, was found on
the ice, in Flint River, Detroit, Saturday.
He is supposed to have missed his way and
fallen from the dock.
Archbishop Purcell has decided on
Il plan to realize a large sum of money, say
/ $150,o0O for the payment of the present
5. Indebtedness. The plan is to place the
1t Cathedral property on perpetual lease; :;
9 that is to say, to let parties take the prop
erty as purasers, and then to take it from
l. the purchasers on lease.
Jefferson Davis has completed and
will soon publish his autobiography, in
u two volumes. The chief intesest and
s3 value will be on account of the inside
- view it will give of the secession move
Il ment and the conduct of the war on the
ce Southern side. e."-Indianapolis Journal.
I'd But JEFF. is too solemn, and has too aw-
s, full an apprehension of his dignity, to
5 Il make his autobiography interesting. He
+. will wear cOuntenance all the way
90 through like man in the act of being
90 Photographed Commercial.
M M The poor rates in England amount tc
m about $40, ,000, 900 annually. The relief
m supplied by charitable institutions anC
organizations and. private almsgivina
an amounts to as much more for in no cOun.
" try are the appeals for help more numer.
Gus or more generously responded to
But with all this outpouring of public
IN and private means, there is an immense
x mass of destitutiOn and misery for which
no provision is made. One can infer
V from these facts the frightfuI extent ot
III pauperism in the motherland.-Cin Com
ct 1t is neat thing. says the Cincinnati
us Commercial, that General Grant should
k visit Ireland before going to India. A
a return to the United States after visiting
OH all the countries in Europe, with the ex
1T ceptfon of sweet Ireland, would hav,
as been ridiculous.
In Another great diamond robbery ha
50 been perpetrated in the Palais Royal a
n Paris. Five jewelers. assistants, VIII
III have been concerned in it, have fed, AM
u, y, no trace of them can be found. The miss
ing jewels are estimated at 500, 600, ,00O
u u! The famous jeweler FOntaine is the prin
pa cipal victim. If he does not recover til
ny stolen property he will be obliged to Civ
II up his elegant country seat near Ram
we bouillet, he having this year experience
"a other heavy losses. Judic and Schneide
-. were frequent guests of his in the shoot
De ing season. 1t was Fontaine who supple
I'll .m to Victor Hugo the diamond tear of tn
~ ~ purest water which the poet dropped or
E NJ or rather into, the hand of Mile. Sa. a
ru Bernhardt.
/ ha
OBJ Health Officer at Washington, Saturday
in To obtain information as to where he coul
ace get vaccine matter in quantities to send
Brazil, where the scourge of smallpox
sweeping off the people in thousands. /
he Cira City deaths average 800 a dav, an
an over 10000 died of the disease in Novem
va Der. The Emperor of Brazil telegraphe
by his Minister at Washington to obtain III
me virus, which he is doing, and will shi
ted per next steamer.
red Stephen D. Richards, the nine-times
re- murderer, was landed safe at Kearne,
ON ON Nebraska, Saturday evening. A larE
dse crowd having assembled at the depot,
lct- which Sheriff Anderson was notified, /
IN had the train stopped two miles out al
Mni- M smuggled his prisoner into town in
mrf!s m wagon, and had him safely jailed befol
iet' the crowd knew ofit-himself going vii
lou the train, and rusing the crowd that Bic
ons w ards had stopped off, but would be take
'SJ:' through next day.
ion The next reunion of the army of re
og- nessee is to be at the cali, in time Al
nds place, of General Sherman. He is said
the have remarked that he should probabl
tes. designate Chicago as the place and ne
way November the date for the reunion, fxil
it just so as to suit the arrival home
General Grant, and so give him me
] in magnificent reception on his arrival
was his old comrades in arms.
mat Texas has an area which exceeds tn
ttIe : of the German Empire by 10000 squa
ION i miles, and there are 80, ZOO, 900 acres
leu land still INDICATED. If two acres are
MY quired for one sheep, and only half t
loA' land is fitted for sheep culture, there a
ma mas still enough tnoccuyied lands to supp'
atle 10000, 600 sheep.
Lub. We do not expect the people of t
United States to go into flush times
once upon the experience of resumptio
They will thrive though if they are thr
ty. They had splendid spree, lasti
over ten years, and have been five We;
MS SOLDERING off. They are well and will f
nor good as cOnvalescents do, but their lie
will not be at once as strong as they we
was But they have the satisfaction of knowi
Inty tnat lne disease is out OF the system, a
that they walk on hard high ground.--C
cinRGti Commercial.