Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1879-03-13
miscellaneous Items

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Real estate on the rise in GAINESVILLE,
and everything indicates large business +!
in that city the coming season.
Champaign County Treasurer P'tose's
stoverchanges'' foot up to about So. .O00 ali
of which Mr.. B. says he will July pay.
Rev: T. B. Fairchild pas. OF of st. Johns
Church ,Cuyahoga Falls and nrominenti in
the Episcopal denomi nation, died satur-
day after short j. t'Iness. >''2S'
Mrs. Lunsfc,,rd, wife of M. j. Lunsford,
VINO, WINS K children, met such terri
PIE oeaGP at Carbon Hill, Hooking coun-
'y' las week, died Saturday from grief.
Anna Dickinson has given a private
reading of her new play, Aurelian, to
! few invited guests. She soon leaves for
California, where she is to lecture twenty
evenings and to play in one of the San
Francisco theaters. ~ 5=>fssf ~ H=
The Albany Journal speaking of the
last Congress, says it stands pre-eminent
/ in bad repute. 1t has lived amid general
| contempt and apprehension, and dies
amid universal rejoicing. It has proved
itself incapable, reckless, vicious and rev.
olutionary. ,.f ..sf ..f-
At mining hamlet near Youngstown,
| three children of William Miller and two
of Fred. Zeller,. Friday ate apple parings
GudG Ildu U00L WEdpp6u III Il green VIII
dow curtain paper, fatally poisoning one,
| and the others suffering greatly from the
effects of the poison.
The extra session of Congress, which is
to convene on the 18th, will cost fully
$500, 900, even if it be a short session, It
will be the seventh call for an extra ses-
sion in the history of the Government.
President Adams called an extra session
in 1873, Van Buren in 1887, Harrison in
in
Hayes in 1877 and again in 1879, he being
the only President convening Congress
twice in extra session.
The President, it is understood, will, fn
his forthcoming message, give the Con-
federate Brigadiers and their allies to I'M
derstand that he cannot be bulIdozed into
the surrender of his lawful prerogatives.
The passage of appropriation bills is one
thing, and political legislation is another.
If Congress refuses to appropriate the
necessary money to pay current expenses
the fault will lie at the doors of the two
houses, not at that of the President; and
the people will so understand Ito. s.
Journal.
When the iron trade flourishes all other
industries flourish, wages advance, labor
has full employment, trade is active anC
the country is prosperous. The recent
advance IN iron is having 4 most bene-
ticial effect, and another advance equal tC
that which has taken place since the frs
ofJanuary last will have the effect of Civ
ing employment to thousands of men il
Ohio; our now idle furnaces will go int
blast, and rolling mills, nail mills, anC
the like will again run upon full time.-
o. s. Journal.
1t is worthy OF remark that the presen
winter has been exceedingly fatal to ageC
people in all parts of the country, anC
J there have been more deaths of person
of the age of seventy years and uDwarC
} during the months of January and Feb
ruary, 1879, than during any equal periot
! for many years. Among the pioneers o
J Ohio-the founders of our grand Com
monwealth-the Great Reaper has beer
especially busy, and hundreds of patri
archs and ''Mothers in Israel'' have beer
} gathered into the garner of the Lortl.-o
s. Journal.
The Senate has hundred and eigh
attaches, from the Secretary to and inclu.
! ding the pages, and with various salaries
: ranging from the highest, 1000 per an
mum, to the lowest, $720, or an averag,
! of ~ 900 per annum, and hence the rea
son is evident why such an army of th'