Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1879-04-03
MISCELLANEOUS.

President Hayes will not give way to |
the revolutionist in Congress.
New York is organizing to send relief
to sufferers by the great floods at Szegedin. |
Another Chinaman was naturalized in
New York, last week.
A regiment of regular infantry has been
ordered from Atlanta to Bismarck, Dako-
ia, on apprehension of trouble by Sitting
Bull and followers.
The Adyentists have fixed upon the
11th of next July as the time when
the E'world will come to an end" We
commend this prediction to the serious
consideration of Congress, for if there is
anything calculated to bring about veri-
tication of the prophecy, it is some of their
proposed measures.-C Commercial.
The women in Kansas vote at the schoo
elections. At recent election at Usage
City one woman went up to vote, but be-
fore she got through telling the judges
what time her Willie had with the scar
let fever when only two years old, it was
time to close the polls, and she had for
gotten to deposit her ballot.
Miss Berrian, wealthy and philan-
thropic Stamford woman, has purchased
new brick building in the village for
| $40, 900, the first floor of which is to be
used as a reading-room, while the remain
der will be fitted up as a temperance
clearinghouse for young men who re-
frain from Intoxicating drink or are try
ing to DO so.
Bishop Gilmour, of Cleveland, says the
priests have an unpleasant time of it,
cramped up in the confessional boxes
sometimes for six or eight hours, with
their ears close to the gratings, listening
to stories of human weakness and wick
edness and often breathing the foul breath
of people. Well, why don't they take adj.
vantage of modern inventions and intro
duce the telephone p Commercial.
Professor Maria Mitchell is engineer
ing a course offree lectures on s'Science,' .
by women, in Poughkeepsie, New York
Mrs. Ellen Swallow Richards, Miss Grace
anna Lewis, Mrs. A. B. Blackwell and
DR.. Helen Webster are among the lee
turers. The movement is under the aus
pices of the Committee on Science of the
Association for the Advancement OF
Women," of which Miss Mitchell is
Chairman.
The golden wedding of John A. and
Lucy Fitch was celebrated at Hopkinton
Mass, last Wednesday. They were
dressed in their wedding attire, he wear.
ing F'swallow tail'' coat with brass but
tons, and she the dress she was married
in. About three hundred guests were
present, including all the children-twc
from Fort Wayne, Ind, one from St
Charles Fl. Ficth, of Worcester, ant
two sisters in Hopkinton.
Two brothers lately died in Deering
Me-, who occupied one room in theil
house for all purposes. They had per
feet arsenal of old weapons, mended
slept and ate, and on the smoke-begrimed
walls kept their accounts and their diary
of events, which ran back to 1910. They
never changed their clothes, and lived on
$25 year each. The most enterprisine
reporter in town found it impossible tC
get up any "gloom" oyer their demise.
Mrs. Caroline S. Brooks, the Arkansas
lady, who exhibited the study in butter
of ''The Dreaming Iolanthe,'' at the Cen
tennial Exposition, returned from Eu-
rope, last week, as steerage passenger
She arrived in Paris too late to enter hel
''IOlanthe" in the exhibits. She after
ward worked at modelling in Paris, and
has brought home one figure as a result
of her labors, but she met with constant
pecuniary losses, and was obliged to re-
turn home in the steerage, as stated.
On yesterday we had the pleasure of a
call from young German gentleman
late subject of ''Der Kaiser Won Deutch-
land" who is but seventeen years of age
and who has been in America but nine
weeks, yet in that time he has learned tc
read, write and speak the English Ian
guage. He politely asked the privilege
of looking over the Cincinnati and St
Louis papers, which was accorded, and
he perused them with evident satisfac-
ton. He is impressed that this is great
country, and will not return to Germany
but intends, this week, to ''declare his in.
tentions" to become citizen. That
young man will get along in the world
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