Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1879-05-01
West and south.

The insane asylum of California con-
tains :, 400 lunatics.
Milwaukee's rolling-mill men report |
heavy orders.
The outlook for business in California |
is exceedingly bright.
The Southern Baptist Convention meets
in Atlanta, May s.
Three burglars are to be hung at Hills
boro, n. c., May 8.
Louisiana's sugar crop, last year, was
the largest since the war.
Georgia convicts are now worked under
twenty-year lease.
The Missouri river has again COM
menced to eat into the banks at Sioux
City.
Short credit is the rule in Missousi, ,and
many of the farmers are paying cash.
Iowa farmers are to plant largely in
creased acreage in corn this spring.
Minnesota flour is landed in Europe
within one month after it is barreled.
A large hotel with $50 rooms is to be
built at Lake Minnetonka, Minn., this
summer.
There are seven hundred men at work
on the toll-road from Georgetown to
Leadville.
There are over 4, ,OOO, 900 acres of pub
lie land in Alabama subject to entry or
homestead.
The Iowa State Congregational Associa-
ton will meet at Grinnell on the 4th of
June.
Cannon City, Col, is Overrun with
strangers who can not find shelter or en-
ployment.
La Crosse and Winona rifle teams are
to shoot challenge match; scores to be
sent by telegraph.
About seventy-6ve Ohio families are
making arrangements to locate in Knox
county, Nebraska.
Out in Iowa they haYe what are called
Demo- -Greenback-St car
didates for Congress.
A large number of Cinnamon are soor
to arrive in Louisiana to replace the ne
groes who have gone West.
The Etna Iron Works in Wheeling
w. Va, are making upwards of seventy
tons of iron per day, and marketing
q all.
r Major Boykin, Register of the Virgini
Land office, died the other day, and ther
D are twenty candidates for the Office.
Florida is turning her attention to tn
t cultivation of rice, which is stated to
i a better crop there than wheat is in an
= other State.
L A distillery at Iowa City, which COS
e $40, 900 dollars, was sold the other day fo
'' 81 900 by the Government, by whon1a
y had been seized.
:, Last week, at Mayville, Wisconsin, Iii
, tie child of Mr.. and Mrs. Rudebusch fel
into a pail of hot slack lime, and wa
scalded so that it died.
. The telegraph line has been complete
. through the Platte canon from Denver
70 Webster, Colorado, and is now in full OF
Grafton between those points.
8, California papers report migration frol
" Southern California into Oregon, the en-
le igrants wishing to find land where MOI
lie than an inch of rain falls in a year.
4 A twelve-year old Texas boy, who rea
le the life of Sam Bass and wanted to be
IS robber, has been captured by his faith,
s. in Illinois, after an absence of near thr'
ID months.
The legal profession of Carver count
1" Minnesota, has been very unlucky in Il
of past. Three lawyers committed suicid
d and one was sent to the penitentiary f
. horse-stealing.
- At st. Paul. Minnesota, there are tv
dry goods jobbing houses whose annu
- sales are as high as s., ,0O0, 900, while Sc
- eral boot and shoe houses are doing bu
- mess of not less that $2,0OO,OO0 year.
III The amount of snow and rainfall
ed Salt Lake Valley for the past eightmont
NJ has been unusually small, and there
y. much anxiety felt by tillers of the soil
on to the crops for the coming season.
ms A Mr.. Kennedy was bitten by a rattl
on snake near Waukulla, Fla, the other ds
so He applied the white of an egg to
wound and drank abundantly of whis
at once. The next day he was as well
ever.
Vicksburg Herald: The action of Lc
nd isiana in establishing a rigid quarant
of at the Passes, to take effect on the first
zen May. meets with universal commend
10, ton. 1t has restored confidence m,
ct than anything that.has yet beendone.
&C., The rice fields on the Cape Fear Riv
near Wilmington, which have lain
ish and grown up with weeds since the v
have been reclaimed and planted this s
cen son bv several energetic parties, who
to pect to raise at least 20O, 900 bushels of /
out in the next five years.
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