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Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1879-12-11
Standing Armies of Europe.

THERE can be little question that the.
present PROSTATE condition of conti-
mental trade is in great measure due to,
the enormous burdens laid on the people
by the military policy of their rulers.
How heavy these burdens are some de-
tails taken from report lately issued
by the Hungarian ministry will show.
According to this report (the object of
which is to exhibit the relative weak
ness of the Austro-Hungarian forces.
and advocate on addition to them), the
military strength of Russia consists of
3,046, 800 men, of whom 100000 belong
to the reserve and 2,446,800 to the
standing army. The regular army of
France comprises 1859, 900 soldiers of
all arms, the territorial army l, ,208, 900;
total, 2,289, 900, to be increased in 1892
by the addition of 300, 900 reserve men
to 2,723,000. The German power of all
classes is represented by 1904, 800
men, of whom 1,O76, 200 belong to the
standing army, 307, 200 to the landwehr,
and 620,90 to the reserve. Italy has
an army of 698,000, and a militia of
10000. In 1892, when the reserve
will number 1, ,016, 200, her total strength
will reach 2,024, 200. Austro-H Hungary
possesses a standing army of 800, 900, a
landwehr of 299, 318, and a reserve of
$4,000 men; total, 1,194,3 ,318. The grand
total of all these forces amounts to 49,
All, ,918, the standing armies alone.
numbering 1925, 900. But it must not
be understood that all the latter are
now under arms; at least half of them
are on furlough, They form the first
line, and all would, of course, be at
once called out in the event of a general
war. 1t is nevertheless true that the
great military powers have at their
disposal 100000 men who have
or are now learning, the SOL
dier's art, and are bound to re-enter the
ranks when required. The mind re-
fuses to grasp the full significance of
these pOrtentious figures; but it may
safely be affirmed that, so long as these
bloated armaments are suffered to.
exist, Europe can count neither on last
ing commercial prosperity nor on a.
long continuance of peace. - Geneva
Cor. of Manchester Examiner.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1879-12-11
MIshapg OF q Turkey.lTerohant.

The Yankton Press interviewed a
traveller from Deadwood to Fort Pierre,
and he remarked that the only discour-
aged man he met on the road was an,
Individual who started from Yankton.
with 600 turkeys. From Yankton to.
Pierre theturkeys were carried by boat.
From Pierre this poulterer intended to-
drive them to Deadwood. The first
night out while still near the river.
coyotes got among the flock and scat
tered it, many taking refuge in brushy
island in the river. The next morning
he found all but $50 of his birds and
started on. When met about half wav
Pierre and Deadwood he had
but thirty Of his original flock left, but
he could console himself with the.
thought that his loss was the Infinite
gain of the Pierreans. Every one there,
5hat could get a gun was out on that
sland hunting turkeys, and poultry for
awhile was the cheapest meat in tbs,
market.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1879-12-11
FORTY. sixth CONGRESS...FIRST
SESSION.

SENATE, Dec. 1.-The Senate was
called to o1ier by Yice-President Wheeler, and
prayer was offered by the Chaplain. Messrs.
Anthony and Bayard were appointed commit
tee 60 JOIN a similar committee of the House 70
wait upon the President and inform him that
both Houses Of Congress were ueady to receive
any communication he might choose to make.
A short recess SZHs taken, and WHEN the Senate
reoOnvened a message was received from the
House announcing that it was in session.
and that ft had appointed a committee
to wait upOu the President. Mr. Burnside
gave notice that after the opening hdur on the
following day be wouh ask leave to cEll up the
h0iRt resolut01 offered by him at the laa session
1elRting to the proposed inteT-oceanic oanal for
TIE purpose Of making esme remarks thereon.
The annual report Of the Secretary Of the Ireasu-
" ms laid before the Benate and very soon aft
arWand the Presidents message was received and
read. Dir. Ferry announces the death Of his late
Zachariah Chandler, and as mark of
,espaet BE- moved that the Senate adiourn.. 80
doUsE.--iBpeazer Randall called the House 70 /
rider at n0on. The roll call shower 232 mem-
lers present and hfty-six absent. Tie newly 4
elected memhers from California, Iowa aud New
fork were sworn in. The Presidents message
lTa received and read, and, on motion Of II.
Weed was reterTed 70 the Committee of the
fhole and ordered printed. Adjourned.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1879-12-11
DiOgenes' Tub a ,Wine-Jar.

ANOTHER harmless and familiar de-
lusion has been ruthlessly swept away
by the restless broom of scientific in
Vestigation. The tub of Diogenes, so
graphically depicted by Busch in his
inimitable "Bilderbogen," has been.
relegated to the dismal limbo of dis
credited myths Diogenes, so we are
sternly informed by German arch@olo-
gists, never lived in a tub at all. The
illustrious stole resided in a jar-a sort
Of overgrown earthenware pitcher with
out handle. Careless translators, who
have recklessly rendered the Greek
word for "wine-jar' by the compara-
lively modern substantive "tub," are.
responsible for the error in which hu-
manity has been unwittingly plunged
for ever so many hundreds of years.
Pliny assures his readers, ancient and
modern, that tubs are of Gallo origin.
Diogenes can have known nothing
about them. The Greeks kept their
wine in jars, frequently bottomless, and
thrust into the soil of their cellar foors,-
so that the liquor poured into them.
might not dribble out through inequali-
ties in the lower rim of the amphora.
1t was in one of these bottomless pitch
ers that Diogenes took up his abode.
Placed upon its side, he slept in it; set
upright he walked about in it. There.
is monumental evidence extant to the
fact that he chose for his dwelling a
cracked and Clipped jar, unfit for liquor
containing purposes, being prompted to.
this selection by his hatred of anything
like luxury or wastefulness. In certain.
districts of Brazil the aborigines for
merly buried their dead in jars exactly
similar to Diogenes, earthenware free
hold; and these quaint cofins are still
not unfrequently found, containing
mummifed bodies of priests and war
riors, with their ornaments and arms,
under the giant trees on the banks of
the Paraiba, where abide the Coreades,
a civilized Indian tribe. London TeEe-
graph.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1879-12-11
Alaska's Big River,

Alaska explorers report one of the
largest rivers in the world, the Yukon,
as naVigable for steamers, and at 800
miles from it's mouth it receives very
large navigable tributary. The basin
formed by the confluence is as large as
our Mississippi. Indians are eVery-
where, and the war between tribes is a
fixed institution. There is snow for six
months, and without roads dog sledges
find good travelling. Game abounds,
and Indians have an easy life. From
seven to nine dogs make team, the
odd one being the leader The driver
has to watch this dog. Ifit gets on the
scent of game it is off, and the whole
team is demoralized. Off they scam
per through the woods and thickets,
upsetting the load, smashing the sled,
tearing the harness, and giving the boss
days of hunting to restore the StGtW quo.
So vast country, traversed by naviga-
BILE waters, will soon tempt restless and
speculative adventurers to explore it.
Yankee wit will not fail to find profita-
BILE sources of commerce.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1879-12-11
Remarkable Presence Of Mind.

Remarkable presence of mind was
recently shown by miner near Potts
vile, Penn, He was employed in o
shaft on Sharp Mountain. He had
lighted a fuse and was climbing to the
surface by means of pegs in the side of
the shaft. When within few feet of
the top one Of the pegs gave way, and
the unfortunate man fell to the bottom
thirty feet below. One of his thighs
was broken and the splintered bones
were pushed through two pairs of pam
falcons. Notwithstanding his terrible
injuries he had sufficient presence of
mind to crawl to thelighted fuse, which
had burned within few inches of the
charge, and smother it. If he had not
done this he would have been blown to
pieces when the explosion took place.
He then crawled back to one of the
earth-buckets, got into it without assist
ance, and was hoisted to the surface.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1879-12-11

broke down with sob, "he changes.
his mind"
"I'll never change my mind, Kitty"
said the old man, drawing her toward
him.
In a few minutes man and wife went
out of Office, and the Squire, with a,
gratitied smile pocketed the best fee he
had received for a month.-LeGdVille
(OOL ! Herald.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1879-12-11
The Worlds Granary.

Till the comparison is made in figures:
it is not easy to appreciate how COM
pletely the United States overshadows
England and the rest of the civilized
world in its food producing power.
England has 2,S90,O0O acres of wheat
this year, and Australia supplements
this with 2,6OQ,eO0 acres. With the ex-
eeption of Canada, these two countries
contain all the wheat titled by the En-
glish speaking race. The United States
has the rest-SS, 600, 900 acres and over.
All Europe, including Russia, has bare
ly 40, 900, 900, at a rough estimate based
on the wheat production of the different
countries. The United States alone
has nearly as large an acreage, and at
the annual rate of increase viii soon
have more.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1879-12-11

Alta dinner of the Commercial Club
of Chicago, at which General Grant was pres
ent on the 9th, the General in response to the
welcome of the President of the Club, said /:
The illusions of your President to myself
have been gratifying on the whole, and the
assurances that he has held out to me that If
! would settle among you that can receive
the unanimous vote of this club for It's Presi-
dency, is the most tempting offer have had
yet. have read Of numerous places having
been cut out for me before, but this is the
only one that | have had any assurance
Of. But in this case even / am
somewhat embarrassed. My understand
ing before coming here this evening was
that to become member of this club man
had to represent some industry or other
some one Of the great Industries which have
made our country so great and prosperous,
and l am at loss really to know where
should come in, do see here one or two Of
the ring that has been referred to as tn at Ga
lena ring, who, believe, have the honor OF
being enrolled as members of this club. bow
they got In is equally puzzling to me. GEN
tlemen, thank you very heartily for the
honor you have done me, not only in the kind
offer you have made to locate me in this hon
orable and responsible place, but for the way
you have received me on the whole.n
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1879-12-11

Never wash rsisins that are TO be
used in sweet dishes. It will make the
pudding heavy. To clean them, wipe
with q dry towel.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1879-12-11

James A. DumOnt, Supervising In
spector-General of Steam Vessels, reports
that the total number Of lives lost by accident
from various causes, during the last fiscal
year, was IN, forty-four Of which were not
chargeable to accidents resulting from the use
Of steam in navigation. Notwithstanding the
increase Of 400 vessels to the steam merchant
marine since the last report, there has been a
steady decrease In the number Of fatal casu-
alties,
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1879-12-11

There are sixteen contested cases be-
fore the House Committee on Elections.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1879-12-11

The United States mints coined
&c, 49, 421 during November.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1879-12-11

Andrew Tracy was hanged at Smith
port, Pa, on the 4th, for the murder of his
cousin, Catharine Reilly, In September, 1878.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1879-12-11

An east-bound freight train on the
Little Rock Railroad, which left Little Rock
on the morning Of the 1st, jumped the track
in the afternoon, and ran into tressel, ditch
ing fifteen cars loaded with cotton, all Of
which burned, and negro woman, her two
children and a brakeman we're killed. Three
other persons were seriously injured,
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1879-12-11

One of the small pavilions of the
Bellevue Hospital at New York City, contain
ing twenty-three persons, burned on the
night of the 9th, and three patients, children,
were burned to death. The others escaped,
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1879-12-11

The bill for the abolition of slavery
in Cuba has been approved by the Spanish
Cabinet.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1879-12-11

The ex-Ameer Yakoob Khan has
been sent to Peshawur in charge of a military
escort.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1879-12-11

A difficulty occurred at Democratic
Ward Convention in Philadelphia on the I'd,
and three men were shot, one fatally.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1879-12-11

LABEL for dice box-gbake well be-
fore using.-BOSt0B Post,
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1879-12-11

Up to the 9th 1862 more German
immigrants had landed at New York City than
for the corresponding period In 1878.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1879-12-11

Mirsky, the Nihilist who was con-
demned to death for attempting the assassi-
nation Of General Drentlin, has had HIS
sentence commuted to hard labor in the sibe-
rian mines for an indefinite period.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1879-12-11

Twenty villages in Kirdschali, dis
trict Of the Rodope Mountains, have risen in
arms.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1879-12-11

Arohduchess Marie Christine, future
Queen of Spain, has officially renounced her
right 10 the Austrian succession.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1879-12-11

During recent heavy cyclone in the
Bay of Bengal the storm wave swept over
MOnkishkal Island, drowning several hundred
persons. ...
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1879-12-11

The workingmen of Switzerland are
contemplating emigration as a remedy for
their lack of work.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1879-12-11

The National Board of Health have
completed their work for the year. The
Board only yexpended $4,000 out Of the $780,
600 appropriated by Congress, and of this
amount $4,000 was used in Memphis. The
members Of the Board expect another yellow
fever epidemic In that city next summer un-
less the local authorities proceed to clean and
sewer the city during the present winter.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1879-12-11

FALSE HIPS are openly sold in San
Francisco dry goods stores.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1879-12-11

Bismarck has written private letters
to the leaders of the National Liberals thank
ing them for the support given by that party
to the Government on the railway question,
and expressing the hope that the former
friendly relations between himself and the
National Liberals may be renewed.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1879-12-11

The steamers Labrador and Servia,
which arrived at New York on the 4th, brought
Sl,977, 900 in gold.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1879-12-11

The well-known Wesleyan Chapel in
London, founded by John Wesley, was nearly
burned down on the 7th.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1879-12-11

ASt. Petersburg correspondent states
that the GOlOS was suspended for it's outspok-
en- articles upon the widespread misery and
poverty in the interior provinces, and the dis
honesty and barbarlsm Of Communal author
tiles.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1879-12-11

Egypt is making preparations for a
war with Abyssinia.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1879-12-11

A fire at Troy, N. Y, on the morn
ing OF the 9TH destroyed S35O,0OO worth of
property.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1879-12-11

The Kellogg-Spoford subcommittee
closed its labors at New Orleans on the Sd.
The committee adjourned to meet in Wash
ington. ..
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1879-12-11

Returns from the Louisiana State
election, heil on TIE "a, indicate the election
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1879-12-11

News has been received ct Liverpool
that war has broken out betWeel rival ehiefs
in New CalabaT, West Africa, sad 200 per
sons had been slain and wounded. and the
prisoners killed and eaten.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1879-12-11

of the Democratic ticket by large majority.
A large number Of negroes voted the Demo
cratic ticket In the country parishes.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1879-12-11

The GOJOS newspaper at st. Peters
burg has been suspended for FIVE months by
order Of the Government.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1879-12-11
CURRENT NEWS.

The public debt decreased $799, 1928
during November.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1879-12-11

The English Government has re-
moved the restrictions, imposed few months
ago, upon American sheep shipped to that
country. ..
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1879-12-11

The EK-Empress Eugenie intends to
90 to zululand to pray upon the spot where
her son was killed.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1879-12-11

The Ute Commission finished taking
testimony on the 5th. The Commissioners
demanded the surrender Of the parties recog-
nized at the massacre. The list includes the
head chief, Douglass The Indians consider
death incidental TO surrender and trial, and
there may be further trouble.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1879-12-11

AT New York City, on the 9th, Otto
Wolf and wife locked their three children in
room while they went out to work. BY some
accident fire occurred, and before assistance
arrived two of the children were burned to
death
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1879-12-11

On the 1st the President sent to the
Senate the nomination Of Hon. George W.
McCrary for United States Judge for the
Eighth Circuit, Vice Dillon, resigned.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1879-12-11

RumOrs were current in Berlin on
the ID that an attempt was made upon the
life Of the Gar while on his way to Moscow,
but no particulars were given.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1879-12-11

The Lincoln emancipation group at
Boston was unveiled on the 9th. A poem by
Whittier was read by a colored boy OF one Of
the Boston schools.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1879-12-11

Anexplosion of fre-damp occurred
in a mine in the Chemnitz, SaEony district,
on the 1st, and seventy or eighty persons
were killed,
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1879-12-11

The Governor and Council of Maine
assembled on the2d to canvass the vote Of the
State, Senators and Representatives elect
were allowed TO examine the returns Of coun-
ty officers but we're not allowed to examine
the returns OF the vote on Senators and Rep
resentatives. The latter entered a protest,
but It is understood will not resort to judicial
proceedings, and will make no further person
al effort with the Governor and Council to
procure access 70 the returns.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1879-12-11

Senator Baldwin is to take the late
Senator Chandler's place on the Committee Ct
Commerce. and Senator Ferry win on the va
cancY,in the Committee OF Naval Affairs.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1879-12-11

Capt Andrew Mckenzie, arrested
at Buffalo for the murder of Andrew Russell
on the barge Walton on the Goth ult,, made a
full confession on the 1st. The Captain states
that when he returned to his barge from the
city, Russell commenced to chaff him about
his staying out with prostitutes, ending his
remarks with statement that the Captains
daughter was also one, which so incensed the
latter that scuffie ensued and Russell threat
ened to kill the Captain with handspike,
whereupon the latter attempted to reach the
rail, but finding his assailant closing upon
him picked up the tongs and dealt him
deadly blow on the head.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1879-12-11

The steamships Donan aad Brittanic,
which arrived at New York from Europe on
the 9th, brought S2,17O,OOO in American coin
and British gold bars.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1879-12-11

Colorow testified before the Ute Com
missioners on the Sd that twenty Indians
were killed and several woundedinthe Thorn
burg fight. He said he never met the Nor
mons personally, but knew those that had, to
whom the proposition was made to furnish
arms and ammunition.