Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1879-04-10

ing luo SieaI kOn-E-nOOF5 D1aLlnS IN
her black dress.
A large number Of Cinnamon are soon
o arrive in Louisiana to replace the ne
5roes who have gone West.
General Garfield is not Methodist, as
las been reported. He was never ordained |
IS clergyman, but was a alay-Preacher in /
.he Disciples (Campbelitel Church.
General Beauregard denies very en-
Dhatically that he ever paid or offered
George D. Prentice $500, 900, or any other
sum, to espouse the cause of secession.
The latest sensation in Paris is Cora,
Esthe lions bride.'' She claims to be an
and lives in a den with hyenas,
bears, lions and other ferocious beasts.
Senator Walker, of Arkansas, who sue
ceeded Dorsey, has long face, q brown
beard and good head. Heis quiet man,
and will not, judging from appearances,
waste much of the time of the Senate talk
ing.
The exodus of the negroes from the
South still continues, and the
noble SOutherners, true to their inborn
perverseness, are patrOling the river with
firearms to prevent them from leaving.
-BeILefOntGile Index.
According to most of the Democratic
uOh lACdAA1 blAC HO0SA was
conferred on the President as a mere
matter of form or courtesy, and was new
er intended to be used to prevent bad leg
islatiOn.-PhilddeLph Press.
Thurman is reported i'll, and Tilden
has got down to a whisper. With these
two Presidential candidates off the track
there would be fun for the dark horses,
there being about one from each State and
four from OhiO.-PittsbWrg Post.
Garfield can be set down as stalwart.
All Republicans are stalwarts. The Re
publican party has accepted the chal-
Ienge of Democratic rebellion sympathi-
zers. Henceforth the conflict will be
''irrepressible. Fremont Journal.
Secretary Sherman, on Saturday, de-
termined to accept all orders for fOur-per
cent. bonds received Friday up to three
O'Clock, amounting to about $50, ,OOO,OOO
This makes the sale of sos, 900, 900 of four
per cents in one day.
The whole country seems to be going
endwise. Murder and incendiarism in
Texas, murders in Georgia, murders and
mob law in Kentucky, parliamentary
| language in the Virginia Legislature, a
| bowling secessionist in Mississippi, and a
man named BOyntOn floating down the
Ohio river. There must be reform.-Bdl-
| Ctn10fe GQzeGbe.
! A sfcute'' Yankee claims to have dis
covered the cause of so many unexpected
wrecks in life insurance companies. He
says the robust men who are always in
demand generally drop off before they
have paid half a dozen premiums, while
invalids and sickly youths, whom the
| agents shun, are almost sure to live to 3
| good old age. There is as much truth az
humor in the theory Philadelphia Press
A prominent Democrat at Washington
warns his Republican friends that they
must not be surprised if the Democrat
deem it necessary and fitting to re-exam
inc and revise much of the war legislation
which was thrust upon one section of the
country against its will. The Republi
cans understand the Democrats. Tht
milk-and-water neutrals are the fellow
who will be surprised.-ChicGgO Inter
Ocean.
The presence of Stanley Mathews il
Washington revives rumors that he is t.
be appointed to the Supreme Bench, a
Justice Hunt will never be able to tax
his seat again. Mr.. Matthews says ther
is not word of truth in it, and that tn
subject has not been mentioned betwee
him and the President. The ex-Senato
says he enjoys private life and the praC
tice of his profession, and is not willin
T to enter public life again in any capacity
There is a strong probability that lone!
of the Athens Journal, will have to be hel
; before the campaign closes. He is break
ing up the political furniture.-C Cinciand
: ENQUIRER. ttJones, - is the lad that can d
'tthat same," and if you don't want you
head cracked with a bed-slat or skille
keep it out of his way. It is high tim
t somebody should prove terror to the evi
, 1oers in the Democratic party, and the
a | no 10 1aain1 tho i'm hoe
5 dynasty in Ohio.-AthenS Journal.
A call has been issued by many colore
cleFgymen, teachers and social director
of the colored people of Louisiana for
convention to meet in New Orleans Apr
II to consider the condition of their rat
in Louisiana. They say: 'EWe regaT
8 with grave apprehension the wrongs an
= outrages from which so many of our pc
!. pie suffer to-day, and the alarm whiC
4 has influenced them to general exOdl
}, from North Louisiana and the turbulel
+ parishes in the State"
p Some persons in New York, who ougl
to know better, are urging the suspense
:, of the coinage of silver dollars by tt
r. United States. Time is wasted in talkir
v about this, for it cannot be done. III
n accumulation of silver will not harm al
n one. Ten years would be required to co
> as many silver dollars as there are sily
It five-franc pieces in the bank of Franc
The best thing we can do is to go on
q we are. The Nations of Europe wi
It want to see us again on the money que
If tion before many months, and they C;
# come to see us or invite us to meet the
Il in London.-C Commercial.
d Congressman Butterworth, of Ohio,
IL the son of Quaker parents who, althous
,. they were early abolitiOnists and help
Z, many flying slave over the undergroul
railway to freedom, yet love peace. NJ
'e Butterworth, Sr., fearing that his 81
Al was leaning too much toward perso
u allties in the recent canvass, wrote
l. him thus mildly: sThy mother and m
s. self have thought well to give thee sor
q advice touching the conduct of thy cal
le paign. We desire to say to thee that '
81 deem it better for thee to deal severe
n with bad principles and bad practic
le than to deal with bad men now livin
g who might be angered and do thee harl
1, -Neao York Tribune.
70 The public business did not call for
~ extra session of Congress, but the COnfe
= crates found themselves in possession
y that body, and determined to use it.
= The Democrats have a small majori
-. -, in both houses of Congress, and subn
- - themselves without reserve to a caucI
~ Of this caucus, more than two-thirds q
~ Confederate, and they control the part
- 1t was the decree of the caucus tt
10 there should be an extra session of CO
~ ~ gress, for the purpose, as Mr.. Blackbu
~ ~ and others have explained, of striki
- from the statute books the last vestiges
. war legislation.
= This is avowedly the first thing to
y done by the first Democratic COngrt
OF tba Cnr9.ts o,,d H. pros;Sor1t 20 a. o,l r.
Northern Democrats are coerced in
" Caucus. The Executive is to be coerc
oF in the appropriation bills.
~ In other words, it is the purpose of
No Confederates to use their Congress to ia
NJ possession of the Government and to
he nlotf"r,n' anu Tue tIel f,n @
ton whether the nennla indnrse the nj