Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1880-01-01

Two iremen were badly hurt by falling walls.
Ouray reported to General Hatch at
Los Plnos on the Goth with only part Of the
prisoners demanded by the Commissioners.
General Hatch refused to proceed to Wash.
ington untilall the guilty Indians were de-
livered, when Ouray asked for and received
further time to bring them in. The army
may yet be called upon to settle the question.
Three of the directors of the sus-
pended Louisiana Savings Bank and Safe De-
posit Company, of New Orleans, have been
indicted for submitting to the Treasurer of
State for official publication fraudulent re-
port of the condition Of the bank, and con-
cealing facts within their knowledge relative
to the condition of the bank with intent to
deceive the public.
The lottery case was dismissed from
the United States Court on the 22d This
sustains the action of the Postmaster Gener-
al, as the case now stands. 1t Is understood,
however, that new bill must be filed and a
judicial decision sought upon the constitu-
tional question involved in the matter which,
in the opinion Of the Court, has not yet been
properly brought to fits attention.
A Mussulman priest has been SEN
fenced to death in Turkey for translating the
Bible into the Turkish language. Minister
Layard has sent a communication to the
Porte, demanding the release Of the priest and
the restoration Of his papers. The latter re-
piled stating that the missionary was not a
British but a German subject, and that he
will be treated leniently
The steamer Borussia, from Liver
pool for New Orleans, fOundered at sea on the
3D. The BorussIa had 1870 passengers and a
crew OF fifty-four men. About dozen pas
sengers and most Of the crew got away in
boats The remainder Of the passengers went
down in the vessel with the Captain, second
mate, three engineers, eleven hremen, three
stewards, the carpenter and two boys.
Two peddlers named Edward Harvey
and James McGee, we're murdered on the
night OF the 10Th by negroes, near Jernigan,
Russell County, Ala, and their bodies thrown
into river The murder was discovered on
the following morning, when two negroes
were arrested A large crowd of whites and
blacks assembled on the 2lst and decided to
hang the murderers, which was done forth
with.
On the night Of the Oath a party Of
roughs boarded Baltimore & Ohio train at
Camden, Md, and after the train started made
an attack upon a colored PASSENGER, He fled to
the ladies' car for safety, but was pursued
there by the roughs, who made an indlscrim-
mate assault with pistols and sticks upon the
passengers. A colored woman was shot in
the neck and q man was badly cut. Other
passengers were badly bruised.
At Delphos, Ohio, on the morning of
the 25th, Bernard Picker, an old German, was
called to his door by loud knocking, and
upon opening the door he was confronted by
three men with revolvers who demanded his
money, He resisted and was shot and in
stanty killed. His wife ran to his assistance
when she was bound with ropes, gagged and
tortured until she disclosed where the money
was. Fifteen hundred dollars we're taken.
Under the modified Treasury regula-
tions new United States notes can no longer
be furnished from the Washington office for
bankers drafts, as has been the custom for
some time past, This change has been made
necessary by the fact that the amount Of cash
In the Treasury of the United States has be-
come 30 reduced that 1t Is impossible to sup
ply the heavy demand from banks sending
checks on their New York correspondents for
returns in greenbacks.
A sensational dispatch from Wash
ington,on the 23d, stated that circular with
out signature had been sent to the clerks In
the departments from Maine who served in
the Union army during the war, ordering
them to so arrange their affairs that they can
meet without delay at the Grand Army hall
to organize rife club, and start at once for
Augusta, Me. The circular stated that uni
forms, great coats and caps would be fur
nished, with rations and transportation, and
a supply of Spencer rides would be provided
on the way North
Mr.. Collyer, Chemist Of the Agrioul-
tural Department, says that his experiments
had demonstrated that an acre Of sorghum
would produce as much sugar as an acre of
the best sugar cane, With this great advan-
tage for sorghum, that 1t could be grown
from Maine to California, and from Minneso-
ia to Texas, while sugar cane can only be
successfully cultivated in portion Of Louis
lana. In regard to corn-stalk sugar, COlyer !
says the plant is probably one-third less valu-
able as q sugar plant than sorghum, but is
atill susceptible of very profitable working.
Two persons were killed, and twenty,
i've slightly injured, by an accident on the
Chicago Il Alton Railroad near Borden, H.,
IN the Goth. The train consisted Of bag
gage, smoking, chair car and sleeper, The
shair car was well filed, and here 1t
vas the injury was done. AS soon as the
,ar ran of the stoves upset and that
md Of the car was almost instantly In blaze.
The passengers, many Of whom were injured,
'ushed to the other end of the car to escape,
jut finding the door locked panic seized
hem, and for few moments the scene was a
errible one. Finally the door was broken
lown and all got out excepting Colonel Bond,
II Aurora, ILL.,, who was burned TO death. The
,orter Of the sleeping car was the other per-
on killed.