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Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1880-12-30
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Two hundred and fifty men of a
pr,tisb yeoiment marching from Tvdenbnrp
10 Pretoria south Africa, recently, were over
powered by Beers, 100 being killed and wound
ed and the rest taken prisoners.
MANY laws residing in Berlin avoid
orneorinc.in public localities, and many Jew
isb families are ,rebaring to emigrate to 9th
~ countries
O.n ot4L u,,lu, Tol,,, clo, C,Los
ON Vilo %fUH WHY 'Vilu 'AAo" Oii0'
ter Monroe and j. B Bruce were attempting
70 cross te Boston N ~ Aipahy halroau Track III
h. q '3oI 1r"in "o and ali instantlv I;IIled
~. III. CO. r.. ~, AZ o,4i,
YEAR morn NaNo' n.y., ou IiIe @41ll
j. A. Gardner was knocked down and robbed
by two negroes, The negroes were taken to
the Munfordyille Jail from which they were
taken at midnight by an armed party of men
and hanged to tree. Gardner was seriously
hurt,
A LONDON dispatch says the Norwe-
gian ship Juno, which was seized by the Gus
toms authorities at the mouth Of the Shannon,
Ireland on the 22d, had started from Queens
town for New York, butwas driven back into
the Shannon by the stress Of weather. The Gus
toms authorities took charge of the vessel as
natural result of the character Of the cargo.
There does not seem to have been any surrep-
titiousattempt to land arms.
T,,,re Ni.DreoNJ TApvproN Consul
"A"ho I'In = AA''i''.i 0N'
General at Melbourne, Australia, under Presi.
dent Pierce, died at Washi ngton on the I'D
from want and exposure.
WHILE Albert Manee was mixing
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II II o'L !" ueal!cN mrar n.aInSo9'
a., on V,H sa,iil tlo EWinlouHu oSploueu, ~
DloWlhE muEue lu,o lI4slllGllts ', llo'i.ao i,l.
Ierry, VINO WHY, W'ts III an enEihe house ne"r oy'
was l"'"'S "ounuou'
A SAD casualty occurred near weston,
Ohio On the 9Ah. The Grand Army fair was
In nrorress at Weston and annong those in at
tendance was a weli-to.do farmer by the name
Of Anthony, with all his family except two
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1880-12-30

to send $1,000 to ireland to be used for the
agitators.
FIVE men, it was reported on the 23d,
were burned to death in the wreckage OF the
train that went through bridge near Lin
colntOn, NJ c., on the 22d, A brakeman was
| impaled by huge splinter through the breast
and thus burned to death.
SCARLET FEVER threatens to depopu-
late the town of Houtsdale, Clearfeld County,
Pa.
On the Beaver Meadows Division OF
the Lehigh Valley Railroad near Mauch
Chunk, Pa, on the 23d, Richard Sherry was
killed, Jasper Taylor fatally hurt and William
Conner and Lawrence Mckinley badly injured
by an explosion of giant powder cartridges.
PRESIDENT HAYES, on the 23d, signed
the commission of Judge William B. Woods
to be Associate Justice Of the United States
Supreme Court.
A DELEGATION of twelve Sioux In
dams, chiefs and head men from the Lower
Brule Agency, arrived at Washington on the
23d. Their business is to conduct negotia-
tions with the representatives of several lines
OF railways relative to granting right OF way
through their reservation.
IT is reported that Judge Settle, of
North Carolina, will be appointed to succeed
Judge Woods in the Fifth United States Cir
cult.
AT Belmont, CAL, on the 23d, Sir
Thomas Hesketh of England, was married to
Flora, youngest daughter of Senator Sharon.
~. PRATT, of Braintree, Vt, was
arrested on the 23d for an attempt to poison
a company of Frenchmen employed by George
Spear, in cutting logs on land claimed by
Pratt. Paris green was found sprinkled on
the dinner of the men.
The Pacific Mutual Marine and In
land Insurance Company of New York has
resolved to 60 into liquidation. During the
past year the company lost heavily on the
lakes and North Atlantic.
COLONEL THOMAS D. CHADDICK, gen
eral manager of the Oklahoma colony and q
scout, who fanked the military andwent into
the Indian Territory, returned to Caldwell,
Kan, on the 28d. They say the Territory is
full of people. They met at an appointed
rendezvous over fifty wagons concealed
from the scouts, They report that hundreds
Of claims have been taken and the foundation
for houses built on them. Influential parties
have urged the colonists to break up camp
and await Congressional action, but they will
not. ..- ......-.. rH
AN engine exploded on the Reading
Road at Belmont, Pa, on the 23d, killing
Patrick Donahue, engineer; Thomas Keevin,
conductor; William Ash and John Maher,
brakemen. u
The Pacific FIGURING Mill, of Kehler
Brothers, st. Louis, Mo-, was destroyed by
fire on the 23d The loss is estimated at $780,,
900, but may fall short Of that. Henry Car
roll and Pat Larl1en fremen, were carried
down by a falling floor. Carroll was killed
and Lafkin injured, but not seriously.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1880-12-30

Mr.. WILLIAM b. FERGUSON, Of East Spring
field whose peculiar and dreadful malady was
fully detailed in these columns a few years
ago, is now passing through the period Of
frghtful spasms which reour at this time ev-
cry year. 1t is now twenty years since Mr.
Ferguson was stirst attacked with thisunknown
disease. During this annual season Of horrible
suffering the paroxysms come on regularly at
seven o clock in the evening and continue, with
slight intervals, for about three hours leaving
him PROSTATE and exhausted. Precisely at sey-
en- the next night they recur, and so on for three
or four weeks, when they suddenly stop and
leave him for another year. When in these
spasns the muscles become rigid as bars Of
steel, and the body is thrown into frightful
contortions. No known cause for the malady
has ever been assigned, and although Mr..
Ferguson has spent large sums OF money In
search of medical assistance no relief what
ever even Of a temporary character, has ever
been found, A fow years since he spent
week in Cleveland, and the faculty and al the
leading physicians of the city for several
nights witnessed his spasms, but none Of
them had ever seen similar case or could
diagnose the disease.--Erie pa Dispatch
Mr.. KEENE is reported tohave bought
q fine stock farm in Virginia.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1880-12-30
Scientific Explorations in the SOuthe
West.

CAPT. STEVENSON, who has just re-
turned from the far West with small
party, brings back much new infOrma-
ton relative to the ethnology and arche-
ology of the Southwestern territory. I'm
der the immediate direction of j. W"
Powell, the party began their explora-
tions in Northern New Mexico, at and
in the vicinity of the Indian Pueblo OF
Taos. The party spent some days at
Taos, studying the habits and customs
of these Indians and investigating the an
cient ruins in the neighborhood, of which
photographs and sketches were made.
A collection was made of the various
implements used by these people, both
for domestic and other purposes. From
here the party proceeded down the valley
Of the Rio Grande, along whose banks
most of the Indian tribes of New Mexico
dwell, and aleng which are to be found
some of the most ancient and interesting
as well as the most extensive ruins re-
lating to the ancestors of the present in
habitants. From Taos the first village
reached is Picoris, then San Juan, then
few miles below, on the west bank Of
the Rio Grande, is the interesting Pueblo
Of Santa Clara, not far from which the
party discovered series Of the most ex-
tensive cliff ruins west of the Mississippi.
Between the Rio Grande and range Of
mountains about twenty-five miles west
of it is an area of about thirty miles in
length by FIVE to twelve in width, COM
posed almost entirely of high table,
lands, with perpendicular faces or walls
ranging from 20 to 500 feet in height
In each of these walls are cliff housesy
carved out of solid rock with stone axes
by a people now extinct, and of whom
the present inhabitants claim to have mo-
knowledge, although their customs in
many respects must have been similar.
On the summit of these mesas are found
extensive ruins of villages, around which
are the remains of ut-houses, such as Es-
thufas or places of worship, reservoirs
for the storing of water in times OF war;
corrals for sheep or goats, etc. Around
the ruins, which are built on solid rock
are paths showing the footprints Of the
occupants, worn from two to ten inches
deep in the rock. Photographs were
made of Zaos, San Juan, Santa Claras
San Idelfonso, Namba, Zesuque, Oochitiy
Jemez, Jemez ruins, Silla, Santa Anna,
Santa Domingo, Sandia, San Felipi, and
many subjects of details, altogether con-
stituting one of the finest collections in
the possession of the Government. Maj.
Powell, who is in charge of the ethnologi-
cal branch of the Western explorations
viii shortly issue his full report upon
the summers Washington Cor
SO. Louis GIO5e-Denl0crGt.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1880-12-30

THE Supreme Court of the United
States, on the Goth, decided that an individual
shareholder Of an lnsolyent bank cannot be
compelled 10 pay more than his full proper
tlonafe share Of the banks liabilities Ia order
10 make good the deficiency caused by the In
abilty Of other stockholders TO pay their pro-
portionate shareG
Or 150 cases Of diphthoria in Brook
lyn, n. Y, fifty cases proved fatal The doc
tors are alarmed at the spread and virulenee
OF the disease.
Ina shooting gallery at New York
City on the Goth, Charles Westdeld made a
wager that be could put bullet through the
hat Of barkeeper, asleep at one end Of the
room, As Westfeld fred the barkeeper,
named Warganz, changed his position and
the bullet struck him In the head, inhlcting
probably fatal wounds
FOUR hundred miles ofrailroads we're
constructed In Missouri during tue Dastyear
A BAND Of Spiritualists digging for
gold two miles south Of Albion, N. Y, under
the direction Of Rochester medium, claim to
have found many curious articles, including
Masonic emblems and bird engraved on
finely cut stone
A SCRANTON Pa, man gave his wife
caFbollc acid instead Of chloral and has gone
crazy 1t the fatal consequence Of his mistake.
TIE Chicago Inter- ocean claims that
immense quantities Of oleomaFgarine butter
ine, etc, ana being Manufactured daily in
that city and sold not only IN the city but
exported "a genulae butter
TIE Chicago doctors are puzzled by
q peculiar ease IN thatcity. While Crawford,
aged fourteen, son Of William Crawford, cap.
tain Of tug boat. has for seven years been
sweating blood a. times and lately has had
severe attacks which alarmed hls parents.
Haindrmify comes on him usually after taxi
ing cold Great black patches appear on bis
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1880-12-30
PITH AND POINT.


AFOOT-NoTE-The shoemaker's bill.
LANDLORDS agents in Ireland are
Emen of mark"
The tower of Babel is the first con-
hnued story on record.
MICHIGAN has produced q pig with a
trunk. This thing shoald be checked.
THOSE who tried it confess that a.
large, healthy mustard-plaster worn on
the back contains more heat than heavy
overcoat. PHILADELPHIA Chronicle.
con, yes!'' said Harry, when, in read
ing novel, he came to the expression,
"the one poor lamp only served to make.
darkness visible;T ooh, yes! | under
stand that. It was in railroad car, Of
course. ."-B0Stoaa Transcript.
TIE Grand Marah Jah of Calcutta
Got tipsy and fell in the gutta;
He was found by lackey,
., Who shouted ooh, crackeyW .s- .g
And toted him home on 8 shutta.
--ARseTScGn Queen.
AN exchange says that cup in New
Hampshire you can, for SO 80, purchase
barrel of cider with a yellow dog
thrown in" Yes, but hang it, who
wants barrel of cider into which yell
low dog has been thrown. Boston Post.
THERE is burden of care in getting
riches, fear in keeping them, tempta-
ton in using them, guilt in abusing
them, sorrow in losing them, and bur-
den of account at last to be given up
concerning them, and yet foolish people
sell their souls and sigh to be rich.-
N. o. Picaystrae.
A DR.. Knox, Of New York State,
thinks he has done big thing because
he has taught some pet pigs to play
euchre. Let him go into a pen-beg
pardon, smoking-car-on any of our
railroads and he wAl find what he thinks
is curiosity is a common enough thing.
Boston Transcript.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1880-12-30

BosToN spends S2,900,000 per annum
for oysters. The bean statistics have
not been collected.
The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1880-11-23

One of the curiosities of Arizona is an an
Gent copper mine on the east side of the
Verde. BY whom it was worked it would be
hard to determine. Possibly by the Aztecs;
more likely by the Apaches. This is more
reasonable, as the mine has not been worked
for the metal in the ore but for the paint.
There are now on the dump rich and easily
worked cabonates, while every spot where
high-colored, soft material showed itself has
been worked out. Several rock tools which
have been found, with battered edges and the
stains of ore on them, prove that implements
of stone were used. They ran a tunnel into
the ledge nine feet high and from six to eight
feet wide and twenty feet long. In places
there are walls built and the waste matter
thrown behind them.
The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1880-11-23

An old writer in the time of Queen Eliza
beth says in regard to mines and spectators !:
"A mineral man should be a hazard adven-
turer, not esteeming much whether he hit or
miss. If he happen to win ne must esteem
it as nothing; il he loses all vet he must
think he has got something" (No doubt the
old gentleman meant "experience.") If he
find "A rich vein let him not esteem it, for it is
like a man stung with a nettle. etching for
more, of c~ourse.) Another writer of the same
era says: "When mines hit it is the best got
gear in the world, it is SO profitable TO all and
hurts none; and when they hit not, although
it be lost for a time, God is hereby honored
in searching his hidden treasures out of the
depths of the earth"
The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1880-11-23

The Prince of Wales recently gained S25,-
600 by a lucky bet on the turf. Yet there is
a loud call for coin to keep off his creditors,
and the government is asked to give $4,000
to assist in this work and also a permanent
addition to the yearly budget of the same
amount The present allowances of the
Prince and the Princess are $4,000, or $780,
600. This, at first sight, looks to be enough
even for a prince who is fond of all the fash
ivnable vices hat swallow up fat incomes.
Yet the prince is in a chronic state of debt,
which is attributed by his friends and Young
England in general, to the parsimony of the
queen. She, it is declared, throws the bur-
den and expense Of entertaining foreign visit
ors of rank, as well as of the usual court re-
ceptions, upon the prince. For these extra
expenses the queen receives q liberal sum in
her budget, but she takes good care to keep
it. She Is said to have the money saving
faculty along with other Hanoverian virtues,
but she was never able to culsAvzzs them in
the prince. Like the late John B~fongham,
he has had a good time in his lie, and hi
never allows the dignity with which monarchs
are wont to hedge themselves about to inter
fsre in the slightest way with the pursuit Of
pleasure.
The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1880-11-23
The Oyster.

The oyster is a very lowly creature, not at
all handsome, and of no sex in particular. 1t
is called by naturalists a lamelibrduchiate
m0ltuSc, but does not seem to mind it. 1t is
jawless, toothless, half-blind, and has no feet.
Wherever it finds itself in infancy, there it
stays. "growing up with the place" and eating
whatever is set before it.. 1t lives in a shell,
attends strictly to its own affairs, and is of
such a taciturn disposition that ''dumb as an
oyster" has long since passed into a proverb.
1t certainly knows when to keep its mouth
shut, and scientists consider this indicative of
the male gender; but its gentle disposition
and the sweet taste it leaves Oh your lips are
essentially female attributes. As matters
now stand II must be d verv wise oyster in
deed that knows its own father.
The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1880-11-23
FOR H FARMER.

He has fat cattle who feeds them; and he
has fat acres who feeds them with a liberal
hand.
A Vermont dairy farmer says that when he
feeds meal to his cows, seventeen pounds of
milk make a pound of butter; but when no
meal is fed it takes from twenty-three to
twenty six pounds.
To raise cows for the dairy they should not
be allowed to become fat at any stage of
growth, and should be brought to calf before
two years Of age. Early breeding develops
large milking powers.
A farmer of Iowa estimates that the profit
of raising one two year old short horn steer
for market is equal to that on eighteen scrub
trees, which have to be kept three years and
more before they are salable.
In a warm room a large towel, frequently
wet and wrung so as not to drip, and hung
over the back of a chair near the stove, will
make a marked difference in the comfortable
feeling II healthfulness of the atmosphere.
If cows are in high condition it is recon-
mended to give them, a few days before calv-
ing, one pound each of EPSON salts and one
ounce of ginger, which will prevent milk
fever. This is u disease becoming more pre-
valent as COWS are fed better.
Oats should be bruised for an old horse
but not for a young one, because the former,
through age and defective teeth cannot chew
them properly the young horse can do so,
and they are thus properly mixed with saliva
and become wholesome nutriment.
The Michigan Farmer states that a famous
horse breeder for twenty years raised his
stock ON a diet of parsnips, feeding no oats or
carrots. Vivacity of spirit and sickness of
coat were the noticeable effects of this food.
In rich soil parsnips will yield about twelve
tons to the acre. They are also recommend
ed as a wholesome food for mich cows. They
are however, Troublesome growing.
The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1880-11-23
Bayard TaylOr's Rule.

These are rules which l have always ac-
cepted Fist, labor. Nothing can be had
for nothing; whatever a man achieves he
must pay for, and 10 favor of fortune can alb
solve him from duty. Secondly, patience and
forbearance, which are simply dependent on
the slow justice Of time. Thirdly, and most
important, faith. Unless a man believes in
something far higher than himsel, something
infinitely grander and purer than he Can ever
become-unless he has an instinct of an Or
der beyond his dreams, OF beauty and good
ness and justice, beside which his own ideas
are dark, he will fail in every loftier form of
ambition, and ought to fail.
The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1880-11-23
A Few Exceptions.
lHaWkeyc. /,

AAstN { vi
"Why,' Numbered an imprisoned orator
at a temperance mass meeting, sin only one
year, in twelve short months, the people of
the United States drank 27,S77, 925 gallons of
beer and 7,S54,294 gallons OF whisky How
much of that hideous aggregate did you
drink ?" he shrieked, glaring around at the
respectable vice-presidents on the platform.
And in the impressive pause that followed
the corresponding secretary arose and said
that with the exception of the tonic drops
she was compelled to take before breakfast,
and the anti-malarial bltters that DR.. Bolus
prescribed for her, and a little pale ale for her
digestion, and a pint of beer at night, which
she couldn't close her eyes in sleep without,
and maybe an occasional drop of brandy for
the neuralgia, she had not tasted a drop Of
spiritual or fermentuous liquids since she
Joined the society. And a great hush fell on
the meeting, like the voice of a man who has
Just been asked for loan Of $40.
The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1880-11-23

What may be in store for Turkey, Ger
many or Austria-indeed, for Great Britain
itSelf-from the moment the helm of the Rus
sian state ship shall be contided to the vigor-
Gus grasp of Alexander Alexandrovich no
mall can say. The cZarovich is a prince cast
in a very different mold from that which
shaped his weak, amiable, easily influenced
sire. He is known to entertain liked opin-
ions, resolves and projects, and to adhere to
them with all the tenacity of a singularly
determined and self-relying nature. OF his
~fervent faith in the Panslavistic dogmas no
doubt has been entertained since he came to
manhood by those who now him best and
his ~antipatliy to all German men and things
is no less than his sympathy with the attract
i've qualities of the French nation. He Is
believed by his cOuntrymen to be, before all
else, a true and uncompromising Russian pa
triot TO hold in horror the system of pecu-
lation, bribery and administrative fraud that
has honeycombed the empire during the last
two reigns and brought it to the brink of
ruin to set his face in particular against
abuses of their high station practiced hitherto
with impunity by certain Of his own near
relatives, and to have vowed himself to the
mission, as far as the Internal affairs of his
native land are concerned. of extirpating,
root and branch, the countless denominations
tolerated by his father, with what results the
nihilistic movement has only too terribly
demonstrated. The Russian crown prince,
under whatever title he may assume the active
government of bis imperial heritage, co-regent
or other, is generally expected to come for
ward as q radical reformer at home, and as a
vigorous promoter Of the Panslayistic pro-
gramme abroad. Should he realize the an
ticipations at present entertained on his
account, it is more than probable that Rus.
sia's neiphhors In, EurODe and IN asia will. in
the course Of q few years to come, find ample
reason to regret the omantic union that /.
about 10 lead to Alexander Nicolasevich's
remuneration of imperial sway in favor Of
Alexander A!exandrovicb. London Teie-
] graph.
The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1880-11-23
A - sl,.sahe.
Wall Street News.

A few days ago a Western merchant who
wanted to do some sightseeing and buy his
fall stock at the same lime, entered a dry.
goods jobbing-h house on Broadway, and &C.
costed the first person he met with. 'Are
you the proprietor here P" "Not exactly the
proprietor" was he reply. 5 present
am acting as shipping clerk, but l am cutting
my cards for a partnership next year by or.
ganizing noon prayer meetings in the base
ment."
The stranger passed on to a very important
looking parsonage with a diamond pin, and
asked ; ".Are you the head of The house p
swell, no, | cant say | am at present, but
l have hopes OF a partnership In January.
Pm laying for a 500 pew in an uptown
church, and That will mean a quarter interest
here in less than six months"
The next man had his feet up, his hat back
and a so cent cigar in his mouth, and he
looked so solid that the stranger said:
"You must run ibis establishment"
"Me? Well, | may run 1t very soon. At
present Tn the Dookkeeper, but I'm expect
ing to get into a church choir with the old
mans darling aud become All equal partner
hete.'
The stranger was determined not to make
another mistake. He walked around until
Hc iOuLu u HAL Will LIS CpdG vi anu uuSy
with a case of goods, and he said to him:
THE porters are kept pretty busy in here,
l see."
ayes" was the brief reply.
"But l suppose you are planning to invest
in a Gospel hymn-book and sing the old man
out of All eighth interest, aren't you."
"Well, no, not exactly" was the quiet re-
ply. sI'm the old man himself"
And all that the stranger said, after a long
minute spent in looking the merchant over,
was: "Well Turn my buttons!"