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Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1881-01-20
Domestic.

The Maine Legislative Committee on
Gubenatoral votesreported on the 18th that
Harris NJ. Plaisted having received plurality
Of all votes cast, is duly elected Governor OF
the State Of Maine.
Hon. JoHN SHERMAN was unanimous
ly nominated for the United States Senate by
caucus OF the Republican members OF the
Ohio Leg stature on the nth.
j. G, FAIR, Democrat, was elected to
the United States Senate by the Nevada Leg
islature on the llth. The California Legisla.
ture elected General Miller, Republican.
The Connecticut Republican Legisla-
tive caucus, on the 18th, nominated General
Hawley United States Senator BY accamatlon.
GENERAL BENJAMIN HARRISON was
unanimously nominated for United States
Senator by the Indiana Republican Legislative
caucus on the nth.
AT Reading, Pa, on the evening OF
the 1lth, the residence Of Wellington Moser
was destroyed by fire, caused by the explosion
OF kerosene lamp. The explosion occurred
IN the dining-room where the family had lust
finished supper. The clothing Of three chill
dren was ignited from the burning OIL and
two Of them, babe six months old, and Sallle
ROthenberger, aged fourteen. who had lust
called, were burned 10 death. The third, Mary
MOser aged eight, WAS fatally burned Daniel
Maurer a bOarder was badly burned while
trying 10 save the children.
The grocery store Of J. p. Andrews
4 Co, at Climax, Kalamazoo County Mich,
was wrecked on the evening Of the 10th by
the explosion OF one hundred mounds of now.
der. Twelve persons were injured, nine very
badly. Tie clerk was weighing outsome pow
der for 8 customer, when, By some unac-
eountable accident, the powder iguited and
the explosion followed. Three Of the parties
VIII probably die,
An appeal Is made for contributions
for the relief Of the colored refugees in Kan
aaa, whose distress ls pronounced a fatal re-
atty
THE thermometer at Fort Buford, ID.
T., on the night Of the 9th indicated fifty.
three degrees below zero.
The total number Of private bankers
in sixteen Of the principal cities Of the United
States Is $50 with an aggregate capital Of
f43,e90,l10, and aggregate deposits Of s82-
WQ &0-the average amount OF CO ital being
t10.233, and the average amount Of de-
posits e95, ,46d. About seventy per cent Of
these private banks are located 10 the city Of
New York. The total number OF private bank
ers ia the United States and Territories Is
2302; with an aggregate capital OF $40, ,I2i,-
9Jl; deposits, sis2,0O7,235
LIEUTENANT SCHWATKA, of New York
City, has received q communication from
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1881-01-20

A WASHINGTON special Of the 10th says:
"Tho Chinese treaties were sent to the Sem
ate to-day, and the documents were referred,
! IN Executive session, to the Committee on
Foreign Relations The treaties relate to COM
merce and immigration.
"The Emperor of China agrees that the
| Government Of the United States should eX.
eroise entire control over the immigration Of
Chinese into this country, Just as the Pekin
| Government regulates the movement Of for
eigners intot their country. Whenever, in the
Judgment Of this Government, the immigra-
ton OF Chinese labor threatens to injure the
interests Of this country, we may restrict or
put stop to 1t altogether. While the
influx Of Chinese is not prohibited in
terms, the same end Is practically accom-
plished by allowing our Government to exer-
else its discretion in the premises except in
case of those Nations OF China who may come
hero for other purposes than labor simply. In
other words we are not to interfere with the
going aud coming Of Chinese subjects who
seek to invest capital, engage in commerce,
study or travel; TO engage in the practice Of
the learned professions, or scientific Observa-
ton or investigation. The Chinese already here
arc 10 have the same protection of life and
t'NFNAhF AF' 40 bt@ttt &AANo14 W NAAL NWA NAbA"
1ens.
The Commercial treaty provides that
no ditIorential Or discriminating duties
shall be levied by either country at their
ports to the disadvantage Of the merchant ma
rine or commerce Of the other, which is, in
fact, in accordance with our statutes as at
present in force, 1t appears also that the
treaties do not profess to impair, abolish or
annul the Burllngame treaty, but rather de-
fine and supplement il, and supply regula-
tious In certain particulars omitted in the
other document. The Commercial treaty
specifies that the Americans shall not import
opium into China, an article by the way, that
we 60 not have to export, and in return for
this concession very important consideration
is provided in the way Of special relief from
duties on our manufactured cotton fabrics to
our great advantage over English goods"
-Venuor has been offered a position
in the Weather Bureau at Washington.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1881-01-20
a Fntnl rnnndntion.

THE Brazilian colony of Blumenau, largely
peopled by settlers from Germany, has met
with serious dsasterin the shape of IN over
whelming tropical rain storm, DR., Blumenau
writes to the SdGr ana MOset Z6ttimg that de-
luge burst upon the settlers at three o'clock
on the morning of the I'D of September and
lasted until eleven at night, Over twenty per-
sons were drowned or lost their lives otherwise
during its continuance. In neighbOring set
tlement, eighteen lives were lost, and doubt
less many moro in other places. Hundreds of
houses were destroyed, bridges washed away,
and streets and roads SO utterly devastated as
hardly to leave a trace of their previous exist
ence. Dr. Blumenau's valuable library and
private papers and manuscripts were irrepara-
bly, damaged and his botanical garden, that
had been carefully cultivated for twenty-five
years. was parSly uprooted and destroyed, and
partly buried in mud. Most of the colonists
are destitute. ....,.. a...
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1881-01-20
PITH AND POINT.

AN attractive but uncultivated woman
is very like brown sugar-sweet but un--
refined.
THE Detroit Free Press says: cit is.
very hard to be poor" That is our
recollection of it.-MilwaW5ee Sun.
THERE is an old saying that ''if YOU
keep anything seven years it will come
in style3 All right; then poverty is.
stylish, and we're in style.-OI Cty
DerrGc5
A MISSOURI man with an ingrOwing-
nail chopped his toe off. This remedy
never fails. For sale at all hardware,
stores. Beware of limitations. .-Norrts-
tom Herald.
IT is the opinion of Hans Pfeiffer that
murderer upon the scaffold, although
in very serious position, is always,
bound to have his ''leedle choke. -
KaWcob Strauss.
WE would like to inquire if the man
who sat with bated breath got q biteF
If so, the plan might be at once adonrrd,
by our ignOble army of tramps. Ioa-
EeTS StdteSn1G@.'
= Lhh1 nAAh14N9 VI hllLOudj CllIuDCb'
tree to shake down coon. just how
he felt when he found the coon 10 be "a.
bear will never be known, as bluin
cuffed him off limb and he had a faIh
of fifty feet.-DetT05t Free Press.
There was once a poor pitiful plumber,
Who was meekness itself in the summer,
# But the frost made his "ple," r #N *
And he now has the5style
OF q brass mounted st. Louis drummer.
Indianapolis Herald.
CARE you a good riderp' asked a
livery man. 81 am," replied the Gus.
toner, and just then the horse snortedr
stood on its hands, came down and
bucked. And the customer went on,
from his high seat in the haymow, "See,
how easily l get off"
MEN AND WOMEN.
"Women have many faults;
Men have but two;
There's nothing right they say
And nothing right they do!
"But if naughty men do nothing right
And never say what's true
What precious fools we women are
To love them as we dOW
N. o. Picoyune
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1881-01-20
Singular FulalIment Of n Dream.

LITTLE CLARA BEEDE, the ten-year-old
daughter of James NJ. Beede, the Assistant
| Principal of the High-School at Orange N. j D.,
was greatly admired for her vlvacty and her
sweetness Of disposition by all her fathers
neighbors and by her playmates. On the FRI
day preceding Christmas, the children attend
ing the public schools were dismissed for the
holiday vacation. Christmas Day little Clara
spent at the Christmas-tree entertainment Of
her Sunday-SchoOl class. She was as lively as
was her wont, In the evening her father
romped with her. On Sunday morning she
came to the breakfast table with a serious
face. Her mother questioned her, and Clara
said she had had dream.
~ dreamt, mother" she said, "that died
and went to Heaven When got up there an
angel met me at the door. He led me by the
hand toward a lake Of clear water. asked
for drink. 1t was handed me. Oh, mother,
how delicious it was. could feel it gothrough
all my veins. Then, mother saw you by my
side. was glad at that, for saw you drink,
too" NJ Heaa gH .s
Mrs, Beede bade her child pay no attention to
the dream. They were both in good health, and
not likely to die. On Sunday afternoon symp-
toms of diphthcria were noticed in Clara
NVOtOA Nho pCLlb AOLs Oll NOW CtlI LlUl mug
when the neighbors called to wish Mr. Beed9
the compliments Of the season, he Informed
them that his daughter was dead. She had
died that morning, The greatest anxiety was
then expressed for the health of the mother,
by those to whom Cl0rH's dream was repeated.
The father did not resume his duties in the
High-School on Monday, for he was suffering
from the disease which had caused the little
girls death. His wife, too, was attacked.
On Friday MIR. Beode died. The news was
kept from his wife, us her death was moment
arily expected. Mr.. Boedo was born in East
Hebron, N. H., thlrty-six years ago, and was
graduated at Wesleyan University in the class
of 'T2. He was for some time Professor of
Mathematics in the Drew Ladies' Seminary in
Carmel, N. Y.-E. Y. Sun.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1881-01-20
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.


In some recent experiments at Paris,
the fumes of burning coffee were shown
to have a &sinfecting power quite re-
markable.
DIR. VAN LENT has been commission
ed to study epidemic diseases in the.
United States for the Government Of
Holland. nftE narsfer
A BUG has turned up in Asia Minor
which feeds upon the eggs of the locust,
Where a cluster of locust eggs is exam
ined the destroying insect appears in the
midst of them. Locusts from time inn
memorial have made themselves dis
liked in Asia, and the new bug, which is.
believed to deposit its eggs in the live.
locust's body, has general sympathy and
encouragement.
FROM the inquiries conducted by Pro-
fessor Hermann Coin, of Breslau, since.
1865, it appears that short-sightedness is,
rarely or never born with those subject
to it, and is almost always the result of
strains sustained by the eye during study
in early youth. A better construction
Of school desks, an improved Typography
of textbooks, and sufficient lighting of
class-rooms are the remedies proposed
to abate this malady.
One of the advantages pertaining to-
the new method Of engraving by cleo
tricity-an electric spark pen having
been invented for the purpose in Paris
is that the artist does all parts of his
work, and with no more trouble than if
with an ordinary pencil, and
can even operate in dark room, with
out any other light than the glare from
the induction spark. If a sheet of thin
paper be attached to plate of copper
or zinc, it is said that an engraving may
be made with extraordinary facility by
This device.
DIR. CUrTER states that the increase
Of nervous diseases, decaying teeth, pre-
mature badness, and general lack of
and bone strength are greatly
lue to the impoverished quality Of -four
low in use, the gluten being thrown.
sway in order to make the flour white.
BE urges the use of unbolted flour, and
If eggs, milk and butter. He denies
hat fish is brain food, or that Agassiz.
,ver said that it was, and claims that
)utter, being nearly all fat, is a better
lind of brain food than anV other.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1881-01-20
EDWARD RHBNBARDr a wife mur.

EDWARD RHEMHARDT, a wife mur
derer, was hanged at Staten Island, N. Y, or
the 18th.
The crop reports from the South show
that the cotton and rice have suffered great
damage by reason ofthe protracted rains The
Sea Island cotton crop is rotting in the fields.
AT the last days session of the Wis
consin Dairymen's Association, at Waukesha,
on the 14th, resolutions were adopted asking
the Legislature to pass stringent laws respect
1 ing the sale and manufacture of all forms Of
bogus butter
The Supervising Inspector of the
Tenth Steamboat District, comprising the
Gulf States and the lower Mississippi Valley
reports for the year ending December 81, that
out Of Two and quarter million passengers
carried on steamboats, not single life was
lost.
GENERAL GRANT has accepted the
presidency Of the Worlds Fair Commission,
AN old feud has long existed between
Mr.. Sweet and F. A. Craig, residing near
Marshall, III. The TWO men met in the road
| on the 18th when Craig said 1t was time one
of them should die and began firing with a
revolver. Sweet hastily returned the fire and
shot Craig, killing him instantly, Sweet gave
himself up. '".
PATRICK DRURY, farmer living near
Weaver, MINI, was burned to death on the
morning Of the 14th In his house, which was
burned to the ground.
A CABIN in the mountains near George.
town, Col, occupied by William NJ. and Knox
PinEard, Of New Orleans, and colored ser,
want, was swept away by snow slide on the
18th, No trace of the occupants could be
found.
A SPECIAL dispatch to the New
York Tribune from Iandragee, County
Armagh, Ireland, conveys the intelligence
that a terrible outbreak of'feyer, said to have
been imported in foreign fax, has broken out
among the people. Some twenty-four deaths
had taken place in two days and 1O9 persons
were PROSTATE from the disease at the time
Of sending the dispatch
AT Winchester, Clark County, Mo-,
on the 18th, Joseph Highly killed his son-in
law, Park Wilson, because he was about to
marry another woman. Wilson's first wife
died a short time ago.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1881-01-20
Foreign.

FROM forty to fifty thousand miners
are on a strike in Lancashire, England, owing
principally to the desire of the masters tc
contract themselves out of the law rendering
them liable to pay compensation in the event
of accident
A COPENHAGEN dispatch reports that
a theater at Cronstadt was destroyed by fire q
few days ago, and the directors and several
Others persisted in the flames.
The London Times says the agrarian
outrages committed in Ireland during Decem-
Der, 1880, numbered $685. which was more than
during the whole Of 1879, and little less than
the aggregate of the three preceding years.
A MANCHESTER, England, dispatch
says an attempt was made on the 14th, it is
believed by Fenians, to blow up the armory OF
the infantry barracks at solford, where the
rifles Of the volunteers were deposited. A
meat store near the armory was blown to
atoms No other damage was done.
The steamer Utopia ON her recent
passage from New York to London lost 1872
cattle.
A CAPE Town, South Africa, dis
patch says the Beers have issued a proclama.
tion charging the British with firing the first
shot at Pochefstroom and with shooting Beers
at Pretoria complaining of the bombardment
of Pochefstroom and taking credit for send.
ing the wounded of the Ninety-fourth Regl-
ment to Pretoria.
A BERLIN dispatch says Prince Bis
marck has sent a special messenger to Con.
stautinople to advise the Porte to assume the
defensive so that in the event Of war Greece
may be considered responsible.
A BERLIN dispatch says the anti-Jew-
ish agitation has extended to saxony, Ba.
yaria, Leipsig and Breslau.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1881-01-20
LATFR II.

TIE Senate was not in session on the
18th In the House consideration of the
Funding bill was resumed and several i'm
portant amendments were adopted
SEVERAL disastrous snow slides have
occurred at Alta, Utah. and vicinity, since
Christmas, causing the death of number of
persons and the destruction Of considerable
property.
The stage from Mesila to Fort Cum
mIngs, Arizona, was attacked by Indians
about ten miles from Fort Cummings on the
18th The driver three men and one woman,
passengers, were killed.
The great stock stables of G. Dawson
Coleman, at Lebanon, Pa, were burned on
the 18th. Thirty thousand dollars worth of
tlooded stock pcrshed in the flames.
A BERLIN dispatch says Crown Prince
Frederick William, speaking at the Institution
Of Invalds on the 10th decidedly condemned
the antl-Jewish movement. He hoped the
movement would soon die out, for it was i'm
possible that such an unhealthy condition Of
things should continue
A NEW YORK dispatch says a physi-
clan, whoreslded In the fall Of 1870 at Pamropo,
Nj, made statement on the 10th that his
servant girl picked up on the beach a bottle
in which was small piece OF paper contain
ing these words. steamship City of Boston
burned June 20, 1870. A. Hauick, Tregue."
Tregue Is supposed to be the name of the
place to which Harrick belonged.
The boiler of John Watson's bleach
cry at Passac, N. j., exploded on the 18th,
killing one operator and seriously sealding
another Several other employees escaped,
PROFESSOR WILLIAM G. FOWLER died
at Hartford, Conn, on the 10Th, aged eighty
four. lie was a son-in-law Of Noah Webster,
and for a number Of years Professor OF Rhet-
Oric at Amherst
AT Point Au Pelee, Canada, on the
morning of the 10th, Henry Relnheilner shot
and killed Andrew Henderson and then killed
himself. Reinheimer was subject to fits OF
insanity
THERE are in the United States $780,
293 looms for the manufacture OF coitOn:
number Of spindles, 10,92l, l47; bales Of cot
ton used last year, 1885, 4St; persons en-
poyed, including agents overseers, clerks,
mechanics, watchmen aud operatives, lSl,62S,
THE differences between the stock
holders of the Emma mine have been AMIGA
bly, adjusted
THE Directors of the Permanent Ex-
hibltlon at Philadelphia have decided to rec
ommend to the shareholders that the show
be closed, the building sold and the affairs OF
the concern wound up.
THE Tekke Turcomans are reported
to have been severely defeated by General !
skobeeiI in a recent engagement
THE Canadian syndicate has deposited |
81, SOC, 600 with the Receiver General as guar
antee Of their good intentions in regard to
building the Canadisn Pacific Railway.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1881-01-20
A Romantic Meeting Of Father and
Daughter.

OVER twenty years ago there were
married at Hartsville, in this county,
Charles Anderson and Miss Brown, who,
after happy honeymoon, moved to
Noblesville, Ind, where they embarked
upon the sea of matrimony, apparently
contented with each other and with
bright prospects for a smooth voyage
through life. Over year after their
marriage daughter was born, bringing
with it heavy squalls, terminating in
separation after two years of marital
bliss, the mother taking the child with
her and the father enlisting in an Indi-
ana regiment, not before, however, he
had taken last farewell of his daughter
and making last but futile attempt to
bring about reconciliation between
himself and his wife. He passed through
the entire war, and returned after the
final grand review at Washington City
to his old home ir Hamilton County,
full of happiness at the prospect of see
ing his child and perhaps bridging the
chasm that existed between himself and
wife, but there he learned that his wife
had obtained o divorce from him and
left for parts unknown, taking the child,
with her. Anderson, however, could
not rid himself of the love for his daugh-
ter, and since that time has been seeking,
her, all in vain, until last week he
learned that his wife, after being di-
vorced from him, returned TO this county
and married man named Hughes, and
her daughter, having ripened into wOm-
anhood, was married not long since to
William Bush, living a short distance
north of this city, she being under the
impression that her father was killed in
the war. Anderson came to this city
last Wednesday, and after fully convinc-
ing himself that Mrs. Bush was his long
searched-fOr daughter, went to her
home, where he established his identity.
The meeting is described as being very
and this story furnishes rare
material for a tirst-olass romance. An
derson remained with his daughter until
when he left for his home in
Columbus (Tnd.) Special to
Cincinnati Commercial.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1881-01-20
The "Loonnrd Rov. o
NEW YORK. Lnnu

-------------- - NEW YORK, january II.
PROF. GEORGE HENRY Fox, in lecture on
skin diseases at the College of Physicians and
Surgeons, exhibited Us an Illustration the
Leopard Roy" After the Professor had ex-
planned that the color of different races de-
pended on the amount of pigment contained
in the skin, the boy, young negro about elev-
en- years old, was let in. He was scautily
dressed. His body is mOtted with patch Of
white skin. Prof. Fox said that the white
spots had enlarged considerably since his first
examination of the boy three years ago, and
it was safe to predict that the process would
go on until transformation would be cons
pleted The lad, in response to questions, said
that he was black at birth, and that whitespots
began to appear when he was three years old.
He suffered no pain. M
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1881-01-20
OCCURRENCES OF INTEREST.
A RaIlrond Ticket Twenty Year. Old.

A Railroad Ticket Twenty Years Old.
THE Hartford Comm Times says that pas
senger on train from Springfield recently
gave the conductor ticket purchased in Oo-
tober, 1860. He bought it at South Framing
ham, Mass, for Hartford at that time, but
stopping over in Springfield, had it stamped,
and then went to Hartford by another route.
1t was taken up by the conductor, who said
that the oldest one known to have been taken.
previously was eighteen years old.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1881-01-20

"A snow-goose, the first one shot in
thirty-eight years in that vicinity, has
just been killed at ST. John, N. B. In
appearance it very much resembles a
huge sea-gull, but has all the distinctive
features of a common goose, the only
difference being that it is not quite so
heavy.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1881-01-20
Here's another chance for farrne

Here's another chance for farmers
boys. The cats tail that grows so plen-
teously in our swamps is becoming
quite an article of commerce. 1t is
used extensively with grasses and other
plants in decorating the interior Of
houses. A Providence Or. L. firm has
laid in a stock this season of 1000.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1881-01-20

-Venuor has been offered a position
in the Weather Bureau at Washington.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1881-08-06

4 Strong Light Draft Mil, which will get
mo cider from the same amount and
kind Of apples than any othe. hand mill
keep CUTTING BOXES, and all
kinds of Agricultural Machinery; also,
cew Patent Pump for wells AID cis,erne
Patent Washing Machine, best on the
market; Johnsons New Patent Flirting
Irons, acknowledged to be the best that
a.a made; also the celebrated Remington