The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1876-07-06
II H e n e w y
From the Capital.

NoAl INC SalD1Istls
Itis stated by the personal friends of the
President that the cause of the removal of H
S. Yaryan, Chief of the Special Agency
Division of the Interal Revenue Bureau
was in procuring the removal of Special
Agent recommended by the President, 9
man crippled in the war, and whose charac
ter was known by the President to be excel
lent, and also vouched for by Solicitor Blu,
ford Wilson. Mr.. Iaryan's attention being
called TO this removal, he assigned as reason
for it that the Special Agent had volunteered
some testimony before House committee
rejecting on him. The President inquired
into this matter, and found that the witness
was subpeDaed TO testify, and that, after
stating that he knew nothing, of his own
knowledge, concerning the subject of the
investigation, he had been compelled by the
committee to give the names of some persons
who had talked TO him about it. The Presi-
dent then called Yaryan's attention to this
explanation, and Yaryan replied, in SUBJ
stance: Well, the man talks about me on
the street, and won't have him in the serv-
ice." President Grant thereupon took the
matter into his own hands and ordered Var
yan's removal.
Political.
The Vermont Republicans have nomi-
mated Hon. Horace Fairbanks for Gov
ernor, and adopted the Cincinnati platform,
and confirmed the nominations there made.
1.-THE Louisiana Republican State Nomi-
mating Convention met in New Orleans, June
27, at Mechanics Institute. Hon. P. d. S.
Pinchback, was elected Temporary Chair
man. There was a spirited contest for this
position, and Pinchback's election is re-
garded defeat of the Kellogg Packard wing
by the Yarmouth wing of the Republican
party. Pinchback made a temperate speech,
and the Convention adjourned until next
day.
Items in General.
A few mornings since at Boggs' Run, on
the outskirts of Wheeling, w. Va, John
Gaughan was killed and another man,
name unknown, dangerously injured, by a
premature explosion while blasting in
stone quarry.
The Right Rev. George N. Cummins,
senior Bishop of the Reformed Episcopal
Church, died at his residence in Lutherville,
Baltimore County, Nd, June IL, of infam-
nation of the bOwels......A freight train on
the Logansport, Charlottesville and South
western Railway was wrecked about half a
mile from Clymer's Station, six miles from
Logansport, a few days ago. The accident
was caused by a rail which some fendish
creature had placed across the track. The
locomotive and eight box cars were ditched,
all being piled up in broken mass. The
tender of the locomotive was thrown
clear forward OF it David Row,
engineer; Warren J. Bennett, fireman,
and ]. w. Gibbs, conductor, were
on the locomotive at the time Of the catas-
trophe, and were buried beneath the wreck.
The fireman, Bennett was killed outright,
being frightfully mangied, Gibbs, the con-
ductor, was badly bruised about the head,
and terribly scalded. Engineer Roe dis
played wonderful nerve. Although jammed
in the wreck with the back Of his neck
against the boiler-head, and the hot steam
blistering his flesh, he calmly directed the
movements of the brakemen, Darrock and
Rogers, in their efforts to extricate him. He
was terribly scalded on the back, head, and
arms, but it was thought that he would
recover.
Willie Morgan, son of State Senator Bright
Morgan, and Victor Monroe, son of promi-
nent citizen of fernando, Miss, were
drowned in Herman Lake, near there,
lately, in attempting to save the life of
companion. Two other young men
narrowly escaped the same fate be-
fore the youth for whom Morgan and
Monroe lost their lives was rescued.........
Commander Charles A. Babcock, command
ing the iron-clad Canonicus, died suddenly
at New Orleans, June 80, and was buried
next day with military honors. The escort
included, by invitation, Washington Artil-
lery and the Continental Guards of New Or
leans. Information has been received
from Lancaster, KY, which says that mob
removed Floyd Pearce (coloredl, charged
with the murder OF Henry Yeakey (white),
from the Jail there, early on the morning of
June so, and hanged him to tree. Samuel
j. Williams, another murderer, was either
liberated or escaped in the confusion
Notes from ABROAD.
The Gibraltar Guardian states that, owing
to instructions from England, the fortress
Of Gibraltar is being placed in complete
condition of defense. Artillery men are
everywhere mounting guns; two ship loads
of powder, a day, are expected to arrive,
and all furloughed officers have been re-
Ragusa correspondent OF the
Moscow Gazette says that Muator Pasha has
concentrated thirty-fve thousand men al
ready TO attack Montenegro. Both Monte
negro and Servia are now convinced that it
would be suicidal to delay war longer.
A special from Belgrade to the London
Neacs dated June 80, says that Bulgaria has
issued declaration of independence. The
newspaper of Zastava, the organ of the
Hungarian Servians, states that the Servian
Government has informed the troops that
Servia is no longer a.vasssl State. The dis
patch adds that at Belgrade, the Servian
Primate blessed seventy army banners and
administered communion to the army before
commencing the campaign. The old Turk
ish flags on the fortress at Belgrade were de-
molished amid artillery salutes.
The London Times correspondent says:
The new Sultan is overwhelmed with the
difficulties of his position, and contemplates
abdicating in favor of his younger brother.
The Turkish Government has formed the
desperate resolution of enlisting eighty
thousand Bashi Bozouks, with view to
prevent the spread of the insurrection by
constant menace of a general massacre of
Christians. The children OF General IgRa-
tieff, Russian Embassadar, have been sent TO
Odessa, and the wives of Secretaries of the
Embassy have been taken TO place of
safety. The aspect of affairs becomes more
serious daily.........The Berlin correspon-
dent of the London Times says that the
following is the Servlan plan of the
campaign, as far as discernable at present:
General Tchernayef, who commands at
Alexinatz, will engage the Turks at Nitsch.
General Zach, who is in command in the
Southwest, will, in the meanwhile, with 32,-
600 men force the passes leading into the
Turkish province of Old Servia and effect a
junction with the main force OF the Mon
Ienegrins, numbering II 900, az Prizrend.
The Prince of Montenegro, in order to CO.
operate in this movement, has concentrated
the great body of his troops opposing
Podgoritza. The Servian army on the River
Drina, $4,000 strong, under General Allim-
pitt, viii march upon Visheyras. Sera Jevo,
with 1000 Mentenegrins, will cooperate
with $500 insurgents in Herzegovina. A
special hospital train, equipped by the En-
press of Russia, has arrived in Montenegro.
The Russian sympathizers have also con-
tributed six months provisions for the army
and people of Montenegro. Servia has re-
ceived loan of 12,000,000 francs, and do
nations amounting to $4,000 dGcats.
CONGRESSIONAL.