The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-07-05
REVIEW OF DOMESTIC NEWS.

BANQUET was given on the 28th of June
at the Town Hall, Liverpool, in honor of
General Grant.
SIX Russian vessels in New York harbor
have been transferred to American owners.
They were afraid of Turkish men-of-war.
THE Marblehead fire started from dog
fight in a saloon. But the two-legged brutes,
and not the four-legged ones, were re-
sponsible.
A COMMITTEE of Jews appointed by some
of the leading Jewish houses of New York,
have visited Staten Island to find a suitable
site upon which to build large hotel
EX-GOVERNOR TILDEN and Cyrus w.
Field, who had engaged passage for Europe
by the Bothnia, which sailed Wednesday,
July 4, decided to defer their voyage.
TOTAL amount of silver coin issued to
July /, $33, ,121 ,5S7, of which $11 1881 $40 was
issued on account of currency obligations,
and s21, ,l40,O6l in redemption of fractional
currency.
JUDGE TAFT, of Cincinnati, has written a
letter declining to be candidate for
! Governor in Ohio, but there seems to be a
strong disposition to nominate him notwith-
standing
| PRESIDENT HAYES had a grand reception
at Providence r. l., on the 2Sth of June.
| The city was thronged. Speeches were
made by the President, General Burnside
and others.
| JACOB WHITZKL, life prisoner in the
Ohio Penitentiary, from Seneca County,
committed suicide, by hanging himself in
the cellar of the prison, the other morning.
| Cause unknown.
A SPECIAL from Hickman, Kentucky,
states that Jarvis Anderson, who was sup
posed to belong to an extensive gang of
thieves, was taken out of the Jail at that
place by a mob and shot to death.
EIGHT hundred Mennonites recently ar
rived at Philadelphia from Russia, emf
grating to escape cOnscription, and left
for various points in Kansas, Nebraska,
Missouri and Western Pennsylvania.
THE steamship Anchoria, which sailed
from New York lately, took out five
thousand two hundred and seventy packages
of butter, the largest shipment ever made
to Great Britain from this country in one
vessel.
PRESIDENT HAYES and party returned to
Washington Saturday evening, June 80, and
were transferred to their new quarters at
the Soldiers Home, and some of the mem
bers of the Cabinet went out to the house
warming.
THE officers of the Rockford Agricultural
Society, in Winnebago County, Illinois, the
same who invited Jefferson Davis to deliver
an address there last year, have invited
Wade Hampton to do SO this year, and
Wade has consented.
THE white whale at Cincinnati, after three
days ablution in her aquarium, died from
the effects of a knife wound. Some fellow,
jealous of her success in popular esteem,
stabbed her in the head. Another whale
was Immediately sent for.
AT Cincinnati, recently, John Geartner
shot his wife with revolver, and attempted
to kill himself in the same way, but was
prevented by an officer who reached the
place in time. Jealousy was the cause. The
wife died in a few minutes.
THE New York Tribune compositors struck
on June 20. The cause was a proposed re
duction from forty-six to forty cents fol-
, night work, and thirty-three for day work
The eighty men left in body. Extra men
had been engaged for Sunday night in antici
patton of trouble, and enough of these were
secured to issue the paper on time.
THE commission examining the New Or
leans Custom House have arrived at practi
: cally the same result as that reached in the
New York investigation. They will recon
I mend reduction of twenty-five per cent. il
the force of retainers, which, it is claimed
will effect a saving of sixty thousand dollar
annually, and leave the Office in good work
ing condition.
AN investigation into the losses of sheer
during the last year shows that total o
s nearly 5000 900 sheep and lambs were de
y stroyed by dogs and wolves, and variou
e diseases, of an aggregate money value o
= nearly SS, ,OOO, 900. The portion is the highest
q respectively, in North Carolina, Florida
o and Louisiana, and ranges from II per cent
y in the former State, to 3 7-10 in Nebraska
% The rate is highest in the South and loves
in the States having dog laws.
THE Spanish Government assures MI
o Evarts that Spain will make all honorabl
y amends for the seizure and detention of tn
r American schooner Rizpach and the in
It prisonment of Capt. Dunham, just as 500
i as an investigation of the facts can be had
= and promises that it will spare no effort t
prevent repetition of similar outrages i
the future. Mr. Evarts will hand in his bil
's of damages against Spain when he receive
II Capt. Dunham's statement
IL THE story of the heroism of John Horn
Is jr., of Detroit, is full of many chapters
is each the record of the saving of a human
~ life. He is accredited with having save
j. from drowning no less than one hundre
l. and thirty-one persons in and about the cit
= of his residence, where, we believe, he fo
lows the avocation of a waterman. A fe'
days ago the citizens of Detroit presente
him with gold watch and chain, valued
at $51S.
a. C. BRADLAUGH and Miss Annie Besan
ty arrested and tried for publishing pamphl'
in alleged to be immoral, have been condemne
IN to six months imprisonment, to pay fir
er of f200 each, and to enter into an engag
ed ment to behave well for two years. Pendi1
er the argument of a technical point as to tt
ed Indictment, before the Court of Error, the
ld were released on their own recognizance, G
Sn the promise of the defendants that the
au would not continue to publish the work.
~ JOHN GEARTNER who murdered his wi
at Cincinnati on June % in fit of jealous
strangled himself next day in his cell in tt
Jail. 1t appears he had torn some shre'
n from the ticking of his cot, tied the
ht tightly around his neck, and made fast Il
ed ends to the grating of his window, the be
on tom of which is about two feet above tt
eu bunk. He then lay down on his face, al
~. the hanging apparatus was drawn so tight
l.. to strangle him in few minutes. VIII
~ he was discovered his heart had ceased
:. beat.
un A MT. VERNON, Kentucky, special to t
Louisville Courier-JournaJ says: On mi
night Saturday, June 80, nearly one hu
dred men attacked the house of Jam
nj Bethurman, noted desperate. Bethurm
lg: would not surrender, and firing upon
= attacking party with his shotgun kill
nig Charles Burton. Though some fifty sh,
nc were fired at him. Rethurman escaned Z