The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-04-26

Both houses of The Packard Legislature
met in joint caucus at eleven o'clock, April
Is. After considerable debate resolutions |
were adopted declining to accept the prop |
esitions offered by the Nichols Legisla- |
ture. The Nichols House now lacks four
of a quorum of Returning Board members,
the total number of Representatives being
one hundred and twenty. Though the pres
ent plan would seem to have failed, it may
be fairly stated that the Commission and
prominent leaders on both sides still enter.
tain hope that terms alike honorable to all
parties may yet be agreed upon.
A quorum of both houses of the Nichols
Legislature, of members whose seats are
undisputed, were present April 10. Packard
cannot hold his people, although he is not
without able support. The breakup will be
general.
The commission have telegraphed the
President that the troops could be removed
without danger of disturbing the peace of
the city.
The Packard Legislature is rapidly dissolv-
ing. There are now sixty.fve or sixty-six
Returning Board members in the Nichols
House.
General Sherman Saturday morning, the
22d April, telegraphed the letter of the Sec
retary of War, relative to the withdrawal of
the troops in New Orleans to General Sher-
ilan, at Chicago, with instructions to have
the order executed as directed.
The Louisiana Commission closed their
labors on the 22d, and left New Orleans for
Washington.
Warmoth and several others gave in their
adhesion to the Nichols Legislature on the
same day, and the Packard body is now
practically defunct.
The Vest.
A dispatch from Cheyenne says that
about one thousand Northern hostiles made
a formal surrender of their arms, ponies, etc.,
to Gen. Crook at that post. Their entry was
very dramatic. Encircling Spotted Tails
camp and discharging their guns in the Dir,
they called forth the whole force of that
Chief to greet them. After which, their
head Chief delivered a short speech before
Gen. Crook, indicating his desire for peace
by laying his rifle at the Generals feet.
Among the chiefs surrendering are Zone.
| Who-Touches-the-Clo and "Roman
Nose," whose villages were destroyed at
| Slim Buttes last summer by Captain Mills.
The general freight agents of the trunk
lines have fixed as basis for rates on live
stock between Chicago and New York,
forty-fve cents ON hogs and fifty cents on
other cattle, with difference of two cents
in favor of Philadelphia, and three cents in
favor of Baltimore. The rates to other
points are unchanged.
Chicago has for two weeks past been suf.
fering from the effects of poisoned water
from the drainage of the city's winter ac
cumulation of filth, and among children
and infants there is an almost universal
sickness. Few deaths have resulted as yet
put tits feared that the poison, which battles
the efforts of the best physicians, will
work deadly effects before it can be eradi
Gated.
1t is now ascertained beyond doubt tina
the grasshopper eggs in Kansas are unpro
ductive. Careful experiments have beel
made, and in addition, the weather of tn
past few days has been warm enough t.
have hatched them by tie millions had tn
eggs been good; but not one of the pest
can be found. Farmers are generally jubli
ant, and a big crop of everything is look et
for in Southeastern Kansas.
Eighty lodges of Cheyennes under Dul
Knife and Standing Elk have surrenderc
to General Crook at Camp Robinson
The village comprises about five hundre
and fifty persons, eighty-fve of whom ar
fighting men. They turned in six hui
. dred ponies, sixty guns and about thirt
i, pistols.
General BreUtttes.
r Jonathan A. Price, Chicago merchau
!. committed suicide at the Walnut Sire,
O House, Cincinnati, on Tuesday, by shoe tin
). himself. He left no clue as to the mott,
n for the deed.
Amovement is on foot to erect bridt
over the Ohio, between Louisville, KY, ar
a New Albany. Indiana.
a The new temperance movement, know
+. as the Murphy movement seems to be ava
~ ening much interest in various section
in especially in Ohio and Pennsylvania.
,e A little girl eight years old, was killed
A atrain on the Hamilton and Dayton Ra
ID road, near Cincinnati, Tuesday, while getti
h. a younger brother and sister eff the track
40 The striking engineers on the Readi
of Railroad are very hopeful of success,
hit ports from all quarters bringing them m
sages of sympathy and offers of pecunis
,sr assistance. The freight business is entir
20 suspended, and passenger trains run ire,
o. larly. The conductors and brakemen h,
b;s not made general strike, but are dropp
out in companies. Seventy-fve or M
surrendered their places at Reading, W
~ nesday morning, and forty followed sui
10y Philadelphia. Col. Tom Scott is repoted
- have said that if the Reading Comp
succeeds at all, which he doubts, this at
INV will cost them million dollars.
=, The decree of the United States Dist
tne Court of louisiana, sustaining the CLAIM
Myra Clark Gaines against the city of
Orleans, commands the defendants to
p"i count to master in chancery for all inct
nu from this property during their long pos
eon e.a SION. They are ousted from their titles
''o' from all accumulation therefrom. This
ace. ois;on ;nnoInas ol,a haovr o1a;nos oro
u,s the city, which has sold large amour
INC the property in question with full war;,
ILL of title.
1t is rumored that William NJ. Tweed
at made supplemental confession, and
egu- the documents were placed in the hant
nln- Attorney.General Fairchield by Mr.. T.
ses- send, his counsel. This statement is So
rlng be 10 regard to the election of ce,tain Ju
sec of the Court of Appeals. Towsend decl
ally' to al swer any ques ions.
Inc On Sunday night. April %, near Gil
Ii be natl, skif containing six men was
such into by the steamer Fawn, and two o.
eem number, Thomas Nash and James Co
were drowned.
our Charles T. Sterling was hanged at Yo1
l. by town, Ohio, on Saturday, April %, TO
resi- rape and murder of Lizzie Grombach
ceed girl of fourteen, on the 21st of Jan
Dis 1876. Sterling protested his innocen
Jom- the last. His neck Was not broke
re- the fall, and he died in great agony by
strangulation.
says Dudley Kimball, aged six years,
y tne Stephen Cox, seven, residing on Ho
Deen Street, Boston, quarreled at play 7ec'
"a In and Kimball, saying, 81 will fix you,"
ot be home and procuring his fathers rev
draw shot Gov fhrouuh tho nIe and he