The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-10-25
VIEW OF DOMESTIC NEWS.
BISHOPS majority in Ohio is 22,7O6.

Bishops majority in Ohio is 22,7O0.
SENATOR MoRToN's health had so much
improved that he lately took trip to Indi-
annapolis on the Panhandle Road. He
expressed himself as greatly benefited by
the journey.
ABOUT forty thousand people attended
the centennial of Burgoyne's surrender, on
the 18th, at Schuylerville, New York. Hon.
Horatio Seymour and George w. Curtis de-
ivered addresses, and Alfred r. Street read
poem.
IT is feared that Cleopatra's needle, which
recently started for London, in tow of the
steamer Olga, will bring up in Davy Jones'
locker. A cable dispatch states that the
craft in which the relic was being conveyed
was abandoned in a storm off Cape Finis-
terre. An expedition of search will now be
in order
THE Commissioner of Internal Revenue in
his annual report will not recommend any
change in taxation. The service is con-
sidered generally very effective, and frauds,
particularly in the Northern States, very
limited. The report will recommend the
enforcement of laws against the illicit dis
tillation and manufacture of tobacco in the
South.
AT an early hour few mornings sine e
John Patterson, carpenter by trade, was
found hanging to the limb of an apple tree
at the rear of his house, 35S South Illinois
Street, indianapolis. Life had evidently
been extinct for several hours, the body be-
ing cold and stiff. The rope was an ordi-
nary clothesline, which he had tied to the
trunk of the tree about shoulder high.
NATHANIEL CHENEY, who secured con-
trolling interest in the Agricultural Iron
Works, in New York, after the failure about
year ago, has gone into voluntary bank
ruptcy. Nominal liabilities 100000,
principally due on the composition of fifty
cents on the dollar by the old concern.
Assests, nominally, 100000, covered for
their full value by mortgages and liens to
secure creditor.
THE Secretary of the Treasury, in COM
munication to the Speaker of the House of
Representatives, says the estimate of appro-
priations required for the military establish
ment for the fiscal year ending June 80, 1873,
as furnished by the Secretary of War, to-
gether with the special estimates of other
deficiencies and the appropriations required
by the several Executive Departments for
the current and fiscal year is as follows: War
Department., $32, ,436, 1854; Library of Con-
gress, $22, 800; Court of Claims, 81 FOG, ,453 !;
Treasury Department., $273, 1891; Postofice
Department, 100000; Navy Department,
s., ,O03, ,S61 Judicial, $262, ,535. Total, $780,
| COG, ,306.66. Accompanying these estimates
are the following submitted by the Secretary
| of War, without recommendation: Forts
and Notifications, $2,O7S,000; rivers and
harbors, S13, ,22O, 100. An estimate of 81 ,031, )
453, for permanent annual appropriations,
| is also submitted for the information of Con-
! gress, but is not recommended.
A RECENT fire in Portland, n. B., burned
nearly seventy-fve houses. One man was
| burned to death and several men and wo-
| men injured. Drunkenness and rowdyism
were rampant during the progress of the
flames The Town Council of the city
took measures to relieve the sufferers. The
fire is supposed to be incendiary, having
been made to burn the building in which
the flames were first discovered. The loss
is estimated at 100000. Many of the home.
less were sufferers by the st. John fire,
Two hundred and thirty wooden houses
were burned, and only one brick house in
the whole district. Over two thousand peo
pie were burned out, seven hundred oi
whom were sufferers by the great fire of the
goth of June. The loss is fully three hun
| dred thousand dollars. Insurance about
eighty thousand dollars. The foundation
of safe gave away while the men were
working in the ruins, burying half dozer
| md A lanes
law was taken out dead also one of the
boys, Alex GILES. Another was fatally in
iured, and all the others seriously hurt.