The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-11-01
REVIEW OF DOMESTIC NE EWS.

THE British Parliament has been further
prorogued to December 1.
REGISTRATION of votes in New York City
closed Saturday night, and the total is
1885, against 1S3, ,O64 registered last year.
LEWIS MYERS, Treasurer of Auglaize
County, pleaded guilty in Court at Wapa-
konetta, to the charge of embezzlement,
and was sentenced to three years in the PEN
itentiary.
A MAN named John Hayes, while asleep
on the track of the Chicago, Burlington and
Quincy road, near Quincy, Illinois, was run
over and killed few evenings since.
EDWARD S. MCVEY, aged seventy, keeper
of a toll-gate on the Circleville pike, six
miles from Chillicothe, and his wife were
murdered recently by burglars.
THE Paris newspapers have interviewed
ex-President Grant. He declined to express
an opinion on the political situation there.
His first impression of France was that it
wore prosperous, well-ordered and happy
aspect.
PRESIDENT DIAz shows an infexible
determination to extradite criminals on the
Rio Grande, believing extradition necessary
to preserve the National decorum. Sev
regiments of infantry and cavalry have
marched for the border. Lerdestas are
actively organizing to cooperate with
Escobeda ON the Rio Grande.
AT the end of November ex-President
Grant and family will visit Spain and Port
ugal, and take an American steamer at
Malaga, conveying them to Gibraltar and
Tangier, and skirting the coast of Barbary.
Disembarking at Alexandria, General Grant
will stay some day in Egypt, and return by
way of Malta to Italy, where he will remain
some time.
THE vote for and against the Constitu-
tional Amendment at the late Ohio election
has been canvassed, and shows that it was
defeated by a majority of 502,75S votes.
The vote on the Free Banking Act was
counted, and it is found that measure was
defeated by vote of 4SS,363.
GOVERNOR TILDEN arrived in New York,
on the 25th of October from his European
trip, and reports himself in excellent health.
GENERAL GRANT arrived in Paris on the
oath of October. On the 25th ne and his
party visited the Elysee and were received
by Marshal and Madame MacMahon.
AT Pittsfeld Mass, three sons of VIM.
Downey loaded an old gun barrel with
powder and discharged it. The weapon
burst, killing two of the boys and tearing
off the hand of the other.
JOHN S. MORTON, late President of the
Market Street Passenger Railway Company
of Philadelphia, has been held in Sc, 900 bail
to appear on charge of perjury in swear
ing falsely to the annual reports of his COM
pany.
THE Commissioner of Indian Affairs has
received the following telegram from Ojo,
Caliente, New Mexico: General Hatch,
commanding the district, reports one hun
dred and ninety-one Southern Apaches sur
rendered at Fort Wingate, and ffty-six more
expected in soon."
SAMUEL HUMPHREYS and Edmund Smith,
who pleaded guilty at Reading, Pa, to
burning the Lebanon Valley bridge during
the strike riots, were each sentenced to i'm
prisonment five years and a fine of one
thousand dollars. The cases of the thirty.
seven rioters went over.
THE French Republicans have elested a
majority of the members of the Assembly
but there is painful suspicion that the
country is not yet safe against the reac
tlonists. There are rumors that state Of
siege may be declared by MacMahon, and il
is feared that such a radical step may bt
only the first in series of violent measures
THE bill introduced in the Senate by Mr.
Ingalls,, to equalize the bounties of soldiers
who served in the late war for the Union, il
an exact copy of the bill which passed
the House of Representatives on the 2Otl
. of June, 1876, except that it proposes t,
o&,.I- &C ~ l..
for deduction of bounty paid under Stat
laws.
2, The removal of the Indians from Re-
= Cloud Agency to the vicinity of the Missonr
f River has been completed. They were es
E corted by Capt. Lawson's and Lieut. Cum
q mings' company of the third Cavalry. N
e dissatisfaction is evinced by the Indians
g on the contrary, all moves harmoniously
# The march will be long and tedious ont
!; probably occupying month. Spotted Ia
will not move for few days.
o. A WILLIAMsPoRT, Pa, dispatch says: Ii
(, formation has just been received here tn.
', afternoon that Hon. Sobieski Ross, e,
member of Congress for this district, con
s mitted suicide on Wednesday by shootir
t. himself through the heart, in his barn,
'c OO"NSISpoIbt OitSI SouHbyJ Id JuuS
'f Ross has been very respondent for son
a time past, and has not been enjoying goo
., health. His death has cast deep gloo
Of over the community in the vicinity.
It, THE total vote cast for West for Govern,
OF in Ohio was 24S,945; for Bishop, 271 so
,r Bishops plurality is therefore 22SS0. III
"a Communist, Prohibition, and Labor Gree
t, back candidates polled an aggregate of 8.
he 237 votes, making, with the fifty-two scatte
Il ing, grand total of 524,561 A comparist
le of these figures with the totals of the pa
=" two years shows the dimensions of the sta
at-home army. Here it is in brief:
1872 Hayes, 29731a AAl1en 292 ,27s Total 5sot
SIS 1s7s...West, 24s,645 Bishop 271 ,625 Total 524 /
r. The whaling bark down from the Arct
On Ocean to San Francisco brings news that
ny September the bark Three Brothers, Capta
IL Owens, of New Bedford, was abandoned
as the ice near Point Barrow. The crew
al capped and is distributed among otf
ne vessels of the fleet. On September II, t
~; ~, British bark w. Ell. Farnsworth "
:! crushed in the ice, filed, capsized and sa
IL in twenty minutes. The crew was saw
No news of the crews of the fleet abandon
~ last season, with the exception of t
80 Kaudas from the bark Acars Barnes, "
made their way to land. All are suppo
A. to have perished.
WHEN the passenger tra1n which left {
, If cinnati a few nights ago, reached a pc
wv two and a half miles east of Noble, Hin
re. about o'clock in the morning. it enco
,pe tered rail, one end of which was eleva
fit about foot high, and the whole train, c
sisting of an oyster car, mail, express,
gage, two passenger coaches, and til
.:,. sleepers, was thrown from the tra
= The oyster car was mashed, and
Io,, other cars more or less injured,
y' ,ga' not a passenger was hurt. An exam
So+ ton showed that the rail had b
ond elevated with a jackscrew, and that i'm
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