The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-06-14


minutes after noon, on the day of execution,
be was led to the scaffold and assisted up |
the steps by the Sheriff and lis deputies, |
where he made speech from the scafold. |
He warned his hearers, most of whom where |
negroes, TO avoid his fate. He was not afraid |
to die, he said, for he expected to go to
heaven. This called out shouts and groans
from the large assemblage of negroes. In
half an hour the religious exercises were
over, and the preachers and officers left the
gallows. Peasants had scarcely -breathed
the last words of his prayer when the drop
fell, and his neck broke instantly, with an
audible snap. In twelve minutes he was
pronounced dead, cut down and placed in a
coffin provided by the county.
The friends of Governor Hendricks, ire
spective of party, rendered him grand re-
ception at Indianapolis on the night of the
8th, prior to his departure for Europe.
Peter Cooper, a candidate for President of
the United States at the last election, has
just addressed long open letter to Presi-
dent Hayes, criticising the past financial
policy OF the General Government, and
also marking out the proper course. in his
Cooper argues that our national currency
must be made receivable for all purposes
throughout the country, and inter-con-
vertable with three per cent. Government
bonds.
Deputy Sheriff John Cleary was shot twice
at Terre Haute, few evenings since, by
Earnest Whitehouse, whom he had arrested
for burglary. The assailant fired at his pur.
suers and escaped. The City Council being
in session, it offered reward for the recap
ture of Whitehouse, and the citizens went
in pursuit.
General Barber has resigned the position
of Third Assistant Postmaster General, tax
ing place at the close of the present fiscal
year. His resignation has been accepted.
The heavy rains throughout Ohio and
Indiana in the early part of June were very
damaging to the growing crops.
c. D. Captain, Brooklyn broker, COM
mitted suicide recently. Business embar-
rassment the supposed cause.
A wash-out ON the Mississippi Central
Railway caused the complete wreck of
freight train recently, near Hickory Valley,
killing the engineer and brakeman.
being was found in the ruins of the Calves
ton fire. None of the employees of the firm
are missing, and it is not probable that the
identity of the lost man will ever be es-
tablished.
The Brownsville Sentinel announces that
disease something like cholera has broken
out among the troops at Ringgold Barracks.
About thirty are in the hospital, and sixty
have died. The attack commenced with
diarrhea and collie.
Foreign Items
A dispatch from Orealuk to the Times
says: A Christian doctor, who deserted from
Trebinze, gives gloomy account of the con-
dition of the army. Two thousand four hun
dred men have died at Trebinje since the
campaign began, that city being the hos
pital depot of the army now concentrated at
Gatsehkof, which consists of thirty-six bat
talions, from three hundred to four hundred
men each. OF these, at least half are suf-
fcring, chiefly from scurvy. There is also
much dysentery. The physicians and sur
geons are subject to the fanatical outbreaks
of the Mussulmans, and are continually
menaced and insulted, and never paid.
Three thousand men are sick at Mostar, and
deserters from Podgorilta report the same
condition of affairs prevailing there. The
troops are underfed, having nothing beyond
the barest means for sustaining life. They
are compelled to work continually on the
earthworks. The health of the Montenegrin
forces is excellent.
There is excitement at Paris in conse-
quence of the arrest of NJ. Duverdier, Presi-
dent of the Municipal Council. 1t is quite
legal, but most unusual to arrest people for
ofenses by writing or speech. Offenders in
this way are generally left at liberty till
their trial, even without bail. In this case
even bail was refused. M. Duverdier denies
the charges against him. The impression
produced is bad, as the prisoner is popular
with the lower classes. He is man Of
education and Independent means. He il
charged with insulting Marshal MacMaho1
and melting civil war and assassination.
The remains of the late John Lothror
Motley were inferred on June beside those
his wife who was buried in Kensal Greco
Cemetery in 1875. Dean Stanley read thu
burial services.
The New York Herald correspondent a
Vienna telegraphs that the Gar left Jassy OF
June for Ploejesti. In order to guart
against any attempt on his Majesty's lif
during the journey, safety trains were be
fore and behind the imperial train. Thes
precautions were rendered necessary by tn
existence of a conspiracy to wreck the i'm
perial train on its passage to Ploejesti. /
later dispatch announces the Cars arriva
at the Russian headquarters about midnight
The numerous accidents which have OF
cured on the Roumanian railways since tn
J advance of the Russian forces began ar
supposed to have been the work of COZ
: spirators.
Professor Palmieri, of Naples, states ths
Mount Vesuvius has been in an unusus
state of agitation for some days, showing {
: night fire at the mouth of the new crater r.
Gently opened, above which cone is formet
A dispatch from Ragusa, dated Tuesda
June 5, says: The Turkish attack on MOI
tenegro from the Albanian side has cor
menced. Ali Saib, with the whole of
. forces, advanced from Spaz up the Zata Va
. ley, the object being to reach Danilogra
The Montenegrins met the attack on ii
. hill of Maljat. The fighting is still ragin
= but up to noon the Turkish assaults were
3 pulsed. Five hundred Turks had bee
killed. The Montenegrins fight again
enormous odds, there being thirty-f'
thousand regulars and irregulars again
them on this side alone.
g The Political Correspondence, which
It usually well informed, publishes speci
r dispatch from Cattaro, stating that Ali Sa
n was defeated at Maljat, and lost seven hu
dred men. A Ragusa telegram supports tt
e view. Ali Saib, on the other hand has tel
" graphed to Constantinople the most circu
stantial account of his successes, accordi
st to which he has occupied the heights CO.
n manding Danilagrad.
E. An official report received at Constan
Is no pie from the Governor of Her
,e govina confirms the reported defeat of t
Montenegrins and Herzegovians on the
D. inst, in the defiles of Kristoes, with hea
B. losses by Suleimau Pasha.
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