The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-03-22
GENERAL INTELLIGENC
LITTLE Rhode Island grunts under
debt-load of 100000.


LITTLE Rhode Island grunts under
debt-load of $2,000,000.
IT isestimated that there is sufficient
gold, silver, and nickel in the mines OF
Montgomery County, N. c., to pay the
national debt.
The Keystone Glassworks of Pittsburg
have ceased operations, throwing one
hundred and fifty hands out of employ
ment. The products are chimneys and
other glassware.
NEW YORK City employs eight thou
sand seven hundred and eight salaried
officials, who draw annually $40, 1855, ,466
from the treasury.
THE two hottest days ever known in
Australia were the 18th and 18th of
January, when the thermometer regis
tered one hundred and five degrees in the
shade in Melbourne.
BoLIsKow, of marlborough, member
of Parliament for Yorkshire, England,
has brought suit in the Supreme Court
of Montreal against the Southeastern
Counties Railroad Company and Hon.
A. B. Foster for the recovery of 81 ,0O0,-
600 in arrears in debentures, and demand
ing the sale of the road.
CAMPANELLT's idea was: eff there
were an instrument for the ear by which
we could enlarge the faculty of hearing,
as the faculty of sight is increased by
the microscope and telescope, we should
become acquainted with an entire
polyphonic tone world, inasmuch as all
motion produces waves of sound"
The births in France during 1875, ac-
cording to the late returns to the French
Bureau of Statistics, numbered $50, ,975,
beside 1884 of stillborn. The deaths
were S45,O62, and the consequent in
crease of population was 105,9l3. The
male children were 453, 1892 legitimate,
and 34,1s9 illegitimate. The females
were 431, ,O07 legitimate, and 32,6s7 il
legitimate.
Two men in Baltimore bet one thou
sand dollars on the result of the Presi-
Dental election, and being unable to
agree which had won, the case was taken
into a court, where the district attorney,
under the law of the State, took pos
session of the stakes and turned the money
over to the city treasury.
In New York, during the last year,
one hundred and fourteen men and
thirty-six women committed suicide. Of
the whole number only twenty-eight
were natives of this country. The
nationalities of the others are not given.
WHILE William M. Tweed is in Lud-
low Street Jail, his family live in an
elegant mansion at Greenwich. The
house is castellated, and is visable at
great distance. Mrs. Tweed, a married
daughter and her husband, and two un-
married daughters, make up the family,
whe live quietly and are liked by the
neighbors.
The Jackson (Tenn.) Sua, of a late
date, contains an account of terrible
fight in Madison County, Tennessee.
Deputy Sheriff Jason W. Fussell and
William and John Anderson, his neph-
ews, whom he had summoned to assist
in arresting three brothers named
Potete, indicted for carrying concealed
weapons, went to the house of Andy,
the father of the Potetes. The Potetes
resisted, and killed Fussen and slightly
wounded William Anderson, who NOR
tally wounded John Potete, who died
soon after the fight. Andy Potete was
arrested and committed to jail, but his
other sons escaped, after robbing the
body of Fussell and taking his horse.
THE Assistanechief of the New York
Fire Department, who was in charge of
the department during the great fire
which occurred in that city a few nights
since, reports that the principal build
ings destroyed, though nominally fire.
proof, with snowy iron fronts, ETC.. were
mere tinder-boxes inside. In the largest
one the columns, beams, floors and stair
ways were of Georgia pine, while the
spaces between the floors and ceilings
were packed with shavings and hay.
Such building as this is an invitation to
| the fire-fend.