The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-03-01
GENERAL INTELLIGENCE

GERMANY's determination not to par
ticipate in the Paris Exhibition is irrev-
ocable.
DURING 1876 the taxable value of
the property of North Carolina was in
creased to the extent of S13,000,000.
THE little daughter of the Rev. Mr..
Knight, of Vincennes, Indiana. jumped
the rope one hundred and seventy-fve
times, and the achievement terminated
her life.
THE banking house of King & Son,
William Street, New York, was robbed
lately of two tin boxes containing United
States bonds, mortgages, securities, ETC.,
valued at $160,000. A member of the
firm was in the act of opening the safe to
put away the boxes at the time of the
robbery. The thief escaped.
A COMPANY of antiquarians has been
formed in Switzerland for the purpose of
unearthing the village of Plurs, in Grau-
bunden, which was covered by fall of
rocks in 1913, entailing the loss of nearly
one thousand lives. A rich booty is an
ticipated from the shops, factories, and
churches.
JOHN REED, a farmer living near
Knox, Indiana, in comfortable circum-
stances, and the father of a large family,
committed suicide by shooting himself
with a shotgun. He was found lying
near the house with the gun by his side.
Temporary arrangement was the cause.
He had made two attempts before at the
same thing.
THE gold mining interest in New
Zealand seems to be reviving all over the
colony. At Auckland and Otago the
yield from the quartz mining operations
has increased of late, and although the
newly opened alluvial diggings at the
Kumara, ON the West Coast of the South
ern Island, are unable to satisfy the great
rush of expected diggers, they are likely
to supply a considerable population for
some time to come.
A VICTORIA dispatch says that the
government has decided to send a gun
boat to the island where the Indians re-
port that the crew of the George S.
Wright were murdered. The tribe to
which the alleged murderers belong is
said to be small, but warlike. The In
dian who makes the statement offers to
conduct the gunboat Ito the bay where
the bones of the murdered men are still
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Mrs. JAMES BROWN, of Elkhart, Iowa,
had been visiting friends in Hamlet, Ind,
for several days. One day she made
several calls, and seemed to be enjoying
herself finely. She was missed about
dark, and search being made, was found
in barn, hanging dead, life having been
extinct nearly an hour. No cause can
be found. She leaves large family in
Iowa.
AMONG the items of news from famine
that Sir Richard Temple went straight
from Delhi to the Deccan, taking with
him as Secretary Mr.. Bernard, who was
Famine Secretary in Bengal three years
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to an Indian Presidency has, then, be.
come one of the very important features
of the Indian civil service, ranking in
fact, quite high in the list of government
rewards.
The death of Rear Admiral Colds
borough, at Washington, on February
20, was the sixth for that grade in the
navy within fifteen days. Those preced
: ingi were Rear Admirals Joseph Smith
Charles Wilkes, James Alden, Theo
dorus Bailey and Charles II. Davis, wht
had an extension of ten years on accoun
of the special thanks of Congress. The de
mise of these officers creates no vacancies
The naval neurology for the year show
twenty-seven deaths. Among these wer,
eight Rear Admirals, two Commodores
three Captains, four Commanders, ant
two Captains in the marine corps. Dur
ing 1876 there were fifty designations il
the navy and fifteen dismissals.