The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-02-07
REVIEW OF DOMESTIC NEWS.

THE AIms-house at Freeport, Maine, was
burned recently, and two of the inmates
perished.
The Henkler Locomotive Works, Boston,
have suspended. Liabilities, 100000; half
owed Boston banks.
EIGHT hundred Indians have left Red
Cloud Agency. 1t is believed they mean
mischief in the spring.
THE Postmaster General has received
forty thousand bids for carrying mails west
of the Mississippi River.
JOHN F. PHELPS, for thirty-fve years
editor of the Maysville IN. Y Sentinel died
February 2, aged fifty-nine.
THERE is an inquiry in regard to 81 500
which mysteriously disappeared recently
from the National Treasury.
GENERAL MILES will soon start On hunt
for Sitting Bull and his band, believed to
have left Canadian territory.
TEN mails for Brazil, on the Metropolis,
containing many valuable Enclosures, were
washed ashore and plundered.
PHILIP RUSH, near Marion, Ohio, fired
pistol I" that wasn't loaded" at his brother,
and hit him in the leg. The leg was am
putated.
THE prisoners broke Jail at Scottsville,
Allen County, KY, lately, in broad daylight.
ALI escaped except Mrs. Snow, who is con-
fined for murdeiing her husband.
THE latest in regard to the Metropolitan
disaster reports two hundred and sixty per
sons on board, and one hundred and sixty
drowned. The vessel was unseaworthy and
overloaded. The day after the disaster the
beach was strewn with the bodies of the
dead.
A TERRIFIC tornado, accompanied by a
disastrous tidal wave, passed along the
Atlantic Coast on the last day of January
and the first of February, destroying
bridges, roads, and property of every de-
scription. At Coney Island the disasters
were great, and eight lives were lost. A
number of shanties on the east side of the
island were swept into the sea, and three
women and five children perished.
FRANK LYNCH, would.be suicide, was
! arrested on the Fort Wayne Railroad Bridge
over the Allegheny few nights since, the
officer coming upon him while he was pre-
pairing to jump. While he was being taken
to the station house, Lynch confessed to
having murdered his little child, boy two
years and half cd, by throwing him into
the river, ON the night of the 18th of Decem-
| Der, having quarreled with his wife and
carried the child away from her.
TIE N. Y. Sun says dispatch from the
Kitty Hawk life saving station came to
Alberto De Agular, civil engineer of New
York city, saying that the steamship Me
tropolis had foundered in storm, off that
life saving station. The unfortunate expe-
dition consisted of full corps of picked
engineers and laborers. A private dispatch
to Mr.. Collins, one of the contractors, says
there were two hundred and ten laborers
on board, and only ffty-four were saved.
| A ST. LOUIS special say: The sudden dis
appearance on the night of the 10th of
January, of Judge w. L. Mayo, a gentleman
on his way from Leavenworth to Illinois
where he was prominently connected with a
bank, is growing to be more of sensation
daily. 1t is supposed that he was enticed
off the o. & NJ. train in East st. Louis and
foully dealt with. A reward of five hundred
dollars is offered for information concern
in him. His valise and cane were received
from Cincinnati, where they went through
ON the train.
DIR. MARY WALKER and Mrs. Spencer, re
formers, have come to the defense of the
poiygamists. They were before Congress
sional Committee few days ago, and Will,
each employed different line of argument
both arrived at the same conclusion. Mrs
Walker regards the Utah system Of marri
age as an improvement upon the monoga
nous plan in certain important particulars
while Mrs. Spencer takes the safer GROUND
that Congress being composed in part o
practical polygamists, any movement look
ing to the disestablishment of the system
would come with ill grace from them.
The Galveston Neps Laredo special says
"Reports reached here that party of fift,
Mexicans, mostly from Texas, under tn
command of Col. Y. Salinas, an adherent o
Laredo, attacked the towns of Candida
Savinas, and Hidalgo, in the State o
Tamaulipas, on the 22d inst Thay seize,
J the principal men of these towns aid force,
= them to pay $1,000. So rapid were thei
movements that the inhabitants though
there were three separate parties. Cavalr
started in pursuit of them from differen
points, upon which they separated, an
twenty of the band crossed into Texas belo,
Laredo, last night. It is said the raid wa
: planned at this place."
POSTMASTER James of New York city ha
addressed the following telegram to Pos
I master-General Key: "The Assistant Trea
urer of the United States at New Yor
E refuses to receive trade dollars on depos
g from this Office, and 1 am, therefore, con
PEELED to refuse them from the public, whic
causes serious annoyance and complain
Please instruct me in regard to the matter.
l The Assistant Treasurer says the reaso
g why he refuses to receive the trade dolle
is because it is not legalized, and that we,
s he to lie succeeded and his accounts close
e up, his successor would unquestionably r
+ fuse to countenance any trade dollars b
had accepted.