The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-12-12
REVIEW OF DOMESTIC NEWS.

we Town OF ndco1, Mlss. LOSS SZVU,uOu; IN
surance 100000.
A LARGE meeting was held in New Or
leans, on the night of the 5th, by the citi-
zens, and eloquent resolutions of gratitude
to the charitable world were passed.
AT Hamilton, O., John A. Weigel, we'll
known citizen of Hamilton, shot his wife
through the heart while she slept, and
killed himself by firing three shots into his
body. Cause jealousy.
ORPHEUs EvERTs, lr., son OF DR.. Everts,
Superintendent of the Insane Hospital, a.
Indianapolis, committed suicide few days
since, by morphine. Aged nineteen years,
and had manifested symptoms of incipient
insanity.
BERNARD kNoLLENBERG, an old citizen
of Richmond, Ind, one of that city leading
merchants fell from a wagon loaded with
manure, and was killed almost instantly,
his neck being broken. He was sixty-fve
years old.
THE Marquis of Lorne and the Princess
Louise arrived at Ottawa, Canada, their fu
ture home, on the I'd of December. The
weather was drizzly and gloomy, but the
Governor-General was splepdidly welcomed
by the citizens.
THE bank at Montreal received cable
dispatch announcing the suspension of the
West of England Bank, headquarters at Bris-
tol, capital stock, 100000, and it has
forty-nine agencies. The trouble was caused
by losses in the iron trade.
AT Philadelphia, Saturday, O'Leary had
forty.fve minutes to spare in his match
to walk four hundre miles in one hundred
and twenty four hours. His last mile he
made in nine minutes and twelve seconds,
and he then gave an exhibition mile walk in
in eight minutes.
ONE hundred and eight delegates, claim
ing to represent trade unions in all parts of
the country, met at Philadelphia, recently,
They decided to call National convention
to meet about the middle of next month,
either in st. Louis or Chicago.
COMPTROLLER HA1NEs says the tax aggre-
gate of the State of Tennessee for the year
1878 shows the valuation of property in the
State to be 1928 3,212, 1853; total tax on prop
erty, s., ,223 ,212; decrease in assessment as
compared with that of the year 1878 of
81, 1863 ,695 percentage of decrease of 5 49,
100.
A CAREFUL footing made of the grain
shipments bv lake eastward frem Toledo be-
tween the opening of navigation and No
vember 80, shows a total of 100000
bushels of wheat, $780, 900 bushels of corn,
and 2,50O,000 bushels of oats. August has
the heaviest shipments of any month of the
season.
The growth of Socialism in Berlin has
been something remarkable, Judging from
the election returns. The vote for Social
Democratic candidates for municipal Of
fees was in 1867, SO; in 1871, 1861; In
1874, IL ,971: in 1877, 81 ,522; and in 1878,
56,336. The severe laws passed to check
the movement may not prove the most
effectual preventive.
CALVIN R. EDISON. prominent dentist ol
Cleveland committed suicide early Satur
day morning by taking poison. He came
home the night before, and told his wife
, that he had taken poison, but as he hao
been in the habit of making such threats
no attention was paid to him. Later he re-
| tired, and his breathing betrayed something
wrong. Aphysician was summoned, but toe
late, and he died at three O'Clock.
A DISPATCH from davenport, Iowa, say
that the Washington County Poor-hous,
was burned lately with all it's contents ant
five of the tweRty-six inmates. The fire wa
not discovered in time to make any effort t.
save the property. The Superintendent
Mr.. Robertson, in his endeavors to save thu
inmates, nearly lost his own life, beinI
finally carried from the building insensible
His wife was sick with lung fever, and i
now in a dangerous condition from excite
ment and exposure.
SECRETARY SHERMAN says that there i
strong speculative feeling springing up t.
give silver bullion in the form of trade dol
lars value greater than other bullion, thu
discriminating in favor of bullion held il
China, against the bullion in the hands O
our miners. The Secretary says trade do
lars will be bought as bullion upon bid
each Wednesday, and that no preference
will be given to trade dollars over othe
bullion. This is the Secretary's answer t
the San Francisco offer of one million trad
dollars delivered there from China With
eiA'J uoJS'
BREATHITT COUNTY, Kentucky, ha
lately been the scene of a dire civil col
fict. A man was before the Court in Jacl
son, on criminal charge, when fight ws
brought about which continued for sever;
days. The whole county was in revolt, tt
County Judge was killed, and from an a
: count of the troubles which appears in tt
| hot ir
/ counters which took place, as man
! men were killed as in the skirmishes whic
a precede great battle. The immedia
cause of the uprising was a wife murde
but the people of Breathitt are in CO.
, tinual state of war, and openly and success
! fully defy the law.
' INTELLIGENCE, dated the 9Th, from Il
civil war that has been raging in BREATH
:. County, Kentucky, for the past two week
q is to the effect that affairs are indeed in
f deplcrable condition, and that instead
r being exaggerated, the stories about Il
!, strife there do not represent as bad sta
of affairs as really exist. The law is owe
ridden, and the county officers are powt
B less to even make single arrest. Prom
l. nent citizens who have been threaten
s have fed for their lives, and Jackson, t
= county seat of Breathitt County, is almt
v depopulated. The opposing parties a
l. encamped few miles from each other, a
are likely to have collision at any momel
THE civil suits of the United Stat
10 against H. B. Clafin & Co. for alleged rect
n ton, purchase, and concealment of lar
O amounts of fraudulently imported silk,
es tween the years of 1871 and 1874, have be
v, decided in the United States Suprel
is Court at Washington, in favor of Claf
e. & Co., defendants in error. 7
8. suits were for the recovery of double
ID value of the goods in question, q
~ the amount involved was nearly a quar-
e. of million dollars. The Court holds II
ly recovery sought under the second sect
30 of the act of 1923 can not be had, because Il