The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-03-28
REVIEW OF DOMESTIC NEWS.

REV. DIR. BURGESS, of Springfield, Mass,
announces his acceptance of the Bishopric
of the Quincy, ILL.,, Diocese.
BILLS proposing female suffrage in q mod.
flied form have been defeated in the Legis-
latures of Massachusetts, and Rhode Istand.
THREE men named McFadden, one Moody,
and q colored man were drowned in at
tempting to cross the James River, near
Patterson's Landing, Virginia.
THE steamer Magenta blew up opposite
Scarborough, New York, few mornings
since. Alfred Reynolds, Richard Lane and
two unknown men were killed. Five others
we're badly scalded.
A MOB broke into the Jail at Littleton, w.
Va, few nights ago, and dragging out
John Wallace, the murderer of Miss Church,
they took him few miles up the railroad
and hanged him to tree.
AT Foster, Rhode Island, VIM. Ide re-
tw ned home drunk and badly beat his
wife, who had ais, been drinking. After
the husband fell asleep, the wife took
doubled barreled shot gun and killed him.
A RECEPTION was given Mrs. President
Hayes on the evening of the 10th at the
residence of Major John Boggs, midway
between Chillicothe and Circleville, Ohio
Quite number of ladies and gentlemen
from Chillicothe were present.
RETURNS from all the towns in New
Hampshire foot up as follows: Prescott,
39,377; Mexican, 81 1858; Kendall, 251 Flint,
223; scattering SO. Prescott's plurality,
l:514; majority, GAL. The House will stand:
Republicans, 205; Democrats, 165.
A ROW occurred few evenings since be-
tween the freshman and sophomore classes
of Bates College, Maine, growing out of the
freshmen carrying canes. The police ar
rested several students, but they were sub
sequently released. The faculty of Bates
suspended the students engaged in the
affair.
The body of a man, which was, upon re-
covery, identified as that of Samuel Mullet,
of Cleveland, was found in the river at
Toledo, Ohio. Mullet was last seen alive
on the 14th of last February, in that city,
when he had considerable money on his
person, and as none was found ON the body,
| it is believed he was murdered and the body
thrown into the river.
A MAN about twenty-five years of age,
name unknown, was run over and killed by
| a passenger train on the Lake Shore Rail-
road, near Toledo, Ohio. Among the articles
found on his person was a card of II. C. &
w. L. Coon & Co., furniture dealers, Piqua,
Ohio, on which was written the words: ga.
Howe, Forest, Hardin County, by Mr..
Wagner"
| The fast mail train ON the Panhandle
road run into freight train at Dennison,
| o., a few mornings ago. The switchman had
left the switch open, and the cars piled
themselves up in various peculiar positions,
and the passengers were all more or less
bruised. The fireman was badly hurt. An
hour after the wreck, nothin : had been seen
or heard of the engineer.
AN Abbeville, Ala, dispatch tells thestory
of the hanging of Jerry, Isaac and Jacob
Childs, negroes and brothers, for the muir.
der of Mrs. Yon in 1876. The execution
was witnessed by about ten thousand peo.
pie. Jerry said all were innocent, but thai
Isaac HALLS, the prosecutor, knew who
killed Mrs. Yon, for he had offered him
(Jerry) 800 in October previous to hel
death, to KILN
THR Supreme Court of Louisiana has dis
posed of the Returning Board trials, sustain
ing the point raised by the defense in the
case of Thomas c. Anderson, that " q con
selidated statement of the vote for the Presi
Dental Electors for the Parish of Vernon
was not public record" The Court also
ordered that the verdict of the jury in ths
case of Anderson be annulled, and that h,
he discharged. This puts an end to tn,
prosecutions in the Returning Board cases
In the great international pedestrian con
test lately closed in London, a six days
walk, Vaughan completed his 500 miles o
1888, and gave up the struggle. O'Lear,
walked until 8 10, when he had made 52
miles and two laps, 440 yards further thai
the best performance on record. Brown
walked till s 80, scoring At miles and tw,
laps. Ide also walked till $3.50. scoring 40
miles and four laps. O'Leary was then de
clared the winner amid the playing of Ma
, tional airs, and boundless excitement an
enthusiasm.
ONE of the New York morning paper
!, published statement that it was the inter
ton of prominent Hebrews to run Geners
Grant for President next term, and that i
order to keep him prominently before th
: public Joseph Seligman, the banker, wa
t paying Grants expenses in Europe. Nj
Seligman declares the statement a ridic,
/ lous falsehood. He says Grant deposite
, with his firm certain amounts of securitis
6 and received letter of credit, not onl
, from his firm, but also from Drexel, Mo
: gan & Co.
HON. JOHN L. VANCE, of Gallipolis, q
1 his way to Washington, arrived at Cinci
: natl. Three hours after arrival he was
y receipt of note written in scrawlir
e hand, left at the hotel by some one unknow
O stating that member of the old Four
o Virginia Regiment, was lying sick in Co
ington, and asking assistancne of him.
six O'Clock in the evening he left the hot
Q for Covington, and nothing from that tin
> was heard of him. 1t is mysterious cas-
= The superstition is that he had been d
h coyed by an enemy and murdered.
y The remains of four men were fou,
n smothered to death in locked cotton c
,e on the Iron Mountain Road, Missouri,
10 Monday. They have been buried At Pie
:, mont. The bodies when discovered we
horribly disfgured and blackened. Fro
~ letters upon one of them it was learned til
~ he was from some town in Ohio, and hat
le family. 1t is supposed that the men crawl
r in among the cotton to hide themselves a
t- get free ride; that they began smokir
IN setting the cotton on fire, and were
C. smothered. The appearance of the bod
ID when found was something dreadful.
A FEW evenings ago, Washington sire
the main thoroughfare of Indianapol
of was the scene of shocking tragedy.
n w. Hogshire and P. w. Bolan, Democra
an ward politicians, were talking, when D.
~ Mahoney, a teamster, came up, and disput
~ some statement made by Bolan, and call
=. him q vile name. Bolan demonstrated.
err he says, and warned him not to repeat
its but Mahoney did SO, at the same til