The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-01-24
REVIEW OF DOMESTIC NEW

JAMES B. GRooME has been elected
United States Senator for Maryland.
THE American residents of Rome have
presented an address to King Humbert.
AN trade has been issued in Turkey, call
ing for the enrolment of all free males.
ABOUT 1000 unemployed workingmen
made demonstration at Boston, Saturday.
THE bill striking the word "white from
the Ohio Militia Law was passed Saturday.
EIGHT clerks were discharged from the
Treasury Department in Washington on
Saturday.
MCCLELLAN was inaugurated Governor
of New Jersey on the 18th with the usual
ceremonies.
THE cable announces the death of Sir
William Stirling Maxwell, the distinguished
Bristol author.
JOHN P. LoeE has been appointed post
master at Cincinnati, vice Wahle, whose
term has expired.
HARRY BARNY, prisoner in the work
house at Wheeling, was shot by guard,
while trying to escape.
THE steamer Abyssinia left Liverpool,
Saturday, for New York, with one million
dollars of American gold.
BERTHA VoN HILLERN has comp eted a
walk of eighty nine miles in twenty-six con-
secutive hours, at Washington.
JOSEPH SCHUFERsTEIN hung himself in
New York, lately, in his room, using the
broken cord of a window sash.
SAMUEL BowLEs, editor of the Springfield
(Mass.) Republican, died on the of night the
10th, in the fifty-second year of his age.
1t is stated that Owen Murphy, fugitive
New York Excise Commissioner, is danger
ously ill in Ottawa, aad that his wife is in
sane.
BY fall, Tuesday night at Wilmington,
N. c., of sLanty which subsequently took
fire, four men were crushed and burned to
death.
THE Ohio Legislature has elected George
H. Pendleton United States Senator. The
Republicans offered no candidate, but voted
blank.
SYSTEMATIC robbery of Government
hospital for colored patients is among the
latest charges of corruption from Wash
ington.
arrived at Parison the 10th. He was met
at the railway station by members of the
Geographical Society.
FRANK B. JAMES, prominent business
man in Cincinnati, committed suicide few
mornings ago. Sickness in the family and
business troubles were the cause.
GEN. JOHN S. WILLIAMS has been ap-
tota 70 hu tbo
Kentucky Legislature, after an animated
contest and great number of ballotings.
THE greenback men of Connecticut, in
convention at Hartford, passed resolutions
favoring the remonetization of silver, and
appointed a delegation to the National Con-
vention at Toledo.
THE memory of the dead King Emanuel of
Italy was honored at Cincinnati by the Ital-
ian residents. A requiem mass was cele-
brated, and an interesting sermon delivered
by Archbishop Purcell.
The President has appointed the follow
ing Commissioners to the Paris Exposition
Geo. A. Halsey and William B. Shippen, of
New Jersey, and Bronson Bayless and
Peter Staub, of Tennessee.
A FIRE on the steamship Hermann dur
| ing the trip from Bremen damaged the cargo
| Sc, 900. The crew were working many hours
| before the fire was extinguished, the pas
sengers meantime being greatly alarmed.
A SPECIAL from Berlin says the govern
| ment has finally determined to submit to
| the Imperial Parliament a motion for an
| increase Of tax and duty on tobacco, as a
| first step in the general reform of the Impe-
rial taxation.
THE annual report of the Trustees and
| Superintendent of the Indiana Institution
| for the Education of the Deaf and Dumb
shows that the workings of the Institution
for 1877 compare favorably with those OF
any other year.
| THE stroke of pick by workman in the
| Potts mine, near Locust Dale, Pa, freed a
| large body of gas, which was fired by the
| lights in the mine. A fearful explosion
followed, killing five men, and seriously
| injuring number of others.
| THE jury in the trial at Atlanta of the
| second indictment against Ex-Governor Bull
lock voted unanimously not guilty on the
| first ballot. The trial lasted six days. This
| disposes of all the cases against the Cover
I
| verdict is admitted bar.
SECRETARY SCHURZ, in an interview tele
graphed from Washington, comes to the de
fense of the methods employed in the late
| Indian investigation. He declares that they
| were not only efficient, but absolutely neces
sary, and indicates his purpose to fight il
out on the line already begun.
THE Utah Territorial Legislature met anG
organized January IA. Lorenzo Snow was
elected President of the Council, and Orso1
Pratt Speaker of the House, both member
of the Twelve Apostles. All but three mem
bers are polygamists. Most of the mem
bers are Mormon Bishops.
| PRESIDENT HAYES is considering the sub
ject of Cabinet representation on the foo
of the House, and will probably send t.
Congress at an early day message recon
mending the change. An extended repor
was made upon this subject to the Thirty
eighth Congress, and to this the Presiden
will probably direct attention.
A STATE Silver Mass Convention, whic
recently met in Springfield, Illinois, passe
resolutions emphatically demanding tn
silver dollar, calling upon both houses t
repeal the demonetization act, and if tn
President, by vetoing, shall defeat the bill
then they ask Congress to append to it tn
appropriation bill, and stand by that actor
SEVEN freight cars and one passenger ca
were thrown from the trestle of the Ogden
burg & Portland Railroad at Fishers Cros
, ing, VT, and completely wrecked. ST
passengers were in the car, of whom Albe
| Currier COnductor SnauIdinp p IT Patte
son, and A. D. Peck were more or le
, severely injured.
THE inaugural ceremonies of the Go
ernor elect of Iowa were quietly al
unostentatiously conducted on the lit
> although large concourse of people was
> attendance. His address was largely devote
;, 10 State topics, but he reverted to the que
= ton of the national finances, and warm
= urged reconciliation and resumption.
l. ONE of the richest discoveries WAS ma.