Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1879-12-04

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CURRENT NEWS.
The Earl of Durham died at Londol
on the 9th ult.
Gen. jeff G. Davis died at Chicago
on the Both ult.
Telegraph communication with Cabu
and Candahar has been completed.
The Indiana Republican State Con
vention will be held February 95.
The New York State Canals are to
be closed for the season on the 9th Of Decem
ber.
Total amount OF United States cur.
rencY outstanding on the 29th ult., $685., ,7S4,
119.
Hoskins' official majority for Lieu
tenant Governor of New York over Potter is
l22. ...
Fall River, Mass, cotton operatives
are to have an increase OF fifteen per cent. on
Jan. l.
A brigade of pioneers has already
left Paris for Panama to prepare for cutting
the canal.
Great distress prevails in MOntene-
gro. One-sixth of the population is said to
be almost starving.
General Grant says he does not ex-
pect to visit Washington until after his re-
turn from Mexico.
There are 1,044,078 school children
in the State of Ohio. Of these 24,53O are
colOred children, a. . ass. .aa.aa.a
Thomas A. Doyle, Rep, was elected
Mayor of Providence, R. l., for the fifteenth
time, on the 25th ult. 7.s
Forty-nine Afghans have been hang
ed for completely in the massacre of the
British Embassy.
Archduohess Marie Christine, future
Queen of Spain, has officially renounced her
right to the Austrian succession.
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Gabriel Ranvier, a noted Communist
is dead. He superlntended the destruction
of the Vendome column at Paris.
The CoIored Peoples first Industrial
Exposition at Raleigh, N. c., opened on the
18th, with large number OF entries.
In recent speech Gladstone ex-
pressed himself in favor of giving home
rule to Ireland, but in local matters only.
Under the law allowing women to
vote for school officers, over one thousand
women haYe registered for that purpose in
Boston.
The Royal wedding Of King Alfonso
of spain and the Archduchess Marie Chris
tina, of Austria, was solemnized at Madrid on
the 10Th ult. ..... ...... ........
The loss to the Government during
the last two years, through the defalcation of
postmasters, amounted to one-twentieth of
one per cent.
A Paris telegram of the oath an
nounces that a battle had taken place at
Iquique between the allied and Chilian armies.
The former were defeated.
The Grand Opera House at Toronto,
Canada, was burned on the goth ult,, and the
janitor, named Wright, his wife and daughter
perished in the flames. ........
1t was officially announced at Con-
stantinople on the 29th ult., that the report
of the assassination of Mouktah Pasha by the
Arnauts was without foundation.
The six days bicycle race at Chicago,
between the English and American clubs, was
won by the former. The Englishmen scored
1865 miles and the Americans 1858.
Eliza Pinkston, of Returning Board
fame, was arrested at Canton, Miss, on the
18th, on the charge Of poisoning her husband,
to whom she had been married two years.
During the past twelve months 236
fishermen have been lost from Gloucester,
Mass, and this list may be increased, as sew
eral vessels are reported missing.
The northwest provinces of India are
suffering from a severe epidemic of malarlous
fever. The death rate has temporarily disa-
bled large portion of the agricultural popu-
lation.
The new Armory building Of the Sew
enth New York Regiment was opened with a
grand fair on the evening Of the 18th. Presi-
dent Hayes was present as guest Of the Reg
iment.
By collision between passenger
train and freight train on the. New London
Northern Railroad, near Palmer, Mass, on
the oath, seventeen persons were injured, fVe
seriously.
A fearful tornado passed over the
southeastern portion Of Louisville, KY, on
the S9th ult., destroying several houses and