The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-07-03

structed the Mississippi River jetties,
advocates the substitution of railroad by
which the largest ships may be carried
across the Isthmus of Darien Instead of q
canal. The latter, he claims, would cost
$150,000 900, while the railroad can be built
for $50. 900, ,o0D
THE engine and three front cars of the
east-bound mail train Saturday morning
broke through Red Creek bridge, three
miles west of Wytheville, Va, and fell
distance of eighty feet. Express messenger
Langhorn was killed and conductor Fairfax
and two mail agents injured. Several of
the passengers were hurt.
The great sensation in Texas Saturday is
the reported wholesale murder and slaugh-
ter of convicts hired out in Wood County.
Governor Roberts sent the Senate mes.
sage, setting forth that he had information,
unofficial, but of character to command
attention, that said murder had bAen com.
mitted, and urging Committe to investi.
gate,
JAMES F. EDMUNDs, aged sixty, a well
known citizen and Ex.Alderman of Newton,
Mass, and -four and a commission mer.
chant of Boston, was arrested Saturday for
forging paper in possession of the Maverick
Bank. The forgeries aggregate $4,000.
Since Tuesday, when the forgeries were
discovered, Edmunds has suffered severe
mental prostration.
THE Toledo, Ohio, National Greenback
Convention, split from the Columbus
Convention under the lead of Hon. 8. F.
Cary, passed series of strong greenback
resolutions, and decided to make no nomi.
nations for State officers. Among the reso-
lutions passed was one declaring that all
bonds of the Government should be paid
in accordance with the law under which
they were created.
A GREAT surprise was oceasioned at St.
Louis, Friday, by the advent, on the steamer
City of Al on, of another load of emigrants
from the South, it being supposed that the
exodus had ended for the season. The boat
load consisted of one hundred and twenty
negroes, chiefly from the Louisiana par.
ishes, and it is stated that there will be
many more who may not come at once, but
the hegira is likely to assume greater pro.
| portion than ever as soon as the present
| seasons crops are gathered.
THE explosion of the boiler at Willis ex
tensive planning mill, Front aud Brown
streets, Philadelphia, caused great con
sterna ion. The enginehouse and a portion
of the mill were blown in all directions, fl y
ing bricks and iron doing much damage
Several dwelling houses in the vicinity are
wrecked. The dead body of the engineer
has been taken from the ruins. The boiler
by the force of the explosion, was driver
into the second story of dwelling occupied
by family named Long. Claude Long, eigh
years old, was killed, and his sister Stella
eleven years old, was badly hurt. Theil
mother and Mrs. Ann McAvoy were missing
and believed to be buried in the ruins.
swARMs of butterflies are reported from
Southern and Central France. They FIRST
appeared in Italy and Spain. Recently the
Marseilles coast was covered with them
A cloud of white and yellow butteraiel
passed the same day near MontilimaI
Station, the passage lasting fifty minutes
while stragglers followed for another hall
hour. The invasion has extended as far al
Alsace. At Anglers there was a swarm es
timated at twenty thousand, which, aftel
passing over the public walks, traversed tn,
Rue du Mail at only slight distance abov'
the ground. Near the forest of Fontaine
bleu they were less compact, consisting o
groups of dozen or twenty each. Westerl,
gales and occasional thunder-storms hav,
occurred simultaneously with this unusua
phenomenon.
ROBERT JONES, colored, wss hung latel
at Tarboro, N. C., for the murder of Ru
dolph Eaton, at Rocky Mount, N. c., o.
Christmas night, 1877. A crowd number
ing FIVE thousand were present. Jones wa
calm as he stepped upon the scatfold. Fl
shook hands with the Sheriff, telling him b
was sorry to leave him, but he was prepare
to go. Jones made sh "rt speech in whic
he affirm ed his innocence. He ascribed HI
downfall to the malice of the negro wi