Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1879-12-18
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WIN. MlLLlKAN & SON, Editors and PrOpfIetors.
WASHINGTON G, H., OHIO
CURRENT NEWS.
General Grant visited Louisville on
the 10th.
The cattle plague has broken out on
the Island of Cyprus.
The st. Gothard tunnel will be COM
pleted within month.
Hon. James M. Edmunds, Postmas-
ter Of Washington, died on the 18th.
The municipality of Paris has voted
100000 francs for the relief Of the poor.
Davitt, DAILY aud Killen, the Irish agi-
tators, have been indicted for sedition.
James B. Sener, of Virginia, has been
appointed Chief Justice Of Wyoming Terri
tory.
The President has appointed Owen
N. Denny, of Oregon, Consul General at
Shanghai.
In the House of Representatives on
the 9th two hundred and fifty bills were in
troduced.
The Seine River was frozen at Paris
on the 9th. The thermometer indicated five
degrees below zero.
A storm on the Isthmus of Panama,
recently, swept away two villages and par
TALLY ruined another.
General Grant arrived at Cincinnati
on the 11th, and grand banquet was givenin
his honor in the evening.
Five Cinnamon burned to death at
Haveloels, Nevada, on the 18th, They were
drunk WithO opium smoking.
An attempt was made to assassinate
Lord Lytton, Viceroy Of India, at Calcutta
on the 18th. He escaped unframed.
General Grant and party were at
Pittsburg on the 18th. The programme was
arepetition Of that presented at other places.
A bill has passed the lower house of
the Prussian Landtag empowering the Gov
ernment to purchase certain lines of railways.
A Berlin correspondent announces
that the German Government will immedi-
ately resume the sales of its superauous sill
YER.
The Senate, on the 9th, confirmed the
United States Circuit Judge for the Eighth
District.
Congressman A. M. Lay, Represen-
tative from the Seventh District of Missouri,
died at Washington from a stroke of paraly
SIS on the 9Th.
At Pottsville, Pa, on the 10Th, Fred
erick Hay, John Rlchler and a boy named
James were killed by fall Of slate In the
Forest cOlllerY.
During the eleven months ending
November 30, l25,O0O immigrants arrived at
New York, an increace of 49,755 over the
same period last year.
Arrests Of persons supposed to have
been connected with the recent attempt on
the Czar's life, continue TO be made at Mos
COW and It's neighborhood.
General Grant arrived at Columbus on the
19th, and remained as a guest of the city un-
I'll one o'clock next morning when he left on
a special train for PittBburg.
All the candidates on the Republican
ticket, except State Engineer ana Surveyor,
have been declared elected by the New York
State Board OF Canvassers.
John Hay, of Ohio, has been con-
hrmed Assistant Secretary OF State, and Hen
ry Harmon, Of New Hampshire, Deputy Sec
ond Auditor Of the Treasury.
The Dime Savings Bank at Hartford,
Conn, was placed in the hands of receiver
on the 18th. The bank has about $500 900 OF
deposits and 1000 deposltors.
King John, of Abyssinia, it was re-
ported in Cairo ON the sth, was marching with
his army 10 occupy the districts Of SEMINAR and
Golabat In the Blue Nile Territory.
The Advisory Committee Of the eau
Gus Of Republican Senators have decided in
favor OF non-action on financial questions
during the present session.
One corporal and three privates, who
themselyesi the Zulu war, we're
decorated with the Victoria cross by Queen
Victoria At Windsor Castle on the sth.
A wagon containing FIVE persons was
run into by railroad train at wagon cross
ing near Harrison, 0hio, on the 9th, and four
Of the occupants we're killed.
The small town Of Brod, on the river
KOros In Hungary, was inundated on the =
lith; also part Of tue town Of Karlsburg, on
the Moras. Some lives we're lost.
A train on the Central Vermont Rail-
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