The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-05-15
REVIEW OF DOMESTIC NEWS.

THE house of DIR. Delos W. Southworth,
at Angelo, N. Y, took fire early in the
morning, and the Doctor perished in the |
lsm.s. His wife was fatally burned.
The Colored Conference at Nashville, |
Tenn, unanimously adopted an address, in |
which they favor emigration from the
South.
Rev. DE La MATYR has introduced bill
for funding the mupicipal Indebtedness of
the United States in paper money, author
izing the Secretary of the Treasury to ex
tinguish all our debts by issues of green
backs.
The platform of the National Woman
Suffrage Association, lately in session at st.
Louis, demands sixteenth amendment to
the Constitution which shall give women
the right to vote, and calls for woman
suffrage petition to Congress from every
Post-ofice in the nation.
JOHN j. DwYER and James Elliott, two
pugilists, had a fight the other day, at Long
Point, on the Canada shore of Lake Erie.
Elliott was whipped in twelve rounds, the
time occupied in the operation being twelve
minutes and forty seconds. Elliott was
badly punished, having five ribs broken
and otherwise used up.
Official returns of the vote in San Fran
cisco give majority against the new Con-
stitution of one thousand two hundred and
fifteen. Returns from the interior confirm
previous advices, and the instrument is
adopted by a majority cf from six thou
sand to ten thousand. The farmers seem
to have voted almost solidly for it.
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canoe on Reelfoot Lake, near Hickman, Ky.
When some distance from shore the boat
capsized, and before assistance could reach
them Miss Lucy Thomas and Miss Josie
Stephens sank. The other was saved.
Miss Thomas was dead when brought to
shore. Itwas at Methodist Sunday-school
picnic.
| MORROW County, Ohio, has ever been
foremost in the production of unnatural
things, among them double babies, two
headed calves, sixlegged pigs, etc. The latest
monstrosity heard of is fowl owned by
Mr.. Thomas Litzenburg, of Mount Gilead,
which is semi-chicken, semi-duck, and
among other characteristics of the genus
duck having large.sized weh-feet and able
to swim.
QUITE sad affair took place at Palmyra,
Ohio, few days ago. Sylvester Garfield
had taken al drink of liquor at the drug
store of Mr.. Rose, and said to Mr.. Rose that
was pretty good, and MIR. Rose asked him to
have another drink. They both drank, and
this time they Immediately discovered that
they had drank poison instead of liquor in
mistake. Mr.. Rose died in a few minutes.
At last accounts Mr.. Garfield was still liv-
ing, but his recovery was doubtful.
IT is striking picture of the state of
things in the great city of st. Petersburg
that we have by cable. Multitudes of
people, whole families at time, are ar
rested daily; there are few pedestrians or
carriages in the..streets covered prison vans,
with an officer behind the driver, are hurry
ing along; an endless line of porters acting
as watchmen are to be seen; they sit at
every door, armed with stout sticks, and
Cossacks gallop around, cracking their
whips. 1t is a reign of terror in st. Peters
burg.
ROBERT L. GREEN, deputy clerk of the
Circuit Court, in Covington, KY, in fit of
temporary insanity, leaped from the sus-
pension bridge that spans the river between
. Cincinnati and Coyington. Quite num-
ber of people who witnessed 1t yelled and
screamed SO loud that the attention of
people along both the Ohio and Kentucky
sides was attracted to the scene. The dis.
tance that Green jumped was ninety.fve
feet by actual careful calculation As soon
as he had touched the water, ohm Shannon,
ayoung hero from Covington, jumped in the
river, swan out where he was, and held him
| l.
unhappy unconscious man was rescued
Young Shannon, who performed this noble
and heroic deed, is hardly fifteen years Of
age.
GROUND has been formally broken al
Amherstville. Canada, for the new Wander
bilt tuEnel under the Detroit River, some
twelve miles south of Detroit. A large
number OF citizens from Canada and the
United States were present, and took par
: in the ceremonies. Several addresses wert
made and a sumptuous repast was served
The Chicago Commercial Advertiser thinks i
is by no means certain that the .unne
can be completed by the presen
method employed. The limestone
!. rock through which they mus
l pass is full of assures and crevices, whicl
. | p6Tulb Guc WdLcT w HOW uOWu anu 1mp6U
the progress of the work. If it is ascer
tanned that the present plan is not feasible
, permission will be asked of the Canadian
. Government to allow the use of Golfer dams
= which at present is refused on account o
: the obstruction to navigation.
= Two colored men, Tom Jones, alias SAT
8 terwhite, and Henry Mcleod, alias Cantell
j. were hung lately at Appling, Columbi
:; County, Ga. Jones killed colored woman
r in 1876. Jealousy impelled him to tn
q crime. Mcleod waylaid and killed his ow
l. son last November because he believed hir
), guilty of stealing from him. Three or fou
Z thousand people were in attendance. Sa
+ terwhite stated that he was innocent q
It the crime; that he did not intend to shoe
} the woman whom he lived with as his ow
u wife, but her paramour, and that his lii
n was sworn away by colored witness, Pete
.. Luke, who had grudge against him. Nj
Iced acknowledged his crime, and spok
from the gallows in a rambling manne
j, Both were very much affected. but m,
,f de, tn calmly, expressing themselves as vii
le ing to die.
~ A CONVENTION of citizens OF the Soui
~ " met at Vicksburg, recently, to consider II
=. labor troubles of the Mississippi Vale
!, The most prominent men of both races
~ the South were present, and resolution
were adopted which are expected to chec
the colored exodus. These resolutions 9
-, firm that the interests of all classes a
~ identical; that the colored race is guara
10 teed full civil and political rights und
~ the Constitution; that the cred
n system now in vogue is productive of d
,o trust and disturbance, and should be d
,e countenanced, and that the circulation
ee false reports among the colored peop
regarding the advantages of emigratil
should be- stopped. On these resolutio