The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-08-21

freights on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
near Cumberland, Maryland, last Sunday in
which the engineer and fireman lost their lives
The freight going east loaded with cattle
and sheep, many of which were killed and
wounded.
THE house of Freeman, the Pocasset Ad-
ventist childslayer, is visited by many curious
sightseers who have twice opened the house BY
entering windows. All marks of the tragedy
have been untouched since the removal of little
Edith's body. The mantel ornaments have
been carried away as relics, and a reward is Of
fered for the arrest and conviction Of the
desecrators. - - -
WE hear of an enterprising horse thief in the
New England States. While he was not horse
stealing he was occupying some brothers pull.
pit, and altogether, has gotten along so well
that he in fair way of accumulating
riches. He never failed to fill some pulpit on
Sunday, and it is said, never failed to steal
horse during the week. The name of the gen
tleman is George A. Simpson.
THE news of the death of Mrs. Nellie Grant
Sartoris is received with sorrow all over the
country. Wherever known, even among those
politically opposed to her family, she was
highly esteemed as a simple, affectionate girl,
with good sense and candor of disposition
that at once won for her a host of friends Her
death occurred sixty hours after the birth of
her child.
AND so Stewards body had not really been
recovered, then s25O,0OO is the price now de-
manded by the robbers, who, writing from
Canada, state that the body is in an excellent
state of preservation. Judge Hilton, who has
haov ohaI fLo
different occasions since last January, has re-
peatedly refused to pay over $25,0OO, but tho
recent long silence of the robbers has caused
him to assert personal in the New York
Herald with view to reopening negotiations.
The redemption of called bonds at the Treas
ury for the month to date amounts to S25 ,s15,-
500. Of this amount $17 ,S15, 500 were paid for
| by check and $8, 900 900 credited. The amount
of called bonds outstanding on July 81, ag-
gregated S75 900 900, so that there still remain
about 5000 900 to be redeemed. The Treas
| ury has been reimbursed to the extent of $780,
100000 since July l, on account of the sales of
the four per cents. There are yet remaining in
| banks that have sold four per cents. between
$3O, ,OOO, 900 and $40 90, which must be paid
either in mony or called bonds. Of the called
| Donus outstanulng ploI ,UUU,UUV are neld by the
Treasury to secure National Bank circulation.
The fact that ex-senator Sprague, of Nara
| gansett Pier, R. l., returned home the other
day, and finding Senator Conkling guest at
his house, ran him off the premises with shot
| gun, will seriously affect that gentleman's pol
itical aspirations. For a long time Mr..
Conkling and Mrs. Sprague have
been indiscreet in their associations, and
have succeeded in exciting much public
attention in Washington society, and
this coupled with the fact of Sprague's reverses
in business, has had the effect to make him a
desperate man. Even Conk1ings best friends
now say that his attentions to Mrs. Sprague were
the chief cause of his own family, deserting
him, and that the matter now has become so
well known that his future political career will
have no prestige with the public. 1t is import
ant to state that, according to latest advices,
Sprague has driven his wife from his house
"just after big row.