The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-12-04
NEWS or THE WEEK.

HEWS Of IHE WEEK.
UNIrED STATES currency outstanding at this
date, 1852, ,7s4, ,ll9.
DArY, the agitator arrested in Ireland on
the charge of making incendiary speeches, has
been arraigHed and released on FL 900 bail.
The Pope has written to the Irish Bishops
| asking them to interpose between the people
and the Government to avert strife and to
| pacify the people.
| IRoS-woRKERs in England are advised not
to emigrate to America until assured of work
as hundreds of. Iron-workers in the. United
States are unemployed.
KING ALFONSO, of Spain, and the Archduch-
ess Marie Christine, of Austria, were married at
Madrid on Saturday with great pomp and cere-
mony.
| H. c. CULVER, City Marshal, of Cameron,
Wis, was shot and killed Saturday while en-
deavoring to arrest two men TOR disorderly con-
| duct.
LOUISVILLE, KY, was visited by destruc-
tive wind storm on the 2Sth, resulting in the
| unroofng of a number of houses and the utter
destruction of numerous fences.
MAN named Edward Johnson in the Cleve-
land, Ohio, Infrmary, attacked an old man
named Carr, an inmate with a bu cher clever
and chopped his head to unrecognizable
mass. johnson is supposed to be insane.
Mrs. ANN GowAN, residing at New Albany
Ind, while chastising her young daughter a
few days ago, snapped her collar bone in
twain. The child appreciated the accident,
and of course mothers should exercise the
greatest care hereafter while thus engaged.
Miss EMMA WILSON, who suddenly disap-
peared from her home in Clark County, Ind,
is still missing although search is continued
daily for her. She was an estimable young lady
and it is feared that something serious has be-
fallen her.
LATE intelligence from Los Pinos is to the
effect that the Indian Commission have failed
to accomplish anything, and the probabilities
are now in favor of serious winter campaign
with the hostiles. Chief Ouray expresses his
belief that the Indians are arming themselves.
ANOTHER wreck at sea by which thirty lives
are supposed to have been lost. The steamer
Waubuno, leaving Collingwood, on the coast of
Maine, last Saturday, for Parry Sound, has
sunk, and at the present writing no trace ofthe
passengers or the crew has been found.
IT is now understood that General Grant is
to become President Of the company forming
with view to putting through the Inter
Oceanic Canal. An agent of French capitalists
is now on his way to America with subscrip-
tion of thirty millions to The stock of the COM
pany.
SECRETARY McCRARY says that foreign mis-
sions, so far utility is concerned, might as
well be abolished. The missions not very
useful, and whenever occasion demanded, send
a special agent to transact the necessary bust
ness. This plan, he contends, would be less
expensive and accomplish the same end.
AT Harrisburg, Pa, the trial of ex-State
Treasurer KembIe, Representative Saltel
and Jesse r. Crawford for corrupt solicitation Of
members of the Legislature and perjury in
testifying before the Legislative Committee
/ last summer that they had offered money tt
any member for his vote, is now in progress.
CHIEF OURAY expresses it as his opinion that
, the Mormons interfering with his people
, They tell the Utes that the purpose of thu
Commission is to get them in hands so tha
: they can massacre them and thus has mad,
: them so suspicious that Ouray has no contro
| over them.
G AN earnest effort is to be made at the ap
preaching session of Congress to repeal the Law
; imposing taxes the circulation, capital ant
deposits of the national hanks. The repeal o
this law has been urged by the Controller of tn
q Currency in his annual reports, and the recon
: mendation is renewed in the report of tina
9 officer for the last fiscal year.
| m
e who had been missing from Frankfort, Ky.
and supposed to have been murdered by tn
, man Wilson and his accomplices, Lacy an
$ Daugherty, has been found in the river. 1t i
5 said there no bruises upon his person. Th
/, counsel of Wilson now claims that he is exon
Grated.
e PROJECT is on foot in New York and Phila
Q delphia to raise purse of $3.50 900 as presen
= to General Grant. The work is being done b
, subscription. The friends of the movemen
say the object in view is to make his declinin
+ years financially comfortable, and to do ava
n with the necessity of his seeking position
any sort.
ia ACCORDING to the terms arranged betwee
j. Vanderbilt and the Syndicate, the twent
1 millions of New York Central and Hudso
River Railroad, sold at 120, will be paid ft
- J. through Drexel, Morgan & Co., in the follow
N ing sums and on the following dates S., 900
n 600, November %; S5,0OO,OOO, January
ID 1880; 900, February 1; $1,000, 90,
al March !, and 81 100000, March 81.
a J. B. McCULLAGH, managing editor of IL
is st. Louis Globe Democrat, in resenting an il
10 suit offered by Robert A. Watt, of that city,
IL the office of tho Glnhe. Danocrat assaulfr
Watt and knocked him down. The troub
10 arose from a remark Watt had made abo,
,e McCullagh speculating in gas stock. tt
10 melee created considerable excitement in tn,
- city owing to the high standing of bot
D. parties.
10 De KALB COUNTY, below Atlanta, Ga,
highly excited over little family affair,
=, which white married woman, named Margar
ty McAlpia, has been charged with having erin
a. inally associated with a negro. The fami
I. were ordered to leave, which they refused
~ 1a do. The neighbors gathered in and proceed'
,e to punish them. The negro, Harrison Blak
at was terribly beaten with clubs and guns. II
al woman's son was beaten till he could not wal
" The woman was tied to "A post and whpp
like dog.
In the trial of the Rev. Hayden, at Ne
Haven, for the murder of Mary StannaId, t
defence tho other day demanded that the che
of the deceased girl, on which it alleg
II that foot prints were to be found, should
- brought into court The court refused to ord
ty this, and the defense then issued subpo
ai ordering DR.. White, the custodian, to bring
~ into court. This was done, when the Stat
NC rather than have the remains of the girl 0