The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-12-11
NEWS or THE WEEK.

GENERAL JEFT. g. DAVIS, OF Indiana, died
at Chicago, on the 3oth ult.
A DrsAsTRous frs at Troy, N. Y, on the 7th
inst, destroyed property valued at $3.50, 900.
DIFHrHEntA has broken out with remarkable
violence in the neighborhood Of Plain City,
Ohio.
F.ox II, 600 70 Il, 600 sixty pound packages
of oleomargarine are sold weekly in New York
for fresh dairy butter. $3.50
The latest from Ireland reports big torch
light procession at Castlebar INDUCED in by the
anti-rent party.
HENRY WISE, another of Joseph Raber's
murderers, in Pennsylvania, has finally been
sentenced to be hanged O.
A PROMINENT St. Louis jurist, Judge Samuel
Reber, was found dead in his bed at the Burnet
House, Gin cinnati, on the Sd inst. Congestive
chilis.
wM SwANK, alias Conkle, in Pleasant
County, W. Va, has been arrested for firing
cannon through the house of a neighbor of
whom he was jealous.
GRANT has managed to spend one quiet even
ing-thc evening of Dec. 5, at the residence Of
Col. Fred Grant. This fact is worthy of record
just at the present time.
MISS LIznH FALK, at Detroit, was instantly
killed by an elevator a few days ago. She was
caught between it and a heavy beam, and her
head crushed.
A BURGLAR, name unknown, was shot and
instantly killed at CrestIine, Ohio, while at
tempting to gain entrance into a boct and
shoe store. ~ ~ go
The election returDs from Louisiana indicate
heavy Democratic gains, the returns from
eleven country parishes giving Democratic
gain over the vote of 1876 of $4,000. Only
about two thirds vote throughout the State
was cast. F
SoxE fends attempted to wreck passenger
train near st. Louis few days ago by placing
a log on the track. The obstruction was seen
and the air-brakes applied, and with the ex-
ception of overturning the locomotive, no
damage was done.
MErFoRD WATERS, colored, was hanged last
Friday at Elktown, Md, for the murder of
Jenkins Whaley, colored, November ID, 1873.
The murder was the result of a quarrel in a
cornfeld. Waters said God had forgiven him
and he was going straight to heaven.
The Secretary of the Treasury has instructed
the Assistant Treasurer in New York to accept
all bonds offered for the Sinking Fund at 1O6.-
35. This makes the purchase 500, 900. There
has been sent in $1,000 more at the same price.
THIRTEEN agents of the Louisiana Lottery
Company have been arrested in New York City
upon the charge of selling lottery tickets. They
each were compelled to give $500 bond. 1t is
getting decidedly rough for lotteries.
HARRY HuIsE, who was recently convicted
at Cincinnati, Of brutally outraging the little
Hoburg girl last February, has been sentenced
TO the penitentiary for life. He was as uncon-
cerned when sentence was pronounced as if the
case did not concern him.
News from St. Petersburg reports the Gar
extremely depressed. Fits of melancholy have
returned, though he does his best to shake
them off. Advices from Cannes state that the
Empress is in the Same deplorable condition,
constantly apprehending intelligence of TIE
| Cars assassination.
A MEETING has been held in Bostcn to take
measures for greeting Charles s. Parnell upon
| his arrival there. The original committee ap-
pointed by Irish citizens, who have resolved to
receive Parnell at Faneuil Hall, was increased
| to sixty and includes the name of many dis
| tinguished citizens.
A LATE Berlin cablegram says that Emperor
William has just received dispatch announc-
ing fresh attempt against the life of the Gear,
| An Internal machine was exploded at Moscow
on his passage. Fortunately it only burst
| after His Majesty had passed. The Emperor
escaped without injury.
| The Regulators of Grayson, KY, took the
youngest son of Lewis Payne, the counter
feiter, and hanged him until he confessed Of
having, in company with his brother and
father, been shooting at neighbors. The three
were then numerically whipped, each receiv-
ing thirty lashes. The Regulators are deter
mined to see that somebody is punished when
| depredations are committed.
The General Assembly of Virginia met on
the Sd inst, in its first biennial session, under
| the recent amendment of the Constitution pro-
viding for regular sessions once in every two
| wears. All the Senators, forty eight in num-
Der, were present, and ninty eight out of one
hundred delegates in the House answered tc
! their names. The Readjusters have majority
of twenty seven on joint ballot.
The SEVENTEEN anniversary of the birthday
of DR.. Oliver Wendell Holmes was commem-
4 grated at Boston on the Sd by breakfast and
reception, attended by a large number of prom
inent essayist poets, and writers of distinction
among them Emerson and Longfellow. Let
ters of regret were received from Presiden
Hayes, Hon. Carl Schurz, Henry Watterson
and others Al W
TALMAGE's congregation have got mad ant
declared their independence or, in othe
words, the Tabernacle has seeded from tn
Presbyterian Church. The declaration as pub
lished, states that the prosecutors of Talmag
are a wicked, malignant and malicious set Q
men, who, under the garb and pretext of eccle
siasticism, are endeavoring to ruin him an
their church property. This, undoubtedly
will be the end of the Tabernacle troubles.
A SPECIAL from St. Martinsville, La, say
that Emile Detiege, Republican Candidate 70
Sheriff Of that parish, has killed two De L
soussaye brothers, Ernest and 0niziphere, j.
They had just returned from Bearex Bridg
Precinct, where they had gone in the interest c
their father, who is also n candidate for Sheriff
The belief is that the trouble will not end here
.Detiege has gone homo, said to be mortal
, wounded. ...-.
HORRIBLE murder has come to light nea
Atlanta, Ga. A farmer, one A. M. Smith
discovered in one Of his fields body covere
, two feet with dirt and almost decayed. Th
arms were pinioned and a hangman's moose wa
drawn tightly above the head above the lowe
jaw, which was missing, and the body was hoi
| m cd An uoaf hald huf n
? facts were elected to lead TO the identifcatio
of the nnrderer Or hia victim In uriaaa On 1,