The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-12-18
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

HYDRoPHoBIA is rampant in Delaware.
MTHE season of lake navigation is over.
IT is said fully one thousand pickpockess are
travelling in General Grants wake.
FREDERIck o. PRIscK, Democrat, was elected
Mayor of Boston, on the 9th. 4
Disastrous foods are prevailing in Hun
gary ana Transylvania-
FURIOUS snow storms in Dakota Terri
tory.
sPEAKER RANDALL favors Tilden for Presi-
dent.
THE partial burning of Bellevue Hospital,
New York, resulted in the death of three pa
tients.
THERE is strong effort being made to hold
the next National Republican Convention at
Columbus, Ohio.
ALEX. RAMSEY, of Minnesota, nominated by
the President for Secretary of War, has been
confirmed by the Senate.
AFARxER named VIM. Deal, near Indiana
polls, was struck by lightning on the 9th inst,
while cutting down a tree and instantly killed.
JESSE S. HILDRUP, United States Marshal
for the Northern District of Illinois, is charged
with defaulting to the amount of $4,000.
PIETRo BALBo, New York, convicted of
killing his wife, has been sentenced to be
hanged on the 10th of January.
DIPHTHERIA is raging to a considerable ex-
tent in the country adjacent to Parkersburg,
VIVA.
A GLoUcEsTER dispatch says: The fishing
season closes with loss of thirty.two vessels,
valued at over $780, and 26O men.
MRS. ADELINE C. HoTcHKIss, in Niagara
County, N. Y, has been arrested for poisoning
her husband and son.
FIVE Cinnamon, at Laverock, New, were
burned to death while under the delightful in
fuence of opium smoking.
LUDLow-STREET JAIL, New York, must be a
very insecure affair. Five notorious counter
feiters sentenced by the U. S. Court for long
term have just made good their escape.
NATHAN o. GREESFIELD, convicted of wife
murder, at Syracuse, New York, has been
granted respite by Governor Robinson till
the Both day of January, 1880.
Two brothers, Richard and William Need
ham, living near London, Ont, were dubbed
to death by burglars, who secured $500 booty
by the operation.
JOHN MCKEE, said to have been implicated
in the murder of Thomas Ruddy, near North
Vernon, Ind, three years ago, has been cap
tured at Leadville, Colorado.
Hon. L. C. NORMAN, of Boone County, KY,
Senator from the Twenty third Senatorial
District, has rendered his resignation to Gov
ernor Blackburn, and it has been accepted.
MIN the case of Hayden, at Worchester, Mass,
charged with poisoning his sister, the jury
brought in a verdict of not guilty. The YER
dict was received with loud cheers.
On the 10th inst. the postmaster at New
York sent out in foreign mails 115, ,22S letters,
the heaviest foreign mail ever sent from that
Office In one day.
mcnt, at Washington, has been discharged for
stealing the Presidents message and the Sec
retary's report. Retribution, eh
A TERRIFIC tornado is reported as passing
through the State of Missouri. Near Oberly
much damage to property and stock was sus-
tanned and number of persons were injured
bodily.
The Federal Assembly of Virginia have
elected 7. T. Fountenoy Secretary of the Com
monwealth John E. Massey, Auditor of Pub
lie Accounts, and II. H. Dyson, Second
Auditor.
A SPECIAL session of the Tennessee Legis-
lature has been called with view to amending
an act to enable Memphis to place herself in a
sanitary condition to avert the probable re-
currence of the yellow fever epidemic.
THE trial of the negro boy, George Price, for
the murder of Willie Black, at Cincinnati, last
spring, has come up for a hearing. Price does
| not deny it was wilful case of murder, his
only excuse being that he was discharged by
Black from work for theft.
THE religionists of Darke County, Ohio,
complain that rufianism is getting the best OF
them. Their services are broken up by per-
| sons pounding on the shutters, and the dea-
cons have called upon the county to protect
| them.
THREE masked men called on a man named
Pluckett, farmer living near Nieholsville
KY, at 5 o'clock in the morning, and under
the influence of upIifted clubs and the LITTLE
| black holes in the ends of three revolvers
Pluckett gave them what money he had, $65.
Per contract by Messrs. Huston & Co., tn,
Cincinnati Southern Railway was completed OF
the 9th inst, at p. m, the contract calling fo
the road in a completed condition on the 10th
Trains can now run from Cincinnati through
to Boyce Station, six miles from Chattanooga.
THE Columbus (Ga.) Enquirer-Sun relates tn
instance of an elopement between Miss Craw
ford and her cousin, who succeeded in gettin,
the gordian knot tied before being overtakel
by her pursuing parents. The mother died o
grief, and the father is still on the war -patl
with his shotgun.
FoUR persons were killed at railway cross
one, a young lady named Miss Ella Hurley
seriously injured. The killed were Pete
Singer, Matt Singer, Maggie Singer, an
Peter Muse. They were crossing the track il
a wagon, and struck by the locomotive.
The new Pacific Road is now said to be a
assured fact. As result Of conference be
tween the representatives of the st. Louis an
San Francisco Road and those of the Atchisor
Topeka, & Santa Fe, joint corporation hs
been formed, and $25, 10000 will issued, ha
to be taken by each concern.
JAS. LONGACRE, residing at Plano, Ill
went to the house of neighbor, named Ber
nett, to whose dau ghter he had been betrothe'
with. the determination of marrying the gir
G. M. Bennett, the girls brother, forcibl
elected him from the house, whereupon
threatened to kill Bennett, when the latter sh
him through the head, instantly killing hin
A Coroner's jury justified the killing.
, From the forthcoming Kentucky State Aud
tors annual report we learn that the State
entire expenditures for the coming year, enc
I ing with October 10, 1880, are estimated
r $l,74l,s50. The total estimated receipts f
: 1880 are placed at 1895, ,955.2s; tho amount
{ the treasury, October 10, 1879, ($65, ,s79.3
{ added to this, makes total of 81, ,06I 1891. g
9 substracting the estimated expenditures fro
: this leaves deficit of 1919 9,912.35.