Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1879-11-27
CURRENT NEWS.

CURRENT NEWS.
The New York State Canals are
be closed for the season on the 9th Of Deceu
her.
The Merchants Association Of Bos
tOn favOrs the enactment of a.National banl
Eupt law.
Consul General Post, of Vienna, say
crops in all parts Of Europe this season ar
very poor. ...
Great distress prevails in Montene
gro. One-siKth of the population is said b
be almost starving. ..
FOrty-nine Afghans have been hang
ed for completely in the massacre Of tn
British Embassy.
ArchduChess Marie Christine, future
Queen of Spain, has officially renounced he
right to the Austrian succession.
The Colored Peoples first Industria
Exposition at Raleigh, N. c., opened on th'
18th, with q large number Of entries.
Michael Dayitt, James Bryce Killer
and James DAILY we're arrested at Dublin OF
the 10th for making incendiarY speeches.
Baker Pasha has been appointed, by
the Sultan, to superintcnd the introduction
OF reforms throughout the whole Of Asia
Minor.
Chief Ouray declares that the Nor
mons instigated the White River massacre,
The Commissioners intend to Investigate the
matter. ....
About 800 cases of scarlet fever are
reported at Springfield, ILL.,, and the public
schools have been closed until after the 1st of
January.
The loss TO the Government during
the last two years, through the defalcation of
pOstmasters, amounted to one-twentieth Of
one per cent
At Andover, Mass, on the night Of
The 18th, an incendlary fred the house of Mrs.
II. P. Beard, and her two young SONS perished
in the flames.
Chief Ouray has been granted per-
mission to visit Washington with ten of the
Ute chiefs, and the final disposition Of the
Utes will probably then be settled.
Accounts from points along the Lake
regions report the gale on the 10th and Goth
unusually severe, causing great damage to
shipping. Several lives we're lost.
Eliza Pinkston, of Returning Board
fame, WAS arrested at Canton, Miss, on the
18th, on the charge Of poisoning her husband
TO whom she had been married two years.
The Confederate cruiser Shenandoah,
for some time the property of the Sultan of
Zanzibar, sunk In the Indian Ocean recently,
and nearly all Of the crew were drowned.
The new Armory building Of the Sew
cnth New York Regiment was opened with
grand fair on the evening Of the 18th. Presi-
dent Hayes was present as a guest Of the Reg
iment.
Spotted Tails new mansion at the
Rosebud Agency was completed a few days
ago, and in honor OF the event he gave party |
at which twenty fat dogs were devoured by
the guests.
After dedueting all expenses the
amount realized by the Government through
Che sale Of public lands last year, amounted
10 e8s8 ,370, OF about nine and three-tenths
cents per acre.
There was q great collapse in coal
and railroad stocks on the New York Ex-
change On the 2lst, and serious panic at one
time seemed inevitable, Some stocks de-
Clined twenty-fopr per cent. HsE
Conrad Holmes was hanged at Union
Court House, s. O., on the 2lst for outraging
AtWo-yearsOld daughter Of A. B. Hampton IN
Onion County four months ago. George
Garry washanged at Beaufort on the same day
for murder.
Two farmers named Crockett and
Nicholas, residing near Llntdale, Mo-, quar-
relied about Q hog belonging TO Nicholas, and
which trespassed on Crockett's land, on The
20th, and a fght enBued, both using their
pOcket-kniyes with fatal effect.
The British Colonial Office, replying
20 the memorial against the exclusion Of mis-
Hlonaries from zululand, has promised to in
fOrn sir Garnet Wolseley that It is desirable
that any Interference with missionary opera
tlons should be avoided.
A correspondent Of the Manchester
Guardian believes the statements 10 the effect
that papers we're found In Cabul compromis,
ing the Russian Foreign Ohlee are accurate
Lord Beaconaaeld isurged 10 publish the doc ,
uments but declines TO do so.
A new railroad Is to be built from
Santa Re 20 San Francisco by the Atchlson,
Topeka a Santa re Road. This road has GO.
cured the old charter OF the Atlantic u Pa
aiae Railroad, which carries with It a land Y
grant Of about 1000, 900 acres.
Secretary Sherman has written a let