The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-08-14
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

LORD CHELMSFORD has received permission
to return to England.
Two Brazilian counterfeiters were arrested in
New York on the 5th.
In Staffordshre, England, 400 colliers have
struck, effecting 1900 persons.
A GENERAL raid is being made on the pool
rooms and policy shops in New Yerk City.
DAMAGES by storm and food are reported
kirk BYERLY, at Owssso, Mich, last Satur-
day was shot by his brother for woodchuck.
THE glass makers strike at Pittsburg still
continues, with little hope of Q compromise at
an early day,
from many points in Ohio.
LIGHTNING has been doing considerable
damage throughout the Western States the
past week.
De LEssEPs' scheme of the Darien Canal
seems to be receiving no countenance at the
hands of the French Government.
AN estimate on the wheat crop of Minnesota
places the yield in that State this year a. Iorty
million bushels.
ONE of the largest rolling mills about Balti
more is to resume business at once, after pro-
tracted idleness of three years.
VENARD DE SAINT ANNE, the originator of the
project of bridging the English Channel, prom
ises to begin operations without delay.
The wife of Rev. Professor David Swing, Of
| Chicago, died near her old home at Oxford,
| Ohio, last Saturday.
A YUMA Indian is to enter the contest for
the Ashley belt, at New York, on the 22d inst.
His record is l25 miles in one day.
FoRrY-FoUR of the second hand spinners, at
Fall River, have decided to quit work. Their
action was prompted by the strikers.
g. VOLCANO, W. Va, was entirely destroyed by
I FIRE on the 4th inst. The loss is perhaps $780,
900. 1t is believed to have been the work of an
| incendiary.
DISPATCHES from Paris say that Chatenois,
! near Strasburg, has been half burned down,
leaving 1000 peasants homeless. Loss ,0O0,-
| 900 marks.
CHARLES FIGHTER, the actor, is dead, the
| final result of being thrown from q carriage in
Cincinnati in February of 1875. He died at
his home at Quakertown, near Philadelphia.
ALL preparations for the enlistment of boys
in the United States Navy, at St. Louis, are
completed, and business at Commander Potters'
headquarters in the Custom House has begun.
News from London says that the steamship
Louis David, from Antwerp for Naples, was
wrecked during fog off Ushant, France.
Twenty-seven persons were drowned.
| FROM MilIersburg, KY, on the 7th instant,
comes the news of four foul murders and two
cases of rape. The killing, in most part. seems
| to be the result of rage, which is the result
of whisky, which is the result of the election.
WILL contest for property valued at $780,
600 is in progress at Grcenup, Ky. Tho
property that of Chas. Womack, and the
will is being contested by his d" cousins and his
| aunts.''
The latest advices from Boise City report
| that the Indians attacked and defeated Capt.
Catly on the 28th ult., and captured all his
provisions, most of his baggage and twenty
| three mules.
The towboat Iron Valley bursted her boiler
on the Upper Ohio last Saturday, killing the
clerk, engineer and fireman. The rest of the
crew and passengers escaped. The boat sank
Immediately after the explosion.
CETYwAYo, the Zulu Chief, is a fugitive
without army or people. 1t is reported from
Luneburg that Cetywayo, with 1000 followers,
is endeavoring to escape across the northern
border to join Secocoen. The authorities are
keeping good lookout for him.
| UNHAPPY Zululand is now dreading an an
ticipated famine. 1t is sowing time, and as nc
crops are being put in, together with the fact
that large numbers of their cattle have been
seized, makes the prospect of a famine seem
imminent.
GREAT discomfort prevails among the Greek
inhabitants of Bulgaria. Thousands of the
more wealthy and intelligent classes have en-
| oil HALL II.
poorer classes have Joined the Mohammedans
who are creating the disturbances against the
Bulgarian regime.
The terrible fire visiting Serajevo, Servia
has made 20 900 people homeless and destroyed
property to the value of lO0, 900 900 forms. A
sensational report says that 1000 persons per.
. ;shed in the flames, but this is hardly true
The cause of the fire is attributed to a Moham.
, medan fanatic.
, THE Soldiers National Reunion will be helt
, at Cambridge, Ohio, on August 26 to 20, in
elusive. Very complete arrangements are be
ing made by the Committee of Arrangement
with the railroads for the transportation of visi
tors. The following information, furnished b,
the committee, is valuable to soldiers desiring
to attend:
United States, on the Baltimore 4 Ohio, Penn
sylvania Central (Pan Handle), and Marietta
Pittsburg q Cleveland Railroads, and all thei
, connections East, West, North and South, ex
cursion rates can be obtained on application +
the agents at such principal station. Notify
them at least one week before time Q
e starting that they may know how man,
8 desire to 60. From Chicago return coupon
: will be good until September 20, and from a
a | points west and northwest of that, wher
q through tickets are procured, sufficient time il
! addition will be granted. From all princips
points East, North and South the same time ca
be had on application, and in Ohio, Indians
Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and Kentucky
D necessary time will be allowed to attend the re
. | union and return at excursion rates.
In Catholic circles in New York It is state,
. that information has been received from trust
a worthy sources to the effect that Bishop Char
9 tard, of the diocese of Vincennes, Ind, will
Y appointed by Pope Leo XIII as coadjutor I
q the venerable Archbishop Purcell, of Cincinnati
b Bishop Chartard is said to be personally know
j. t" the Pope, and is very popular at the Vatican
GONE hundred and seventy five deaths anon
infants" is the way the news from Detroi
reads. An investigation was begun, and tn
3 trouble traced to the milkmen, who, it
70 charged, have been putting " white earth " i
h their milk--and water. 1t is white clay quit
extensively used by confectioners.
The National Board of Health is now pro
nounced the laughing stock of the nation.
employs about twenty doctors at ten dollars
day each and expenses. These fellows--so ad
7, vices from Washington say" havo been drive
lc from point to point by shotgun quarantine
"a which exist in many of the smaller towr
le throughout the fever stricken districts Of Il
~ South.
% OFFICIAL information has been received at Il
State Department that the German Govern
3, mcnt is inclined to modify the position tnke
ie by it against silver, and is willing to discu