Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1880-02-05

diers perlshed.
P. A. Sawyer, FusiOnist Secretary o,
Maine, on the 3lst ult delivered to the Re
publican Secretary of State the State seal
election returns, court records and all records
Of the Executive Council of 1879 relating tC
election returns.
The long standing suit of the St.
Louis, Alton g. Terre Haute Railroad Com
pany against Samuel J. Tilden and Others
was ended on the 3Oth ult. by virtual comics
sion of judgment and the repayment of sew
eral hundred thousand dollars.
Miss Francis E, Willard has re-
signed the presidency Of the Women's Chris
tiau Temperance Union of Illinois, and will
hereafter devote her time to the National
Women's Christian Temperance Union, OF
which she was recently elected president.
A telegram was received at Wash
ington, on the 9th ult., stating that Major
Morrow had pursued Victorio's band Of In
dians into the Oio Calicute mountains and
punished them severely. Major Morrow capt
ured one hundred horses and mules.
At st. Petersburg, on the night OF
the Both ult., the police raided house and
found several Nihilists engaged in printing
revolutionary documents. Deutsch, prom
nent political criminal, rather than to be ar
rested, shot himself dead on the spot.
The Moors at Fez, Morocco, are re-
ported to have attacked the Jews in that city
recently, wounding several. They covered
an old man over seventy years of age with
petroleum and burned him alive amid shouts
of Joy. The Jews were French subjects.
An Augusta dispatch of the 29th ult
states that seven Fusion Senators took their
seats in the Republican Legislature that day.
In the House twenty-five FusiOnists took
their seats. Everybody appeared willing to
accept the situation. Absolute quiet had
been restored.
The District Attorney at New Or
leans, on the Goth ult., fled information
against the principals and seconds in the
Burke-H -Hearsey duel. The penalty under the
law for lighting duel is 5000 fine and i'm
prlsonment for two years. All the parties
were bailed
Charles F. Freeman, the Pocassett
child murderer, was arraigned before the
Supreme Court at Barnstahle, Mass, on the
Goth ult. The physicians declared him insane
and he was remanded to the May term, when
If his condition is the same he will be placed
in alunatic asylum.
The greatest change of weather ever
known at Mount Washington, in the same
length of time, occurred on the lst. At noon
the thermometer indicated nineteen degrees
above and in the evening tWenty-seven de-
grees below zero The wind blew at the rate
of ninety-nine miles an hour.
A Rome dispatch of the 31st ult. says
accounts from Terra Dl Lavoro continued ter
rible. The population Of the seventeen com
munes especially afflicted numbers 92,8S2. OF
this number 81, ,34Ohad been attacked by fever
up to the 18th of December last, of whom
!, ,029 died. A famine ls certain to follow.
The report of the House Naval Com
mlttee states that there are but sixty y-nine
vessels in the United States Navy capable Of
carrying guns and doingnaval duty, and that
there are less than $50 guns ahoat in our en-
lire navy. OF these less than forty are rifles
and the rest are antiquated smooth-bores.
City Marshal Ball, of Sherman,
Texas, attempted to quell disturbance in
lance house at that place on the night of the
Nth ult., when he was shot in the head by
-ough named johnson. Ball then killed John
ION, whereupon one of Johnson's friends shot
md mortally wounded Ball.
The Senate, on the 26th, confirmed
he following nominations to be ENJOYS Ex-
and Ministers PlenipotentiarY
lanes Russell Lowell, of Massachusetts, to
treat Britain; John W. Foster, Of Indiana,
o Russia; Luclus Fairchild, of Wisconsin, to
Jpain; Philip Ii. Morgan, of Louisiana, TO
dexico.
The Grand Jury at New York, on the
list ult., presented twenty-five indictments
gainst Rev. Edward Cowley, manager OF the
Shepherds Fold" charging him with
tarvlng, beating and cruelty ill-troating chill
rem of the Fold. CoWley was arrested and
q default of $4,000 bail was committed to
he Tombs.
A riot between white and black labor
RS occurred az the Columbia furnace, near
,dinburg, Shenandoah County, Va, on the
3thult Two blacks were severely wounded.
he rioters numbered about 200 men, aud the
herlH having declared his inability to dis
erse the mob, the Governor ordered a com
any OF troops to the scene of the disturb
nee,
The Supreme Court of Maine unani-
Iouslly decided against the Fusionists on the
lestions submitted on the 2Sd. The Fusloniste
ere very much depressed at the reception of
10 news, butthere appeared to be disposition
gracefully submit to the decision. Major
NTH is reported to have said thathe believed
le controversy ended and that he should
ep out OF the contest and 20 home.
The persons charged with the rob-
Try Of 100000 roubles from the Govern