The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-01-08
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

THE City Council of Augusta, Ca, extended
a universal invitation to Grant to visit that
city.
THERE is now a cordial understanding be-
tween Germany and France.
DURING December the Treasury Department
paid out sl,727 500 on account of arrears of
pensions.
AS high $4,000 per share has already
been paid for shares in the Edison electric
light.
SEVERAL contestants in the recent walking
match in New York have beaten Rowelrs best
time.
SBvESTY-FoUR deaths in the Frankfort
(Ky.) PenitentiaIy during the past year.
That is big mortality.
CLARENCE HOWARD died Saturday, in New
York, from over-exertion during his contest in
the recent walking match.
NINE Information alists have been convicted
of conspiracy against the italian Government
and four acquitted, including Russian lady.
DISPATCH from the viceroy of India, says
that General Roberts defeated and dispersed
the Afghans around Cabul on the 23d inst,
and before the arrival of General Cough.
PARNELL, the great Irish agitator, has ar
rived in New York. He will visit the South
ern and Western cities, after which he will 60
to San Francisco.
The Supreme Court of the District OF Col
umbia has ordered a reargument of the lottery
case befo e the full bench at the next general
term.
JAS. &. EADs, of Mississippi jetty fame, has
returned from Europe with a scheme in his
mind for building a ship railroad across the
Isthmus of Panama.
HIoHwAYNEN attacked J. c. Taylor and
party near Somerset, Ky, literally shooting
their wagon to pieces. The battle lasted an
hour or more and resulted in one of the rob-
bers being killed.
JAS. Mckinney and Austin Kavanaugh
were fatally injured by the explosion of a can
past week. The former, a native of Pennsyl-
vania, was blown to fragments.
News from Deadwood says that road agents
stopped the outgoing Bismarck coach near An
relope Station, and killing the only passenger,
a Mr.. Oates, took the treasure bag and made
their escape.
The Legislature of Kentucky will undoubt-
edly inquire into the affairs of the State Peni-
tentiary. 1t is already sidering the ap-
pointmsnt of a joint committee for that pur-
pose.
| The tramp and swindler Spinn, who at
! tempted to shoot John B. Kinnard, of the
Anderson (Ind.) Herald, for exposing his char
acter, is to receive five years board in the
| State Prison. There is a motto to this.
MEMPHIS has organized an electric light
stock company, with capital of $50, 900, with
the privilege of increasing to $500, 900. The
company embraces the leading capitalists Of
| the town.
The receipts from internal revenue for the
six months ending December 81, 1s79-the
first six months for the current fiscal year
were SOL 500, ,62l, and from customs SS7,-
713,750.
A LONDON dispatch dated December 30th.
says: " Gas stock has fallen f5 to-day in con-
sequence of an interview with Edison being
published in the Times and an editorial upon
the same subject"
THE railroads eastward from Chicago COM
plain Of the great difficulty in getting orders
for cars to carry grain to the seaboard, but
rates remain as heretofore, on the basis of forty
cents per hundred pounds to New York.
The boiler in the Etna FIGURING Mill, at
| Springfield, ILL.,, exploded the past week with
such terrible conclusion as to do serious dam
age to all property within block of its loca-
ton. The engineer, Raedder, was instantly
killed.
THB Russian Government does not conceal its
intention of attacking Merv, and possibly
Hsrst, in the spring. General Kaufman will
command an expedition starting from ANU
Derya River, and General Tergukarof, an
other, starting from the Caspian Sea.
A CORRESPONDENT says that the State House
in Augusta, Me-, is not besieged, but it is fully
prepared for a siege. Sentries are placed at thu
doors, and no one is admitted until his busi
mes, has been made known, his name given
and, it is said, the countersign is given.
TIE coinage executed at the United States
mint in December was Gold, 1855 pieces
value Sc, ,4S7 900 silver 1884 200 pieces, valu,
$2,35S ,o33 minor coinage, 3,103, $50 pieces
value $31 ,433 total coinage, 6,078,3l0 pieces
value So, ,s76, ,466.
Two children of Richard Price, colored
aged six and two years, were so badly burne'
in Harveysburg. Ohio, last Friday evening
that they died Saturday morning. They wer
with the above result.
FIVE passengers and six of the crew of tn
ill., fated Borussia have arrived at Baltimore
They left the sinking ship the evening
December 2, and were picked up on the 5th b
: an Italian vessel. They know nothing of th
fate of others the Borussia.
AN effort will be made in the Ohio Legisls
ture to pass n local option law which shall Civ
women the right to vote, /. e., law prohibitin
the sale of Intoxicating liqnors whose enforce
ment shall be left to the popular vote of II
, town without regard to sex.
THE State Teachers Association of Indian
, at their annual meeting at indianapolis al
pointed committee of five to consider the PR
priety and feasibility of organizing a mutu
benefit association of the teachers of the Sta
of Indiana.
{ SECOND horrible tragedy has occurred
, Van Vert, o. Bernard Perkins was murdsre
there few days ago. Sheriff stith and Cor
stable Bedrup were both fatally shot by a ma
; named Groserman, whom they suspected as Il
: murderer, in a house of ill-fame while the
8 were trying to make his arrest.
= A LOUISVILLE, KY, dispatch says:
|. Owens shot and killed James Langford at PHI
4 Hill. Both were desperate men and met ar
|. renewed an old quarrel, with the above resul
;. In 1868 Owens killed Harry, a brother
!, james Langford, and since that time Langfol
= has made many threats to kill Owens.
! LATE news from Van Vert, Ohio, announc
: the capture of GrOseman, the desperate who
!, suspected of the murder of man nam'
q Picker, and who succeeded in killing the ty
d officers who few days since attempted to G
Is feet his arrest in a house Of ill-fame.
ia The Utes are bad set. 1t has now tral
r spired that Douglass and his followers outrag
:, the women whom they took captive at Il