Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1880-03-25
CURRENT NEWS.

CURRENT NEWS.
The Illinois Democratic State Conver
zion has been called for June 10.
J.K. Upton was confirmed Assistan
Secretary of the Treasury by the Senate on tn
18th.
johnson Debois was hanged at Pom
tiac, Ill, on the Itch for the murder Of Mis-
Ella Martin.
The Pennsylvania Democratic Stat
Convention will be held at Harrisburg on tn
2Sth Of April.
The Prohibitionists of Massachusetts
will hold their State Convention at Boston OF
the Goth Of April.
The Louisiana Republican State Con-
vention has been called to meet at New Orleans
on the Oath Of May.
The United States Consul at Paris say'
that cattle may be exported to some parts O.
France with profit
The House Committee on Naval At
fairs has reported favorably the bill providing
for another Polar expedition.
Judge Hill, of Buchanan County, Va,
who was indicted for refusing to put negroes
on juries was acquitted on the 10th.
Jacob K. Upton, of New Hampshire
was nominated for Assistant Secretary Of the
Treasury by the President on the 18th.
In a collision between two passenger
trains at Halle saxony on the goth, seven
passengers were killed and many injured.
During the winter season Of 1879-8O,
2,525, ,219 hogs were slaughtered at Chicago a
decrease of 417 1886 from the preceding year.
The Lower House of the Connecticut
General Assembly passed bill on the 18th
granting female suffrage on license matters.
Field Marshal Fuad Pasha was on trial
before a special tribunal at Constantinople, on
the 18th, charged with conspiracy against the
Sultan.
The French Senate, on the 10th,
passed bill embodylng the agreement of the
Postal Money Order Convention with the
Uuited States.
The Michigan Greenback State Con-
ventlon was held at Jackson on the 18th.
Delegates were appointed to the National
Convention.
The New Hampshire Democratic
State Convention to elect delegates to the Ma
tional Convention at Cincinnati will be held on
the 18th Of May.
A census of ST. Petersburg is being
taken, and all persons without fixed occu-
patton or means Of subsistence will be ex-
PEELED from the city.
The wife of ex-senator Christiancy,
Minister to Peru, has commenced suit to pro-
cure a divorce. She charges her husband with
treating her cruelty
A British gun-boat sailed for Cattrina,
Greece on the 18th, with the money demanded
by the Greek brgands for the ransom Of
Colonel synge and Wife
An Odessa dispatch Of the 21st stated |
that sixty arrests had been made there IN the
last few weeks, mostly Of teachers, some fill |
ing important public posts
A number Of iron mills at Harris
burg, Pa, shut down on the 10th. A disa-
greement with their Workmen about an in
crease In wages was the cause.
A Paris dispatch, on the 2lst says
Hartman has published a letter denying that
he confessed being concerned In the attempt
on the life OF the Gar at Moscow,
A SilVerton, Colorado, letter on the
9th, stated that news had reached that place
of the massacre Of eight or ten prospectors
by the Indians near Blue Mountains.
The Socialists Of Chicago have petit
toned the City Council 10 quarantine against
the Chinese. They threaten dire things II
the Chinese come 10 Chicago In any numbers.
While putting up the frame Of hotel
on an island near Toronto, Canada, on the
Goth, heavy gust Of wind leyeled the struct-
ure to the ground iniuring eight worlmen.
More supplies having been rendered
for the relief Of Irish sufferers than can be con-
veniently loaded on theIUnted statessbip Con
stellation, second vessel win probably be ]
sent
One hundred masked men entered
the jail at Winchester, H., on the night of {
the nth, and opening the cell Of Joseph j. /
Field, dispatched him with number OF pistol I
shots. 9rga 4
At Senatobia, Miss, on the night of I
she 18th, City Marshal Lane shot Calvin Rob !
erta, colored, while placing an obstruction on
The track Of the Mississippi 4 Tennessee Rail
road.
At Chicago, on the 18th, Martin a
Powers, in ht Of insane dependency, shot q
rs wife, probably fatally, and then fred two Il