Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1880-11-04
GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY.
Interesting Home and Foreign News.


particulars of the recent victory over Victo-
rios band. The Indians we're surrounded in
the Costello Mountains and VictoriO, sixty
warriors and eighteen women and one child
were killed. Sixty-eight women and children
and two white captiVes were taken and one
hundred and sxty-eight animals recovered,
with all the arms and punder. The attacking
force lost three men and twelve wounded.
Thirty Indians escaped.
A TERRIBLE fight occurred in low
den of niquty near Camp Sheridan, Neb., on
the night of the 24th between a dozen COW
boys and some soldiers. One man was killed
and three or four mortally wounded.
JOHN DUFF, builder of the Hannibal
& St. Joe and Union Pacific Railroads, died
at Jamaica Plains, Mass, on the 26th.
THE annual report for the fiscal year
ended June 80, 1880, shows that on that date
postal service was in operation on LIS rail-
road routes, aggregating S5 320 miles sin length,
at the annual cost for transportation alone Of
Sl0,49s,9S6 The cost of transportation on
9,SG3 Star service routes (aggregating 235 A8
miles, for the year was 81, 1871 49, This was
S9l9,619 in excess Of the expenditure for the
same branch Of service in the preceding year,
and was 81, ,42l 449 greater than the estimate
submitted by the department to Congress in
December, 1878.
THE number Of immigrants landed in
this country during September was 54,S75
THE steamship Wieland, which ar
rived at New York from Europe on the Goth,
brought $2,3460OO
AT Danville, Va, on the night of the
23d, Mary Mitchell was fatally shot by her
Gyy4ff Tohu
Dennis Marooney. They quarreled about
dog. David Graves and Edward Coleman got
into difficulty, about the wife Of the former
and Coleman was probably fatally shot. On
the following morning the body Of Scott Han
kins was found In the canal. It is thought he
was murdered. On the night of the 18th a
peddler named Haggerty seized budgeon
and knocked insensible another peddler
named Conrad
Hon. E. d. MANSFIELD diell at his
residence near Morrow, Ohio, on the 9th at
an advanced age He has been widely known
as a political and general writer for the Gin
cinnati Gazette and New York papers.
The Baltimore municipal election on
the 9th ult., for members Of the first branch
of the City Council resulted in the election Of
eighteen Democrats, one Republican and one
tie; aggregate Democratic majority, S,l37.
BISHOP d. S. DoGGETr, of the Meth
odist Church, died in Richmond, Va, on the
night of the 9th ult.
G. KIsLEY & Co., New York coffee
dealers, failed on the 9th ult. Liabilities
about $8OO,OOO, assets 100000,
THE Ansonian Watch and Clock
Works, Brooklyn, N. Y, were destroyed by
fire on the 9th ult Loss estimated at $l,-
O000O0.
ROBERT LOWE, of West Albany, Wa
basha County, MINI, shot and instantly
killed his wife and infant child and then blew
his own brains out on the 27th ult Domestic |
trouble was the cause Of the tragedy.
SARA BERNHARDT, the French actress,
arrived at New York on the 9th ult.
THE value of the wheat crop is esti-
mated at $4l0, 900 and that Of the cotton
crop at $270,OOO,0OO.
The family of DR.. P. H. Talbot, ed
itor of the Greenback paper at Maryvllle, Mo-,
who was assasslnated a short time ago, have
been arrested on the charge OF fcommitting the
murder
KENwooD PHILIP, editorial writer on
the Truth, was arrested In Brooklyn, N. Y,on
the 27th on she charge Of malicious libel in
publishing the so-called Garfield Chinese let
ter
A PORF TOWNSEND, Washington
Territory, dispatch says the revenue cutter
Wolcott seized the English sloop Alert
for cruising in American waters without pa
pers
A GUNMsoN, Col, dispatch on the
2sth ult., stated that small band OF Indians
were securing the country around there, en-
deaYorng TO create an outbreak.
AiRs. LINCOLN, widow of the late
President Lincoln arrived at New York from
Europe ON the 9th ult She was very I'll and
no one was allowed to call upon her
A FRIGHTTUL accident happened at
the Public Library building at Cincinnati on
the 2sth ult, Two painters, Charles Throop
and Henry Mum, we're on scaiTold at the
conice, eighty feet above the sidewalk, when
q hook broke aud the two men were thrown /
TO the ground. Both we're instantly killed.
AT a political row in New Haven,
E1hAst Va tHN hlEhN VI bhV @plh utti AbltI
Sweeney an Irish Democrat, was shot and 5
mortally wounded by negro.
The Woman's National Christian
Temperance Union assembled at Boston on
the 9th ult
A FIRE at Lynn, Mass, on the 28th
ult., destroyed property valued at si45,0OO
THE United States District Court at !
Denver on the 2sth pIt., refused to comply
with the petition requesting that Agent
Berry be turned over to the State authorities. .
THE excess Of exports over imports
Of merchandise, stated ia specie values, for /,
the nine months ended September S0th, was a
s73, 400 $50; the excess for the corresponding
nine months Of 1879 was sl6l, ,40S, 1856. Excess
Of Imports Of gold and silver coin and bullion Il
during the niue months ended September r
6Qth, 1850, 2a,52g 40j; corresponding months
OF 1879, eos, ,4si ,TS2.
THE examination at Maryville, No, \
OF Mrs. Talbot, her two sons and the hired 4
man, for numbering Dr.. Talbot, the husband "a
and father, on the night OF September 10th,
resulted IN the committal OF the two sons and
The hired man without bail and finding Mrs. q
Talbot AZ accessory. %