Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1880-02-26

in the coasting trade, is to enable the Gov
ernment to take reprisals against Russia and
the United States. ...
Charles Lane, who recently removed
from Maryland to Bainbridge, Pa, killed his
wife, on the 10Th, and then poisoned himself
and his three children. One child was found
alive, but was SO badly frozen that 1t will
probably not recover.
A bill has been agreed upon by the
House Committee on Naval Affairs, authoriz-
ing the Secretary of the Navy to use aman-Of-
war to convey to Ireland the food that may be
purchased in the United States for the suffer-
ing people in the former country.
The Virginia Senate, on the 21st,
passed the debt bill agreed upon by the Re-
adtusters' caucus. The bill reduces the prln
cipal of the debt to about 2O,0OO,O 900 and the
interest to three per cent bonds to be tax
able and the coupons not receivable for taxes.
The missing Maine election returns,
with some other papers, were found on the
10th in a room recently occupied by Governor
Garcelon at Augusta The papers, which i'm
plicate several persons in changing and sub
stltuting the returns, were placed in the
hands Of the Investigating Committee.
A St. Petersburg paper on the 18th
published the particulars of the attempted
assassination of the Imperial family, showing
that the dinner was appointed for six O'Clock.
and If it had not been accidentally delayed all
would have been seated at the moment of the
explosion. AS it was their escape was very
narrow.
The Rhode Island Prohibitory State
Convention, held at Providence on the 10Th,
made the following nominations: Albert How
ard for Governor, Thomas NJ. Seabury for
Lieutenant Governor, Willard Sayles for At
torney-General, j. NJ Alderman for Secretary
of State, Samuel Clark for Treasurer. The
three last named are present incumbents.
A delegation of Miami Indians passed
through Chetopa, Ran, on the nth, on their
way to Washington, where they go to de-
mand Of the authorities that their tribe be
made citizens of the United States; that they
have their lands set apart to them severally, |
and that they be allowed to draw all money
due them from the Government.
Secretary Schurz received a telegram
from General Adams, dated Los Plnos Agen-
cy, Col, February IL, stating that Chiefs
Jack, sowawick and Wash had returned with
Douglass, Thomas and Tim Johnson, the
three Indians demanded by the Government
General Adams intended to start the next
morning with the Indians for Washington
City.
Commander Lentez, of the United
States Navy, who had command of the Gov
ernment details in surveying the routes
across the Istbmus, made a statement to the
San Francisco Board of Trade, on the 18th, In
which he said he considered the Nicaragua I
route feasible, and estimated the total eX- !
pense at $52,0OO,00O without any margin for
A ST.. Petersburg dispatch says news
from the interior of the Empire Is heartrend-
Ing. Famine and diphtheria are decimating
lhe population. The provinces of Saratof G
md Kief, which annually export, in ordinary s
lines, enormous quantities of grain, had {
scarcely any crop last year. In Caucasus the l
anime is still greater where the people are !
suicide and selling their children. q
The Senate Committee on Privileges, \
IN the 10th, unanimously agreed upon a re. Il
,ort generating Senator Ingalls, from the u
harges OF bribery preferred by Kansas me- D
1t is understood, however, that p
he Democratic majority will present an ac- d
report rejecting severely upon @
he methods employed by Kansas politicians y
q securing the election Of Senatorial can ft
idate g
A dispatch to Reuters Telegram Il
company at London, from st. Petersburg, on V
he 18th, says that an abortive attempt had II
cen made to kill the Imperial family by ex- II
lodlng mine under the guard-room of the o In
inter palace, which immediately under the ac
lning hall Owing to an accidental delay the ~
nperlal family had not entered at the usual Fl
me. Five soldiers were killed and thirty sic
Ve wounded. re-
A cold-blooded murder was COM ~
lifted at Sandwich, ILL.,, on the 18th, by two
lrglars who entered the house Of Hiram p. %' %s
lien. Mr.. Allen discovered the burglars, fo,
hen one of them Immediately opened fire po
BON him, hitting him four times, Mrs, mi
Hen, who had taken refuge In a closet, tb
lard some Of the conversation between the Of
lrgars, which, with another clue they left lsl In
hind, may lead to their arrest. ex
The official account of the explosion XII
the Imperial Winter Palace at st. Peters sec
rg on the l7th says that eight soldiers we're Su Su
He'd and forty-ave injured. The mine was The
led with dynamite aud gun cotton. The OF
ain was traced to the cellar in the inner orr pre
urt, where a quantity of fuel was stored, Ser
official inquiry into the cause of the ex- ma ma
osion was in progress on the 18th. mi
A Paris dispatch says of the latest at aAoi aoi
npt upon the life of the Gar that the Pal. on
officials are evidently affiliated with the a ual
hllsts, for 1t is afilcmed that the Czar daily cia
lnd black edged letteron his table threat me
Ing that he should never see the twenty tho The
.h anniversary Of his accession to the throne bee
less he abolished his despotic system OF NJ
Although the officials were con- Aci
usllv ehauped the iettar was alygavs found sen