The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-04-08
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
De LEssEPs has sailed for Kurops.

! The Nebraska Democratic State Convention
has instructed for TiIden.
The Republican Convention of Kanea
strongly indorsed Blaine,
The Workingnen of San Franci co threate
to contest the recent election.
HESTER PREsBuRG, colored, died at Balti
more on the I'd inst, aged 125 years.
GOVERNOR WILLIAMS, of Indiana, has par
doned fifteen convicts since January 1, 1880.
A SHOCK of earthquake was felt at For
Fairfield and Maysville, Me-, on the Sd inst.
kENBLE Co., Pennsylvania bribers, n
present non so far as the law is concerned
| IT is reported that Chinese troops hay
crossed the Amoor River into Russian Terri
tory.
YALE and Harvard University eights row
| four miles straight away race July l, at 5 il
the afternoon.
The coinage of the United States Mints fo
March was 81 ,457 200, of which 1880 900 ~er,
silver dollars. e- #
The Rex Association of New Orleans ba.
conferred the title vf Duke of America upor
General Grant.
CYCLONE is reported to have done much
damage to life and property at Ottawa, Kansas
the past week. 90 .sF r
Ar Mendocino City, CAL, Neil s. HANNA.
land killed his wife and her paramour by
Draining them with an az.
THE labor troubles in Louisiana continue
and Gen. Wiltz has ordered a battalion Of
militia to the scene of the disturbance.
GOVERNMENT receipts from customs during
March, $4,000 ,oOO from internal revenue,
100000; debt reduced ST., 100000.
WEST vrRorSrA's new capital building at
Charleston is to cost Sl50,000. A. H. Shep-
pard has the contract for building the same.
TIE Western Union Telegraph Company is
about to purchase of Edison his electric mono
graph for which they will pay him $lOo, 900.
THE negro Ben johnson who attempted to
outrage Miss Annie A. Ball, near Winchester
Ky, was taken from Jail and hanged by q
mob.
COMPANY at Montreal intend applying i'm.
mediately for a charter for the construction Of
a tunnel under the St. Lawrence River at that
city.
earnest. On the 2Sth and 2sth ult., 2,479
emigrants were landed at Castle Garden, New
York.
JACOB Frey, sixty-nine years old, at St.
Louis, cut his wife's throat, and then severed
his own windpipe. The affair grew GU. of a
quarrel about money.
THE Society of the Army of the Potomac
will hold its eleventh annual reunion at Bur-
lington, VT, the first week in June. General
Grant is to be present.
The Russian Government is considering the
expediency of purchasing arms and ammuni-
tion in America with which to withstand the
anticipated Chinese ATTACK.
1t is stated that the religious associations in
France will contest in the courts the legality of
the DEGREES of that Government against unau-
thorized religious societies.
A BosroN telegram says the information has
just been made public of the sales OF the United
States and Canada Express Company to the
American Express Company.
A CABLE dispatch from St. Petersburg says
that the Cars entire family is now assembled
at the bedside of the Empress. The physicians
have given up all hope of her life.
TIE ovation extended to General Grant at
Houston Texas, was not decidedly a " bril-
liant" affair. All the street lamps were ex-
tinguisbed and the cannons spiked.
RUSSIAN kilograms announce the arrest of
the courier of Prince de Lieven, Senator and
Secretary of State, in the Princes Palace, sus-
pected of completely with the Nihilists.
that the Liberals have elected 206 members,
the Conservatives 233, and the Home Rulers
IL. The Liberals have gained SO seats and
lost IL.
AN effort is being made by third party in
New York to bring about reconciliation be-
tween the Tammany and the anti Tammany
factions before the event of the State Conven-
ton.
JOHN SwINrox, of New York, declines being
candidate for. the Presidency at tho hands
Of the Socialists, because, as he says, although
his father was born In Illinois, he did not
have the good luck to be born in the United
States.
A PUBLIC sale at Philadelphia of Jay Cooke's 8
bonds, stocks and other effects of his BANKRUPT
estate, realized $467 900. Western land an
praised at $116,000 was offered without bid
being made.
REV. NEWMAN HALL is married again. He
married the same woman whom he acknowl-
edged during the trial of his suit against his
wife that he had promised to marry in the event
Of his success.
The Home Rule League of Dublin passed a
resolution declaring that the treatment of
Parneli ot Enniscorthy, by a hired mob, reflects
the deepest disgrace on O'Clery and all con-
cerned in the outrage.
For insulting his wife, Sheriff Houston, of
Upper Sandusky, pu. twenty five stripes on
the back of prisoner ilson, who is under SEN
tence of death. Every stroke sent fresh blood
gushing down the prisoners back.
A FIRE damp explosion in colliery at
Anderlues, Belgium, killed many of the miners.
Twenty corpses have already been taken out, aud
it is stated there were one hundred and fifty at
work in the mine at the time of the explosion.
The Democrats of New York State will hold
their convention to elect delegates to Cincin-
natl, at Syracuse, on the Goth Of April. The
result of that days labor will be looked for
ward to by both political parties with much in
terest.
In Congress the House Committee on Ways
and Means, by to 3, have decided to place
upon the free list " all manufactured paper,
wood pulp, jute butts, manufactured fax, straw
and all other fbrous plants ft for use, or the
manufacture of paper"
In the Criminal Court of the District of Co.
lumbia, Judge John W. Wright, who was con-
victed recently on deadly assault on ex-Sec-
retary Delano, has been sentenced to pay a
hne Of $1,000 and to be imprisoned in the
common Jail for thirty days.
LATE news from the San Francisco election
reports the success Of the Citizens Protective
Unicn and defeat of the Sand-Lotters. A
small vote was polled, the vote in the Work
ingmen's wards showing a specially marked
falling of as compared with the last election
JOHN BEST, reputod to be the oldest Mason
in tb. tai Gl.ka haa n AL