Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1880-01-01

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WM. MlLLlRAN & SON, Editors and ProptetOrs,
WASHINGTON C. H., OHIO
CURRENT NEWS.
Ex-Ameer Yakoob Khan is confined
Of tMeerut under military and police guards
The buildings Of the Carlton College
Rt Northaeld, Mimi, were burned on the 23d
The bill for the abolition Of slavery
in Cuba passed thespanish Senate on the 3d.
A Cabul correspondent reports that
She British force has doubtless religious war
TO face.
Commissioner Raum is opposed to
extending any further clemency to moon
sinners.
The st. Petersburg Gazette says the
Afghan revolt is due to the cruelty Of the
English vIctors.
Secretary Sherman believes that it is
impossible to float new loan at less than
four per cent. interest.
According to the State Auditors re-
port there are 726,5SO male inhabitants in
Ohio over tWenty-one years Of age.
James Gleason's house at Ayerstown,
N. j., was destroyed by fire on the 23d, and
three children perished in the flames.
Roumania journals report that nego-
tIations are under way for a commercial
treaty between the United States and Rou-
mania.
AdrianOple kilograms report that the
sufTerings Of refugees become worse daily
and that the mortality among them is increas-
ing frightfullY.
There is great distress at Philippopo-
lis and other parts of Rourhania, and unless
help is given thousands will perish from cold
and starvation.
At several points in the Red River
Valley, Minnesota, on the oath, the thermom-
eter ranged from tbirty-four to hfty-eight de-
grees below zero.
Arrests Of persons supposed to have
been connected with the recent attempt on
the Czar's life, continue to be made at Mos
COW and It's neighborhOod.
In caucus of the Republican men,
bers OF the Tennessee Legislature, on the22d,
q resolution was adopted recommending
General Grant for President
Thirteen cases of smallpox were re-
ported in the District of Columbia on the
26th. The National Board Of Health will en-
deavor to stamp out the plague.
Chief Ouray informed General Hatch,
ON the Goth, that he had given the Utes three
days to bring in the prisoners. There APP
pears TO be serious division In the tribes.
A London dispatch Of the 22d states
that the capture Of the stronghold Of the
Chieftain secocoini has given a finishing
stroke to native disturbances In South Africa.
In an engagement recently at Tara
paco between $500 Chilians and 5000 Peru
Vians the former were forced to retire after
losing 1000 men killed. The Peruvian loss
was 900.
The series of fetes and demonstra-
phia were brought to close on the night Of
the 28d by brilliant reception at the Union
League House.
Governor Garcelon, of Maine, is re-
Ceiving petitions, signed by proml-
nent citizens Of both political parties, urging
him to allow the courts TO settle the pending
troubles in that State.
DOry Fox, at one time member Of
the notorious Jesse James gang, was arrested
in Kansas recently He is under indictment
for assisting in the murder Of J. W, Wichen,
VAb Vi 4 AAAAUA tbA D Apb1GblF0p} III 4otVs
George w, Childs, Of Philadelphia, a
warm personal friend Of General Grant, stated
on the 22d, that the General was not inter
ested IN the Nicaragua Canal project, and had
no intention Of accepting the Presidency Of
the company.
The school census of Kansas Just
completed shows an increase IN the school
population Of 1885 during the past year.
This increase represents an immigration to
the State Of from 100000 Ia. .l75, 900 people IN
one year.
At a church festival at Paris, KY, on
Christmas night, Fred A. Jaynes was burned
10 death while personatlng Santa Claus. He
was dressed in a costume Of cotton batting,
which caught are from a candle on the Christ.
mas tree.
Forty delegates we're present at the
opening session Of the National socialIstic
Democratic Convention at Plttsburg on the
28th. The party Ia reported TO be IN a -four |