The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-02-05
NEWS or THE WEEK.

NEWS or THE WEEK.
A PATENT has been issued to Edison for his
recently invented electric lamp discovery.
WIN. H. BREwsrrl, one of the proprietors
of the Boston Trarelter, died the past week.
FouR more Ute Chiefs have been taken to
Washington.
A NUGGET of gold has been picked up near
Seymour, Ind.
As far South as Nashville snow fell to the
depth of eight to ten inches on the I'd inst.
RICHARD FRoTHIseHAx, journalist and his
torian, died in Boston.
SECRETARY SEIZURE has removed Commits
sioner of Indian Affairs, Hayt.
wx. VEsr fatally stabbed his brother Ben
jamin, near Walton, KY, Saturday:
Mas. BALDWIN, the widow of Harry Baldwin
who wasso mysteriously murdered at cincin-
natl nearly year ago, has died Of pneumonia
BRooKs, editor of the Washington Republican
- Grant organ-has been nominated By the
President as Consul to Cork, Ireland.
SEVEN Fusionists have taken their seats in
the Senate of the Republican Legislature in
Maine, and twenty-five in the House.
Rev. HAYDEN, whs yet stands charged with
the murder of Mary Stannard, has been re-
leased on 81, 900 bail.
Rev. J. M. TOWER, a minister of the gospel
at Fairbault, Mimi committed suicide by
hanging. He leaves q wife and six children.
TIE total coinage of the mints during
January was So, 500, of which $2,457 ,oos
were silver dollars.
Ar Easton, Mass, ea.ly Sunday, John D.
Gardiner and wife were burned to death with
their house.
Ar the Scranton, Pa, File Works; a fow
days ago, large grindstone burst, killing
William FAIRIES, and 'shsttering the building.
TIE Republicans of New York will meet at
Utica, February IS, to select delegates to
Chicago.
A NEGRO named VIM. Harris, residing near
Mitchell, Ind, because his wife was delirious
in fever, took an AZ and chopped her up.
IT is said that the Molly Maguires of Penn
sylvania are interested in the riots in the cal
mining districts of Ohio, and other Yves ern
States.
The exodusters (this is a new and very good
word )report that wages in North Carolina for
able-b bodied men is from thirty to forty cents a
day.
of the Massachusetts Home Missionary Society
charged with embeErlement, the jury disagreed
and were discharged.
HENRY MORRIS, q convict in the Brooklyn
Penitentiary, confesses to having started the fire
which burned down the shoe shop connected
with that institution.
THE Governor of Massachusetts, has issued
an order that Charles F. Freeman, the Pocas-
set ehild-murderer, be confined in the State
Lunatic Hospital.
The decision of the Supreme Court is re-
ceived declining to recognize the Fusionist
bodies at Augusta, and explicitly declaring
the House and Senate now holding sessions at
the State House the legal Legislature Of Maine.
ANOTHER case of hydrophobia is reported
from Philadelphia, Mrs. Mary Lindermier,
who was bitten on the finger several weeks age
by one of her poodle dogs. She died in terrible
agony. 4aa
THE Republicans Virginia State Com
mittee has decided that the State Convention
for the election OF delegates to the National
Republican Convention, shall be held at Staun-
ton, the 21st of April.
I'd inst. was not largely attended. Very few
ladies were in the galleries, and all members
who had voted against the matter manifested
their displeasure by staying away.
TIE New York Graphic publishes q dispatch
from Odessa containing rumor that a Russian
transport vessel with 1000 troops aboard had
been lost in the Caspian Sea, and most if moi
All the soldiers persisted.
Rev. EDWARD CowLEY, manager of thu
(" Shepherds Fold" New York, was sent t.
prison in default of BAIL on the charge o.
cruelty beating and starving children placed
in his care.
DISTRESS in Ireland is increasing. A popu.
lar uprising is reported in the County of Al.
magh in opposition to the service of ejectmen
processes. The Duchess of Marlborough say
Parnell's statement that her fund only relieves
tenants who have paid their rent is false.
The following persons were lost by the burn
ing of the steamer Charmsr: Mary Flowers
chambermaid; Daniel Morgan, pantryman
Charles johnson and John johnson, cooks
Mary Hamilton, chambermaid; Billy Cum
mings, fireman; VIM. Miller, cabin boy; al
unknown sailor.
A SERIOUS riot is reported to have takeI
place between the white and black laborsrs o
shenandoah County, Va. The scene of tn
trouble is near Edinburg, at Columbia Fur
mace. Governor Holiday has been asked b!
the Sheriff of that county to send the assistance
of troops to quell the disturbance.
THE recurrent earthquake shocks in Vuelt
Abajo and Havana have thoroughly alarmed
the timid inhabitants of Western Cuba. Thes
shocks have been going on nov for a week o
more at intervals, yet there have been n
charges in the earth's surface so far as is nov
| known.
TEE outstanding United States currency q
! the close Of business hours January 31si
amounted to $362, ,746, ,095. During Januar
there was m increase of National bank notes G
81 ,343, ,573, leaving the total issue outstandin
to date $342, ,304, ,7s9.
TIE 143d anniversary of Tom Paine, jar
29), was celebrated at Chicago, Cincinnati
| and other points by the Liberals. Ingersol
addressed large audience at Chicago ON th
occasion. At Cincinnati, Reuben Daley,
the Jacksonville (Ind.) Ne,os, was the leadin
orator.
ORLANDO GREENFIELD, Of Syracuse, N. Y
thrice convicted of the murder of his wife, an
who was to have been hanged on the 30th