Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1880-03-18

Wv GA0AAAAN O@f ~ F@'N
CURRENT NEWS.
Smallpox is raging at Paris.
The Russian expedition to MerY has
been abandoned for the present.
Weston and O'Leary commenced
six days tramp at San Francisco on the Sth
The Ohio Republican State Conven
tion will be held at Columbus on the SSth oi
April
The Wisconsin Democratic State
Convention will be held at Madison on the
10th of May.
The Republican tickets were general
" successful in the municipal elections in
Maine on the Sth.
The fax mills of Lehman, Rosenthal
g. Co., at Frankfort, Ind, exploded on the
11th, and ten persons were killed.
The National Conven ton of the Pro
hibitlon Reform party will be held at Cleve-
land, Ohio, on the 18th Of june
Appalling accounts continue to come
from Armenia and Kurdistan. The famine
extends over 1000 square miles.
Reports from the interior of Cuba
state that the sugar crop is about forty per
cent. smaller than that Of last year.
The Alabama Republican State Con-
vention for the selection of delegates to the
National Convention, has been called for May
Goth.
During the month of January petro'
leum and petroleum products to the value OF
S8,52SO7O, we're exported from the United
States.
The Missouri Republican State Con-
vention, for the selection Of delegates to the
Chicago Convention, has been called for
April H.
The Russian Revolutionary Commit
tee has published an address thanking the
French people for refusing the extradition OF
Hartmann.
The Democrats of New Jersey will
hold their State Convention, for the selection
Of delegates to the National Convention, on
the 10Th Of May.
At Moscow, on the 8th, twenty build
ings we're destroyed by fire. Twenty-four
persons perished in the flames and twenty
nine we're injured.
John B. HaWley has resigned the of
fee of Assistant Secretary Of the Treasury.
He Is a candidate for nomination to the office
of Governor OF Illinois.
The Wisconsin Senate, on the 10Th,
concurred in the Assembly resolution pro-
vlding for female suffrage In Wisconsin by q
vote Of nineteen to eleven.
The Louisiana Democratic State Con-
ventlon for the selection Of delegates to the
National Convention at Cincinnati will be
1elu on Lhe lSJh OF april
Hangings on the 18th: John May
field, at Florence, Ala. Sidney McFadden, at
Washington, Ark, and Dan Brigherly at
Thomasyille, Georgia; all colored.
The six days walking contest at San
Francisco between O'Leary and Weston closed
on the night OF the 18th, with score OF 5l6
miles for O'Leary and49O for Weston.
Five women were elected members
of the Mlddletown, N. Y, Board Of Educa-
tlon on the Och, defeating Ave men. About
one hundred women voted at the election.
In letter to the Duke of Marlbor-
ough, on the Sth, Lord Beaconsdeld stated
that the measures for the relief Of Ireland
were about to be submitted for royal assent.
The express office at Sidney, Neb.,
was robbed OF about $4,000 in gold bullion
on the 10th, but all except $4,000 was after
ward found under a pile OF coal near the
depot.
The House Committee on Coinage,
Weights and Measures, on the sth, agreed to
report fayorably a bill to provide for the ex-
change Of trade dollarsfor legal tender silver
dollars.
Secretary Sherman announced his
intention on the 10th to invest all the surplus
revenues every week In the purchase Of Ave
and six per cent. bonds on public offers in
New York
II was reported In Shanghai on the
10Th that 3 revolt had broken out at PelSln,
and that Chung How, late Ambassador to
Russia, andwho negotiated the Kuldia treaty,
had been beheaded,
The gross earnings Of the Union Pa
ciac Railroad for the year ending December
81, 1879, we're sl8,2Oi,O77; operating ex-
penses, including taxes, s5,475, SOB; surplus
earnlngs, e7,725, 574.
General Melikofrs life was saved by |
a chain shirt which heWear The bullet tore
. hole In his coat, but was arrested by the pro-
teetlng mail, The Gar, It is stated, is pro-
tected IN q similar manner.