Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1880-04-01

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CURRENT NEWS.
Petroleum has been discovered at B
mingham, Alabama
A rich gold reef has been discovers
at BaIlaret, Australia
Emperor William, of Germany, W
eighty-three years old on the 22d.
The University boat race at Londol
on the 22d, was won by the oxford crew.
Many jews are being expelled fro
Russia and otherwise treated with cruelty.
Queen Victoria and Princess BeatliC
arrived at Baden-Baden, Germany, on the 29t
ultimo.
Sidney Green, of Lawrenceyille, Pa
killed his wife on the 24th, and being pursue
shot himself dead
The council Of war at Constantinopl
which tried Fuad Pasha for high treason, re
commended his acquittal.
James B. Angel, of Michigan, was az
pointed Minister Plenipotentiary to China, b
President Hayes, on the oath,
At Wakefield, England, on the goth,
passenger train left the track and two passeT
gers were killed and twenty injured.
General H. E. Payne, Commissions
of Patents, has rendered his resignation II
says the position is unrenumeratiye.
Colonel Synge, who was recently capt
ured by Greek brigands, has been released, hi
Government paying q ransom Of R12,0O0.
The Dakota Republican Convention tt
choose delegates to the Chicago Convention
has been called TO meet at Fargo, May 10.
The Rhode Island Senate, on the 25th
rejected the proposed amendment to the Con
stitution giving school suffrage to women.
Large numbers Of Sitting Bulls band
have recentlyapplied at Fort Peck for rations
offering to surrender their arms and ponies.
In New Brunswick, on the 25th, the
snow in some places was five or six feet deer
and trains were badly delayed in all directions.
The Duke Of Meinengen was recently
captured by band Of brgands, but they lib
Grated him upon the payment of heavy ran
som.
The Minnesota Democratic State Con-
vention, to appoint delegates to the National
Convention has been called to meet at ST. Paul
May 20.
The United States ship Constellation
left the navy yard at New York on the 9th
ult. with supplies for the suffering people Of
Ireland
The examination of the Ute Indians by
the House Committee on Indian Affairs was
concluded on the Ath, and the Indians left for
Colorado,
Nineteen sanitary detachments and
doctors and nurses have been set to work in
the province Of KharkoI, Russia, to combat
the raYages Of diphtheria.
The Grand Shereef of Mecca was
stabbed by Persian fanatic on the l4th and
died from the effects Of the wound on the 2lst.
The Mussulmans were greatly excited
The Pennsylvania Board Of Pardons
have refused to grant pardons to KembIe and
Petrof, recently convicted Of briblng legisla-
tors and sentenced to the penitentiary
A Montreal dispatch, on the 25th,
stated that French Canadians were leaving
that city at the rate Of sixty or seventy day,
their destination being Michigan or Colorado.
A barn and q smaller building in
Winfield, Kansas we're carried away by cy-
clone on the 25th, and neither were found
not even fragment, after ten hours search
A Bombay dispatch, on the 26th, stated
that proclamation had been issued declaring
that the British had assumed the whole politl- |
cal administration Of North and East Afghan
istan.
Reports from all the National banks in
the United States, except two, show that on
February 81, 1880, they held $685. A8070 in
specie, almost double the amount held January
j, 1879.
The State Convention Of the National
Greenback party of Tennessee has been called
10 meet in Nashville May ED to appoint dele
gates 10 the National Convention at Chicago
June 9th.
Parnell, on attempting to address an
election meeting At Enniscarthy, the other
day. was received with yells groans and a dis
charge Of rotten eggs by persons belonging to
a rival faction.
An anti-third term convention has
been called 70 meet at st. Louis on the 9th Of
May. All Republicans throughout the United
States Ia sympathy with the movement are In
Vited 10 be present,
Resolutions submitting to the electors
the proposition Of an amendment to the Con-
atitutlon giving women the right to vote on
school matters, were adopted by the Rhode
Island Legislature on the sith.
The New York Greonback State Con- !