Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1880-03-11


cation is said to be strongly anti-Grant.
About one thousand employees of tn
Government printing office were discharged
on the Sd, on account Of the exhaustion 0
the appropriation made for the maintenance
Of that Office during the present fiscal year.
The Tennessee Democratic State Con
vention for the selection of delegates to tn
National Convention will be held at Nashville
June 9Th. The Convention to nominate
candidate for Governor will be held on tn
10th Of August.
The Republican members of tht
Maine Legislature, on the Sd, selected fou
delegates at large to the Chicago Nationa
Convention. Resolutions we're adopted re
affirming the principles of the party and urg
ing the nomination of Blaine.
The reports of customs receipts fol
the year ending January 81, 1880, show thai
the total value Of exports during that tint
WAS but B47,OOO,OOO greater than during the
previous year, while the increase Of impor tt
amounted to nearly Sl06,0OO0OO.
Six out of the ten Republican dele
gates from North Carolina already chosen tC
the National Convention have been instructed
for Grant. The remainder Of the delegation
from that State, except one district, will
probably also be instructed for him.
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A fre-damp explosion occurred in q
mine near Scranton, Pa, on the 5th. There
we're nine men in the mine at the time, one
of whom was taken out dead. The othera
could not be reached on account of the foul
air. They were probably suffocated.
The municipal election at Portland,
Me-, on the 1st, resulted in the election of a
Republican Mayor by 1894 majority. Last
year there was Fusion majority of forty.
Out Of twenty cities heard from on the ID
eighteen reported Republican majOrlties.
The London Times says that the re-
cent revival of trade in America and the
large remittances from friends in the United
States are attracting the people thither. 1t
is anticipated that after Easter there will be
an unusual rush Of emigants to the United
States.
A Vienna dispatch says that extraor-
dinary precautions were taken to preserve or
der In st. Petersburg during the celebration
of the Czar's twenty-6fth anniversary of his
accession to the throne, All public works
were guarded by an extra force of military,
aud mounted patrols secured the town.
General Melikof, Chief of the new
Supreme Executive Commission, at st. Peters
burg, Was fired at by a young man with re-
yolyer on the Sd. General MellkoR was not
hurt. The man was Immediately arrested and
proved to be a semi-idiOtic person. He was
probably tool in the hands of the Nihilists.
Companies have been organized at
Kansas City, Mo-, for raid into the Indian
Territory. 1t was stated on the I'd that two
thousand men could be put on the march at
three days. notice. Unless the Presidents
order Is modified 30 as TO allow settlers to 60
upon the ceded lands, serious trouble is ap-
pretended.
The Indians on the Sioux Reservation
n Dakota Territory, recently prevented the
party Of a railroad company from
unning lines through the reservation, The
Indians are very much opposed to all such
movements, and declare that they will fight
ather than allow such intrusion upon their
eservatlon.
Waring SchoOley, aged fourteen, was
ound on the afternoon Of the 4th in the out
kirts Of Pittston, Pa, in an Unconscious con.
ition. On examination 1t was discovered |
hat he had been shot and probably fatally
rounded by an unknown party. Mrs. schoo-
~, the mother, dropped dead when the little
Ictlm was carried into the house.
The National Bank Redemption
gency at Washington, on the 9th, discovered
very dangerous counterfeit one hundred
Dllar note on the Plttsburg (Pa.) National
ank Of Commerce. 1t purports to be OF the
,ries Of 1875, and 10 printed on an imitation
abre paper, and is the first counterfeit
hich has YET appeared on this series Of Ma
onal bank notes.
The Treasury Department announces
ie existence Of counterfeit SlOO bills on the
flowing banks; National Revere Bank,
)ston; Pitteaeld National Bank, Plttsaeld,
ass. Merchants National Bank, New Bed
nd, Mass. Second National Bank, Wilkes
IRE, Pa. Plttsburg National Bank of Com.
cree. The counterfeits are 80 admirably
ecuted that they are liable to deceive even
perts.
A violent wind storm passed over por-
1ns Of Oslo and Indiana on the night Of the
b. At indianapolis the Central Avenue
ethodist Church was entirely demolished,
d two or three persons we're reported killed
70 policemen were killed az Toledo by a fall
8 chimney. A number OF buildings were
giously damaged. at Cleveland the west :
d Of wire mill, IN which number Of men 4
d boys were at work, were blownin and FIVE
IN and boys buried In the falling debris
10 OF the men lived but a short time after d
ing removed from the ruins and the others 2
ire more or less injured. n
The United States Supreme Court has
,ided in a ease sent up from West Virginia, !.
'olving the eonstitutionality OF the act ex- !;
ding colored citizens from jury service In Il
Il State, that when colored citizen is tried y
his life BY jury from which citizens OF D