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

WIN, MlLLlKAN & SON, Editors and rroPHe'ors'
WASHINGTON G. H., ; OHIO.
CURRENT NEWS.
The Boston Young Republicans have
declared against Blaine or Grant.
During the month of February the
United States mints coined IS, 169,969.
General Melikof7s aSsailant was
hanged atst. Petersburg on the 5th.
The Kansas Democratic State Con-
vention has been called to meet at Topeka,
May 10Th.
There we're 5S5,559 hogs slaughtered
at Cincinnati during the winter season which
closed on the 1st
The Reputation bill recently passed
by the Virginia Legislature has been vetoed
by the Governor.
Three men were drowned in the Ohio
4hNbA AZ DOaNSA3 a. pA ghV OtlAi "AAS az
tempting to cross in a sklff.
The Danforth Locomotive Works, at
Paterson, N j., were burned on the 9th.
Loss from S175,OOO to 100000.
The nomination of 2. B. Pinchback
as Naval Officer at New Orleans was with
drawn by the President on the 1st,
The House Committee on Ways and
Means has decided against any changes in the
tariff laws at the present session.
At Glasgow, Scotland, on the 4th,
six persons were killed and thirty severely
wounded by boiler explosion.
Rev. Edward Cowley, ex-manager of
the Shepherds Fold at New York City, was
sent to the penitentiary on the I'd.
Ataspecial city election at Hartford,
Conn, on the 1st, the Republican candidate
for Mayor was elected by 79l majority.
Hon. Gilbert De Lamatyr, of Indiana,
has been renomlnated for Congress by the
Greenback Convention IN his district.
The residence Of Norman Mcleod,
of scottstown, Quebec, burned on the 9th,
and two children perished In the flames.
In an iron mine at Watertown, N.
Y, on the 9th, two men were killed and a
number wounded by the breaking of a skip.
The reported arrest of the noted fe-
male Nihilist, Vera sassulitcb, at st. Peters
burg on the 9th ult has been contradicted.
The Iowa Republican State ConVen-
tion, for the selection of delegates to the
National Convention, win be hello on the 14th
Of April.
The life of the Russian Ambassador
at Paris was threatened by Nihllist agents on
the 9th. They wanted him to oppose the eX-
tradition Of Hartmann.
The Virginia General Assembly has
passed a bill repeating the Monlt bell punch
liquor law in that State and re-estabiishlng
the license system.
A convention has been concluded be-
tween Great Britain and Germany securing /
the cooperation Of war vessels in the suppress &
sion Of the slave traffic. II
A bill win be reported TO Congress, !
at an early day, from the Committee on Coin r
age, Weights and Measures recommending r
the retirement OF the trade dollar.
About S45,00O,OOO worth of gold 4
bullion was lying in the New York assay Of 4
fee, on the 9th, awaiting transportation to d
the mint at Philadelphia. d
The total amount received at New /,
York City up to March 2 for the Irish Land v
League Relief Fund and Land League Polit-
zeal Fund, amounted to s10l ,124.
Walker Kilgore and Joseph Care, a
murderers we're hanged In Missouri on the d,
9TH. Charles Colby a California murderer, B
was hanged on the same day. Sc
The total receipts of lumber at Chi y y
cago during 1879 were ,467, 1884, 900 feet, only n
a trihlng amount came from Canada. The
sales Of 1879 we're 1873 900 feet.
March I'd was observed as a general W "
holiday at 81. Petersburg IN honor OF the a,
twenty-dfth anniversary Of the Czar's Access NJ
sion. No disturbances were reported. 10
The debt statement shows the de- DH
crease Of the public debt during February to ~ ~
be s56720l9; cash in the Treasury, sl95, ,951- % @
65S; legal tenders outstanding, s3i8,6sl, ,0l6. 70
Intelligence was received at London ).
from Bombay, on the let, that o steamer from AZ
Ylngorla bound 70 Hurrachee, foundered, and M
ave Europeans and attY-nine natives were an
lost. n,
Commissioner 10 Due, Of the Agri. I'M
cultural Department, urgently recommends So
that three new divisions forestry, meteorol- On
Dgy and yeterinary-be added to the depart an
ment. m'
The man who fired upon General be
Aellkoh At 81. PetersbuFgon the 80 was tried we
IN the 4th and sentenced to be hanged on the
following day. He gave hls name as No
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