Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1880-03-04

WIN, MlLLlkAN Il SUM- Editors ana FropHe0Ts'
WASHINGTON G. H., OHIO
CURRENT NEWS.
An uprising is reported in Abyssinia
M. De Lesseps arrived at New Yorl
City on the oath.
The Philadelphia mint coined So, l29,
g69 during the month of February.
The Greek brigands who captured
Colonel synge and wife demand 34,OO(
ransom.
The Illinois Republican State Con-
vention has been called tomeet at Springfield
May 10Th.
The Nihilist Committee threaten to
burn st. Petersburg on the occasion of the
Czar's anniversary.
At Brewsters, N. Y, on the 23d, a
fire destroyed one-third of the business por-
tion of the town.
P. B. S. Pinchback was appointed
Naval Officer for the District of New Orleans
on the 9th ult.
A new expedition to the North Pole
is contemplated by Professor Nordenskiold,
the swede explorer.
The appointment of dictator, to
more etfectually crush Nihillsm, is demanded
by the Moscow Gazette.
Troops have been stationed at several
points in Southern Kansas to prevent the
threatened invasion of the Indian Territory.
The order issued by the Treasury De-
partment last November, prohibiting the inn
portation Of neat cattle from Canada, has been
revoked.
The lows Democratic State Conyen-
tion for the selection of delegates to the Ma
tional Convention, will be held at Burlington,
April z.
A London dispatch states that Sc
we're earthquake occurred at Yeddo, Japan,
on the 25th ult., but no particulars had been
received.
The convention between France and
the United States for the exchange of postal
remittances has been ratified by the French
Chamber Of Deputies.
A Berlin dispatch says the entire
Russian feet on the Aral Sea has been ordered
into the Oxus to participate in the cam paign
against the Turkomans.
Several houses were blown down and
seven persons seriously injured by tornado
which passed over Cedar Chapel, Hardin
County, Tenn, on the 10th.
The President, on the 26th, approved
the joint resolution authorizing the Secretary
Of the Navy to transport contributions for
the relief Of the suffering poor Of Ireland.
Two car loads Of Cinnamon from San
Francisco passed through st. Louis on the
Goth ult. en- route to Philadelphia and New
York. Five hundred more will follow soon.
Several prizes are offered by the
italian Government for vineyards raised from
gratis Of American varieties OF grape vines
capable OF resisting the attacks of the phyl-
loxera,
The Supreme Court of the District of
Columbia sustains the Postmaster General In
his order to the Postmasters Of the District to
letters addressed to lottery com
panies,
At Louisville, KY, on the Goth, Mark |
Sumner, a Baptist minister, was sentenced to
confinement for six years In the Albany, N.
Y, penltentIary for the forging of pension
papers.
The business men of San Francisco
have organized vigilance committee for the
suppression Of any possible riot which may
occur in connection with the labor agitation
In that city.
An increased emigration frem Ger
many 10 the United States Is reported, OWN e
10 the dissemination of news in the former
country that trade has greatly revived In the
United States.
The Senate Committee on Indian At
fairs has agreed to report for passage
a bill providing that the Indians shall, as
speedily as possible, be placed upon the foot.
Ing Of citizens.
A Paris correspondent stated on the
'ith that Hartmann, the Russian subject ar
rested IN that city recently, had confessed
hat he was engaged in theattempt to kill the
Czar at Moscow.
A Mormon colony has been discov-
sred on the Big Sandy River, near Cattles-
1urg, KY, with about fifty members, and two
lounR men preaching the doctrines Of the
latter Day Saints.
Over 10000 persons have died from
iiphtheria in the provinces Of CharkoR and
Russia, since last November In
he neighborhood Of Walki whole villages
laye almost died out.
The Treasury Department estimates
hat the total receipts from customs internal