Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1880-03-25

$4,000 within the past two years.
The Collectors Of Customs have beer
requested to forward to the Treasury Depart
ment any information they may obtain O
pleuro-pneumonia or other contagious or in
fectious diseases among neat cattle.
The report that Chung How, late
Chinese Ambassador to Russia, had been be-
headed, is contradicted. He is under sentence
of death, but an influence appears to be al
work to have the sentence commuted.
The Missouri Democratic State Con-
vention for the nomination of State officers
will be held on the 21st of July. The Con
vention to elect delegates to the Cincinnati
Convention will meet on the Goth of May.
At San Francisco, on the 10th, Den
mis- Kearney was sentenced to six months i'm
prisonment in the House Of Correction and to
pay a dne of $1,000, for having used inham-
matory language in a speech at the Sand Lots
recently.
At New Orleans, on the Goth, Edward
G. Palmer President Of the Louisiana Bank,
convicted Of embezzlement of the funds Of the
bank, was sentenced to three years at hard
labor in the penitentiary He has taken an ap-
peal to the Supreme Court.
American shippers Of cattle have been
granted the privilege by the Canadian Govern
ment of shipping cattle through that country
from one American port to another, with the
privilege also Of stopping for rest or accom-
modations at suitable points.
Prince Bismarck presented paper in
the Reichstag, on the 18th, on immigration
from Germany during 1879, showing that 49,
237 persons, two-thirds of whom were males,
emigrated, by far the greater number going to
the United States and British North America.
The Rhode Island Republican State
Convention was held at Providence on the 18th.
| Alfred II. Littlefeld was nominated for Gov
enor and Henry II. 10y for Lieutenant-Goy-
ernor. The delegation chosen to the National
Convention is understood to be unanimous for
Blaine
Before the House Committee on Indian
Affairs, on the Goth, Colonel Brooks, Indian
agent, testified that the Poncas were removed
from their reservation by an act Of Congress-
which he regarded as superceding the treaty
stipulation. lie did not think their consent
had been obtained. .5 r,
The House of the Good Shepherd, a
Catholic orphan asylum and house Of commit
ment for women, at st. Paul, Mimi, was de-
stroyed by fire on the morning of the 21st.
Twenty-Five children were asleep in the upper
story, but through the efforts Of the sisters all
got out without injury.
A dangerous 500 United States
Treasury note has made it's appearance in the
West. The bill is printed on imitation fibre |
paper, series of 1875, letter q, The shading
under the words United states'' is darker
than the genuine note; but the general ap-
pearance OF the bill is good.
Settlers in Northern Montana have
been compelled to leave their homes on ac-
count of the threatening attitude Of the Grow
and Sioux Indians, who are reported to have
formed an alliance, The settlers have gath
cred at Goose Creek Valley for protection, but
their means Of defense are very meagre.
The House Committee on Revision Of
the Laws has ordered Sngletons bill regula-
ting the use Of telegraph dispatches to be
reported to the House and recommended
It's passage. The bill declares that tele-
graph messages are private property and can
not be seized for production before the courts.
The Maine Legislative Committee, in
luirlng into the conduct Of Ex-Governor Garce-
on and Council made report on the 18th,
Governor and Council, among 9TH
,r things, with altering and forging election
'eturns, aud dlycrting the different appropria-
ions of the Legislature from their Legitimate
purposes
The Central News Association at Lon !
lon reported on the 18th that 1t had received
communication from Hartmann acknowledge i,
ng that he was chosen by the Nihilist Com !
nittee to assassnate the Gar, and giving a !
etaed account of his attempt at Moscow. =
hartmann said he intended to sail for America
D few days
Dennis Kearney surprised his follow
rs at San francisco, on the 15th by stating
q a speech that the object of the Citizens a
'rotectlve Union had been misappreheuded, b
nd that the Assoclatlonintended to work for r
ie good OF the city and the workiHgmen, and n
OF 10 their disadvantage as had been reported q
y some unscrupulous men. N Fl
Chief Ouray testified before the House (
on Indian Affairs, on the 18th, N
lat he knew nothing personally about either n
10 dght with Thornburg or the killing Of v
ecker and his employees, nor did he know II
,w many Utes had been engaged IN either of "
lose transactions, but he denied that any but q,
'hite River Utes had been implicated. ~
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For the month of February, 1880, the n
ports Of provisions from the United States a.
nounted to $9,l7S,2s3; falling of Of S2,- n
S,S07 as compared with the same month in q,
40, tits expected that when the official re- m
rms for February are all In that the balance u
trade win appear against the United States I'm
/ the fret time in Ave years. nj
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