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

sassinate General Trepoff in 1878 she has re
sided abroad.
Travel on the Northern Pacific Rail
road west Of Bismarck, Dakota, has been Inn
peded for the last two months by asuccession
of snow storms. From the 1st to the Gath OF
February only three trains had arrived at Bis
marck from the East.
The Louisiana Senate, on the Goth,
adopted a resolution suspending four sena.
tors, charged with contempt In signing the
Kellogg memorial, and ordered the Sergeant.
alarms to keep them in cUstodyuntil further
orders from the Senate.
More evidences of fraud on the part
of the Maine Fusionists were reported to have
been found by the Legislative Investigating
Committee on the Oath. It is said the evi-
dence will not only implicate State officials
but the leading Fusion politicians.
About 1000 employees of the Har-
mony Mills at Cohoes N. T., struck for an ad.
vance Of ten per cent. in wages on the 9th
ult. The mills run 275,0 spindles. The
strike will probably extend to the knitting
mills and other industries in the city.
A Mrs. Clarke, a respectable married
lady, living near Linden, Cass County, Tex, was
outraged and murdered on the 22d. Three men
were arrested and one confessed the crime
A mob seized him, saturated his clothes with
coal oil, set it on fire and then hanged him.
Wheat is being carried from Chicago
toLiverpool for ffty-four cents per one hun
dred pounds. The United States Consul at
Bradford England, says there is no hope for
the English farmers while this is being done
unless great reduction in rents is made.
The Secretary of the Navy received a
dispatch from Montevideo on the 2Sth ult.
that the United States steamer Marion had
arrived there from Rio, and that six officers
and fifteen men had been down with the yell
low fever. A lieutenant and an apprentice
had died.
In consideration of the action of
the House of Representatives In appro-
priating over S1,OOO,OO0 for the continu-
ance OF the Star Service and the pending ac-
tion of the Senate, Postmaster-G General Key
has ordered the Second Assistant Postmaster
to continue the service until further advised.
A large tenant-right meeting near
Portadown, Armagh County, ireland, on the
25th, was attacked by 5000 Orangemen,
armed with bludgeons, who dispersed the
meeting, seriously wounding twenty of the
tenant-rlghters. The Orange party consider
ed the meeting to be Of sedltious character.
The House Committee on Foreign
Affairs, on the 23d, instructed its chairman
to report favorably the resolution making an
appropriation for the relief of the suffering
people of Ireland. The resolution was amend
ed by the committee increasing the appropri-
alton from 100000, the amount originally
proposed, to 100000.
John Do2ier, o farmer residing near
Deep Creek, Va, made himself obnoxious
to his neighbors by enforcing the fence
law. On the night Of the 10Th his house was
surrounded bya mob who kept up a fusilade
until Dozier and cOlored man left the house |
by a rear door, attempting to escape to the
woods. The colored man was struck by ball
and killed.
The Republican members of the
Louisiana Legislature were arralgned before
,he bar of the House, on the Oath, for con
,empt In signing and forwarding to the Sen
lte of the United States memorial favoring |
senator Kellogg and reciting intimidation,
raud, etc, on the part Of the Democrats gen
rally, The members purged themselves Of
contempt by saying they signed the paper
Without reading 1t.
Representative Wright, Chairman of
he Select Committee to inquire into the
auses OF the depression in labor, has pre-
Jared report upon the Chinese question,
which recommends a modification Of the Bur
ingame Treaty and the adoption of joint
esolution limiting Chinese immigration to
fteen persons In any one vessel. The neces-
ity for immediate action on the part OF Con-
ress is strongly urged
Mr.. Donoe, q wealthy farmer of Otoe
jounty, Neb., was killed by an insane son on
he Oath The boy had shot one Of his father's
orses, and the old man in attempting to take
he pistol from his son was stabbed aud in
family killed. The boy then attempted to
I'll his mother, but she escaped. He went to
be barn stabbed another horse, two dogs and
ed TO a corn field where he was captured by
he neighbors after some hours resistance
nd lodged in jail.
The Gar has established a Supreme
Executive Commission In st. Petersburg for
le protection Of order with General MillkoH
t the head. The Commission will control all
'lals held in the capital in the district of st.
and throughout the Empire. The
cad of the Commission is at liberty to adopt
ny means which may appear to him desira-
e for the protection Of order in the Empire,
al the orders he NAV issue are To be unCOn- |