Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1881-01-20

Christmas and the only avenue of communi
cation with the outside Is by means oftunne
Of varying lengths. The atmospher,
has been unusually cold reaching
eighteen degrees below zero Some days ag'
the food and fuel became exhausted and the
most terrible suffering aud destitution ensued
Five persons have been frozen to death, and
unless suecor is afforded from the outside
there cannot fail to. be a great many hYeE
sacrificed.
CHARLES M. PHELPS, ex-State Treas
urer of New York, convicted in October, 1875,
of forgery and larceny, and sentenced to ff-
teen years. imprisonment, died in the penten-
tiary on the llth. r ft.rrsa al....
THE Indians recently captured on
Poplar river by Major InRles arrived at Fort
Buford, D. T., on the 10th.
AT Philadelphia, on the 11th, a two
months old child of Mrs. Shannon, colored
was left alone in room with three-years-
old son Of Mrs, Jackson, another colored
woman, while the mothers were at work in
another part of the building. Shortly afterward
they heard cries and rushing up stairs
they found the son of Mrs. jackson sitting on
the floor by the screaming infant with red
hot poker in his hand. The baby had been
terribly burned about the mouth and examina-
ton showed the jackson boy had forced the
poker down the baby's throat The child
fingered In great agony until night, when it
died.
TIE Ohio Democratic Legislative
caucus, held at Columbus on the 18th, nomi-
mated Senator Thurman for re election to the
United States Senate.
SENATOR T. F. BAYARD, Of Delaware,
was unanimously nominated for reelection
TO the United States Senate by the Democratic
members of the Legislature on the 18th.
GENERAL JOHN +. MILLER, Repub-
lican, Of California, and James G. Fair, Dem
ocrat, of Nevada, were elected to the United
States Senate BY the Legislatures of their re-
spectiye States on the 18th.
PLAIsTED was declared the legally
elected Governor Of Maine on the 18th, after
the Legislature had heard the report of the
Committee on the Gubernatorial vote.
A BOILER in the Union FIGURING Mills
at Detroit, exploded on the 10Th tearing out
one side of the building completely and so
wrecking the structure that the mill will have
to be taken down to the foundation. The
engineer, fireman and oiler were instantly
killed and buried under the debris. A fourth
man standing Just outside was severely in
jured about the head, but will probably re-
cover. ..
THE terms of consolidation between
the Western Union and American Union Tele-
graph Companies have been agreed upon.
The preliminary papers were signed on the
18th. .....
THE rear coach of a passenger train
on the Wabash road, was deraIled and ditched
at Mitchell, Ill, on the 18th. Several passen-
gers were seriously injured.
COMMISSIONER BENTLY estimates that
the Arrears Of Pension bill will cost the Treas
ury $4OO,0O0OOO
THE House Committee on Agriculture
has unanimously agreed to ask suspension
OF the rules to take from the calendar and
put upon Its passage the bill to make the Ag-
rlcultural Department an independent de-
partment, and its head a Cabinet officer.
AN explosion of celIuloid in factory
at Newburyport, Mass, on the 18th, killed
one person and fatally burned two others.
AT Peterboro, N. H., on the 18th,
Hatch Wilson killed his wife and then cut mis-
,wn throat dying almost instantly. No
Known for the deed
On the night of the 18th the dwelling
II Timothy Cavan, near Gaithersburg, Md,
vas destroyed by fire and Cavan's sons, Fran
is and Denis, aged eleven and thirteen years
esnectively and an employe named John
'olly, aged forty-flye, were burned to death.
A CONCURRENT resolution was intro.
uced in the Missouri Legislature on the 18th,
Senators and requesting Repre-
in Congress to secure the estab-
shment of Territorial government In the
indian territory and to open tho public do
lain In said Territory to settlement under the
omestead and presumption laws.
CONGRESSMAN MCCooK's bill to place
eneral Grant on the retired list as General,
as killed in the Military Committee on the
Sch by strict party vote, six to three
GENERAL GRANT was elected Presi-
ant Of the Worlds Fair Commission on the
Ith.
THE Minnesota Republican Represen- !
tives nominated Senator Mcmillan for re- 7
ectlOn on the 18th
THE Maine Fusion caucus nominated {
,seph L. Smith for United States Senator on t
10 18th +
THE New York Republican Legisla-
7e caucus, held at Albany on the 18Th, nom 4
ated 7. G Platt for United States Senator o
the first ballot Il
THERE was q hitch in the Republic II
Legislative caucus for the nomination of 4
nator at Harrisburg, Pa, on the
tn. Fifty-six Republican Represen-
tlyes refused to 20 into the caucus: but Z
nety-eight members attended and nomi. ~
ted Ii. W. Oliver on the third ballot. The Sc
tiers are Grow men aud intend to carry the IN
int into the Legislature. The refusal OF the IN
oW men 10 enter the caucus NAV impose b.
" and unexpected duty on the Democratic /
'mbers OF the Legislature. The latter will p
ld the balance Of power between the two
publican factions and In the event of pro-
lged struggle may hnd themselves called .,
ON 10 settle the Senatorial question: II
A FIRE at Trenton, Tenn, on the "'
yht Of the 18th, destroyed three business
uses, hotel and the Herald newspaper a'
Ice. Several persons were injured. 10
The Grand Jury at Newark, N. j., or
the re.establishment Of the
tipping post for wife-beaters. m
Tar Ronublicane of pbuoI,1uLi - r