Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1881-01-13
Domestic.

THE New York Truth, on the 4th,
published what 1t called an open letter to
James A. Garfield, repudiatng the Morey
letter and declaring 1t forgery.
A SHOCKING accident occurred on the
lipe Of the Sioux City g. Omaha division of
the Chicago st. Paul, Minneapolis g. Omaha
Railroad near Bancroft, Iowa, on the 4th,
by which six men were killed out
right and seventh lost leg.
The men were engaged in a cut shoVeling
snow. The working train, anticipating the
coming Of the south bound passenger, had
side tracked and the men, eleven in all, had
stepped from the track to allow the passen-
ger train to pass Some trouble had been ex.
peTienced the day before, and as the engineer
approached the cut, which Is long one with
q curve, he put on steam and rushed the train,
consisting Of locomotive and two box cars
and one passenger car The train, with the
exception OF the latter car passed the men I'm
safety; but the steps 10 the passenger coach
caught them and moved them down like grass
under the wheels. Onlyfour escaped without
serious Injury.
The declination Of General Garfield
as United States Senator from Ohio was
placed In the hands Of Governor Foster on the
4th.
WELLs-FARGo's annual report of pre-
ciOus metals produced west of the Mississippi
river, including British Columbia, and re-
ceipts in San Francisco by express from the
west coast Of Mexico aggregate, gold,
$83,523, lS2; silver, &40005, 1864; lead, &5 182,
800; copper, sS98 600, In comparison with
the product for 1879 California shows an In
crease In gold Of s57D519 and decrease In
silver Of S96O,S13. Nevada shows a total fall |
ing of OF S6966,003
The coinage executed at the United |
States mints during 1880 amounted TO $S2,-
2S9, go gold, and ga, 400, 7O8 silver.
MAJOR ILGNEs, Of the Fifth United
States Infantry surrounded camp Of 800 hos
tile Indians In the northern part Of Dakota on
the Sd and compelled them TO surrender.
GENERAL GEORGE II. SHARPE, Re-
publican, was reelected Speaker Of the New
York Legislature on the 4th.
The Republican members OF the
California General Assembly met in caucus on
The 4th and nominated General John II, NIL
Ter for United States Senator.
THE official returns Of the votes Of all
but thirteen towns show Rays Republlcan)
plurality for Congress IN the Third New
Hampshire district to be over 5000.
GoVERNoR-ELECT PORTER, of Indi-
ana, was married 70 Miss Stone, at the house
Of Walter 8. Gurnee, her uncle, In New York
City on the 9TH.
Mrs. Rosa FITZPATRICK YOUNG, wife
Of John Russell Young, died at New York
City on the 4th.
THE Hodge Opera House and Gar
Cling on buIldlngat Lockport, N. T., were de-
stroyed by Gre on the 9Th. The postofiee
Western Union Telegraph Company and In
ternal Revenue offices were located IN the
building. Several AremeH and citizens were
injured BY falling walls, but no one killed
The mails we're saved. Loss fully Sl500OO;
insured for $4,000.
JUDGE WILLIAM B. WooD, the new
" appointed Associate Justice, took bic place
on The Supreme Bench at Washington on the
9th.
TRBscOTT, one of the Commissioners
70 China, arrived at Washington on the 5tb.
He brought with him the immigration treaty
recently entered into with China and dellv.
cred Il 10 the State Department
AT q caucus Of the Republican mem