Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1874-08-15
NEWS OF THE DAY.


Of The Chicago Tribune that he first heard the
scandslous Bsecher-Tilton story from the
lips Of his sister in Washington about one year
ago. Miss Anthony then told him that she was
guest in Tilton's house when violent dornes-
tic scene occurred. She retreated to her own
room to avoid it, and was presently followed
by Mrs. Tilton. The two women bolted the
door, placing the bedstead against it to keep
Mr.. Tilton on the outside. Mr.. Tilton accused
his wife of adultery with Beecher, and she
replied, with the accusation that he had pro-
cured an abortion for young lady Of Brooklyn
whom he had seduced calling the lady by
name. That night Miss Anthony and Mrs
Tilton slept together, and during CONVERSE
ton the latter, in seeming mental distress
impaired the secret. She ayerred that Beecher
treated her with the kindness he would child
49,. The Coroner's jury in the case Of little
Katy Curran rendered a verdict. 1t found that
she came to her death by the hands of Jesse
Pomeroy, aud that the evidence submitted
corroborated Psmeroy's confession of the
crime. The jury also found that the body of
the girl, either before or after death, was
mutilated by some sharp instrument. ... The
Republicans of the Fourth Alabama District
renominated Mr.. Hays for Congress by &C
clamation. -. The Republican Committee of
the First Congressional District of Virginia
unanimously resolved to make no nomination,
but to leave the field to the Hon. J. B. Sener,
on his record in the present Congress, and the
committee further recommend Mr.. Sener
unanimously to the people of the district. -. e.
The total valuation of taxable property in New
York city is 81. 154, 029, 176, and this must pay
$31, 1922 391.79 tax this year. Mrs. Lucy
Goash, of Kennebunk, Me-, widow, aged rs
years. drowned herself in q creek near her
house. . In the Butchers Run district alone
during the great Pittsburgh flood it is said that
more than twenty million cubic feet of water
fell in the space of an hour and a half. 80. By
an explosion OF powder mill magazine and
drying house near Tamaqua, three men were
instantly killed, and boy named Coyle was
fatally injured. -. The farm house of Mr..
Shofhausen thirteen miles from Yankton,
Dakota, was burned. He was absent at the
time and his wife and three children were
burned to death. His wife dragged herself
and infant out, and walked mile and half,
but both were so badly burned that they died
shortly afterward.
The grasshoppers are doing immense damage
in Boscawen, Canterbury, Franklin, and other
towns in New Hampshire. Col. D. M. Clough
estimates that they have injured his hay CROP
to the amount of fifty tons, and Isaac K. Gage
| l.; m
making a raid upon the fruit trees and corr
tassels, devouring the latter as fast as they
appear. New York papers say that Mr.
Tilton sought an interview with his wifi
which she had refused. The refusal was posi-
tive, and Mrs. Tilton declares that reconclia
ton is impossible, and that she is very de
termined to adhere to the course she ha
adopted. She has no thought of returning t.
occupy her Livingston street house until tn
papers of separation are signed. Mr.. Tito
, told reporter that he went to see Mrs. Tito
and was unsuccessful. "My object was simpl
this and this alone wanted to tell her that
/ she needed any article for her use which wa
at my residence in Livingstone street, that sh
, was at liberty to call for it at any time an
| would be conveniently absent" .... Som
l of the farmers in the grasshopper Athlete
districts are already without bread or food
: any kind, and the agents of the Relief Con
? mittee have found families living on greer
and boiling the wild grass of the prairie fl
food. For their Immediate relief the Con
mittee sent into the devastated region &
barrels of flour and 60 barrels of pork to !
s distributed to those most in want .. II
d following recapitulation will be found to q
4 proach the sum of the actual mortality by Il
> terrible Pittsburgh disaster Upper Alleghen
e 1875; Lower Allegheny, 8; Sawmill Run, l.
>, Big Branch Sawmill Rum g.; Little Bran,
Sawmill Run, 81; Charters Greek, 90; 9th
L suburbs reaching to Washing, on county, Il
J total, 219.... The Democratic State Conve
IS ton of Alabama, nominated Hon. Geo.
: Houston by unanimous rising vote for Go
b ernor. -. England, Germany, and Italy, it
s reported, have agreed to establish a joi
e surveillance over the Spanish frontier
n The United States signal observer at Pittsburj
y says there was no indication of storm
Sunday night except a slight change in t
= udIoluoIOA' IL oPPodlou w oOino liOIn T.
- northwest, and passed over the city westwa
Y ... Daniel Rank, Of Philadelphia had
= quarrel with his wife, and as result of
a determined to put his entire family out of t
Ia way. He poisoned the family meal, but W
% detected and arrested. James w. Smit
70 the first colored cadet appointed to the Militia
e Academy at West Point, was dismissed aft
l. the June examination, having failed to pa
?. an examination in some of his studies.