Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1874-06-13
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Thelower House Of the Arkansas Legislature,
by vote Of AZ to 9, adopted resolutions de-
eiaring that Senators Dorsey Snd clayton
obtained their seats in the United States Senate
by bribery and corruption, and that in case they
do not resign within ten days The United
sirtea Senate win be requested to investigate
their election and e1pel them. .... Three boys
from Springfield, Conn, were drowned in the
Connecticut River. They had taken of their
clothes, and were attempting to cross narrow
inlet Of the river at place usually shallow, but
now eight feet deep. All three went down
together, a few feet from the shore. Their
bodies were recovered within an hour The
Oldest was but nine years and the youngest
seven. Two boats, containing thirteen RATS
men, collided in Flat Rapids, Ontario The boats
were capsized and the men thrown into the
river. Seven of them were drowned. The
rapids are long and dangerous ... family
of five persons were saved from death in Bing-
hamton, N. Y, by the mother dreaming that
a woman, dressed in white, stood at the bed
side, saying, @ Get up, get up Immediately (;
you are wanted ~ On reaching the foot of the
stairs she found her lamp, which she left on
the table, had exploded, and all that was near
in flames. 1t short time the fire would have
reached them. A few pals of water extin-
guished the fire. The woman in white was
seen but moment where she came from or
where she has gone is still a mystery. $50.
Judge Lynch, of New Orleans, awarded the
following amounts to colored claimants One
thousand dollars to Joseph vs.. Bidwell pro-
pretor of the Academy of Music, for refusing
him admittance $3.50 each to George Wash
ington and Lewis vs.. McClosky for refusing to
sell them soda water, and $3.50 to Clement VS..
O'Neill for refusing to sell him a drink These
cases were decided by the Judge in conformity
with law passed by the recent Legislature,
the juries failing to agree m Hon. David B.
Mellish, Representative in Congress from New
York, who was removed to the Government
Asylum for the Insane, at Washington, for
treatment about two weeks ago, died at the
aboye-named institution. ....A special dis
patch from Carrollton, Ill.,, says that CLARK
Evans who was arrested for the murder or
the 30th of April, of Jno. W. Hubert, an old
citizen who resided five miles west of thai
place, has made free confession. The deed
was done for money but only pocket-knifc
was obtained. Evans has served one term il
| the Penitentiary.
| In tho U. S. House Mr.. Coburn, of Indiana
reported bill to provide for the gradual re-
duction Of the army of the United States
reducing the number of cavalry regiments tc
nine, artillery to four, and infantry to twenty
......A terrible case Of suicide occurred al
Halifax, N. S. Mrs. Davidson, young woman
in temporary fit of insanity, cut her throat
nearly severing the head from the trunk ....
Three men were arrested for highway robbery
on Dock street, Philadelphia, they having
robbed two colored girls and a white man O.
their money and jewelry. +. The President o.
Dorringue, who demands that the Assembl,
shall declare him President. He is supported
by the army. ... The detachment of republi
cans surrounded by the Carlists near Santandel
have been released from their unpleasant posi-
ton by troops sent to their relief H. F
Buckley & Brothers have now over one hundred
acres of cotton under cultivation on thei
ranch in MERGED county, Cal. IA waite
famine is the sensation on Capitol Hill in Del
Moines, Iowa. Some time ago the city gave
the coal miners the privilege Of taking out the
coal under the hill, and the the result is tina
every well has been drained as dry as powde
horn. 49,. Thomas Raines, the New Yorl
State Treasurer is a raving lunatic, confined il
an asylum. Captain jeremiah Smith, o
the schooner Port au Platte, was struck b,
lightning and killed at sea. His vessel, will
his body on board was brought into port by
New York pilot. 1t is reported that tn
smallpox is making serious ravages in Hui
and Ouaban