Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1874-04-11
NEWS OF THE DAY,

The steamship Calcutta, with the body Of
DR.. Livingstone on board, arrived at Alden,
a British seaport town in Arabia. . The
U. S. Senate confirmed the nomination of
David Reed to be United States Attorney for
tho Western District Of Pennsylvania, and
Frederick Hermsn Sehenck Of Indiana, Consul
at Barcelona. 80 Mr.. and Mrs. CarberTy and
five children were turned out Of tenement
ouse in New York on bitter cold night, and
their little household effects we're thrown into
the yard by their landlord "A thief en-
tered Mr.. Frederick Beckman's house, Pater-
son, n. j., and demanded $40 Of Miss Beck
man, aged 20. She answered that she had no
money for him, and he began to cut her hands
with razor. She then offered him IS bank
note, which he refused, saying that he must
have more. He was trying to cut her throat
when noise in an adjoining room frightened
him and he escaped. IA dispatch from
Tucson, Arizona, says that Major Randall had
fight with Apache Indians fifteen miles from
Florence. Eleven warriors we're killed and
thirty women and children captured. Three
soldiers were wounded. Major Randall had a
narrow escape. go. The tow boat Crescent
City, from New Orleans for st. Louis, having
in tow seven barges, blew up at the foot of
Montezuma Island. The upper part of the
boat was blown into atoms, and she sank in
three minutes. The barges were all burned.
Ten persons were killed and as many injured
..... The Carlists bombarded Bilabo with
incendiary shells Much damage was done to
the city in this way So. Mr.. Disraeli received
a deputation urging the release Of the Fenian
prisoners. 49,. Nearly two years ago, Mary
secor, IS years DID, was brutally outraged and
murdered near Fort Wayne, and two men
named Mcleod and Kimmel were seized and
lynched by mob for perpetrating the crime.
Recently, Thomas B. Douglass, while dying
with consumption, confessed to priest that he
alone perpetrated the crime, and that he also
assisted the mob in hanging Mcleod and Kim
mel. ia telegram from Scott's Bluffs,
Wyoming, states that one white man was
killed, and all the horses at Goods Ranch were
stolen, by Indians. go. Reports from all parts
of the country tell of destructive fires in nearly
every State in the Union. In many instances,
as in Hartford, Elmira and Indianapolis, the
losses amount to hundreds of thousands of
dollars and these disasters are spread over
several days.
A fire, which resulted in the death of forn
persons burned four-story frame tenement
in Third avenue, between 141st and 1926
streets, Mott Haven. 1.-Two men reqU. ested
Justice Riley of Brooklyn to send them 20 Ray.
mond street Jail, saying that they we've starv.
ing. The Justice committed them. The
Carlists under Gen. Seballs have routed a force
of Republicans under Col nouille at Tordera.
1t is said the Republicans lost 300 men killed
..... Small pox is again on the increase ir
Montreal. 1t is estimated there are at least
two hundred cases in the city. AT Cen.
tennial mass meeting in Philadelphia, the citi.
zens pledged themselves to increase their
subscriptions by sum not less than 81, 900, 000
and to call on the city to appropriate further
sum of 81, 100000 to be used in the erection OF
the Centennial buildings 49,. David E. Blod.
gett was indicted in LacOnia, N. H., for the
murder of his wife. Blodgett pleaded guilty OF
murder in the second degree, and was sentenced
to thirty years Imprisonment. ... Since the
summer of 1878, and at regular intervals, dis.
coveries of gold in paying quantities have been
| reported from the tributaries of the Yellow.
stone river in Montana. The latest exciting
news from the undeveloped auriferous deposits
of the territory is contained in letter by 6
resident of Bozeman, Montana, which says
| gold is plentiful there