Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1874-11-28
SUMMARY OF NEWS.
Abroad.

Indiana railroad, fifteen miles south Of Grand
Rapids, met with an accident, the rear car and |
he sleeping-car being thrown from the track |
by a broken axle. Several passengers we're |
killed and many injured. 80. An epileptic
inmate Of the insane department in the Aims
house at Philadelphia, named George Home,
was beaten to death by another inmate. ia
our.year-old child in Tuscarora, Pa, has
actually died Of drunkenness. Its besotted
mother fed il with whisky until, after weeks of
steady intoxication, it died. So. According to
the Friend Of India, a number of Negspatam
youths have been arrested on charge of
hanging boy in fun" Deceased had muir
dered lizard, and the novel court decided
that he was worthy of death, all the proceed
ings being carried out in the most regular
order There is a strike among the miners
in all the collieries in Pictou county, Nova
Scotia. The alleged cause is a reduction Of
u per cent. in the wages for the winter.
The reception given to Charlotte Cushman,
on the occasion of her bidding farewell to the
stage in New York, was a grand affair. After
the play of the evening the stage Of the
theater was occupied by distinguished citizens,
and Miss Cushman was presented with laurel
wreath and addresses. Prof. Roberts read
poem by Stoddard, dedicated to Miss Cush-
man, and then VIM. Cullen Bryant advanced
to present Miss Cushman with a wreath Of
laurel 1t was at once a simple and appro-
pirate tribute. The wreath, formed of laurel
leaves, tied with white ribbons, rested on
a black velvet cushion. Mr. Bryant made
short address to which Miss Cushman re-
sponded briefly. After this Miss Cushman
was serenaded, escorted to her hotel by thou
sands of people, and her farewell to the stage
was one of the notable events of her life.
Charlotte Cushman is to become a reader in
stead of an actress. Peter Bowen, who was
sentenced at Vapanee, Ont, to receive forty
lashes for committing all outrage on his own
daughter, received twenty lashes, being the
first nstallment of the sentence. During the
operation he screamed and cried bitterly, beg
ging for mercy. His back was very much
lacerated and blood oozed from the wounds
made by the lash. He will receive twenty
more lashes at the expiration Of two months.
......I 1t is reported in Chicago that most Of
the National Board Insurance companies that
withdrew from that city on the first Of October
will return shortly and continue business. 80.
Official notice is given that Earl Dufferin has
resumed the government of Canada from the
Sd inst. ...Seven out of the eleven propo.
sitions submitted to the people with view to
the amendment of the State Constitution Of
New York were defeated.
Edward Mcclure shot and instantly killed
mis- wife in San Francisco. Jealousy is said to
have prompted him to commit the deed. -.
shot his wife in the neck, and then shot him.
self in the mouth both mortally wounded
Jealousy was the cause of the deed. ...
jeremiah O'Sullivan, who was in the Hudson
county, N. j., jail awaiting transportation tc
State prison to serve five years sentence
committed suicide by cutting his throat with q
razor. .... "A hurricane passed over the island
of Jamaica and caused considerable damage
In that harbor there were a few small wrecks
and several lives lost. The storm is believed
to be most severe in Barbados, Santa Lucia
and Hayti and the north side of Jamaica
There has been no intercourse since between
Kingston and either of the sister islands men
toned, or northern Jamaica. -. Hartridgei
majority for Congress in the first Alabam,
District is 4,2l1, and Smiths majority in thu
Second District is 2,154. 800. VIM. Waite
Phelps, for M. c. in New Jersey, is beaten b,
five votes. .....N. S. Stevens has been elected
Delegate to Congress from Arizona by abou
200 majority. $50. The official count of tn
Congressional votes in the Fourth Massachu
sets District gives the election to Frost b
small majority. THE Pennsylvania Senat
stands 20 Democrats and 80 Republicans tn
House LOT Democrats and 81 Republicans
Democratic majority on joint ballet, g.
Justice Hogan will contest E. r. Meades cleo
ton in the 9th New York District.
A package of Danish butter was received a
the Butter and Cheese Exchange in New Yorl
which was packed in a tin case more tina
seventeen years ago. .....A. Yeatman Zachoi
a florist of New York, was married at II o'cloc
in the morning. and shot himself fatally th
same evening. ....A scene was enacted durin
the services at the Methodist Episcopal Mil
sion Church in Washington which will neve
The forgotten by the witnesses thereto. Th
clergyman, Rev. Mr.. Hysore, while preaching
suddenly remarked, Brethren, feel vel
SICK" and, clasping his right hand to his for,
head as if in intense pain, exclaimed, Jesu
save me, save mo now" at the same tim
staggering backward, and, falling in hal
reclining position on a sofa, died in gre,
! agony. 800. The smallpox is on the increas
in Montreal and many additional cases are r.
ported. 80. John III. Head, Democratic Coz
: gressman-elect from the Fourth District
Tennessee, died at Gallatin very suddenly.
woman named Stiernen killed her son, thi
! teen years DID, at Milwaukee, by breaking h
skull with an ak, and then committed suiciC
by jumping into cistern. The woman hi
been in bad health and the act was committt
during an attack Of insanity. induced by fe
that she would be separated from the child.
, The mammoth cotton mill of the Spragu
at Baltic, Conn.,, has resumed work after thr
weeks suspension, caused by strike Of Il
mule spinners. A few Of the strikers have I
| turned and fresh spinners will be employed
5 the rest do not yield. -. A dispatch receiv
from Gen. Pope, through Gen. Sherida
: announces that Big Horn, a Cheyenne chic
= with twenty warriors, forty-eight wome
forty-nine children, and over 200 horses, 81
rendered Internationally to Col Hall, at t
Cheyenne Agency. The warriors are held
confinement. 80. Francis @. King, a promine
= forwarding merchant of Buffalo, drowned hi
s self in cistern at his residence. . "A lar