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

The Cambridge University Union, Of Eng
land, have adopted motion. by lOl votes to AZ,
in favor OF introducing the system Of cremation
into England. Europe produces annually
s65, 900, 900 value Of ribbons, fully one-half OF
which are made in France, Paris being the
chief market and St. Etienne, Lyons, and the
department OF the Loire the great producing
centers . The President Of Guatemala has
forbidden the clergy in that republic to wear
the clerical dress except when they are engaged
in the performance OF their ecclesiastical
functions, and has closed all the converts but
one, that Of st. Catherine, the nuns Of the
abolished converts, 140 in number, having the
option Of either entering the convent of st.
Catherine or returning to civil life.... Three
American students at Lausanne were drowned
in Lake Geneva. e. The Azores newspapers
deny the existence in those islands Of move
ment in favor Of annexation to the United
States. 80. The protracted lockout of
farm laborers in Lincolnshire, England, has
been ended by a settlement, which will proba-
bly, be adopted in the other agricultural districts
Of England. -. Gen. A. B. Dyer, United
States Army, died in Washington. Gen. Dyer
graduated at the Military Academy in 1897, and
was Immediately appointed Second Lieu
tenant in the Third Artillery David French
picked up what he supposed to be stone in a
street in Warrensburgh, N. Y, and threw it
down again. 1t exploded injuring him fatally.
1t was a nitro-glycerine exploder " The
Canadian Pacific Railroad bill was read third
time and passed in the Dominion House of
Commons. 1t evoked long discussion, promi-
nent members on both sides taking part in the
debate. 80. Tho financial statement Of the
Centennial shows the total subscriptions to be
81, 405, 200; total expenses to May /, including
plans and work on the grounds, $144, 712 ; and
the estimate of the total cost of buildings
according to the designs, So, 750, 0O0. Nv. W.
Eaton, Democrat, was elected United States
Senator by the Connecticut Legislature in
joint session .. The case of Charles II.
Phelps, for alleged frauds ON the New York
State Treasury, has been postponed until the
third Monday in September.
Advices from Nassau report that the bark
Sylvia W. Swasey from New York for Cardenas,
struck on Long Bank Reef and was lost
The schooner Phoenix capsized in a whirlwind
off Ship Channel Keys. Out Of seventeen pas
sengers five women and one man we're drowned
go. Tho U. S. House Committee on Ways
and Means authorized Mr.. Foster to report a
resolution consuming the Secretary Of the
Treasury, and Solicitor Banfeld, for the lax and
careless administration of the law in the San
born contract cases. 49,. Henry Powers, acting
captain of the steamer GAINESVILLE, was arranged
at Memphis for the lynching of Hebrew
named Samuel Buhrman for alleged larceny of
jewelry. Some jewelry being missing, Buhr-
man was suspected, and was swung up three
times with rope to extort confession To
save his life he said that he had stolen the
articles and thrown them overheard. He WAS
then put on the Mississippi shore, his hands
tied behind him. Burhman, who is the son of
an insurance agent in Louisville, declares that
he made the pretended confession from fear,
and was innocent. Powers was held for appear
ance in the criminal court and has also been
arrested in civil suit in which. 100000 dam
ages are claimed. ... The forty-three tenn
perance women who were arrested in Cincin-
natl were tried in the Police Court and dis
charged. IA three-story house in Cincin
natl fell and seven persons were buried in the
ruins. The monument to be erected at
Saratoga in commemoration Of the surrender
of Gen. John Burgoyne to Gen. Gates, Oct. IT,
TIT, for which the State of New York has
appropriated $4,000, will be of granite, and
$50 feet high. 80. j. D. B. Hooper, the youth
who shot T. Fl. Phillips, an old merchant in
Opelika, Ala, year ago, because Of an al
| legged slanderous remark concerning him, has
been acquitted Of the charge Of murder.