Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1874-10-17
SUMMARY OF NEWS.
Interesting Items Frola Home and
Abroad.

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From the monthly report Of the Department
OF Agriculture of the U. S., which has just been
issued, it appears that the buckwheat crop
is below the average in all the States except
Vermont, Massachusetts,, and Connecticut In
regard to tobacco the report Gays that less
than half crop viii be gathered this year, the
only States presenting q condition above the
average being Connecticut and California.
The average condition OF tho potato crop for
tho entire country is 49,. The challenge
given by Major Leech to the American rifiemsn
to try return match next June in Ireland will
be accepted A dispatch to the State De-
partment from the United States Consul at
Malta incloses an article from the Malta Times,
concerning the spread of the plegre in the
Regency Of Tripoli and its appearance near
Mecca, and adding Government notice for
bidding the landing of passengers, animals and
susceptible goods coming from the Regency of
Tripoli and from the Arabian Red Sea ports.
-. In a letter to the Committee of the Demo-
cratic State Convention, Judge Bedle formally
accepts the nomination for Governor of New
Jersey. He adds that asst was the unmistakable
intention of the Convention that the canvass
should be conducted without personal effort,
he shall strictly adhere to that policy and
shall take no part in it,. The Republicans
of the Twenty-fifth New York District (Onon-
daga and Cortland counties) nominated Elias
W. Leavenworth, of Syracuse, for Congress
by reclamation. -. In the Knoxville papers
Senator Brownlow publishes card announcing
himself a candidate for Congress from the
Second Congressional District Of Tennessee
,..... The Republicans of the Thirty.seeohd
New York Tlstriot eric county nominated,
| by reclamation, the Hon. LymaA X. Bass for
Congress. .... L. G. Lapham has been nomi-
mated for Congress in the Twenty-seventh
District of New York.
The New York Liberal Convention adjourned
without making any nominations, leaving the
party to vote for whichever candidates it
chooses. -. Mrs. Julia Perkins the wife of
Charles L. Perkins of Cincinnati cut the
throat Of her only daughter, aged three years,
killing her instantly. She then cut her own
throat but the wound was not sufficiently
deep to cause death. She alleges domestic
infelicity as the cause, and appears to be
sound in mind. Mr.. Perkins says there have
been troubles in the family but declines to
state what the nature of these troubles was.
The parties have been married four years. 49,.
The cotton crop Of the United States for
1874 is estimate at 8 $3.50, 900 balls. 80. The
report received at the United States Agricu-
tural Department shows that the wheat crop
will nearly verage that of last year. None of
the large corn-producing States reach an
average. There will be fair crop of oats,
potatoes, and hay, but less than crop of
tobacco.
The Sharps Rifle Company have accepted
the challenge of the Irish team to 60 to
Dublin, in case the American team declines.
...... Mansfield Stone and Jno. Morgan, of
Middlebury, Conn, had been hunting and
having been drinking freely on their return
home, Stone re quested Morgan to stand off
fifteen yards as target, which he refused to
do, when Stone shot him in the abdomen,
making fatal wound ..... The two hundredth
anniversary of the foundation of the Diocese
Of Quebec was commemorated by solemn
benediction at the French Cathedral in Quebec
..... The insurance companies of Hartford,
with the exception of the Atlas Company,
have voted to withdraw their agencies from
Chicago. -. England has Joined the Postal
Union which was formed by the Berne Postal
Congress. .. The German Government in
tends to establish naval hospital at Yoko-
hama. -. Mrs. Amelia Wright, of Muscatine,
Wis. aged IA, has been taken to the insane
asylum, her insanity, it is claimed by the doc
tors, having been caused by the use of " hair
restoratives." .. An old man named Moore
was recently found dead in Galveston, Texas,
kneeling at table in the attitude of prayer.
He died a week before the discovery of his
body.
The Great Western Railway shops in Clifton
Ont, were burned, with one Pullman palace
car The flames crossed the street to Graham's
Suspension Bridge Hotel, which was also des-
troyed. Louis Wagner, the Isles of Shoals
murderer, has been sentenced to be hanged the
last Friday in January. .....A collision &C.
Cured on the low grade division Of the
Allegheny Valley Railroad three and half
miles east of New Bethlehem, Penn, between
: the mail train going east and freight train
going west James Esler, engineer NJ. Kill
lien, fireman and Hy. D9yle, passenger, all
on the mail train, were killed, and Henry
Wertz, express messenger, was fatally in
jured. j. M. Farr, baggage master; Johr
: Brown, newsboy; and John Garrison, pas
senger, were seriously injured. The baggage
car, containing the baggage mail, and express
matter, was burned $50. The disease among
cattle along Jersey Heights and Hoboken pre-
/ walls to 8 great extent. Many COWS have died
! Mr.. Charles stucler, veterinary surgeon at
Hoboken, said the general cause of sickness
, which to his knowledge prevails to grea
{ exent, was the hot and dry weather. az,
5 cattle eating dusty grass and drinking impur
water. The disease is known as pleuropneu
nlonia epsudatoria contagiosa. At its frs
appearance the COWS are weak and lanquid
the breathing becomes difficult, causing
: rumbling noise the hair stands erect a thin
: green fluid runs continually from the nose
q appetite ceases and loss of milk follows tn
9 COWS are thirsty, but cannot drink much. o.
b, examination after death one lung is very nue.
n swollen, enough 80 to impede circulation, ant
q part of the stomach is dry and hard. .... TIL
q committee appointed by the meeting of tn
:, Rhode Island cotton and wooden manufat
;, turers make the following announcement
IL The Manufacturers Committee was gratiie
3 to be able to say that they have receive
q assurances which justify them in annount
), ing the general compliance on the part of tn
n cotton manufacturers of the State with tn