Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1874-09-12
NEWS OF THE DAY.
items OF Interest from Home and
Abroad.

ActlnB secretary OF the U. .. interior, Smltni |
has reversed arecent decision Of Commissioner
Burdett, OF the General Land Office, and holds
that soldier entitled to make an additional
homestead entry, and who has made q second
entry, but still has less than 160 acres may
make further entries until he shall have OBJ
tanned one-quarter of section, or 100 acres.
800. The following additional nominations
for U. s. Congress have been made; Congress-
men Waldron, Willard, Begole, and Bradley
were renominated by the Republicans, with
out opposition, making, with Representative
Field five of the present delegation Of Michi-
gan, who are up for reelection. VIM. NJ.
Springer, OF Springfield, has received the
Democratic nomination as candidate for Con-
gress in the Twelfth District Of Illinois. The
Republican Congressional Convention at Tus-
calo H., renominated Joseph G. Cannon.
James Monroe was renominated by the Repub-
lican Convention for Congress from the
Eighteenth District of Ohio. The Republican
Congressional Convention of the Eighth Ohio
District nominated Hon. w. Lawrence, the
present incumbent. The Democrats of the
First Congressional District of Indiana have
nominated Hon. Benoni S. Fuller. The follow
ing were nominated for Congress at the Dis
trict Democratic Convention at Louisiana
John Ellis, of Orleans for the Second Dis
trict Joseph r. Breaux, of Iberia, for the
Third District; and J. NJ. Moore, of st. Landry,
for the Sixth District. First District, Gen.
Randall Gibson, of New Orleans Fourth Dis
trict, Col. W. NJ. Levy, of Natchitochez; Fifth
District, D. f. Spencer.
A dispatch from San Diego says that Apaches
are making more raids into Sonora: Don
Irenio Landros sends word to the President of
the municipality of Bocatehuachi that he was
attacked by savages on the 10Th ultimo. AS
four of his party were not to be found, he sup
poses that they were killed. A force of twenty
two men were sent to the scene of the attack,
where they found the bodies of three of the
men who had been slain. They had fought
valiantly until their ammunition gave out, and
they then broke their guns into pieces. The
Chester County Republican Convention unani-
mously nominated Washington Townsend for
Congress from the Seventh District of Penn
sylyania. .Pedanto, and young man named
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island. The balloon began to rise slowly,
crossing the river to Philadelphia. Ballast was
thrown out, but for some reason the balloon
failed to ascend. 1t crossed several rows of
buildings only few feet above the roofs, and
striking the Flagstaff on the Pennsylvania Rail
road Building collapsed, The basket contain
ing the men fell over the side of the building
int
feet Just before the basket struck the street
Pedanto jumped out and saved himself, but
Smith remained in and received fatal injuries
...... The German Government has formally
notified the powers that it will not interfere in
the internal affairs of Spain.
distressing accident, by which lad named
Meyers lost his life and his brother is danger
ously injured, occurred at Hastings, NY. These
boys, with another boy named Hopke, crossed
the Hudson in boat and attempted to climb
to the top of the Palisades, the Meyer boys
going together and Hopke taking another
route. When part way up the precipice it is
supposed the elder brother caught hold of
loose rock, which gave way precipitating
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head of the elder. Death must have been
instantaneous. .... The gold fever is already
endemic in the vicinity of the Black Hills, and
expeditions are planning to enter the alleged
new Ell Dorado as soon as Custer shall leave it.
The expeditions must be large and well ar
ranged for the country is full of hostile
Indians =. The President of the Prussian
Bank who absconded with 10000 thalers, was
lately arrested in New York, and will be taken
back for trial 800. Three hundred more Men.
MONTE emigrants from Russia arrived at Castle
Garden for the purpose of joining their coun-
trymen who have made their new home in
Dakota.
The Louisiana Conservative Convention
adopted the name of the Peoples party ..
The Kansas Republican State Convention re-
nominated Thomas A. Osborne for Governor
on the second ballot. The Republican Con-
vention at PASSPORT, Me-, nominated W. j.
Carthel of Calias, and Samuel N. Campbell, of
Cherryfeld, for State Senators. They are both
reported to be Hamln men The Republi-
cans of the Eleventh Ohio District have nomi-
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G. G. Walker was nominated for Congress by
the Conservative Convention in the Richmond
Va) District. ...... The Republicans of the
Sixteenth Ohio District renominated the Hon.
L. Danforth for Congress by reclamation.
The Republicans of the Fifteenth Ohio District
nominated N. B. Van Worries for Congress
The Republicans Of the Fifth Illinois District
renominated the Hon. H. O. Burchard for
Congress. -. Among the important features
of the platform adopted by the Pennsylvania
Democratic Convention, are the demanding
of restrictions upon national banks and the
denouncing of the attempt to procure de-
cisions from the Supreme Court adverse to the
; new Constitution, and determinedy opposing
mixed schools, believing that the coeducatior
of whites and blacks would be detrimental tc
both races. -. The platform adopted by the
Democrats of Illinois declares: First, The re.
sumption of gold and silver as the basis of the
currency; resumption Of specie payments al
soon as possible without disaster to the bust
nesssnterests Of the country, by steadily OPP
posing initiation and by the payment of the
national indebtedness in the money OF The
civilized world Second Individual liberty anC
opposition to sumptuary laws; Third, Rigit
restriction of the Governments, both Stat,
> and national, to the legitimate domain O
) political power by excluding therefrom al
1 executive and legislative intermeddling will
1 the affairs of society, whereby monopolies are
fostered, privileged classes aggrandized, ant
individual freedom unnecessarily and oppres
sively retained Fourth, The right and dut