Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1874-06-27
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Nellie Sullivan, aged sixteen years, died OF
fright at Webster, Mass, during thunder
shower. No marks Of lightning were found or
the house OF on her body ..... II appears from
tho report Of tho o. s. Honse Committee on
Appropriations that the total amount recon-
mended by the twelve regular appropriation
bills is $40, 654, $685. besides four millions in
the Naval Emergency bill 1t is supposed that
the appropriations in private and other bills, in
addition 10 the above, will make total for the
session Of about s1sO, OOO, 600. This will not
include the Geneva award distribution.
Five active members Of the Volunteer Fire De-
partment of Williamsport, Pa, arrested on
suspicion Of being incendiaries, have confessed
to burning nearly all the property, amounting
to over million dollars, destroyed there since
The great fire OF August, 1871. The COM
mittee Of conference on the currency question
at Washington, having failed to agree upon a
measure which would accord with the. Presi-
dents views, will adhere to what is known as
the Farwell bill. IA dispatch from Bombay
says the wet season has fairly set in, and there
is much rejoicing at the prospective beneficial
effect upon the crops. "A close and exciting
game of ball was played at Chicago, recently,
between the White Stockings of Chicago and
the Red Stockings of Boston, which resulted
in the defeat of the Bostons by a score of 8 to
g.. Justice of the Peace Corners and Police
Sergeant Chapman we're shot in st. Demands
parish, Louisiana, by Francis Antieta with
buckshot from a ble-barreled shotgun.
The wounds are dangerous. 49,. All the parties
implicated in the burning of the alleged sorcer-
ess in Jacobo, Mexico, are in prison. -Four
were arrested by the police, and the Others
surrendered themselves. None of them car
read except one, who is the village school
master, who says the outrage would not have
been perpetrated had not the Project sent
orders TO hurry the execution. 1t is thought il
the Supreme Court does not order specia
court to try the case the prisoners will escape
justice, as the judge before whom they have
appeared is disposed to discharge them on bail
Several of the accused are Indians.
The May frosts have done almost as mucl
damage in the hop-growing counties of Eng
land as in the French vineyards. The de
struction of large portion of the hop crol
will be the result. In the low-lying grounds
usually the most prolific, the vine has been tn
most seriously injured. .... AT the Anahein
vineyards in Los Angeles over one hundre
thousand cuttings of raisin grape have beel
planted this spring. The Old Mission grape o
} California has been abandoned, and the peopl
are going into the raising Of raisins. "A
the Stanton shaft of the Lehigh and Wilkes
barre Coal Company, James Williams, watch
man, was descending the shaft, when an ex
plosion of gas occurred, and he was thrown t
the bottom, distance of 600 feet There ar
, twenty five feet of water in tho shaft, and hi
body has not as yet been recovered. -. An o
{ tank at Greenwood station, on the Erie Raj
] way, exploded recently. A piece of the tan
J struck Stephen Carey, conductor, killing hi1
49,. The trial of Mrs. Trimble, at Bucyrus, o
3 for the violation of the ordinance to prever
2 crusading resulted in a verdict of guilty, til
jury being out an hour and half. Jude
4 Scott, counsel for the defendant, made motto
T for new trial. which was overruled the mayo
y saying there was no use arguing the question
as he had made up his mind not to grant i
= The prisoner was sentenced to pay fine of 81
, and costs, in all amounting to $175. A Dor
was given for the costs, and the case will
carried to the Supreme Court on error. I'll
attendance each day at the trial was imment
a ..... Mr.. Thomas Booth of Peelskill was il
!, stantly killed in the Peoples Stool Works
that village by the bursting of an emery whe
% at which he was working. A piece Of Il
stone, weighing about twenty pounds, stru'
d his head He was thirty-eight years of ag
F. ,...,.For diphthera correspondent recor
|, mends one teaspoonful of table salt and OIL
: teaspoonful of powdered alum in a cup
j. water sweetened with honey-to be used as
gargle for the the throat every half hour
% oftener.