Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1875-07-03
SUMMARY OF NEWS.
Items of Interest from Home andAbrOu

Ponce, Porto Rico. Vessels from there are
quarantined in all West Indian ports. .Coun-
terfeit fve-cent nickels are circulating in album
dance in New York city and the adjacent
Jersey towns The trotting mare Volunteer
Maid, owned by Simon r. Bonnie, Of Flushing,
L. l., and valued at $4,000, was found in her
pasture recently with her leg broken, and she
was killed A crisis in imminent at Athens,
which may result in the abdication Of the king.
Five Turkish men-of-war have been ordered to
cruise in Greek waters. The safe Of the
man-of-war Cumberland, which was sunk in
Hampton Roads by the Confederate ram Vir-
ginia, has been recovered by Captain Brown,
who found it bedded in three or four feet Of
mud, in seventy-eight feet of water. He had
been at the wreck only forty-eight hours when
he found it although different divers have
been looking for it for ten years, as it was
thought to contain from $50, 900 to 100000 in
gold ...... The California Republican State
Convention nominated 7. G. Phelps for Gov
ernor, and ]. NJ. Oavis for Lieutenant-Goy-
ernor. The platform upholds President Grant,
and denounces the Central Pacific railroad. -.
party of Indians at Rock Greek valley Wyo-
ming, ran off over two hundred horses. A
party was sent in pursuit, and at Lockout
station sent for help. &c. Marateau, the Com
munist editor who urged the shooting of the
Archbishop of Paris, died recently in New
Caledonia -. A terrible earthquake in New
Granada destroyed sixteen thousand lives.
The greatest destruction was done on the
Venezuelan border. in the valley of Cucuta. =.
Charles T. Fuller and J. T. Mowry, president
and secretary of the Chaplin Paper Company,
of Norwich, Conn.,, have absconded, leaving
obligations to the amount of $40, 900, mostly of
forged notes.
Information from New Granada states that
the earthquake completely destroyed the cities
Of Cucuta and San Cayitano, ruined the best
portions of Arbolda, Cucutilla, Santiago
Granalote Salazar and San Cristobal in the
State of .santander. The inhabitants of these
cities and towns aggregate thirty-fve thousand
of whom thousands were killed. Only few
families were saved from the population of
five thousand at Cucutilla. A volcano has
opened in a ridge of hills in front of Santiago
and is belching forth lava. go. Secretary of
War Belknap expresses himself highly pleased
with the examination of the West Point cadets.
..... Three Of the passengers and nine of the
crew of the steamer Vicksberg were picked up
by an American fisherman and taken to New
foundland. :. John Duhan, a longshoreman
of Brooklyn, N. Y, kicked his wife to death
,rl; l..
Just previous to her death she stated that her
husband had kicked her severely, but asked
that nothing be done with him. A post morton,
examination showed that several ribs were
broken, one of which lacerated her lungs.
The brute was arrested. .... Close upon the
horrors Of the Central American earthquake,
comes a report of a like calamity at Iceland.
During the Christmas holidays the people of
that island were much alarmed by subterranean
rumblings, which were followed by violent
minating in the reopening of an extinct volcano
near Vatrayskud, which threw forth liquid fire,
lava and ashes for period of four weeks, and
destroyed the town and country about for a
space of twenty miles. AS soon as this volcano
ceased another extinct one re0pened, neal
Myvatu, and lasted several weeks, devastating
the country within radius of fifty miles. In
March numerous mounds were thrown up in
the center Of the island, and began belchine
burning lava and ashes-covering the country
round about for two hundred miles. The gey
sers vomt ashes and smoke instead of water
as formerly. Ten thousand peopls have lost
all their possessions, and hundreds have
persisted. The Danish government has SEN
aid to the afflicted people.
A negro named William Henry Mason out
ragged the young wife of Newtown G. Hoyt
one Of the most respectable white families O.
Lafayette, Onondaga county, N. Y, and the1
threatened to kill her if she revealed the crime
Mason was arrested, and excitement ran s,
high that it was with difficulty the populac
was held from lynching him .... VIM. Gun
bingham, of Newark, N. j., who hired NAL
to murder Mrs. Cunningham, has been sen
fenced to pay fine of $500 and serve iv
years in the State prison-the maximum penal
ty the law allows. 49,. Capt. VIM Ludlow, O
= NAS OAPSNtAoAS
, to the Black Hills, has written report to tn
Secretary of War, in which he gives it as hi
opinion that the "best use to be made Of til
Black Hills for the next fifty years would be a
tho permanent reservation for the Sioux
Gen, Terry, commanding the department {
Dakota, concurs in the opinion. :. Four mer
: including the lighthouse keeper at Sackvillt
n B., were drowned while crossing the strait
4 from that place to Prince Edwards Island.
[ The grand jury in New York refused to indit
/ the treasurer of Booths theatel for refusin
to sell first-class ticket to colored man, G
a the ground that the case did not come und'
!, the civil rights law . Samuel Gardner Drall
the historian of Boston, is dead. Lesli
L the defaulting teller of Duncan, Sherman
o Co.. Of New York, states that he took $25, OF
3 from the firm in a period extending over thrt
!. years. Most of it he spent on dissolute wome
e ...... Charles Clinton, State Auditor of Louis
J, ana, has been indicted on four charges, al
d put under 1913, 500 bail. 49,. The negro Simm
who was confined in Jail in Annapolis, Nd, f
= brutally assaulting Miss Jackson few da
previous, was taken out at night and hange
:, He confessed his crime previous to the han
- ing.
The Maine Republican Convention non
y mated Gen. Selden Conner for Governor. II
. platform adopted sets forth as follows Tn
9r the union of the States must be maintained
all hazaads; that local self-government
matters purely local must be adhered to; tn
there can be no legitimate conflict between t
is powers of the nation and Of any State; thai
il sound currency. based on coin and redeemal