Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1875-07-31
SUMMARY OF NEWS.
Item. Of Interest from Home and Abroad.

euioAo W lnelI uiAbAhal Ai@h Vi cubabluB IN
only one team match ON the other side Of the
water, and have consequently declined the
match against the English picked eight The
Americans will shoot in tue match to all corners
at Wimbledon. 80. The town OF Lisieux, de-
psrtment Of Calyados, France, has been dam
aged by flood 500, 600 49,. The cod-fshery
around Newfoundland has been very remunera-
tive, mackerel appearing in considerable guam
titles. The fishery at Margarets has not been
30 successful. -. Thecomptroller of currency
announces counterfeit s. bills on the First
Third, and Traders National Banks Of Chicago;
the First National Bank of Paxton, ILL.,; the
First National Bank of Canton, Ill. The
Mormons have established branch of their
church and newspaper called the AdUenhuer
at Clarksburg, West va. Mark Brown
who murdered Sylvester Carr by shooting him
through the head at Purvis, Sullivan county,
N. Y, while in drunken condition, was hanged
at Monticello. -. The New Jersey court of
errors and appeals has rendered decision
in favor Of the right of corporations to impose
a local tax ON railroad property 4. . The steam
ship Hudson made the passage from New Or
leans to New York in five days eight hours,
being the fastest trip ever made between the
ports. While an express train was stop
ping for water in a lonely wood on the Van
dalia railroad, in Illinois, two men mounted
the engine, killed the engineer and ran off
with the train. While this had been taking
place some confederates had uncoupled the
cars in the rear Of the Adams express car so
that they were left behind, and when they had
proceeded some two miles they called upon
the messenger i'll the car to surrender. AS the
car was strong and without windows he de-
he saw breaking in. The robbers were unable
to force an entrance and had to content them
selves with firing number of shots through
the car in hopes of hitting the bravo messen-
ger. The conductor and train employees hur-
ried after the robbers of the engine and express
car, but when they arrived on the ground the
miscreants had departed empty handed.
BY the capsizing of yacht off Gloucester,
Mass, Robert o. Thomas and an unknown
companion were drowned w AS train on
the Toledo and Wabash road was nearing
Jacksonville, ILL.,, the engine struck some
cattle on the track and was turned completely
over, pinning the engineer and fireman be-
meath, while the steam surrounded them.
When they were taken out they were terribly
scalded. The engineer subsequently died, and
the fireman cannot live. go. Thomas Connolly,
an Irish shoemaker, Of Brooklyn, N. Y, while
intoxicated grossly insulted Mrs. Shelly who
resided in the same house and who informed
her husband. The next day as Connolly, still
under the influence of liquor, stepped into the
street, he saw Mrs. Sicily sitting on her step
with her little seven-year-old boy and picking
up a brick said he would kill her. at the same
time throwing it with all his might. He struck
the little boy on the head, producing death.
..... Messrs. Moody and Sankey have closed
their revival meetings in London. "A Kansas
City special says that an immense water spout
descended on the track of the Kansas Pacific
washed away two hundred feet of road . The
foreign mail from New York on one steamer
day amounted to 59,515 letters and seventy.
seven bags of papers .... An order has been
issued from the treasury department forbid
ding the importation of breech-loading rifles
or ammunition therefor into the territory of
Alaska 800. The physician attendant upon
Robert Dale Owen says that that gentleman is
hopelessly insane and cannot live long.
The Iowa crops are generally good this year.
.... The Newfoundland fishers are having
bad luck this season. .... A man and woman
were found drowned in the lake at Waukegan,
ILL.,, and as they had been lettering about there
for some days, it is thought they committed
suicide by deliberately walking into the water
together A dispatch from San Francisco
states that the Hoopa Indians on the klamath
river, surrounded the Florence mine shot one
man and compelled the others to quit work.
A force Of soldiers was sent, but they were I'M
able to control the Indians. The Indians de-
clare the miners must leave .Advices from
cara, the capital Of Dalmatia, represent that
Pansavic emissaries spread reports among the
Herzegovinians that the Turks intended to ex-
tirpate the Christians. The falsehoods caused
the insurection, which is taking great dimen-
sions. Masses of insurgents surround the
towns of Gasko, Nevesini, and Stolatz. Six
hundred families have fled into Croatia and
Servia, and twelve hundred have arrived in
Dalmata at different points along the frontier
..... As party Of Orahgemen, about dozer
| in number with their wives we're disembarkine
from steamboat at Lawrence, Mass, after
celebrating the anniversary of the battle Of
the Boyne, at picnic, they were assaulted by
crowd. The protection of the police wal
sought, and under escort of the mayor ant
a force of officers the little party started fo
home. The mob had increased meanwhile an(
threw bricks and other missiles, severely in
juring many of the police as well as Orange
men. The mob finally got so far that til,
Orangemen drew their pistols and fred
volley, which quickly scattered the crowd, anC
resulted in the wounding of two men, a woman
and boy. Twelve Orangemen and fou
policemen were badly injured from bricks anC
stones $50. "A very daring robbery was per
petrated in the heart of New York city in day
light. About ter o'clock in the morning tire
men with Implements in their hands called at
house in Eleventh street occupied by a Mrs
Danser, and informed Mrs. Danser, the onl.
one at home that they were sent to inspec
the water pipes. She admitted them, but II,
sooner was the door closed than they seizeC
and gagged her; and on her refusal to tel
where Mr.. Danser kept his bonds, they search
ed the entire house most thoroughly throwing
clothing about, breaking open everything, AM
even ripping up the carpets and upholstery
They succeeded in carrying off $4,000 in Vir
ginia bonds.