Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1875-06-05
General Mention.
The burning Of 200 houses at Cubansl,
Spain, is reported.

1SutIal MCuLAol.
The burning of 200 houses at Cubansl,
Spain, is reported.
Baron Rothschild has just given CSC, 900
for a French race horse.
A carriage road to the Yosemite valley
will be completed in ten days.
The coral gatherers Of Naples fished up
81 ,OOO, 900 worth OF coral last year.
The friends of Boss Tweed are making
desperate efforts to secure his release
nom the Penitentisry.
The President says that the absolute
meaning of his letter is that he is not a
candidate for third term.
1t is estimated that the Internal Rev
enue receipts for the present fiscal year
will aggregate 500, 100000.
The $4,000 suit brought against Gen
eral Butler in the New York Courts has
been decided in favor of the General
The Sioux Chiefs have finally consented
to accept $25, 900 for tho larger portion
of their hunting grounds in Nebraska.
London market gardeners pay 5000 per
acre yearly rent for the land they cult
vatc, and their average profits are $500
per acre.
Carl Schurz is housing in the official
archives in Berlin for documents relating
to the early history of the United States,
which he proposes to write.
The Cincinnati Commercial complains
that bricks are smaller than they used tc
be, and is grieved because they wont fiji
nicely into the crown of hat
The earnings of the Union Pacific
Railroad last May were 81, LOG, 69S, being
1916, 1884 over the same time last year. al
average increase per day of $4,000.
The work ofpulling down the building,
at the central shaft Of the Hoosac tunnel
has begun, and as soon as it is completed
aud the machinery piled up or takei
away, curb Of masonry will be bull
The payments made from the TreaSur
| by warrants during May were as follows
Civil and miscellaneous, $5,33l, 9S4. 10
War, 1926, 78l,56; Navy, 1896, 35l 20
= Interior, Indians and Pensions, S5,897
865S8 Total, SIS, 36l, 1887.
Appropos of the Pope's eighty-fourt
birthday, the Foce della Terita says
| Ellis elastic step, serene brow, brigh
= eye, ready word, robust voise and ur
falling memory show that in him the law
of nature have been set aside"
A reviewer in the New York 1Tibun
defines real poet as "a singer who's
y verses haunt your twilights." This defil
" ition is undcniably good one, and if az
n cepted, at once places the mosquito i
Y the front ranks. Louis Republican.
Chas. w. Sargent, treasurer Of the Ne
? Hampshire Savings Bank, at Concord
:, was fonnd dead in the Bank rooms, o
the morning of the LIST inst. He came
his death by pistol shot from his ow
hands. The cause assigned is Temporal
insanity.
q A despatch from Chicago says that Il
n ternal Revenue Collector Wadsworth hi
G received note from Commissioner Pratt
Il requesting him to tender his resignation
Il The note assigns no reasons except TIL
the good of the service demands such
step.
The Postmaster General has hit upon
IL very effective way Of bursting lottel
~ bubbles before any one loses money c
=, them. He instructs the Postmaster
the city where the lottery is drawn not
pay the manager any money order or d
liver to him any registered letter tn
lie may be sent him. AS lotteries are su
II. ported by outside parties, this idea Of Il
of Postmaster General winds thom up.