Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1875-08-14

the manufacturers Of spurious silver trade
dollars which have been circulating freely in
New York. They have succeeded in arresting
I've men and securing $1,000 worth Of coun-
terfeits, with the dies and implements. . The
operatives strike in England is becoming dan
gerous. Out Of one hundred and sixty-two
mills at Oldham only six are running.
W. o. Avery, late chief clerk of the treasury,
has been arrested on an indictment charging
neglect Of duty and conspiracy Lee, who
is under arrest for completely in the Mountain
Meadow massacre, secured a number OF i'm
PIGMENTS with which to effect an escape from
his cell, but they we're discovered. m The
Commercial Warehouse Company of New York
has suspended with liabilities amounting to
s1,5OO,O00. ]. B. Ford & Co., publishers of
Beechers Life of Christ" have also failed.
1.-The Tobacco Exchange banking company
Of Louisville, KY, has closed its doors. .....
John Mason & Co., of Philadelphia, have sus-
pended for 5000, 900. .... The Minnesota Re-
publican Convention nominated John s. Pills
bury for governor The platform recognizes
the indissolubility Of the Union and the equal
rights of all men favors the return to specie
payments; demands tariff strictly for revenue,
so adjusted to be the least burdensome and
most favorable to home industries; that all
corporations shall be subject to the law-making
power; indorses the liberal policy of the Re-
publican party in its efforts at internal improve
ments approves the present administration ;
indorses the policy Of arbitration between this
and other countries considers it duty to
maintain the common schools. I'D. Ebert
Dryer, chief of the detective force at Cincin-
natl, has been arrested for stealing evidence
against arrested counterfeiters and endeavor-
ing to sell it to the prisoners friends. -. The
trotting horse, Judge Fullerton, made mile
in 2.1S at Cleveland, o., being the fastest time
recorded this year.. The secretary of the
treasusy has issued call for the redemption
of 814, S97, 200 of five-twenty bonds of Feb. %
1862. .... Reports from Southern Ohio and
Indiana state that the continuous rains have
greatly injured the wheat and other crops .
The Toronto Globe publishes special crop re.
ports from the British provinces, from which il
appears that fall wheat is below the average
although the crop is large; spring wheat il
above the average; oats, barley, peas and roo
crops are large; hay is up to the average. $50,
Twelve thousand employees we're thrown on
of employment in Dundee, Scotland, by the
closing of thirty-one mills go. The amount 0
the Virginius indemnity has been received b,
the government, aud claimants should address
the deDartment of Stafe therafnr
Nineteen deaths from yellow fever are re
ported from Fort Barrancas, Fla. .. Tn
supreme court of Louisiana has decided tina
the acts under which the four million and tire
million issues of levee bonds were made al
constitutional. 80. Twenty-Five hundred work
men on the st. Gothard tunnel struck work an
became riotous. The Swiss government sell
troops, who dispersed the rioters, killing two
go. The wind blew down five-story bull
ing of the Marietta chair company, at Marietta
O., involving loss of $4,000; no insurance
..... The rain did considerable damage t
crops. AS Congress appropriated only none
sufficient to- pay the interest on ten millions @
the District of Columbia's 3.65 bonds, til
; register of the treasury will refuse to is5u
bonds for more than that amount. " Letter
from the Cherokee nation state that feuds al
spreading among the adherents of Ross an
Downing, the rival candidates for the chic
, tianship. Within the past six weeks fifty pc
Sons have been either killed or wounded
G. l.. DJnally, dentist of G nthiana Ky
quarreled with DR.. Peckover, another DENTS
and shot him through the heart. Donally su
rendered to officers, and while on his way
jail was shot and killed by a brother-in-law
= Peckoyer named Ridgeley, who is now in cui
q tody. .. Seven horses started in the gran
f race for the Saratoga cup, and as Preakne'
g and Springbok came in together the fir
: money was divided between them. Two mill
G and quarter were made in 1864 :. IT
@ cotton and corn crops of Alabama are sufforir
. severely from drought there having been l
G rain for nearly Blk weeks. 80. The question
g being asked in the French assembly why ii
o United States does not pay French citizens IL
Q indemnity due them for losses in the civil wa