Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1875-03-27
NEWS OF THE DAY.


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be laid before the House in which the bin
originated. lie objected to it for two reasons:
First that the n, asury was not in q condition
TO meet the requirements Of the measure, and
second, that it would benefit the claim agents
more than the soldiers -. Three men under
sentence Of Imprisonment for offenses against
the law in Dsuphih county, Pa, while being
taken to the Eastern penitentiary in Phila-
delphis threw snuff into the eyes OF the Off
GERS, and then jumped OF the train. They
we're captured. .. The Standing committee
o. the Central Pennsylvania Episcopal Diocese,
by vote of six to one, refused to confirm the
election of DIR. DeKoven as Bishop Of Illinois.
ia decree has been issued prohibiting
the importation of American potatoes into Cor
many Mr.. Worth, OF Brooklyn, introduced
bill in the New York Legislature providing |
that in every statute and law OF this State in |
which either the words " strong or spirituous !
liquors or Intoxicating liquors are used, |
the same shall be held and understood as not
to include lager bier, except those provisions
requiring payment of license.
The factory OF the American Butter Com
pany, of South birmingham, Mass, was de-
stroyed by fire, with loss of 5000. 80, =
The body of saloon keeper was found in
Chicago full of gashes and the brains oozing.
He was murdered for his money. At
Johnstown, N. Y, a banking house was en-
tered, Edward Yost murdered and robbed, and
the place set ON fire to conceal the dreadful
crime. -. Two of the men injured by the
Grand Trunk railroad disaster have died see.
The United States government will take the
most stringent measures to prevent expeditions
from visiting the Black Hills regions e. The
United States government has on its hands
about three thousand captive Indians in the
Southwest, who have been forced by want and
starvation to come back upon the reservations
which they had abandoned. Over 5,000
pers Jns assembled at the New York Hippro-
drome OH Sunday night to attend divine SER
vices.
In 1876 the total indebtedness of the towns
and cities of Massachusetts, was $34 GOO, 1856,
is now $50, 427 345, an increase of $45, 000, 900
in four years 49,. The bodies of over forty
PERSONS who died at st. John, N. F.. this win
VIII oh lies in such immense quantities in the
cemeteries as to prevent the opening of graves.
49,. The Alfonsists and Carlists are exchang-
ing prisoners. -. The convention between
Spain and the United States for the settlement
of the Virginius affair has been signed at
Madrid 80. The rennsylvapia Railroad Com
pany has discharged its assistant conductors.
80, Chancellor Runyon appointed Garrit A.
Hobart, of Paterson receiver of the New Jer-
sey Midland railway IA Mrs. Evans, of
Seymour, Conn.,, while temporarily insane, cut
: the threats of her two small children, and then
cut her own. She will probably die, but the
children may recover. -. Many women and
children were drowned by the wreck of the
steamship Gothenburg in Bass strait, betweeI
Australia and Van Diemen's Land. The tota
number of the saved as far as known, il
twenty-five. go. A Miss Griscom was returning
from Philadelphia, and when within shor
distance of Woodbury., N. j., was attacked b,
three roughs, who tied her to tree and robbed
} her of nearly all the valuables she had will
t her. The lady made good her escape by cut
g ting the rope with her knife.
: At the Mount Pleasant coal mine, nea
t the city of Scranton, Pa. two boys wer
o crushed to death in coal screen. Their
, is o bill before the Texas Legislator
taxing bachelors over thirty years of age 81
yearly, the fund so raised to be used solely fo
school purposes go. James E. Latin, foun
guilty of murder in the second degree for Kill
t ing Ellen Lucas in Connecticut, was sentence
e to State prison for life . A liquor dealer
If Illinois has just paid 1000 to widow who's
IS husband was killed in his saloon 49,. Nv
miners, trade unionsts on strike were tried {
g Carlisle Assizes recently for cutting the rope
# the cage used for descending the shaft of
70 coal mine. They were acquitted of the MOI
e serious charge of intent to kill the men
"a work, who would have had to descend by tt
"a cage and sentenced for injury to the machinel
III to twelve months Imprisonment. :. Colorat
rs is to be called the Centennial State, her ADM
IS lance to the United States dating for 1876. E.
lie The annual report of the secretary of the Oh
le State Grange shows that, at the beginning
lr the Official year, there were SIT oranges
IN Ohio. Now there are /, 146 in good workil
10 order, with 1000 members. Every country
- the State was represented at the meeting
y the grange.
- The new treaty between the United Stat
!. and Belgium has been ratified by the Unit
;" States Congress. 80. By all explosion of fl
10 damp in shaft near Wilkesbarre, Pa, nul
81 Der of miners were seriously injured . R
u mors of contemplated Bonapartist coup de
he are in circulation in Paris. " Bishop n
We Closky, of New York. has been made Cardii
H. by the Pope. This is the first appointment
to America to that position. e. The Centenn
ye directors have been notified officially of an
II preparation of $505,00O by the United Stat
- government. .... In New York tailor nam
- Wehe, while intoxicated, beat his wife, a
~ taking the act to heart he hung himself.
he fore his death was announced to his wife s
us died from her injuries and grief. .. I
n motel bill for entertaining the king of
hs Sandwich Islands in New York was Sc, ESQ.
N. The bill for coaches was 1854. -. Every
AZ dication, the New York Herald says points I
no thriving spring, business activity and seat
10 of wholesome prosperity. :. :. .Forty-six Ii
were lost by the burning Of match factory
Sweden .. The only bonds the State of
braska ever issued are those to raise means
-, supply the neutrality-suspicious. sections "
y, seed.
&c Tolls on the New York and Erie canal are
:, be largely reduced this season . The
= tional Butter and Egg Association of