Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1875-08-28
SUMMARY OF NEWS.

treasure have been recovered from the wreck
of the steamer Schiller ...... IL is reported
that the bishop of Paderbon, who escaped
from wesel Germany, has arrived at Yenloo,
in Holland, and win go to Rome. 1t isrumored
that he viii receive a cardinals hat as re-
ward for his sufferings. Mr.. Alex. Duncan
having sgnihed his willingness to cover the
letters OF credit issued by Duncan, Sherman
& Co., Morgan, Drexel & Col London house
will cash them. The New York grand opera
house, which was sold under foreclosure,
was bought by Mrs. Pike. widow Of a former
owner, for $4,000 above the mortgage and
accrued interest :. The recent count Of the
cash in the treasury shows a deficiency of
$57, S1S. Al. Of which $47, 900 was stolen a.short
time since. !. William II. Alderdice, general
assignee Of the bankruptcy court at Richmond,
Va, has absconded, and is discovered to be
defaulter to the amount Of 315, 900. Eighteen
more cotton mills involved in the Oldham,
England, strike, closed their DOORS and there
are now twenty thousand operatives out of
work. Eugene Archie Kelly, negro, was
hanged at Selma, Ala, for the murder Of
Andrew Cunningham, a negro, ,,..,A negro
attempted to rob and outrage white lady
at Athens, Tenn, but was frustrated and
lodged in jail. That night a party Of thirty
masked men took him out and shot him J.
The army worm has appeared in Maine. -.
The board of trade of Hamilton, Canada, urges
the curtailment of manufactures the dIminu-
ton of importations, and the cessation of long
credits, as the means of bringinga about sound
financial condition. .....A dead whale eighty
feet long drifted ashore at Rockaway, Long
Island. j &. -ad r1I d7 ItH .sas #II
The cargo of the British vessel, Laura
4 Price, which was pursued into the Haytian
waters by Spanish gunboat, has been en-
bargoed by the consul-general of Spain in
Hayti as contraband, and will be taken by the
Spanish man-of-war Churruca to Havana.
Detectives have arrested a young man named
Halleck for the theft of $4,000 from the
treasury in Washington some time ago, and a
saloon keeper named Ottman as an accomplice.
Halleck WAS employed in the department at
the time of the robbery. He confesses the
crime. :. There was a serious riot in Glasgow,
! Scotland between the Orangemen and Home
Rulers, during the OConnell celebration. Five
policemen we're injured, and fifty arrests were
made BY the generosity of Mr.. f. W.
Stevens, of New York, president Ferry, of the
, Yale navy, has been enabled to begin the club
system at the Yale boathouse. There is only
. one club at present, for which nine boats are
being built, -. Dispatches from central Asia
report that a revolution has broken out in
l Kirkan. The Khan has fled and his forces
: have joined the insurgents. The American
l rifle team visited Victor Hugo in Paris, :. The
secretary of the Universal Alliance, in letter
) to the London Times, says the cholera was
q raging at Damascus. -Four hundred cases
9 we're reported daily, but the real number was
concealed. The christian quarter Of the place
is almost deserted Sudden deaths occur il
: the city. There are no physicians, medicines
) or supplies for the treatment of the sufferers
: The disease is also bad at Antioch, Deer Hens
!, Hannah, Hauren, and Salahiyah aud among
i the Druses. The mission schools are CLOSED
0 and the children have dispersed :. .Glouces
e ter Mass, celebrated the centennial anniver
n sary of the successful defeat of She attempt o
British vessel to burn the town 49,. BY al
: explosion in the laboratory connected will
: Bridesburg arsenal, Philadelphia, two boy
= were killed instantly and eighteen injured
. The exact cause of the explosion is unknown
g ..... All of the prisoners who escaped iron
:, the Denver (Col) Jail were recaptured .excep
!. three of the worst. A few nights after the
i we're enticed into corral by decoy horses
t. when they were fred upon by ranchmen an
q two of them killed-the third getting ava
O severely wounded. -. The jury in the Noun
4 tain Meadow case in Utah were unable t
J agree, and were discharged. - ~
- Charles h. Pierce, OF the well-known Bosto
:. firm of Pierce, Gelman & Tuttle, furnitur
i dealers, committed suicide by drowning, o
4 account of financial troubles -. =. The electio
. in the Choctaw nation passed off quietly an
81 it is considered certain that Chief Ross is n
ii elected :. :. E. There were IA, 29S,0O0 post,
n cards issued during the month OF July. >.
n Biglin won the single scull race at Rockawa.
ID N. Y, for the championship of the State. TIE
IL vEycke, his competitor, who was ahead, foule
|, the stakeboat.. yellow fever is declinin
:, at Fort Barrapcas, Fla. -. Miss Lottie Phi
y pott and her betrothed, Ethelbert Parson
y both of Niagara Falls, were drowned at IL
10 Cave of the Winds while bathing in apool.
Judge Westbrooke has granted attachment
against the property of Dennison, Gale al
the two Beldens, canal contractors, to I'll
- amount of 417,000 and warrant of ARE
us for each of them, fixing the bail at $500, 00t
ne .... AS an evidence of the financial stri
r. gency in Canada, it is stated that sever
or well-known firms in Montreal have been COZ
ed PEELED to ask an extension of time from the
creditors. . .Ex-Treasurer Parker, of Sou
a Carolina, was reeaptured and taken to Columt
>, in irons. Nearly half the contents of Il
stolen treasury package has been recovere
$14, 500 of it were on deposit in an AlexandI
u bank. The crops in Canada have be-
III much damaged by heavy rains. -. The la
gale on the lakes was very severe. The t,
en- Vulcan lost raft of 1000, 900 feet Of pi
ife lumber on Lake Erie.
lin At the Buffalo races, Lulu, the winner
81 the race for $4,000, trotted mile in 2.15..
by The Connecticut legislature ordered the M
ast Haven and Northampton railroad company
cd re-establish depot at Plantsville, which til
oh abandoned a year ago. At a meeting Of {
II stockholders of the road they declined to
~ 80, claiming it was their right. The mat
VI will go to the courts -. Tfe running hoi
III Madge made three-quarters of a mile dash
q Ll516 at Saratoga-being the fastesttime e'
es, made. =. The United States consul at Trip
,ck having been insulted by Tripolian sailors,
AZ man-of-war Hartford has been sent to invet