Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1875-05-01
NEWS OF THE DAY.
Item. of rnrsrs., from Home and Abroa

the first horse, $4,000 TO the second, $1,000 to
the third, and $4,000 to the fourth. Horses
from Europe will be allowed 800 for travel
ing expenses, and from east Of Rocky noun
tains 81, 900. zee The French government has
sent instructions TO Its consuls to summon for
tho last time French subjects living abroad,
who are liable to military service, TO have their
names registered at the consulates. The
difficulty between Germany and China is de-
clared settled The Boston expedition to
the Black Hills is to start in May. In the
polygamy case now on trial at Beaver Utah,
Judge Foreman charges that polygamy COM
mitted prior to 1862 is punishable now, that
bigamy is a continuous crime and that the
statutes of limitation do not apply. This is
directly opposite to the charge of Judge Emer-
son. The coal masters of Wales have agreed
to stop the lockout for week and throw open
the pits to miners, with reduction Of ten per
cent. in the terms of labor then if work is
not resumed, further reduction will be de-
mnded. There were two executions Michael
Sullivan, at New Brunswick, N. j., for the
murder of a farmer, and Patrick OShea, in st.
died asserting his innocence, while Sullivan
made no statement. 80. The Judiciary COM
mittee of the New York State Senate reported
a bill providing for the removal by the Gov
ernor, for. cause and on hearing had, Of the
Secretary of State, Comptroller, Treasurer,
Attorney General State Engineer and Sur
veyor, Canal Commissioner or State Prison
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the government of Canada to grant protection
to sugar, else the refining business will be
destroyed by United States competition. ....
Mr.. Charles Tappan, of Boston, died in Wash
ington, aged ninety years. He was the last
surviving brother of noted family.
Paul Boynton, who has been exhibiting an
American life-saving dress in England, floated
across the straits from Dover to Boulogne. ....
The Mexican raiders recently in Nueces county,
Texas, while on their way back to the Rio
Grande attempted a raid on the custom house
at Roma. They were deferred from doing so
by the prompt action of Federal troops. 80.
O'Leary, of Chicago, beat De Witt of Auburn,
in a northumberland walk in New York w
A party of nearly eighteen hundred men, fully
armed, has organized and left for the Black
Hills gold REGION. An organized band Of
robbers at Chicot, Ark, has been broken up by
the authorities, and three of the ruf1ians killed
800. Frederick Maxwell and Miss Corinne
Dunwoody were drowned at Augusta, Ca. by
the capsizing of boat, caused by striking
q snag. The bodies were recovered
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in New York. Bryant was forty-two years of
age, and was born in Troy. 800. The supply of
coal sent from all the Pennsylvania regions so
far this year is 3,019,0 TONS against g. 929, $50
to the same period of last year, being de-
crease of 91O,259 tons. The decrease in the
supply of anthracite coal is 927, 1916 tons ....
The Arapahoes and Cheyennes con5ned at
Cheyenne agency fought with the troops and
escaped. Several Indians were killed and six
teen soldiers severely wounded -. "A number
of government clerks at Washington have
been arrested charged with being implicated in
the postal frauds there.
General VIM. F. Barry, commandant al
Fortress Monroe, met with q painful accident
by being thrown from his buggy while out
driving " Serious floods have taken place
i'll Australia, doing much damage and causing
serious loss of life. .Advices from Cape
Breton, N. S state that there is d universe
cry throughout the island for provender fo
cattle, and scarcity of human food is serious
ly threatened. The severity of the winter pre-
| vented importations The Berlin Post state
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, war was not inspired by the German govern
, ment At fire in Clinton, Mass, two per
sons were burned to death and two fatally in
r jured by jumping from window. "A
Vineyard Haven, Mass, an old lady was burne
to death in burning building, and at Fulton
Ont, an aged farmer suffered the same horri
bic fate ...... No hopes are entertained G
3 the recovery of the missing boats of th
s steamer Gothenberg, which was lost in Tore
straits on February rs last. Only twenty-tw
D persons were saved. All the offcers were los
\ ..... Four miners while engaged sinking
+ coal shaft near Massilon, Ohio, were killed /
- the earth caying i'll upon them, and fit
, miner had both his legs broken and was rescue
= with great difficulty ...... A dispatch fro
Shanghai brings intelligence of a frightful co
lision at that place between the steamer
0 Ocean and Fu-Sng, engaged in local bushes
i The latter sunk Immediately causing gree
q loss of life. "A fire in Worth street, Ne
4, York, inflicted loss of over one million dollar
+ In the United States District Court at D
e troit Judge Brown sentenced Daniel Pratt
Io1No !:
, postal card through the mails containil
! writing forbidden by law. A fire in Clio
cester, N j., destroyed property to the vail
of $3.50, 900. 49,. Six compa neB of cavalry al
J two of infantry have been ordered to the ba
9 of the Black Hills az an escort to Mr.. J9nn
q government geologlst. who will make surv
II of that county 49,. Commander Leroy Fitc
d u S. N, died at his resi- dence in Loganspol
If Ind, after lingering illness 49,. Bolivia
passing through another revolution and d
, turbances occur daily. .....A general law +
- the formation OF agricultural and horticultuI
societies was passed in the New York Sta
Senate "A young man named Fred. Bra
j" denburgh was found dying from starvation a
s. exhaustion under a pile of lumber in San Fra
cisco. He said before his death that he crawl
e under the lumber nine days before. 9th
,s lumber had been unwlttingly piled around h
+ stopping his egress. In closing his examir
=. ton of Henry Ward Beecher, in the Tito
Beecher case, Mr.. Evarts was evidently
- termed that the jury should have the T
10 benefit of the denials. The questions We
p, those which we're asked on the second day
or bis examination, as to whether Mr.. Beecl