Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1875-03-20
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80 Ohio. Mr.. Gordon Claude, a cadet engineer
Of the naval academy at Annapolis. has been
expelled for refusing to fence with eolored
midshpmap 49,. Mrs. Ann Eliza Young has
been gr'.nted 1000 for lawyers fees and an
rr aHDJny of $500 per month pending the trial
of her suit for divorce from Brigham Young
g. -, The hundredth anniversary Of the
beginning of the revolutionary wsr wsa cele-
brated at Salem. Mass. ;, II e reported that
the Protestant clergy OF Spain have forwarded
= memorial to Germany and other Protestant
81 powers Complaining that liberty Of worship is
- Threatened. go. The Legislature of Pennsyl-
raaia has passed, and Governor Hartranft has
signed, bin defining the offense of kidnap-
ping, and imposing fine OF $4,000, and i'm
pnsonnent for not more than twenty-five
years, on al persons found guilty OF the
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tlHt The Spalrards hope to jnish the Catlist war
by defeating the last of the Carlists thin
few weeks. .... The Kansas Assembly has in
structed the committee ways and means to
report bill Immediately, appropriating 1900,
OVO for the relief of the grasshopper sufferers,
Several persons drowned by the foods
IN Tennessee. .... The Civil Rights bill as it
passed the United States House and WAS
adopted by the Senate applies only to inns and
service in the iury-box -. Michael Sullivan,
convicted of the murder Of Daniel Talmadge,
at Metuchen, N. J., December L. 1874 was
sentenced to be hanged . The Cliff Locomo-
-.-t tive Works, at Scranton Pa, were burned,
with a ta'al loss of $500, 600 {. -. The building
inspectors who passed the wall which fell on
st. Andrews Church in New York were arrested
Il to await the verdict OF the coroners jury.
Tho Wisconsin Legislature has passed rail-
road bill which is considered by the roads even
more Objectionable than the "Potter law
The Minnesota Legislature passed railroad
bill which repeals past legislation.
President Grant has signed the CiviI Rights
bill aud 1t is now a law..,,. William Henry
button, one of the propSietors Of the Boston
Transcripts, died recently after lingering
sickness, -. ~ dispatch from Alden announces
thai the missing boats of eighteen per-
sons from the steamer Hong Kong which foun-
dered in the Indian Ocean have arrived there
--S Six more lives are known to have been lost by
the disaster Verdict of the jury in the
the New Jersey tunnel dsaster-nobody to
blame. The United States public debt
statement shows a decrease of $4,000 900 dur
ing the month of February . By the aood
- on the Tennessee river three lives were lost in
night a~'.r
In the Ohio House i5int resolution REQUEST
'A6 SSh6iesa w reduce the United States
Presidents salary to $250 600 a wear was adont
cd. -, The city of Knoxville WAS nearly in.
undSted by the late flood. "A railway acct
dent occurred near Ltchfeld, England, by
which thirty persons were injured . The
g Arkansas Legislature has made an a,propria-
ton for the Centennial, -. The resolution of
censure put upon Senator Simon Cameron by
the House Of Representatives when he WAS
Secretary OF War in 1862 was rescinded by the
- House,. Both the principal hotels in Alex
anffia Va, closed, the proprietors fearing
trouble In consequence of the passage of the
Civil Rights bill Another hotel in Baltimore
CLOSED Tor the same reason. There is
great depression in the Canadian money mar
ket, which is attributed to the Unusual severity
of the winter and the legal-tender system, !. .
suit has been Begin at Minneapolis on be-
half of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company
against w. s. King, to recover $125, 900 paid
{. him by Richard B. Irwin One hundred
and forty hlowa Indians, including Lone Wolf,
Red Otter, and other chiefs have surrendered
to TIE government unconditionallY.
The return match between The American and
Irish rhlemen takes place June 29th the place
in Ireland not being definitely settled upon. .
A brewer was killed in New York by the ex-
ploslon OF beer barrel which he was pitching.
..,,The Democratic Congressional Conven-
to- for the first district of Connecticut nom-
mated George M. Landers, of New Britain
The Republicans of the second district renom
mated the Hon. Stephen w. Kellogg, of Water
as bury, for Congress. e. Colorado has beer
admitted as Stato, increasing the number tc
thirty-eight. 1t is believed that tie damage
by the floods in East Tennessee is over ,0OO
600. Cooke county alone loses 5000, 900. :. TIL,
steamer GOthenhlrp has hear nl,ad
of the Fourncaux Islands, in Bass's straits be
tween Van Diemans Land and Australia, Sht
had on board eighty five passengers and crew
of thirty-fve and of them only four are know
ID TO have been saved.,... On Staten Island
poor family was found in such adestitute con
olnon That they had killed and eaten thei
horse. some of the meat of the animal wal
eaten raw =. Two school girls in Philadelphia
one me daughter OF clergyman, ran away tt
Svln travelling theatrical company al TIT
revenue of the Dominion of Canada is abou
$3,4O0, 600 in excess of the disbursements, ant
the announcement of this fact in London ha
caused an increased demand for Canadian
securities ... The time fixed for the openin,
of the Centennial exhibition in Philadelphia
has been changed from April to May 10, ant
forclosing from October to November TO-.
The relatives of the Yirginus officers and crew
shot in Cuba are to receive $4,000 gold 70
"a each man shot. E
John Mitchell was renominated for Parlia
ment in Tippe~ary. Mr.. Moore, Conserva
tive contested the eeat..... The Prussia1
government has introduced a bill in Parliamerl
withdrawing the state endowments from tn
Catholic clergy, and providing for their re
storaton only to those bishops who will bin
themselves to obey the laws. mass
meeting of coal miners, held at Scranton, Pa
decided not to strike -. Sharkey, the escape
murderer, who was arrested in Havana O.
complaint of the captain of the steamer Cref
cent City, has been released. 81. In the Forty
-. third Congress of the United States about fv
. hundred bills and Joint resolutions were intro
duced in the House, and about fteen hundre