Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1875-05-08

beer from the Interpretation Of all statutes re-
lating to liquor selling, and would result in
permitting the sale Of lager beer on Sunday in
New York State, was killed in the Legislature.
49,. The Adyentists in Chicago assembled on
the twentieth Of April in a private way and
waited tiI nearly morning with their white
robes, in readiness for the expected coming
of Christ. They finally Dispersed quietly.
Reports from all parts Of Kentucky say that
great damage has been done to the fruit End
tobacco plants by the unreasonable frosts and
snow. In the Southern and Western States
the same complaints are made. go. One OF the
latest exploits reported Of strolling mendicants
is the burning of sn elevator for amusement
by couple of tramps in Indianapolis. This
cost the owners of the property $4,000. If
VIM NJ. Tweed should be released by the de-
csion Of the New York court of appeals in the
hdbeds corpus case, he will be in the custody Of
the sheriff until he gives 600 bail. 80.
The Boston city council voted $50, 900 toward
the centennial celebration on the seventeenth
of June next, of the battle of Bunker Hill. 80.
BY collision between two coal carts in Phila-
delphia the driver Of one was killed. .... The
decrease in the price of butter has had a de-
pressing effect in sections of New York, where
dairying is the main branch of trade. Farmers
who last fall and this spring refused forty
cents pound foE their butter are now selling
it for fifteen to twenty. AT Logansport,
Ind, gang of robbers who have for some
time been stealing goods from the railroads
was broken up and number of men arrested.
.....A plot has been discovered in Khiva for
the massacre of all the Russians in the Khanate.
The Russian papers accuse the Emir Of At
ghanstan of completely. 1t is thought that
military operations have already been ordered
by Russia.
The Indians who recently escaped from the
Cheyenne agency have gathered, to the num-
Der of five hundred, along the valley of the
Arkansas and are preparing to go on the war
path. -. Sharkey is still in jail in Havana.
1t is not believed that Sharkey will be surren-
dered by the authorities. ... Ex-Treasurer
Parker, Of South Carolina, has been arrested
on charge of embezzling $2S, 900 of the sink
ing fund money of the State. The resolu-
ton impeaching State-Audtor Clinton for high
crimes and misdemeanors passed the Louisiana
House of representatives =. In the case of
Miss Alice Early against the Chicago Times for
libel the jury awarded the plaintiff $500
damages. .....J. R. Keene, of California, has
sold to @. w. Kellogg, the San Francisco mil
lionaire, the trotting stallion Sam Purdy, for
| $500 This is the highest figure ever paid
for trotting stallion. .. "A fourteen year-old
son of James Bennett, of Freyburg, Me-, acct
dentally shot and killed himself while out gun
ming 80. Mrs. David Smiley, of Petersboro,
N. H., hanged herself in closet with a
skein of yarn. Governor Hartranft is very
hopeful of speedy ending of the lamentable
state of affairs in the mining districts of Penn.
sylvania, and expresses confidence in the
peaceful solution of the longest and most stub.
born conflict between capital and labor that
has ever been known in the mines.