Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1875-05-15
SUMMARY OF NEWS.
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bioiuttrs puuAshelHs ulel III new 4oIhs ho
was the last but one OF the four brothers who |
started the house .. 0utrages ON the Mexi- |
can frontier continue. Cattle ard horses are
stolen and settlers are frequently killed. by the
raiders ..... The Philadelphia weayers, on
strike, still hold out -. The house of the
Rev. Mr.. Fem, ct Portland, Ne, was robbed
of $4,000 worth of watches, iowelry, etc
Several thousand dollars in bonds we're also
taken New York merchants gave ex-senator
Carl Schurz dinner. ..... United States Attor
ney-G General Williams has rendered his resig-
nation, to take effect on the fifteenth OF May.
The Cuban insurgents are depredating in the
jurisdiction of Sagua and Colon, meeting with
no resistance. A large number of sugar PLAN
tations have been destroyed. 80. Indian agent
Haworth telegraphs from Fort Sill that the
hostile Comanche chiefs Mawway, Long Hun
CRY and Wild Horse have surrendered together
with thirty-six of their followers.
Lord Northbrook, yiceroy of India has de-
posed the Guikwar of Baroda, and will appoint
member Of the Guikwars family to reign in his
place. 49,. In the British House of Commons
DR.. Kenealy moved for a royal commission
to investigate tho circumstances of the Itch
borne trial The motion was rejected by
vote Of 433 to one. $500. The police authorities
of Posen have notified all the Usuline Sisters
in that district who are not natives of Germany
that they must leave the country within two
months. The printers employed on the
Washington Daily Chronicle struck because
70
men in the printing establishment. 80. The
linseed oil works at Jersey City was destroyed
by fire, with loss of 1925, 900. 80. The paper
mill of Geo. Benton & Sons, at Bennington,
w. was destroyed by fire. Loss, $4,000.
The steamboats, John Kyle Exporter and
Charles Bodman were burned at New Orleans
recently, and large number of lives were lost
Niles G. Parker, State Treasurer of South
Carolina under the Moses and Scott admins
trations, has been arrested upon charges of
fraud and embezzlement, and committed to
jail in default of S250,00O bail. e. There has
been great increase of dementia among the
inmates of the Liverpool workhouse, which
is attributed to religious excitement. A vote
was taken by the miners at Hillmans mines,
Wilkesbarre which resulted in a majority
against going to work. A motion was then
carried that any miner now on strike who
shall work at any other mine under the reduc-
| ton shall forfeit all the rights and benefits of
the association. -. Information from nearly
all sections of Missouri regarding the crops is
to the effect that about three-quarters of the
fall wheat is destroyed. One-half of it will he
! plowed up and corn planted instead. There
is only about one-half the usual average of
oats. The peach crop in Missouri and Arkansas
has been nearly destroyed. Apples and pears
are uniniured.
One hundred members joined Henry Ward
Beecher's Church, Brooklyn, on e late Sunday
..... Among the imports into the United
States from Great Briatain for the first three
months of 1875 were $15OOOO, 900 in cotton
manufactures and $780, 900, 900 in linen goods.
......A young woman, twenty-one years old,
named Fitzgerald living at Paterson, N. Y,
was fatally burned by accidentally upsetting a
kerosene lamp while half distracted with tooth
ache. "A fire at the Union League club
house, N Y, damaged the building to the ex
tent of about $4,000. 500. Capt. Leander
Clark, Of NeWburgh, N. j., has sold the stall
lion Hurricane to q Baltimore gentleman for
$40, 600. .....A Brooklyn boys kite scared a
horse and resulting runaway killed the driver
Of the animal 80. John Colbert, Baltimore
clerk, hanged himself .... The Wheeling nail
feeders have decided to strike for more pay
he body of Patrick Moran, who mysteriously
disappeared from Lagrange, was found in
Pelton's pond Poughkeepsie. There were two
cuts on the crown of the head which indicate
foul play ..... Ebenezer Green, a blind old
man who killed Patrick Walsh with blow of a
cane at Orange, N. J., has been held blamelesf
by coroner's jury. Walsh was one Of a party
of assaulting boys.
A three-year-old son of Mr.. Freeman, of Ole
Place, Northfeld, wandered from hsme, fel
, into creek and was drowned Winifret
McHale daughter of Michael McHale, who
recently nearly killed his wife at Bulls Ferry
N. j., attempted suicide by leaping in th'
3 river. After her mother was removed to
hospital the girl became deranged ... Mrs
: in Charlestown, Mass. go. Charles Hellsta
shot Lena Smith in the cheek, in Philadelphia
because he was Jealous of her attentions to
rival sutton &c. "A postal treaty has been made
r between the United States and Japan. -. Al
international congress on the history O.
America before it's discovery by Columbus will
meet in Nancy, France, on July %. ... TIL,
post-office at Carizo Texas, was robbed b,
Mexicans, and DR.. Lowell, well known citizen
killed. ... The United States geological OK
petition to the Black Hills will soon be on tn,
ground to make the looked-for investigation
} there.
large party of United States Senate
Schurzs friends in New York gave him din
] ner. .... The Jury in the libel case of ex-Con
{ gresham Bowen vs.. the Charleston Is. c.
, NeloS failed to agree on verdict. -. 1t il
reported that our naval squadron in the Gulf o
Mexico is to be reinforced in consequence O
the Mexican outrages on the Texan borders
.... Paul Boynton will soon make anothe
attempt to cross the British channel in his life
saving dress. He will cross from the French
, coast to Dover. .... George Linsert, bos
$ hod-carrier of Cincinnati, while intoxicated
displayed large amount of money in bar
room, The next morning he was found deaa
in the hall of his house. His money wa
missing. ...,. The ice coming down the st
Croix and Bay of Fundy has carried away al
the fish weirs on both the American and Eng
$ lish sides, so that no box herring can be pu
= up this spring 800, 900 will not replace them
= go. "A fire broke out at Hemon, st. Lawrenc