Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1875-01-09
SUMMARY OF NEWS.
Item. OF Iu,sre., from Home and Abroad

some unknown person aad fatally wounded.
The miners employed by the company have
been ON a strike for some time, and conse-
quently the pit was unoccupied at the time the
assault Was made -Four men wearing masks
rode up to the house Of farmer about twelve
miles from GAINESVILLE, Ark. They shot the
farmer, choked his wife, robbed him Of 5000,
and escaped. -. Samuel Payson postmaster
of North Warren, Me-, and his wife were found
dead in their beds, snffocated bv coal gas.
Another couple were nearly dead when dis
covered. m A resolution passed the North
Carolina Senate, providing for conference OF
the Joint Committee ON the Public Debt with
the creditors of the State, and calling meet
ing of the committee in Raleigh on Jan. IA,
1875 w Mayor stokely, of Philadelphia, re-
ceived letter signed Secre Six, threatening
violence if employment was not supplied for
the starving poor, and complaining that Italians
we're working on the Centennial buildings, ex-
Guiding actual citizens. go. A Philadelphia
paper was hbeled, having charged that men,
Der of the Common Council had picked the
pocket of a marble statue of George Washing
ton on Chestnut street of a silver snuff box.
BY railroad accident in Iowa several officials
of the Iowa division of the Illinois Central
railroad were badly injured. "A daring
attempt was made to rob the Hochlaga Bank of
Montreal The burglars succeeded in blowing
the safe open, but the noise made frightened
them away, when the contents of the vault
were in sight "A duel was fought at Havana
between Diego Mendo Figueroa and Pope Cas-
tellanos, resulting in the death of Castellanos.
.... The LeUdm Herald publishes distressing ac-
counts of the famine in Asia Minor. go. The
house of farmer named Androis Petit, living
near Port Nelson, Ontario, was violently broken
into by gang of desperadoes, two of whom
entered Mr.. Pettit's bedroom while the rest
guarded the sons bedroom with revolvers.
The ruffians carried off cash to the amount of
$1,000. Indian outrages are reported near
Phoebe, New. The citizens are without arms
and ask for military protection. .... The boys
of the high school in New Orleans repeated
their visit to the girls lower high school, and
forced the colored girls to leave. The school
Board has passed resolution Diminishing all the
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Ell Dorado, in the shape of rich gold mines in
the northern wilderness of Wisconsin is re-
ported. 1t is claimed that ore sent to New
York from this point averages 1,700 per ton.
800. In the sections of Nebraska and Kansas
visited by grasshoppers, farmers have been
compelled to feed wheat to work animals.
Many poor families are already compelled to
live on wheat bran. Thousands of women and
children go about their houses barefooted.
Nearly $4,000 are required to feed the inhabi-
tants until next fall, and as much more to
clothe them. E. Smallpox is raging at Sorel,
Quebec, in the most virulent form. 80. Thirty
two thousand Germans have immigrated into
Strasbourg since the war.
Ex-Judge Beverly Belts, of New York, has a
summer residence at East Jamaica, Queens
county, and it is in charge during the winter of
his grandson, Beverly Robinson. The house
was visited by burglars and a desperate fight
ensued, the burglars finally escaping and
Robinson being wounded by pistol shot,.
/ The bill adopted by the United States Senate
Republican caucus relative to the finance ques
ton, embraces the following propositions
Redemption of legal tenders shall begin OF
/ the LIST day of January, 18T9 silver coin is
meantime, to be substituted for fractional cur
rency. Free banking is authorized, and is t
be accompanied by the retirement of lega
tenders to the amount of eighty per cent o
4 the new bank notes issued, till the who'll
volume of the legal tenders is reduced to $500,
000 600. This is modification of proposition
that developed much strength last year. Tn
Secretary Of the Treasury is to use the surpu
gold in the Treasury, on the first day of Janu
airy, 1879, for the redemption of legal tenders
and if this surplus is not sufficient, he is to Sc
at his discretion any of the bonds of the Unite
States now authorized by law to procure gol
with which to meet the demand for specie
Charges for coinage at the United States mint
has the effect to send gold bullion abroad t
be coined and it is urged that if coinage is q
the expense of the government gold will b
brought to the United States, and having bee
turned into American coins will be less easy t
export The Pacific Mail Company steam
snip JdJdll, llOul nldllClbSO anu
for Hong Kong, was burned at sea when sixt
miles out from Yokohama. A few of her pal
sengers and crew arrived at Hong Kong. Th
loss of life, mostly Cinnamon returning hon
from San Francisco, was very large ....
twelve-year-old daughter of Judge Lowell We
assaulted near her fathers residence, at Ches
nus HILL Massachusetts, by negro. Aftt
robbing the child he left her to her fate. 81
had been skating, and was returning hon
through dense piece of wood when the ruffia
waylaid her. She managed to drag herse
home and relate the horrible story. The negl
was arrested. SEQ. Weston, who in his attemp
heretofore has failed, succeeded at Newar
N. j., in walking five hundred miles in s
days. He had about twenty-five minutes
spare when the last mile was finished.
President Grant issued a proclamation orde
ing the citizens of Warren county, Miss.
" dispense and retire peaceably to their respe
} tive abodes within five days" go. Two hundre
persons were killed and wounded by an O.
plosion of gun powder in Scutari Turkey.
The application of Stokes, who shot Fisk, for
pardon has been refused by the Governor
New York 49,. The managers of the Unite
, States national soldiers military asylums hay
: prepared their annual report to Congress
They estimate that under the new system
direct appropriations by Congress 81 1000, o.
will be required to sustain these asylums durir
| the next fscal year. go. "A Memphis speci
: says twenty disguised men took two hor
t thieves from officers at Jacksonport Arb
q a few days ago, since which time nothing Ii
been heard from them. It is supposed til,
: we're hanged The negroes in Copial count
- Miss, have formed laborers union Its chi
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