Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1875-06-26
SUMMARY OF NEWS.
Items of Interest from Home undAbroa.

Judge Blatchford, in the United States
district court Of New York, decides that it
required one-quarter of the creditors in num-
bers and one-third in value Of those who actu-
ally proved claims 10 assent to a bankrupt's
discharge. The American rifle team left
New York ON the City Of Chester for Ireland to
attend the international match in Ireland.
A United States special agent Of the Treasury
department seized lace dress valued at &c.
600, lace shawl worth $4,000 and other laces
to the value of $4,000, which had been SNUG
| gled. They were formerly the property Of
Empress Eugene. 80. w. +. Leslie, receiving
| teller in the banking house of Duncan, Sher-
man & Co., Of New York, has absconded with
| $4,000 gold. The letter announcing to
Mexico the accession of Alfonso to the throne
Of Spain having miscarried the Spanish lega-
ton has not been recognized by that govern
ment. 80. Capt. W. II. Brown, a regular army
officer committed suicide in New York by cut
ting his throat. No cause was assigned go.
The Emperor William has conferred the order
OF civil merit on the Hon. George Bancroft,
the historian, and Henry W. Longfellow, the
poet, of America. Twenty thousand Catholic
pilgrims visited the shrine of Paray-le-Monial
in France. .... There were 30,06S men in the
Masonic procession in New York, according to
the official figures of the chief of staff =. BY
the bursting of some flues in the boiler of the
steamer Crescent City, from New York to
Havana, live Goals we're thrown from the fire
into the coal bunkers, and formidable confia-
grafton was only prevented by the GOODNESS
of the captain and chief engineer The latter
locked himself and the men in the engine
room and closed the ventilator, thus preventing
the flames from spreading. Not much damage
was done. e. George w. Pemberton, whose
murder of Mrs. Bingham, of Boston, will bere-
membered as one of horrible atrocity, has been
found guilty of murder in the first degree. $50.
The Ohio Universalists in convention at Co
lumbus, adopted resolution in which they
declare it to be the duty of " every religious
denomination which is loyal to the national
form of government to unite in support of her
free school system" .... The coroners jury
holding an inquest over a victim of the Holyoke
horror censure the constructors of the church
on account of the large gallery with so poor
egress find the immediate cause of the fire in
the use of flimsy adornments for the altar, and
pine sheathing instead of plaster ceiling, and
condemn in strong terms the use of such
materials in public buildings. .... The city of
New York has brought suit against the widow
of ex-County Auditor Watson in the sum of
$4,000, 900, alleged to have been taken during
the Tweed reign.
The reports that King Alfonso of Spain was
to be married to a German princess, have been
pronounced unfounded. ... The terrible re-
suit of the church fire in Holyoke has had the
effect of stirring up the Department Of Build
| ings in New York city, and they have recently
| examined all the churches and public buildings,
and have found numerous instances where
they had to order the enlargement of stairways,
reduce the seating capacity, or change the
doors from swinging inward. -. Daniel Ber-
| rien and William @. Rogers, two merchants Of
New York. who had large dealings with the
| Tweed ring, have been indicted for obtaining
money under false pretenses 80 An incen-
diary fire at Hall, Ontario, destroyed Gilman's
| large stone sawmill, throwing four hundred
mon out of employment and causing loss of
| 5000, 900. .... Miss Mary Telfair, of Savannah
Ga, who died recently, aged eighty-six years,
a daughter of Ex-Governor Telfair, bequeaths
to the Georgia Historical Society about $780,
900; to the Independent Presbyterian Church
of Savannah, $4,000; to the Presbyterian
Church at Augusta, 100000; to the Hodgson
Institute of Telfairville, the Christian En-
dowment of Telfair, the Hospitals for Females
Endowment, Telfair's Academy Of Art and
Science, and other societies and numerous
PERSONS legacies are made, including hand
some requests to the colored family servants.
The estate is valued at over 81, 900, 1000. -. .
Elisha Yarbrough, alad of sixteen, murdered who
and robbed a Mr.. Henry Smith, of Carroll
county, Georgia, after being sheltered and fed
by him, was tried and condemned to death
and at the time of the springing of the trap,
which would pull him into the air, was shrek
ing and crying loudly for mercy, making the
few spectators tremble with horror.
Postmaster-General Jewell has left Wash
ington on tour of postal inspection, with a
view of reducing expenses and rendering his
department nearly, if not quite self-support-
ing go. The Secretary of the Treasury has
given orders that hereafter no visitors be per-
mitted in the bureau of engraving and printing
vaults of the treasury, or any room where
money is kept. This was brought about by
the robbing of the $47, 900 in bills Twenty.
two Of the Chicago aldermen were fined 800
each and COSTS for contempt of court in having
violated an injunction restraining them from
counting the votes cast at the last municipal
election. Their counsel were fined $500 each
and COSTS They appealed. go. James M
Sweeny, of the old Tweed ring, died in Paris
day or two after the New York authorities sueG
to recover his property. Reports have beer
received at Melbourne, Australia, from the
Fiji Islands that $4,000 natives have died Of
epidemic measles. :. The Communist prisoners
who escaped from New Caledonia to Australis
have issued an appeal to the sympathy of Eng
fish people through q London paper, and stat
ing that the French authorities are deliberate
ly endeavoring to starve the prisoners on Pine
island. -. The mutinous members of the crew
OF inc American snip Jefferson borden nave
been sent to this country for trial by the Eng
fish authorities. 1t will be remembered tina
they killed both mates. .... The freight carr
of the Pennsylvania railroad having beer
robbed of thousands of dollars worth of good
the past year between Harrisburg and Altoona
detectives were put on watch, and last weel
concluded to search the houses of some Of tht
employees, when over 81, 900 worth of good
were recovered. The men were arrested OF
their trains, and embrace every grade from