Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1875-06-12
SUMMARY OF NEWS.


Items Of Interest from Home RndAbroad.
Gordon's train Of forty seven four mule
trains and 40 well armed men, while on their
way to the Black Hills, were captured by de-
tachment Of thirty-seven soldiers from Fort
Randall A German in Paterson, n. j.,
while intoxicated, fell on a bed and his face
being buried in pillow he was smOthered to
death . Immense forest fires continue to
be reported from Pennsylvania, New Jersey,
Connecticut, New York and Long INLAND.
Much valuable timber as well as cut wood has
been destroyed, together with many buildings.
secs. The Italian government has ordered the
removal of all bishops who have not received
the royal Endorsement Of their appointments.
The archbishop of Palermo has already been
notified to leave his see. -. 1t isSeported
that the German Ambassador at Brussels has
been instructed to request the Belgium gov
eminent to prohibit religious professions. ....
Pete Mccartney, the notorious counterfeiter,
has again escaped from custody. .... Reports
from Minnesota conine the grasshoppers to
very email area in that State. .... The New
York State fair will be held at Elmira Sep
TENDER 9th to October LIST. The premiums are
open to the world 49,. The trustees of the
University Of Pennsylvania will claim over
$500, 1000 as residuary legatees by the will of
the late John Towne. 80. The defendant in
a suit in the Hudson county IN, j. court was
fined 800 for asking two jurymen to drink
with him during recess. .... Egypt accepts
the invitation to be represented at the Phila-
delphia Centennial ...... Josiah Mower, of
Jaffrey, N. H., ninety-fve years old and deacon
of the Baptist church, rose in the night and
set fire to his house, then called his wife and
idiotic son, the only occupants, who went to a
neighbours. Mr.. Mower meanwhile went to an
unoccupied house half mile distant, where he
committed suicide by cutting his throat. 1t is
thought he was insane.
young German Protestant woman of New
York, who had been married to Hebrew by
civil marriage, joined the Jewish church, and
was reunited to her husband according to their
rites. -. Daniel OLeary walked five hundred
miles in one hundred and tifty-three and one
half hours in Chicago, beating his set time of
one hundred and fifty-six hours. IA coal
carriage containing three men plunged down
shaft seven of the Lehigh Company at Wilkes
barre, distance of one hundred feet. Richard
Greenough was killed, the others being seri-
ously wounded . The direct Atlantic cable
from Rye Beach, N. H., to the coast of Ireland,
is about completed. The United States
| RI. oceo 10 bo ,-1a ai
with the readiness with which the six per cent
bonds are converted into the new five pei
cents. in Europe. -. "A German named Young
killed his second wife in Brooklyn, N. Y, by
crushing in her head with an ak, and then go
ing to the grave of his first wife, shot himself
through the head, producing instant death.
The steamer Falling Waters, VIM. Bennett
owner and captain, was burned on the Genese'
river, near Rochester, N. Y. young mai
named johnson, of Port Hope, Canada, ASLEEP
on the vessel, after being badly burned jumped
overheard and was drowned. The loss on tn
Falling Waters was about $4,000; insurance
$4,000 .... The revolutionary cannon, which
the Rutgers College students stole from Prince
ton College, was returned after much discus
sion BY far the most startling crime sine
the murders by the boy Pomeroy was tina
of the little Young girl in Boston. She attend
ed Sunday-school service at the church wit
her aunt. The latter, as they were leaving
stopped moment in the vestibule and tn
child was lost Search was immediately made
and half an hour later the body of the innocen
little fve-year-old child was found in tn
belfry, its head smashed in, the face bruised
and the child just breathing. The sexton c
the church, man named Piper, was arreste
charged with the crime, and it is claimed that
is pure piece of fiendishness like those of tn
Pomeroy boy. .wr .g~|. .rrTa I.rrF
A Vienna paper states that the Emperots c
Austria, Russia and Germany are to hay
another meeting, and the place will probabl
be Ems. The Spanish authorities have SUI
pended the Madrid Impartial newspaper fc
two weeks for an offense against press lawi
ia special telegram to the London Sta,addr
says that the Pope is seriously i'll. The Loi
don Times special dispatches from Vienna sa
dreadful accident has occurred on the Rive
Muir, at the town of Judenburg, province {
Syria. A ferryboat having on board a numbt
of Catholic pilgrims route to visit the shrine
on the other side of the MlT from Judenburl
sunk in the middle of the stream. Fifty-niI
of the pilgrims are known to have been savet
but seventy-six are missing, all Of whom al
believed to be drowned. Two more larl
rectifying establishments in Cincinnati ha,
been seized by the revenue authorities fl
alleged violation of the laws. Business WI
generally suspended in Memphis Tenn, du
= ing the decoration of the graves of FEEDER
{ and Confederate soldiers. The procession vi
, one of the largest ever seen there, comprisir
Northerners and Southemers, with the tatterC
battle flags of both armies Numerous crow
continue to attend the revival meetings
Moody and sankey, in London. Another pl
, to assassinate Prince Bismarck is said to la
been discovered. III tt4t.lHf
The upper house of the Prussian Diet Ii
7 passed the bills for the suppression of convent
t and relative to the administration OF chur
7 property AS there was no choice for Go
s ernor or Lieutenant-G Governor of Rhode Isal
at the late election, the first act OF the Legis
ture on converting was to elect Henry Lpp
: and Henry 7. Sisson to those Offices III
j., both ran on the regular Republican ticket
: Cerebro spinal meningitis prevails to some {
i tent among the horses Of st. Louis, but yiel
readily to treatment Recent estimates
V the amount taken by Abraham Jackson, t
n defaulting lawyer of Boston, place the sum
y $500, 900. -. "A camp of Austrian fishermen
e Barataria Bay La, was attacked by two hu
& bred Cadian residents and destroyed, and
Austrians Threatened with violence delef