Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1875-05-08
NEWS OF THE DAY.
Items Of Interest from Home and Abroad,

Ten and twenty dollar notes Of the National
Hide and Leather Bank OF Boston, with icti-
tious signatures. are in circulation. ..... The
committee ON elections Of the Louisiana Legis-
lature have accepted the Wheeler award, and
the Democrats have now majority of seven
teen in the House . The reports of negro
incendiarism in st. Thomas, W. l., prove to be
unfounded. The annual budget Of England
shows that the surplus of receipts over expen-
ditures for the fiscal year ended March 81,
1875, was f599, SJS. The expenditures for the
current fiscal year are estimated at e75 268 900,
and the revenues at ELS, 6S5, OOO leaving
surplus of E4l7, 600. The British Parliament
rejected a petition for the removal of the
judges who sat in the Tichborne trials and for
the impeachment of the Speaker o. the House
of Commons .... Henry W, button, senior
editor of the Boston Eoeni,lg Transcript died,
aged seventy-nine years. Within five months
Mr.. button lost his wife and son, and these
Affections, coupled with the recent decease of
Mr.. Haskell, editor of the Transcript were the
indirect causes of his death. q. John Clifford
and Thomas Melsney, workmen at Hawkins
foundry in Springfield, Mass, were instantly
killed, and James Duke fatally injured, by the
explosion of a shell. ... The widow of the
late Thomas Emery proposes to build new
structure for the Y. NJ. G. A. of Cincinnati, to
cost from $4,000 to 800, 900. ... The act
making it msdemeanor to practice medicine
without filing certificate with the county
clerk, was killed in the New York State Senate.
Two Chinese officers were killed in Botan.
A body of two hundred troops we're sent from
the village of Hong Kong on the west coast to
retaliate. They burned one village and put
the inhabitants to death, including old men,
women, and children. On their return they
were surrounded and routed with a loss of
ninety killed, among whom was the Chinese
leader 900. The Cuban insurgents continue to
destroy small plantations, and Captain General
Valmaseda is sending out troops to protect
property E. "A negro murderer was hanged
at Greensburg, La. Travis Harris, who
murdered his mother-in-law, at Commerce,
Mo-, WAS hanged. 80. 1t is reported that the
Carlists have seized number Of women and
children and threaten to shoot them unless
they are ransomed 80. Tom feathers, Mary
L. and Captain Hutchinson were the winners
of the New Orleans races -, The Inman
| Steamship Company have rendered free pas
sage out and back to the American rifemen
who are going to Ireland see. The Governor
of Pennsylvania has signed the bill providing
for special committee to investigate the
affairs Of the Reading railroad and the Phila-
dolphia and Reading coal and iron companies.
! A serious riot took place at the opening of
some pleasure grounds in the suburbs of Glas-
| gov. stand, ON which we're 1,500 people,
gave way, and precipitated the entire mass to
the ground. Thirty persons were injured. The
visitors destroyed everything on the grounds. -.
Ex-Congressman Bowen has libel suit against
the editor of the Charleston, Is. O. Ne,oS..
The Berlin government. in its last note to Bel
GUM, says Germany is about to alter her laws,
with view to better protection of foreign
countries against any future designs of Ger
man subjects " The bursting of a dam near
Wrentham, Mass, destroyed mill and other
property valued at nearly 5000, 900, and throw
ing out Of employment Il large number of per-
sons. No lives were lost. 80. The number of
disabled soldiers cared for by the national
homes of the United States during the year
1874, was 5,025. OF these sixty-nine we're disa-
bled in the Mexican war and war of 1912, and
the rest in the war of the rebe lion. Four have
lost both arms, seven both legs, three an arm
and leg, 275 one arm, and 322 one leg. The
citizens of Brownsville, Texas, deny the charges
of the Mexican Minister at Washington that
n. 81 Io,- Iaa ,a1
in the recent raids on the Texas border The
bodies of three miners were dug out of snow
slide in Cherokee gulch, four miles from
Georgetown, Colorado. They had been dead
several days. aud were found in their bed,
indicating that the slide took place in the
night. ... AT Memphis and other points il
the South all the ex-Federal soldiers were
invited to join in decorating the graves Of
Confederate soldiers. Centennial services
: were held In Boston, Lexington, Concord ant
other points on Sunday, April 18th. Presiden
Grant and his party attended those at Concord
The preparations made for the grand display o
Monday, April 10TH we're extensive. Banners
flags, and pictures line the route of the march
and decoration wGs the order of the day every
where. The services of the day we're general
, Gen. VIM. Curtis delivered the Grafton at Con
> cord, and Richard Fl. Dana, Jr., that a
, Lexington. Generals and officials Of all th,
5 New England States were present with civi
military companies and bands. Poems suitable
to the occasion, and written by Whittier ant
Mrs. Howe, were sung. The procession wa
an immense affair and included military civi
societies, and distinguished guests. After tn
procession was grand dinner, at which thirty
five hundred people took part.
The Judgment of fish bone in the throa
= resulted in the death of man in New Yor
under painful circumstances j.. AT the Lex
ington Centennial it was said that fully 100, 90
persons were present; had the weather BEEF
pleasant there would no doubt have been
y still larger number 80 The miners captures
a by United States troops in the Black Hill
: regions have been released under promise tina
they will not again attempt to reach the hill
, until the government gives them authort
to do so.... Catherine Hays, aged seventeen
. journeyed from Ireland to her brothers hous
" in Brooklyn last August The brother had
il family of five, and being out of work, was re
" duced almost to starvation. A few days agoh
y said to her : " Kate, I wish to God you we're
II home with father and mother, where 70
o might have good time, instead of being her
as poor as we are. The next morning sh
=, answered the remark "You will not have [
I, say that again. She put on her shawl an
went out, and soon after her body was foun
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