Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1875-03-13
NEWS OF THE DAY.
Item. OF Inlsre.r from Home and Aere..

to admit p b. S. Pinchback, Of
Louisiana, Mr. DisraelTs resolution de-
clerihg John Mitchell ineligible to a seat in the
English Parliament was passed by the House
OF Commons without division. The motion
for new writ of election in Tipperary county
was also carried without division. ... The
Southern members Of Congress have published
an address to the people OF the South urging
them to be patient and to trust to the sense Of
justice of the country for a redress of any
grievances they may have. . Twenty more
sugar plantations have been destroyed by the
insurgents in Cuba. Tho war there seems to
be one Of destruction to property. Gee It has
just come to light that woman, partly insane,
has been confined all winter in a room in her
husbands house in West Buxton, Me, part of .
the time being chained. When found she had .
hardly any clio hes on her body and her legs |
and feet were badly frost bitten. The New /
Jersey Legislature appropriated 100000 .
more for the Morris Plains Lunsiic Asylum. ...
BY coastiHg accident in Worcester, Mass, one ,
man was killed and two girls seriously injured. /
......T Two hundred thousand dollars have been
appropriated by the japanese government for
expenditure in connection with the Philadel- .
phia Centennial. 80. The bill presented by the /
United States government for improving rivers
and harbors appropriates 5000, 200 for this
object.
An express train Oh the Pittsburgh, Cincn-
matt and St. Louis railroad was thrown from
the track and two cars were burned. Several
passengers were injured, and the Strakosch
Opera Troupe lost all their baggage. .....S. J.
r. McNIillen, Republican, was elected United
States Senator from Minnesota by vote of SO
to 16, i'll the place of Alexander Ramsey. The
new Senator is fifty years of age.....T The
United States House of Representatives passed
the Army Appropriation BILL which appropriates
$27, 100000 .....A match factory at Gotten
burg Sweden, took fire, and the flames spread
with such rapidity that fifty employees were
cut off from escape and persisted in the flames.
..... The Paris Torkingmen's associations are
discussing the question Of sending delegates to
the Philadelphia Centennial exhibition. ...
The report of the United States Ways and
Means committee on the Pacific Mail investiga-
ton will charge William s. King with perjury
and report that no money has been proven to
have been paid to congressman. .... Robema
Griese, girl sixteen years of age, was COM
mitted i'll Boston for raising certificate of
stock of the Michigan Central railroad from
one share to sixty, the original value Of the
same being SGS, and the pretended value 81,
| 0S0 Upon this well executed certificate So, 900
was obtained when the fraud was discovered.
go. Leo 3. Kent committed suicide in Charles
/ ton, Mass, by cutting his throat .... Gen.
Alexis Nord, who was recently arrested on his
arrival in Hayti, from st. Thomas, has been
condemned to FIVE years imprisonment.
The Lehigh and Easton Railway Company
of Pennsylvania petition the Massachusetts
Legislature to guarantee S., 000 600 of its first
mortgage bonds on condition that it will carry
all coal destined for Massachusetts at rate of
not over ~ cents per ton per mile. =. .Advices
from Zanzibar report that fleet of British
men-of-war have bombarded and captured Fort
Mombazique, off the east coast of Africa. The
engagement lasted five hours. Seventeen of
the garrison were killed, and fifty wounded.
! Two slave ships were captured, with three
| hundred slaves on board w In a New York
shanty two men drank quart of whisky, and
then one of them murdered the other in d most
brutal manner, by beating his brains out with q
chair. John Mitchell has issued an address
to the electors of Tipperary county, Ireland
presenting himself again as q candidate fol-
Parliament. -. Phelps dwell, a laborer IL
New York. surrendered himself to the police
and confessed to having killed, as he claimed
in self-defense, stranger supposed to be from
London Canada. .... An explosion in the
Safety Fuse Works, at Redruth, Cornwall
England, caused the death of five girls. ...
Four hundred and five Indians were killed am
227 we're captured by United States troops il
1878. So. The heirs Of the American citizen
) captured in the Vrginius and killed are t.
} receive 49, 900 for each man killed .Edwar
+ Spangler, who was one of the persons sen
! fenced to the Dry Tortugas for participating il
! the assassination conspiracy which resulted il
the death of Precedent Lincoln in 1865 died q
: the residence of DR.. Samuel A. Mudd, nea
Bryantown, in Charles county, Md
The religious excitement in Mexico cor
tinues intense, and an outbreak will no doul
take place. .... George Debaptiste, coloret
Il famous in the ante-bellum days as conduct
e on the underground railroad, died in Detroi
II aged sixty-four years. He was steward in IL
G White House in 1S41, and President Harrisc
q died in his arms. :. The revolution in Vel
ezuela has ended, the rebels giving up the
7 arms and the leaders being allowed to leave IL
7 country unmolested ..... William J. Sharke
the escaped murderer was arrested in Hawai-
= on charge of threatening to kill the CAPITA
70 and the purser of the steamship Crescent Cit
IL .....A fire at Emporium, Pa, destroy
n property valued at 10000. The steam
D.. Cora Belle, with $50 bales of cotton on boar
W has been burned. "A fire in Somerset, Mas
1T destroyed buildings valued at 500, 600 3. II
a. United States House defeated the Tax al
Lv Tariff bill, and, on motion of Mr. Dave
af passed a substitute taxing whisky to be ma
:. hereafter ninety cents gallon, increasing t
tax on tobacco from twenty to twentyfo
III cents pound, on cigars from So to &c |
a Thousand, and on cigarettes from fifty
Id seventy-five per cent The increase of TWEEN
a five per cent. on the present duty on sugar a
10 molasses, and the restoration of the ten
nd cent. duty on woolens, steel, and iron, are
aIl tanned AZ in the committees bill .... For I
bo old debt and registered certificates Of MOI
Carolina, forty cents on the dollar is to
paid ; for the funded internal improvem
nS bonds, twenty-five cents on the dollar.
OF construction and special tax bonds are not
lrt cluded. The following interest is to be pa