Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1875-03-06
NEWS OF THE DAY.
Items of Interest from Home and Akron

NEWS OF THE DAY.
Items of Interest from Home and AbrOnd
The supreme court of Massachusetts, has
rendered a decision in the case of Jesse II.
Pomeroy, the boy murderer, oyerruling the
exceptions and ordering judgment on the ver-
dict. Pomeroy will, therefore, be sentenced to
death by hanging. -. The United States House
committee on foreign affairs has agreed to re-
port a bill prohibiting the Importation of
Chinese into the United States for immoral
purposes also, prohibiting the sending of
Chinese convicts into the United States.
The United States House Appropriation COM
mittee decided to appropriate $500, 900 to defray
the governments expenses in the Philadelphia
exhibition, which Is to pay for the United
States building to be cree ed and for all the
outlay attending the government portion of
the exposition. The amount asked for was
about 5000, 900. o. L. Messier, a grocer of
Manchester N. H., committed suicide by
shooting himself five times after locking him
self in a room in hotel. The act was caused
by financial troubles. e. .Savigny, the distin-
guished Ultramontane, is dead. ia grand
idry in Chicago has indicted all the papers
there for publishing lottery advertisements. -.
A resolution was adopted in the New York
Legislature calling on Congress to extend the
time in which soldiers are required to settle on
homestead lands. "A boy was burned to
death and another seriously injured by fire in
London, Ontario.
The ldwave, which passed over New Hamp-
shire, Vermont, and Maine with thermometer
showing from % to SO degrees below zero, was
the coolest weather yet experienced in that
section. " Reports from the Panama Survey
ing Expedition, announce the favorable pro-
gress of the work ... An Italian newspaper
in Florence, has published correspondence be-
tween Bismarck and Mazzini which seriously
duplicates the latter in an attempt to aid the
former during the Franco Prussian war by a
rebellion in Italy. -. Samuel Hooper, repre-
senting the Fourth Congressional District of
Massachusetts in the House of Representa-
tives, died at Washington. "A fourteen-ton
cheese is to be one of Ohio's contributions to
the Philadelphia Centennial. .. 81 Capt. L. B.
| Ward, who died. leaving 81, 100000, was mar
red in his shirt sleeves and took his wedding
trip in yawl boat, being too poor to do any
better .... The bill for equalizing soldiers
bounties passed the United States House by a
vote of 1T to 80. 1t met with opposition on
the ground % that it would add from $50, 000,-
900 to 300, 100000 to the debt and (2) that it
was unfair for those States that paid large
bounties to be. compelled to pay pro rata
share Of the sum which this bill appropriated
for the benefit Of the soldiers from States
which paid small bounties go. The jury in
the case of frederick Albright, aged eleven
sears, who, it was alleged, died from cruel
treatment by his parents in Moristown, N. j.,
returned verdict censulirg in the strongest
terms the harsh, inhuman, and i'll treatment OF
the child by its father and stepmother ...
Phair murderer under sentence of death at
Windsor, Vermont, was born and reared in Thu
tiers, and other relatives living. He had be-
come such an outcast through dissipation tia t
not one of them attended his trial, and nobody
could be fomd to testify word in favor of any
point i'll his conduct or character
During fire in New York woman and
child were burned to death. So. The Sydney
Herald gives an account of the massacre of the
captain officers, and crew. of the trading brig
James Bernie, of Sidney, by the natives OF
Howes Islands. In the United States Ma
tional Grange the report of the committee on
relief was considered and go much of the re
port as disapproyed of granting in the future
charitable donations out of the funds of the
National Grange was stricken out. $50. An UNI
known man in Philadelphia drowned himself
by plunging head foremost through the ice
When found his head and shoulders were undel
the water and the rest of his body on the ice
Deceased was about forty years old, and wal
clad in a black suit, with brown overcoat.
Another proposed amendment to the Con
stitution of the United States providing for thu
election of President and Yice-President by til,
people is before the United States Congress
..... Aspinwal has again been outraging al
English subject and trouble is apprehended
......A bill is before the Pennsylvania Legis
lature authorizing the use of unclaimed bodie
of convicts and others for the promotion o
medical science. General Burnside, at
: banquet in Providence, Il. L., said that he say
no great occasion for alarm in the election
f to Congress by the Southern people of larg
, number of ex-oflicers of the Confederate army
-. There is still talk of serious trouble betwee
China and Japan. ;. The Pacific Mail is tryin
hard to secure its subsidy. The constitutions
! amendments were passed by the House of Ne'
Jersey, and to make them law they must be &C
cepted by vote at special election =. job
Mitchell has been elected to the British Par
lament from County Tipperary, Ireland. MI
{ Disrael gave notice in the House that h
3 would move a resolution declaring him incapa
BILE of election as he had been convicted O
] felony, and sentenced to transportation
Henry Walters aged seventy-one years, es
l capped from Auburn prison by scaling the wal
DIR. Kenealy, counsel for the claimant i
: the recent Tichborne trial, has been elected
the British Parliament from Stoke-upon-Trent
: ..... The United States House of Represents
v tives passed the bill for the reorganization @
Q the Treasury department. 80. The Connection
, Democratic State Convention nominated tn