Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1875-11-06
SUMMARY OF NEWS.


has decided TO take part in the Centennial
exhibition ...... Earthquake shocks are re-
ported from California and the West Indies.
The American fishing feet left Newfoundland
coast after poor seasons work, owing 10 the |
mackerel being too close in-shore. The boat |
fishing in-shore was the most successful in |
many years. -. Twenty thousand people have |
been rendered homeless by the Goods in the |
neighborhood Of Ahmedabad, in the province |
Guserat, India .... The judges Of the ocean
yacht race have decided that Mr.. Hatchs yacht
Resolute won on a time allowance " John
T. Huss, cashier Of the First National bank of
Tiffiu, Ohio, committed suicide by shooting
through the heart, An examination Of the
affairs of the bank is going on as it is believed
there are Irregularities 900. A party OF white
roughs interfered with the dancing at negro
picnic in Brooklyn, N. Y, but we're driven off.
They subsequently attacked a small party OF
the negroes on their way home, and crushed
in the heads Of two of them, named Jackson
and Thompson, with paving stones. John
Mc0uire and Matthew Dowden we're held for
the murder. Postmaster Durham, OF Bridge
port, Conn.,, has been relieved Of his office on
account of his selling appointments. 49,. Prof.
Comstock, Of Cornell College, exhumed the
skeleton of mastodon at Isle, N Y. One
tusk was seven feet three inches in length. .
Forepaugh's menagerie lost a $1,000 giraffe
from exposure, at Syracuse, N, Y, and on the
way thither wagon broke through bridge
fatally injuring 500, 900 rhinoceros.
At the regatta of the Yale College navy held
near New Haven, the law school crew won
three-mile shell race with crew Of the Glars
OF a. in nineteen minutes and twenty-seven
seconds. A barge race of two miles between
the freshmen crews of the academic and scien-
tifc departments, was won by the academies in
thi teen minutes and thirty-three and one
quarter seconds. A two-mile race between
crews of the law department and classes of "
and '7S, resulted in victory for II in thirteen
minutes and eighteen and three-q Quarter sec
onds. 80. The steamer Pandora, fitted out by
Lady Jane Franklin, has returned from all
Arctic voyage, in fear of being frozen in the
ice. The graves Of three of Sir Johns men
were discovered on Beachey island ... Rev.
Joshua Day, Of Newark, N. j., was stricken
with apoplexy while preaching to his congrega-
| ton. -. 1t s said that Russia has commanded
the Polish proprietors in the provinces of
wilma, Grodna, Koona, Minsk aud Vitepsk to
sell their farms to Russian tenants, the govern
ment fixing the price. -. "A man named Riker,
residing in Hackettstown, n. j., shot and
killed his two sons aged six and eight years.
and then attempted to kill his wife, not sue
ceeding in which, he shot himself in the head
from which he may not recover. Family
troubles were tho cause. .... The revenue au-
thorities Of st. Louis have instituted suits
against five parties for nearly one million dol
lars, on account of their removing spirits on
which the tax had not been paid. -. Don
Carlos has dismissed from his service Gems.
Dorregaray Mendici, velasco and Mogrovejo.
IA fve-mile eingle-scull race for 81, 900
and the championship OF America, between
over the Hutton course, Pittsburgh, Pa. The
race was won by Morris by one length, in
thirty-fve minutes and tw llty seconds, which
is claimed 10 be the best time on record ......
At the sale OF short horns at Vinewood KY,
forty-four native cows and heifers brought
$58, 210, and twenty imported ones $5l, 225
total for COWS of S109, 435, Four native bullt
sold for $1,715, and five imported ones foi
s12 800, total for bulls of $14,015. The
total for seventy three animal was 1928, $50.
The commissioner of internal revenue hai
issued orders not to seize cigars, packed il
either metal or paper boxes for the present
where they may be satisfied that the tax has
been paid. He will ask Congress to chang
che law so as to permit the use Of such boxer
So. The creditors of Lee & Shepard, the Bostol
book publishers, accepted twenty cents on thu
dollar, payable in from three to twenty-fou
months -. The French schooner Sophie o
Julie has been wrecked at Cape Arcachon, OF
! the French coast. Twenty-one persons wer
drowned. 49,. Clarke Edmondson, the negr
who was charged with outrsging whit
woman in Fay cite county, Ca, was taken on
Of Jail by some two or three hundred people
and hanged. .... Emperor William, Of Ger
many, accompanied by Won Molke and Vo
r Bulow, visited the Emperor Macmillan a
uldu AL oulCb uCCldILb iOl6lSnolb OIL
titled to travel in the interior appeared in til
Peking (China) Gazette. 80. The Red Clou
, commission has reported, admitting the exist
ence of frauds, but denying Mr.. Delano's an
1 Mr.. Smiths completely In them; they recon
J mend the removal of Agent Saville and Inspe'
e tor Threlkeld, and contractors Mccain, Slavi
Y and Martin and advise changes in the India
n service. Charles Kirby, travelling ager
r for the Baltimore tobacco house Of Shields
q Co., was found in a lonely road in Renssela,
county, with his head crushed in and thro
cut. His team and wagon were found in tt
woods, the latter rifed of its contents.
.. The students of Yale INDUCED in their pra
tice Of hooting, cat-calling and kissing as {
Odd Fellows procession was passing the collel
) in Now Haven. They then seized a passiI
coal cart and began firing the coal at the pr
rs cession, when the Odd Fellows, unable
stand such sport any longer, charged Il
crowd with drawn swords, slightly iniuril
lie several of the students E. 49,. Three childr
being left in house in Oil City, Pa, attempt
,f to light fire with kerosene, when the can c
ploded, and a boy and girl we're burned
death. "A fire at Anderson Texas, destroy
fourteen stores and dwellings, the Odd Fello
Hall and furniture, Wilson Il Howell's sto
v two warehouses and the post-ofice =. Then
to York Produce Exchange has fixed the grat
for oats as white, high Mixed No. 2. No.
as and no grade 80. A royal decree has been
sued carrying into effect the Bavarian
Nv perial law introducing compulsory civil m
riages ... Ex-senator Zach Chandler,