Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1875-05-29

names on the occasion Of his eighty-third
birthday. o.. =. The principal conspirator in the
plot to sssassnAte Prince Bismarck has been
arrested he is said 10 be related to Archbishop
Ledoohowsh. ..Advices to the St. Louis
Republioan from st. Joseph, Mo-, state that
the last few warm days have Matched out
myriads Of grasshoppers, and it is feared the
plsgue will be ~ serious as last year.
The American Tract Society received $685.
SASS last year, and expended s551, $3.50. 80.
President Grant has sent letter Of congratu-
lation to the President Of the republic of
Honduras on his election. e. The republic of
Guatemala has recognized the independence Of
the republic Of Cuba, and est Iblished official
relations between the countries IA deputa-
ton Of Good Templars has arrived at Quebec
from Great Britain, ON visit to the lodges
of Canada and the United States. The
Russian government has signed convention
with Japan by which the japanese part of the
Islands of Saghalien is ceded to Russia. The
town Of Calamar, On the Magdalena river, was
almost entirely destroyed by fire on the evening
Of April so. Some eighty or ninety houses
were destroyed and two women and one child
burned to death. The value of the property
lost is unknown. IA dispatch from Berlin
states that crowd of women mobbed an Old
Catholic schoolhouse in Konigshute Silesia,
declaring they would never permit their chill
dren to become Old Catholics. The military
cleared the streets, arresting some twenty per-
sons. BY a fire in BOyentown, Bucks county,
Pa, five dwellings, one church and three
stables were destroyed. Harvard college has
changed its colors from magenta to crimson.
800. The board Of managers of the Adams
Express Company has voted $1,000 gold to
messenger Price, who killed the robber in his
car on the Pittsburgh and Fort Wayne road.
......A man named RELY has been arrested
and held for trial in Newark, N. j., for selling
liquor to a boy of sixteen years, who was
found intoxicated. -. The Roman Catholic
bishops of Prussia have decided to dissolve
even the religious orders which the state
tolerates, being unwilling to see them sub
jected to governmental supervision.
The youth O'Connor who attempted to
shoot the Queen on the occasion of thanks
giving for the Prince OF Wales recovery from
sickness, has been again arrested, having been
found standing near the palace in the same
spot from whence he aimed the pistol previ-
ously. He has been sent to an insane asylum.
80. Treasury statistics show that during April
1851 passengers by ocean steamers arrived
in New York, and of these Is, 354 were steerage
passengers. =. . AT the annual meeting of the
American Bible Society, it was announced that in
the fifty-nine years of the society's existence,
it has distributed 31,s99, 1872 Bibles. =. The
Pope replied with feeling to the congratulations
of the Germans on his birthday, and in his re.
marks praised the German clergy and exhorted
them to stand firm. "A troupe of Chicago
female cancan dancers we're ordered out OF
Toronto by the police. :. Ssrina Thomas
daughter Of Steuben county On. Y. clergy.
man, ran away with q married man named
John Ferris, who subsequently stole her watch
and money. She had him arrested and he waf
sentenced to prison for six months. The dis
grace of the position so preyed upon her mint
that she threw herself before freight trai1
at Watkins and was instantly killed =. The
Toledo BLADE, in a carefully compiled account
shows that of the winter wheat in the United
States, at least one-third was destroyed which
was 'eounterbaanced by the number of acrel
sown, SO that the crop will be up to the average
The amount of corn put in this year greatly ex
ceds that of last year. John Siney, presden
of the Miners National Association. has beer
arrested at Osceola, Pa, charged with con
spiracy. Cadet G. s. Hall was fatally injured
at West Point by being thrown from his hors,
in the cavalry drill.