Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1876-04-15

the taxation Of church property ...... The
Cuban authorities have raised the income tax
to thirty per cent, gold. .Thrse men were |
instantly killed and another fatally injured by |
an explosion OF locomotive at Land Ridge, |
Pa. .... The losers by the recent flood in Mas !
ages, claiming that the city is responsible, as
it's officials we're aware Of the character Of the !
TO their reservoir. The Boston
and Albany railroad will bring the first action.
......J. W. Jordon, OF Toronto, committed
suicide in Buffalo by taking prussic acid. He
left will directing his body to be sold to the
highest bidder to pay the funeral expenses.
... Great Britain's revenue for the fiscal
year ending March 31st was 1856, 65S, 465-
being 81, $50, 465 over the estimates, and S11,-
O49, 1GO more than the previous year. 800. New
Rochelle, N. Y, lost six buildings by fire, the
loss of which aggregated $4,000.
Turkey has postponed its payment of April
coupons until July. "A fire at South Hadley,
Mass, destroyed the hotel store, two houses
and two barns, aggregatiDg total loss OF
800, 900. The Cocheco print works at Dover
N H., have shut down until the market re-
wives. Several hundred hands are thrown out
OF work. " The Office safe OF the United
States express company, at Akron, Ohio, was
robbed of $25, 900 by burglars. E. Isaac Page,
of Searls Mills, Me-, murdered his wife and
then cut his own throat E. The public debt
was reduced $4,240,S 67 during March, and
$17, 1863, 1856 during the preceding nine months.
The coin balance, including coin certificates,
amounted to $73, 756, 794. e. The Security
bank at Watertown. N. Y, suspended with
liabilities placed at $100, 600. go. The Boston
collector of customs, to carry out the new
order in reference to economy, discharged
sixteen employees. 80. United States Senator
s. b. Conover, of Florida, was arrested at
Tallahassee, on charge on embezzling $40,-
0O0 E. The Mexican authorities endeavored
to force loans from Americans in Matamoras,
and our consul was obliged to interfere.
United States gunboat has anchored opposite
the town and will protect the rights of our
countrymen =. New York city has an indebted
ness Of $119, 164, 9OS29.
The Democrats of Connecticut reelected
Gov. Ingersoll and carried both branches of
the Legislature which will give them the
United States Senator for the six-yesr term.
Hon. David A. Wells was defeated for Con-
gress on the Democratic ticket, although he
made strong run in an intensely Republican
district. Rev. DR.. Bacon, of Plymouth council
fame, was defeated for the Legislature on the
Republican ticket.
A thousand stevedores struck in Liverpool
in consequence of an increase Of working
hours. 49,. :. Austria has recalled her medical
staff which went to Herzegovina to care for
the wounded insurgents. Egypt is terrifying
numerous positions in Abyssinia, which will be
garrisonsd during the rainy weather, while the
army retires. . Tbaxton T. Robinson and
Jesse Mitchell, both young and highly con-
nected, fought duel with pistols, near Rich
mond, Va, to settle an old feud. Robinson
was killed and Mitchell's recovery is doubtful.
..... A maiden granddaughter of Thomas
Jefferson died recently at Alexandra, Va,
| aged seventy-four years. cocoa shower OF
flies, which covered several acres of snow, il
reported from Rver du Loup, Canada ...
Matamoras has fallen into the hands of the in.
surgents under Porfirio Daz, with but little
| fighting, and it is thought the government
general Toledo betrayed the town, as he has
taken service under Diaz. The people gene
rally seem glad of Diazs success. Genera
Labarre escaped to Brownsville, Tex, aut
occupies the house vacated by Diaz. 20. l.
Morss q Co.'s sole leather tannery, at Yves
Camden, N Y, was destroyed by fire. Loss
$780, 600; insurance, $4,000.
It is reported that "Boss" Tweed hal
bought house and is living in Havana ....
The hop trade of England is larger than usual
and American brands are at au advance O.
from two to three shillings. Sc. The Harbo
appropriation bill provides for spending onl,
$5,873000; the estimates were $14 301, 900
..... The steamer Agrigenti, from Piraus
Greece, for Italian ports, collided with tn
English steamer Hylton Castle, Off the soutl
coast of the Morea. The Agrigenti imme
diately sunk, and of sixty-four persons Oh
board, nine of the crew and twenty Of tn
passengers were drowned 90. Patrick Picker
ing, of Columbus, Ohio, while in an iptoxi
Gated condition, murdered his son under hor
rible circum 'tances. The youth having asso
cated with forbidden companions, the fathe
compelled him to get down on his knees an
promise reformation; and while in that posi-
ton, with bowed head, the father discharge
the contents Of a gun into his side. :. TIL
schooner Helen J. Holway, from Cuba to Ne,
York, with sugar, went ashore in a storm nea
Fire island, off Long Island, and the capital
and five of the crew were lost -. "A brea
fifty feet in extent is reported in the Missis
sippi levee at Milliken Bend. ten miles belo'
, VIcksburg. 80. The Virginia (Nev.) Consol
dated Mining Co.'s mine produced 100000
} in March. 80. :. Thomas Tracy, living near Cai
Q linsvile ILL.,, shot and killed his wife, beat hi
a six-year-old daughter to death with the bu
o of the gun, and then cut his own throat Th
r family had lived unhappily together, and tn
8 wife was preparing to desert the house whe
4 killed. "A barge on the Mississippi river,
t st. Louis, was sunk by collision with bridg,
8 and six colored men were drowned.
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