Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1876-09-16
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
What IL Doing in the Old World and tn,
New.


10 ride 1O5 miles in five hours in Buffalo, |
using California horses, but failed in the at |
Tempt by seven minutes. Several Of the |
persons engaged in the lynching Of one Will |
Jams, at Aaeus's, Ga, have been arrested
aud held for murder. The American hosiery !
mills, at Amsterdam, n. Y, were destroyed by
FIRE. Loss heavy insurance, $4,000.
The Turks gained complete victory after &
Gght OF two days at Mesa 80. "A mob at Ming
Koue-Fou, China, attacked q Catholic church
while the congregation we're at worship,
growing combustibles into the edifce and
the worshipers as they sought to
ercape. ...A coal wharf in E izabethport,
N. j., was destroyed by fire, and seventy-fve
cars containing four hundred tons Of coal were
either burned or fell through into the river.
Loss, $50, 900; no insurance. e. Congressional
Pennsylvania, twentieth district,
John Walls, Dem; Arkansas, second, W. F.
Sl5mens, Dem.
Five hundred thousand tons # anthracite
coal, held by the exploded coal ring, composed
OF the largest companies, was sold at public
auction in New York, and brought from $2.70
to 80 80 per ton, according to size and quality
"a heavy fall in price from the last sale. 800.
The present sultan of Turkey is to be deposed
and Abdul Hamid raised to the place Spain
is to send to Cuba "a $50 soldiers armed with
Krupp guns, who will vigorously push the in
surgents this winter.... The instruction in
San Domingo still continues, and several towns
have declared for Baez. 49,. The state of Costa
RIGA, Panama, is in a state of revolution, the
president having been deposed by the military
aud DR.. Herrera temporarily put in the posi-
ton. -. Samuel Price has been appointed by
the governor Of Maryland to serve the unex-
PRED term Of the late United States Senator
Oaperton. 49,. By the burning of block in
San Francisco, bounded by Brannan, Town
send, Third and Fourth streets, over two hun
dred poor families were rendered houseless,
and a monetary loss of half million dollars
inflicted,
The international four-oared race, at Phila-
delphia, on which so much interest was CEN
tered, was contested by so many crews that it
was necessary for them to row in heats, three
in each-the victorious crews Of one day to
row together the next, until it was narrowed
down to one final victorious crew. The con-
testants the first day were the Eurekas Of
Newark, N. j.; Argonautas of Bergen Point,
N. j.. Dublin University crew from Ireland;
Vesper, Crescent and Pennsylvania, of Phila-
delphia Yale College crew, Columbia College
crew. Elizabeth crew, of Portsmouth, Va.
Beaverwycks, Of Albany, N. Y; Falcons, of
Burlington, N. j.; Duquesnos, Of Allegheny
City, Pa. Watkins (N.Y.) crew; London eng
rowing club; Northwesterns, of Riverdale, Ill.
Cambridge (Eng) University crew and the
0neidas, Of Burlington N. J. The Atalantas,
of New York, had withdrawn on account OF
sickness, and the Malta and Quaker City crews,
OF Philadelphia, also withdrew. The winners
we're: Eurekas, time, 9.264; Yale, 1929
Columbia, oil Beaverwycks, 8 IA Watkins,
O. O6A Londonrowing club, $685. Cambridge
University, 9O6%. The Columbia crew re.
tired from the second days race on account Of
sickness, leaving only the above six crews
The Beaverwycks beat the Eurekas in the firs
| heat in 9.07. In the second heat the Gam
bridge crew gave ont before reaching the
stake, and the Watkins boys won in 9. OIL
The interest of the day centered on the thirt
heat, which was between Yale and the Londo1
crew. 1t was nip-and-tuck from start t
finish, amidst the greatest excitement among
the vast crowd on the shores. The time wal
the fastest ever made on the river, being
SSH for the Englishmen and 1921 for Yale
The last of the series was rowed the third da,
by the Londoners, Beayerwycks and Watkins
Although the race was generally conce led tt
the foreigners to the surprise of every one tn
Beaverwycks came in frat in 9.06, the London
ers second in 90615. The poor time is &C
counted for by the roughness of the water ant
strong wind.
The Democratic State Convention assemblies
at Sal atoga, and, afSr appointing the Presi
Dental electors, nominated Horatio Seymou
for governor by acc!amation, amidst the great
est enthusiasm. The platform ratifies tn
nominations of the national convention, an
reaffirms the declared convictions of the part
that return to the constitutional principles
purity of the founders of the republi
is the first and mosC imperious necef
sity of the times-the commanding issu
now before the people of this Unior
Declares that the nomination of Samuel ,
Tilden, while it insures the vote of New Yorl
will be approved throughout the Union as th
incarnation of the vital issue and the qua
antee Of successful achievement of the wor
Of national regeneration and reform. Rea
firms and declares as part of this platforl
that of the Syracuse convention Of 1874 an
the national convention of 1876. Condemn
all interference with the constitution
amendments, and all violations of law, holC
ng that all the people in all the STATE
alike, regardless of race, color, or CD
dition, are entitled to equal protection
, Recommends that the people at the comm
election ratify the two proposed constitution
amendments for the economical and efficiel
J administration of the canals and prisons
the State, and for enforcing stricter respol
sibility upon the officials having the
in charge; favors such reduction
the canal tolls as will best serve IL
interests of the State and the canal me-
and concludes: AS American citizens al
Democrats devoted to the union and I'll
equality of the States, and to the honor al
good name of the Federal government, v
hereby enter our solemn protest against IL
, recent order of the secretary of war, approve
by the President, to place government trool
in the Southern States with a view to intin
: date the people and to control their election
A government by the bayonet to take IL
3 place of government through the ballot is
: outrage which demands the condemnation
all who love republican freedom and ha
. despotic power