Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1876-02-12
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
What L. Doing In the Old World and the
New.

What In Doing In the Old World and the
New.
Near Big Rapids, Michigan, Fayette No
Clure was mobbed and ridden on a rail After
being relieved Of sl60 In money and q, 500 in
pension papers, he was left in the woods,
where he was found suffering from fractured |
scull and vertebra. 80. Victor Hugo has issued |
an address to the French senators, asking |
them to found a democracy which shall end |
foreign war by arbitration, civil war by am
nesty and distress by education. The con- |
fdential bookkeeper Of Fairfield and Trask,
butter dealers of New Yark, has been arrested
for embezzling $4,000 ...... The London
Times indorses Senator Sherman's bill for a
uniform coinage for all English-spesking ma
tons. :. Railway trains were snowbound in
Wyoming Territory 80. A German girl Of
fourteen years was outraged and murdered at
Youngstown, Ohio. The authorities arrested
tramp on suspicion. ... Jacobs, a wife-mur-
derer, was executed at Joliet. Illinois.
At Barboursville W. Va, Mrs. Meeting and
her parmour, Edward Williams, who we're under
arrest for the murder of Mr. Meeting, we're
taken from the Jail by masked mob, and
after full confession Williams was hung.
No one being willing to put the rops about
Mrs. Meetings. neck she was returned to the
jail. .... The Havana journals aver that the
sugar crop will certainly be thirty per cent.
less than last year; they also consider the COM
ing tobacco crop of Vuelta Abajo almost
kot 1aotrOuaJ 10 Irn1oht Tho
direct cable has again been broken w The
police OF Kingston, Jamaica, searched that
island for Boss Tweed. 49,. Another revolution
is looked for in Hayti. .... ..
The island of st. Thomas experienced three
shocks of earthquake. .....Gen. Jovellar, the
new captain-general of Cuba, received an
enthusiastic welcome at Havre ...... John
Scannell, who murdered Donohue in New
York city in 1872, and after several trials was
adjudged insane and sent to an asylum, as
the law requires, has been pronounced sane
by the State commissioner of lunacy, and will
shortly be RECESSED ..... The costly residence
of James +. ingersoll, at South Norwalk,
Conn, was destroyed by an incendiary fire.
LOhb, GlAO,OOO pdAbldllJ LbB0lbOi
was formerly one of the noted New York
"rng". The House of Representatives
passed tho bill for the payment Of the 1855
bonds of the District Of Columbia. ..... "Doo
Magrum, noted guerrilla on the Federal
side, was murdered by masked men in broad
daylight, at q small town on the Tennessee
river. 1t is supposed the crime was the result
of some Of Magrums well-known crueltiee
during the war;. ,Alabama's debt is $780,.
100000, and the assessed value of her property
is $3.50, OOO,O 900.
The commission appointed to examine the
works of French artists offered for the Phila
delphia exhibition, have selected $40 pictures
100 pieces of sculpture, and sixty engraving
and designs. b.. The Honorable and Rev. E. d
Winslow, owner of the Boston NeUS ant
treasurer of the Post, is forger to an amount
variously estimated at from $1,000 to $780,
00O Himself and family have left the coun
try, it is supposed for Brazil. .... The famous
French race horse Gladiateur, is dead . . . Thu
superintendent of banks of New York State re
ports the resources of the banks of the Stat,
at $107071, 918 Sitting Bulls band O
Sioux warriors are on the warpath, and hav
killed one man and wounded five of part;
near Fort Peace . . The House passed th
Centennial appropriation of $1,500,O00, b
a vote of LAG to 1870. Three murderers wer
taken out Of Jail at Charleston, W. ", b
a mob, and hanged.
Ten Of the persons indicted for connectio
with the whisky ring at Milwaukee hav
pleaded guilty ...A bill has passed the Hous
Of Representatives reducing the postage O
third-class mail matter to one cent for tw
ounces ..... A business crisis is imminent
Russia, and one firm and one bank at Rig
have already failed 600. Frank Hathaway,
Plaiufeld, Mimi, killed Nettie Slayton becaus
} she would not return his love; and then ser
, ously shot himself in the breast He WI
} arrested, but at night was taken frgm
/ keeper by a masked mob, who hung him to
, tree ,..... At Northampton, Mass, several me
= overpowered the family Of a bank casbie
took the keys Of the bank, and endeavored
open the vault, but the cashier was unable
! help them owing to the lock having tin
u dial. They spent hours in fruitless attemp
9 to force the doors, but daylight drove them c
L empty-handed. -. Two men were killed al
y one injured by an explosion in miro .glyceril
B.. factory in North Adams, Mass M Hol
:. hall, part Of Harvard College, was damage
$4,000 by fire. Another revolution is
progress in Mexico. 80. The Pennsylvar
coal mines are to be closed from February 7
I. to March II, on account.of an over-supply
Q The first reports of the attempted bank re
d berry at Northampton; Mass, are now found
l. have been false, as the burglars succeeded
n securing $670,0O0 in securities, only part
= which are negotiable. .... 1t is reported
;, London that although the British trouble
over the Chinese are bent on fighting sooI
:. =. or later. ..... Guatemala and San Salvad
~ are arming for war ...... The English cutie
II complain that the Americans control the traC
N ...... VIM. Schmidt committed suicide in N
N York because young lady Tilted him
at Colorado Springs, Col, is alive with excl
IT ment, rich gold mines having been discover
T in the immediate vicinity -. Four men
~ tempted to rob the express car eastward-bou
% from Chicago, Of 100000 in currency q
y coin, but were captured -. The treaeJ
~ officials destroyed 1854 ,080 in greenbac
III leaving the outstanding circulation at $37
as 273, 140