Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1876-09-16
Of amateur sCullers was easily


won by Courtney, Of Union Springs, n. w..
The Indians have killed q number Of persons
in Nevada. .smuggler won the two first
heats Of the Hartford Conn free-to-All race
in 2 Isl and ALI! The third heat was tie
between the stallion s-d Goldsmith Maid in
2.16%. The Maid took the next three leafs
and race in III, 21s, 219s< ...... Yellow
fever prevails in Savannah, and in conse-
quonos many other Southern towns have
C ased communication with that city ...... The
death sentence against Jesse PomerOy, the
Bos on boy fend has been commuted to i'm
prisonment for life ... Murad Khan has
been deposed from the sultanship Of Turkey
on account of mental disability, ana his brother,
HAmid, proclaimed emleror of Turkey ...
Many Of the prominent English iron firms are
ON the verge OF bankruptcy ..... Wheeden
and Walker, rougbs from Philadelphia, fought
prize fight at Pennsvile, N. j., attended by
a large crowd Of friends. Walker was knocked
insensible in the sixty-second round, after a
brutal, bloody fight The same night Walkers
dead body was found in Philadelphia, he hay
ing died from Commissions on the head. War
rants were Immediately issued for the arrest
of the principals and abettors on CHI rye of
manslaughter . =. Congressional nominations:
Michigan, second district, John ]. Robson,
Dem; seventh, Arson Z. Chadwick, Dem :;
thirty-third, G. W. Patterson, Rep; New
York, nineteenth, .Amaziah B. James, Rep;
Virginia, first, l. G. Bristow, Rep; Wisconsin,
aecond T. b OasWell Rem
Large numbers of Russians are lighting in
the Servian army ..... The public debt state
ment shows a reduction Of 50, 9,36929 for
August. The new sultan of Turkey will
not make any change in the cabinet. ..... The
Italian marquis. who forged the names Of
KING Victor Emanuel and other prominent
officials to a large amount has been sentenced
to eight years penal servitude The inter-
collegiate boatrace at Philadelphia was contest
ed ny the Cambridge (Engllsh), Columbia and
Yale crews, and was won by the latter in
9.l04. The captain of the Cambridge crew
gave out on the course and they had to stop
rowing. A strong wind prevented better time,
the course being the same as Yale rowed over
IN 8.521, in their contest with the London
crew. Officers Of the army engineer corps
nave been detailed to make the new Pacific
railway survey ...... Congressional nomina-
tons Missouri, fifth district, Il. P. Bland
DEM; Kansas, first, W. A. Phillips, Rep; Vlr.
glnia, seventh, J. 4. Harris, Conservative.
IranUz beat Wade in the four-nlle swim al
Long Branch by two feet. -. While a mar
rage ceremony was being performed at Bulk
ley, ILL.,, between George sleeper and young
lady, Sleeper Was called to the door aud sho
dead by Burt Fleming, rival for the lady,
hand. -. Hillary Page, colored man, Wa
hanged in Chesterfield Co., Va, for arson. ht
confessed the crime .o.... A band of religious
fanatics, calling themselves Oobbltes were re
ported near Gum Springs, Ark, and two men
Humphreys and Blake, went to investigate
them, when they caught the former anC
literally. hacked hum pieces. His companion
escaped, and gathered together a crowd O.
men to arrest the fanatics. They found tn
Uobbites dancing about the head of the muir
dered man, which had been impaled on a pole
but ss soon as they saw the crowd they pre-
pared to attack them, when the leader CAV
the order to fire and two of the fanatics wer
killed. The others, four men, four womel
and two children, were arrested.
A coal train on the Baltimore and Ohio rail
way was wrecked near Weverton, Md, by
broken axle. A few minutes later secon
coal train ran into the first and WAS also wreck
ed. Before flsgman could be sent out maj
train on the other track came along, and
crushing into the piled up cars, was throw
down an embankment into the canal. Grea
excitement ensued among the passengers
but, except the engineer of the last train, n
one was killed, ard only few were wounded
BY the explosion Of boiler Of a steaI
thrasher, at work on farm in Chatfeld
: Mimi, three men were instantly killed an
= their bodies thrown to distance. One othe
man was injured. 49,. The Turkish force
made furious and determined assault upo
the town Of Alexinatz, and, after day of oil
= stnate fighting, succeeded in forcing the SCI
+ VANS from their position and capturing til
= place. The Turks committed the most horr
. BILE butcheries on the fleeing Servians. TIL
was the most disastrous battle of the war.
= Another convention has been called for th
, Democrats of New York, as Horatio Seymor
Q firmly declined to accept the nomination Il
C governor. -. Six hundred houses and eight
: stores with all the principal buildings in s
e Hyacinthe, near Montreal Canada, were d.
!. sJroyed Ivy fire. A high wind prevented tt
!, quenching of the flames. Hundreds Of fam
:, lies lost their entire possessions, and col
Q siderable distress is felt. The aggrega
: losses foot up $4,000, OOO e. Brigham Youn
k not paying the ahmony to his divorced wifi
: Ann Eliza, the court ordered the seizure
n 81 900 worth of property to satisfy the cair