Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1876-09-23
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
What IL Doing In the Old World and the


sional fours at Philadelphia, the Thames crew
beat the American crew in IS. 21i THE distance
being three miles. In the second heat, the
famous champions OF the world, the Paris
crew OF St. johns, New Brunswick, were beaten
badly by a comparatively green crew from
Halifax, Nova Scotia time, 1T.5s......T The
American ship Sonora and the Spanish steamer
WAR collided of Holyhesd, England, and
both sank in few minutes. Only one life
was lost e.. VIM. Borden, prominent mer-
chant, of Peekskill, NJ Y, committed suicide
By taking strychniue .... Gen. Terry COM
mand is again on the march, after a rest Of one
week, to recruit the health Of the men and
horses. . The thirteen dstillers, rectifers,
etc, who testified for the government in the
recent whisky trials at Chicago, have at lsst
been fully discharged. ..... The Democrats Of
Arkansas have elected their State ticket by
large majority go. Further dispatches from
Servia confirm the report Of an overwhelming
victory for the Turks at AlexinAtz. The car
mage on both sides was terrible. go. By the
breaking Of one Of the supports OF scaffod
about an elevator in New York, four laborers
we're precipitsted thirty feet into ditch Of
water, one of them being killed and the others
seriously injured While John and Matthew
Brennan we're loading cart with clay from
bank in Brooklyn, N. T., five tons of earth
caved upon them, crushing John 80 flat that
his entrsils were spread on either side Of him,
and iniuring Matthew fatally.
Horatio Seymour, of New York, gives the
following reasons for declining the nomination
rendered him by the Democratic State Conven-
ton The Democratic convention, acting up-
der misapprehensions put me in nomination
for the Office of governor of New York. This
It's members would not have done il they had
known the facts regarding my health. For
many reasons ought not to be their oandi-
didate Duty demands that should decline
the proffered honor While l am grateful for
the friendly sentiments which prompted their
action, my declination is compelled by obsta-
cles which 1 cannot overcome. For some
months my health has been infrm, and re-
cent illness has untitled me for mental or ply
eical exertion. My own opinion, confirmed by
the judgment Of my physicians, convinces me
that l am unable at this time to perform the
duties devolving upon the governor of New
York. I could cheerfully sacrifice my own
purposes and feelings to meet the wishes Of
my friends; would not hesitate to peril my
health to uphold those principles in which
l believe, or TO promote tho public welfare
but feel that 1 should sacrifice the interests
Of the party which placed mo in nomination if
accept it's action. Even the superior strength
| CT the party with which act could not elect
ticket with the known fact that its nominee
for governor was unequal to the performance
of the labors of that office. could not COIL
scientiously enter upon them. l cannot do
my friends the wrong of placing them in false
positions by trying to do so. l therefore feel
constrained to decline the nomination.
In the contests for the first heats of the
pair cared race at Philadelphia, Green and
| Thomas, of the Thames crew, defeated two
others Of the same crew, in 21,44i Josh and
Gil Ward were beaten by the Boston crew of
Faulkner and Regain i'll 20. %. Braley, Of st.
Johns, N. B., won a heat in the single SOULS
over Ellis Ward in o. 061; Hsnlon, of Toronto,
also won heat over Plaisted, Of New York,
and Luther, of Pittsburgh, in 2l.454 .... YER
mont elected the Republican ticket by q
large majority...... An outbreak occurring
among the natives on the west coast Of Africa,
three British gunboats assembled the Niger
and fought the inhabitants. Several villages
were burned w As workman was handling
fifteen pounds of nitro-glycerine on board q
scow off Astoria, Long Island, where the ex-
cavation has been made to blow up He'll Gate
the entire mass exploded, killing three men in.
stantly and wounding nine others, besides
doing considerable damage to surrounding
property ...... Twenty-Five hundred people
we're rendered homeless by the recent fire Al
st. Hyacinthe, Can ...... A storm did $50, 00C
damage to buildings and crops in the vioinit!
of Leavenworth Kan. .... Six private resi-
dences and the Argyle hotel at Durham, Can.
we're destroyed by fire. 1.-The Massachusetts
Republican convention renominated Gov. Rice
and the entire State ticket. The platform CALI
for q speedy return to specie; demands
thorough civil service reform thanks Gen
Grant for his service in the late war, and com
, mends him for his action on the finance ques
ton and the rebuke he administered to tn,
House of Representatives.
Charles Francis Adams was nominated TO
governor by acclahation by the Massachu
sets Democracy. The platform indorses tn
st. Louis conventions demands the paymen
in coin of the debt represented by legal tende
notes held by the people at large equally witt
the bonded debt held by capitalists; charge
the Republican party of inoapacity, as illus
{ trated by eleven years experience praise
/ the last House for its successful efforts, il
l spite OF opposition, to reduce the expenses 0
the government to an economical basis; re
joices in the reviving social order and pros
perity which has followed the restoration O
, Democratic control of Offices in the Southern
States lays at the door of Republican maad
ministration the present prostration Of indus
tries; demands the reduction Of expenses il
= the State and county affairs, and the abolish
) n4ent Of all sinecures deplores the rapid in
I crease of public taxation and indebtedness
a and invites all citizens TO join with the party i
the endeavor to right the wrongs .. An &C
cident on the Kansas City and Northern rail
rood caused the death of two men and tw
children. Twelve others were more or lee
injured. ga bronze statue of Lafayette
!, presented to New York by Frenchman, an
n erected in Union square, was unvailed wit
: great ceremony ...... The final contest 8
Philadelphia between the Thames and Hax
1 fax crews for ths supremacy in the four-oare
= race, resulted in o victory for the Thsme
/ crew on account of Halifax fouling then
e Hanlon of Toronto, easily beat Braley, of s.
: | Inhna in the sinnla acnll nnntast. TINA az