Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1876-05-06
SUMMARY OF NEWS.
Interesting Items from Home and Abroad

SUMMARY OF NEWS.
Interesting Items from Home and Abroad.
The Mexican revolutionists have taken pos
session of Mier the citizens making no resist
ance. The insurgents having called on Ameri-
cans in New Laredo TO pay levy, cur govern
ment sent word to the officer in command Of
the Rio Grande department to prevent the
enforcement Of the levy. The Indiana Demo-
Gratis nominated James d. Williams, NJ. c., for
governor, and full State ticket. The State
delegation TO st. Louis was pledged to Gov.
Hendricks. The platform declares for hard
money, opposes contraction, believes in a
greenbaek currency, calls for continued inves-
legations, and opposes any payment of the
Confederate debt. q. The revolution in Hayti
is triumphant, Dominique, the late president,
has fed. Vice-President Rameau and Losquet,
the general in command of the government
forces, have been shot. D.. Montana instructed
her delegates to the Republican national con-
vention to vote for Mr.. Blaine. -. The Boston
Pilot has been purchased by Archbishop
Williams and J. Boyle o'Reilly. They propose
to pay every dollar to the poor people who de.
posted money in the former proprietors
hands. The latter co-operates. ia man
named Shuck committed suicide by shooting in
Philadelphia, and his wife shortly after took
prussic acid with the same result . Breaks
in the Mississippi levee occurred in Carroll
parish, La, and near Hannibal, Mo-, doing in
calculable damage -. New York city's school
rolls for March showed Ill, $50 names of
scholars.
The Ballou Manufacturing Co., Of Woon-
socket, r. l., extensive mill owners, have
made an assignment-their liabilities amount
ing to over 81 ,0OO 900. =. Two robbers rushed
into the Baxter Springs bank, at Fort Scott,
Kansas, during business hours, presented pis-
tolls, stole $4,000, and escaped. In four
days in Bagdad there were 145 new cases Of
the plague and seventy-fve deaths. The dis.
ease has now appeared on the left bank of the
Tigris. Fifteen pilgrims were drowned
while crossing the river Vienne, near Parsac,
France. Ten thousand dollars in currency
were exchanged for silver at the New York
sub-treasury the first day Of the resumption.
..... The total expense Of the Philadelphia
exposition is pot at So, 500, 900. A party OF
whites were attacked by Indians fifty milee
from Custer City, in the Black Hills. Two
men and a woman were killed, three men seri-
ously wounded, and colored woman carried
off. Three broken wagons found in Buffalo
Gap indicate that another party hiss been over.
taken and captured by the savages.
Nebraska Democrats appointed to the nationa
convention are supporters Of Mr.. Tilden. $50.
John Dolan was executed in New York city fol
the murder of James II. Noe. The murder was
committed last August and the murdered mar
was in defense Of his premises at the time
He begged hard for his life, but the burglar
said he could not trust him, and brutally bea
the unfortunate man to death. Strong effort,
were madeto have Dolans sentence commutet
to imprisonment for life, but Gov. Tilden re
J fused to interfere. Dolan died easily.
Dalett Bliss committed suicide in Contra
Park, New York city, by shooting himself il
the left breast and then jumping into one O
tie ponds. He was depressed from the bst
7 state Of his business affairs -. Five muir
derers-one white man, one colored man ant
three Choctaw Indians-were hanged at For
Smith, Ark, upon one scaffold at the sam
, time, in the presence Of seven thousand peo
pie. 49,. Colorado sends her delegates to tn
national Republican convention unpledged. :.
! Six buildings, occupied as places Of bushes
by nine different tenants, were burned q
Sayville, Long Island. 49,. VIM. Cooper sho
. and killed Mollie Dean in St. Louis, becaus
: she desired him not to be so attentive to her
2 as she was engaged to another man. Coope
S then committed suicide by blowing out his owl
brains. -. The prospects are that California
0 grain crop will be exceptionally large. TIL
fruit product will only be fair, the trees il
, some sections having been injured.
AS five persons were descending a coal shat
in bucket at Browns Station, Mo, the rop
broke, letting them fall distance of one hun
: bred feet-instantly killing two men and DO
0 and fatally injuring two more men. go. .AC
counts arrive daily of fresh Indian outrage
:, and atrocities. family Of immigrants name
Baker, from Pennsylvania, consisting Of father
mother and two children, were Drained an
d scalped within one hundred miles Of Custe
City,. 49,. Two carriage factories, two saloon
!. and three barns were destroyed by fire at Ne'
Canaan, Conn. e. The foot race of 1876 yard
in San Francisco between Crandall, of Prov
! dence, and Horton, Of New jersey for tn
sum of 81, 900, resulted in Crandalls winnin
Y by foot in twelve seconds -. BY the burr
ing of Somerville's paper mills at Brittor
It England, $3.50, 900 were lost and five hundre
men thrown out of employment. .... Til
O revolutionary President Medina's troops /
Honduras, Central America, were totally dc
u feated by the regulars. Medina died few day
=, subsequently. ..... While a large number Q
men were working on q new railway tunnt
- near Meath, South Wales, an explosion of CUR
!, powder caused the roof to fall, buryiDg larg
number of the laborers. Thirteen bodies an
number tpf wounded had been recoyere
J., at last accounts. One hundred and fit
@ cottages, many Of them completely Furnished
J.. on the grounds of the Methodist camp meetin
:. association, at Tarentum Pa, were destroye
y by fire. Loss, $4,000.
The bill giving the queen the title of en-
press of India causes considerable feeling i
England, and it is thought probable that
will call out 4 vote of censure for the govern
T. ment. .Rists have occurred througho,
u Barbadoes Plantations and houses have bee
Il sacked and an enormous amount of propert
IL destroyed Over forty Of the rioters ha,
been shot. 80. The Egyptian troops have b.
70 gun their homeward march from Ahvssni