Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1876-06-03
SUMMARY OF NEWS.
item. Of Interest rroa Home and AbroA

and nominate such standard bearers rs will
receive the confidence Of the country. They
left their delegates unpledged; but the majority
favor Tilden. -. The Ohio Democracy sp-
pointed delegates to the national convention
and'instructed them to work for VIM. Allen for
President. Their platform demands the i'm
immediate repeal Of the resumption law the
gradual but early substitution of legal tenders
for bank notes, and that the general govern
ment alone shall issue circulating medium
that silver shall be legal tender in all amounts,
without limitation; denounces the present
scheme for resumption as the cause Of the |
dullness Of business and the enforced idleness |
of thousands of men. .. The New Jersey |
Republican convention appointed delegates to |
the national convention and although they |
are left unpledged, the majority are under |
stood to favor Blaine for the chief magistrscy
The resolutions denounce the Democratic
House as wasting their time in frivolous de-
bate and the Vaccinations Of impotent par
tisan malace; demand a speedy return to
specie payment and free, non-sectarian sys-
tenn Of public schools. go. Alabama's Repub-
publican convention did not instruct her dele
gates but they favor Bristow. IA national
Prohibition convention met at Cleveland, Ohio,
and nominated candidate for the Presidency
and adopted platform. :. Six Of the Salonica
murderers have been executed 49,. Rev. Mr..
Cook, colored, received a verdict of $500
against Philadelphia hotel clerk for refusing
him room on account OF color ...... AS Con-
stable Viking advanced to arrest a man who
had Just killed a citizen OF Johannesburg, ILL.,,
he was shot through the brain by the des-
perado.
The schooner Thomas O. Street 9ss cap
sized by squsll in the lake few miles from
Buffalo and six of her crew drowned. ...
Plymouth church communicated Henry O.
| Bowen by a unanimous vote 80. :. The Dele
ware Republicans instructed their delegates
for Mr.. Blaine. -. The Kentucky Republi-
cans have declared for Mr.. Bristow $500. The
Mississippi steamer Pat Cleburne exploded
her boiler near Shawneetown, and catching
fire, 1oated down steam inwrapped / flames.
A number Of the crew and passengers were
wounded by the explosion or subsequent fire,
while few we're drowned in the vain endeavor
thirty California mustangs 905 miles in fifteen
hours, ON race course near New York, re-
suited in failure, the rider becoming blind
and thoroughly exhausted after riding 226 miles
in eleven hours and twenty-six minutes. Atthat
time he was but ten minutes behind time. A
drizzling rain for hours was disadvantageous
to him, and he was not supplied with proper
food 80. Kansas Democrats instructed their
delegates to work for Hendricks.
General Crook has started with force To
punish the marauding Indians in the Black
Hills. .... The Kansas Democratic convention
Instructed its delegates to the national con-
vention to work for Hendricks . Two men
were killed by gravel train running off the
, track near Templeton, Mass ..... Three out
laws stopped a stage and two hacks neal
Dallas Texas, and compelled the passengers
to deliver over their vaIuables, which they did
} to the amount of $1,000.
The Faulkner Regare crew beat the CITY
Point crew at Boston by three lengths, in 20. 10
, ..... Judge B. Ferris, ex-mayor of Oakland
, Cal, committed suicide by jumping from
steamer, having first tied his feet together
. and taken laudanum. Unfortunate specula
ton in stocks is supposed to have been thu
cause. ..., The Austrian premier announces
' that the peace Of Europe is now assured. ...
The Mexican insurgent, Gen. Diaz, having
evacuated Matamoras, Gen. Escobedo occupied
the town. Julia Matthews, the opera singer
, died in St. Louis ...... Over five hundred ar
rests were made in New York city for violation
g of the Sunday liquor law, which had previous
G been regarded as dead letter 49,. The i'm
s N. H., was totally destroyed by fire. Loss
v $75. 1000 Ten criminals were logged a
j the Newcastle (Del.) jail recently. 80. An OK
r plosion in Dupont's powder mill at Whining
l. ton, Del, caused the death of four men
o A fire-damp explosion near Scranton, Pa, re
d suited in the death Of one man and the seriou
o injury Of four others.
The politicians of the country were gene
rally surprised by the appointment by the Pres
4 dent and confirmation by the Senate of Al
q torney-General Pierrepont to be minister t
v England, uice schenck, resigned the appoint
J, general, and of J. Donald Cameron, son
y Senator Cameron, to be secretary of war,
man and woman, claiming to be husban
and wife, hired a room in a hotel at Wilmin.
ton, DEL, and both committed suicide
poisoning. during the night. No clew to thei
1t identity can be found .... A hailstorm in DO
e tons of New Jersey did considerable damae
% to glass and fruit, especially in Morristowl
70 The storm extended over a large portion {
u u the country, doing damage in Michigan, low
>. and Wyoming Territory, where it develope
y into heavy snowstorm. .... The British go
! eminent will not grant amnesty to the in
I prisoned Fenians. .... Potato bugs have 81
a peared in the Delaware valley
a The Now Jersey Democrats appointed del
L gates to the national convention and indorse
10 ex-Gov. Joel Parker for the Presidency. TT
10 resolutions adopted call for equal polite
o rights for all subordination of military
y civil power gold and silver as basis for Gu
Il rency tariff sufficient for the expenses
- government economically administered r
= cognizes the amendments to the constitute
" as part Of the organic law, and will upho
II the same charge the administration vii
d imbecility and corruption, and applauds the r
form action of the House of Representative
le in unearthing frauds and reducing expend
r. lures. Five fishing vessels and forty-seve
10 lives have been lost in the Gloucester mass
O.. fisheries this year see. The Magdalen islant
herring fisheries have been very successful
Several vessels have arrived at Halifax vii