Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1876-09-09
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
What L. DOING In the Old World and tt
New.


and ammunition. Nominations to Congress: {
Pennsylvania, Juniata district, Jeremiah t
Lyons, Rep; Pennsylvania, sunbury district, !
". L. DewaIt, Dem Pennsylvania, thirteenth, :
]. l.. Mating, Rep; Ohio, second, Stanley !
Matthews, Rep. Twenty eight business q
houses we're destroyed in Brussels, Ontario, !
by fire. Fourteen families we're rendered
homeless. -. Owing to the expense Of sub q
DUNG internal instructions, the emperor OF '
Morocco has announced his inability to pay {
Turkey the annual subsidy. Ex-County 1
Treasurer COPYRIGHT, OF Luzerne county, Pa, (
who Was convicted a short time since Of en- ;
bezzlement, has refunded TO the State the 8
sum Of $40, $751;. Henry Smith aud Squire 1
Hammond, two wild young men, murdered {
Robert Martin, in OwentOn, KY, and after
their incarceration in jail they we're taken
therefrom by an armed mob and hanged to a
tree. The three-quarter-mile dash at the
Saratoga extra meeting was won by Free
booter in LII. The mile and half race was
won by Burgoo, over xix competitors, in 2.S9.
Meco won the mile aud an eighth race in 58I.
The three-quarters of mile dash for two
years-old resulted in a victory for Princess of
Thule in 2.19.
Sitting Bull has made efforts to induce the
Canadian Blackfeet Indians to join him but
they decline.... serious strike occurred
among the laborers on the rice plantations |
along the Combahee river s. G. Many men
wished to work but were intimidated by those
who wanted an advance Of wages. AS the |
crops had to be harvested in a few days or be
lost Gov Chamberlain ordered the sheriff to
summon a posse and afford protection. ....
A prisoner named Osborn fatally wounded
Sheriff Henderson in the Jail at Robinson,
Kan. for which he was taken out by masked
mob and hanged. During quarrel between
Frank Watson and George Carpenter in Broome,
Schoharie county, N Y, Watson broke rake
handle over Carpenters head whereupon the
latter seized one of the pieces and plunged
the Jagged end into Watson's bowels, causing
death =. knights of Pythias made an imposing
parade in Philadelphia. Ten thousand were
in line, comprising lodges from all parts of
the country.
The New York Republican State convention
nominated Edwin D. Morgan for governor,
Sherman S. Rogers for Acknowledgements,
George f. Danforth for associate judge of the
court Of appeals, Daniel G. Spencer for canal
commissioner and Charles W. Trowbridge for
State prison inspector. The resolutions adopt
ed by the convention reaffirm the platform
adopted by the National Republican conven-
ton, and heartily approve the principles set
forth in the letters OF acceptance OF r. B.
Hayes and VIM. A. Wheeler; is in favor Of
reformed public service; insists that the equal
rights and lives Of all citizens must and shall
be protected, and that the government must be
restored from the consequences of the war by
those who saved it, and not by those who at
tempted to destroy 1t. On the financial ques-
tiou it SAYS Whereas the date of the payment
of our obligations bearing no interest after
maturity is of the very essence OF its
full and entire validity, and the post
ponement of its payment reputation to
the extent of the usual interest from the date
of promised payment, we therefore denounce
the repeal of the date of specie resumption by
the Democratic House of Representative,
without making the dishonored notes bear the
current government rate of interest, as an act
of Reputation and diSloyalty, and all open
q violation Of the section OF the fourteenth
+ amendment to the United States Constitution,
3 which provides that the validity of the public
{ debt authorized by laws shall not be question
1 ed The aacritY and great unanimity of the
/ Southern Democrats in the House of Repre-
, sentatives to repeal the date of payment Of
1 the United States notes, without consideration
in the form of interest, andin violation Of the
= plighted faith of the government, shows that
= they are not safe custodians of the national
, faith, and that fidelity to public honor re-
Z quires that the national administration shall
a not be subject to their control, dictation OIL
4 management. 1t arraigns the Democratic
e party for its faults, and concludes as follows
!. The Republicans of New York tender to the
President of the United States, upon the ap
+ preaching completion OF his official term, thu
e assurance of their profound respect and graft
9 tude for those illustrious public and patriotic
u services which will secure his name an imper
. . shable place in history.
h A flood in Mississippi caused a weak railwa
e bridge near Tugaloo to give way while a trail
IS WAS crossing, resulting in the wrecking o
s several cars by which two passengers wer
st killed and sixteen wounded. .....A plague o
,. caterpilars has appeared in Alabama. go.
e Congressional nominations: Illinois, eight
y district, Geo. W. Parker Ind West Virginia
IL first, Benz. Wilson, Dem. Alabama, eighth
10 W. W. Garth, Dem. Kentucky, J. c. S. Black
W burn, Dem. 80. AT the Centennial regatt
Courtney and Robinson of the Union Spring
On. Y. } club won the double scull race in 81!
beating the Atalantas, of New York, and tn
Of Vespers, of Philadelphia. Downs and Eust
Is of the Atalanta crew won the pair oars i
N 10:1O% over the Nautilus, of New York, an
II Argonauts, of Bergen Point. -. The Serviar
~ defeated 50,0 900 attacking Turks before Alex
% nitz. "A prize fight in Delaware betwee
~ Fiddler Neary Of New York, and Dick Gillespi,
=, :, of Philadelphia, resulted in victory for til
! latter after thirteen rounds.
~ The Republicans of Tennessee resolved NJ
n to nominate candidate for governor. :.
at The Greenback party in Michigan has nom
m mated full State ticket. 80 Compression
I'D nominations Michigan, first district, Hem
M. Dufield, Rep; Michigan, third, Fidr
ne Livermore, Dem.; Michigan, ninth, John I
el Kilbourne, Dem, Ohio, sixth, Frank H. Hur
., Dem; Alabama, fifth, Il. 7. Sigon, Dem
~ Virginia, third, G.. @. Walker, Conservative
20 Pennsylvania, VIM. Ward, Rep; Missouri
tn twelfth, John M. Glover, DEM; Pennsylvani
II twenty-ftth, Geo. A jerks, DEM; West vi
n ginia second, B. f. Martin, DEM; low
q seventh, Andrew Hastie Greekback; Illinoi