Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1876-03-18
SUMMARY OF NEWS.

Items OF Interest from Home and broRd
The cessation of the civil war in Spain was
celebrated in all the large towns of the coun.
try. Work on the railways and roads will be
at once commenced. . Don Carlos has been
ordered by the French authorities away from
Pau. 1t is reported that he is going to Eng
land. -. Russia has incorporated Khoksnd
among her possessions, and appointed General
Scobeleff governor of the province. ... 1t is
rumored that the Herzegovinian insurgents
will reject the reforms proffered by Turkey,
and they invite the Bosnian chief to cooperate
with them. go. The national rifle association
of great Britain will not be represented at the
Centennial rifle contest for the championship
of the world. .. Reports from the inundated
districts of Hungary state that one hundred
manufactures and fifty other buildings at
New Pesth have been undermined and fallen.
1t is feared that when the waters retire vast
number Of houses in Buda and other places
along the river will fall Twelve thousand
out of the eighteen thousa' d Inhabitants
of Althofen are homeless. ... Hon. Henry @.
Robinson was nominated by the Republicans
of Connecticut for governor, on e hard money,
free school, anti-third term platform. The
convention offered to the national convention
the claims Of Marshal Jewell for President.
Mr.. Marsh, OF New York city, appeared
before the United States House committee on
war expenditures, in obedience to a subpoena,
AID testified that he had procured of Mr..
Belknap, secretary of war, 8 contract for GER
tain post traderships at Fort Sill and other
points in the souIhwest, for which he paid the
wife of the secretary &c. 1000 cash, and con-
tinued to pay as long as he retained the same
$4,000 per annum. The secretary admitted
the charge and at once rendered his resigna-
ton to the President. The affair created
deep sensation in the whole country. William
| Worth Belknap was born in Iowa, in 1881, and
is now forty-ive years of age He graduated
at the New Jersey College in 1S48, and prac-
ticed law for several years, and served term
in the Ohio legislature. He served through
the war, and commanded division under
Sherman in the West. He was appointed
collector of internal revenue, and at the death
of Secretary of War John J. Rawlins, was
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cancy.
Col. Gordon, the Egyptian explorer, has
returned to Cairo, after unsucoessfully en-
deavoring to survey equatorial Africa.
Spain is about to send thirty thousand men to
Cuba. 80. The entry of the Alfonsist troops
into Madrid is to be celebrated by three days
bull fights and other festivities. . The direct
cable has been again repaired, and is nov
in good working order. The officers claim
that the eds of the broken cable showed
conclusively that it had been cot from malice.
......A Vienna dispatch reports that fifty-fve
Hungarian villages near the Austrian border
are entirely submerged, the water over some
Of them being nineteen feet deep. :. General
Sheridan wants two more military posts in the
Black Hills country, and thinks he can build
them for 5000, 000.. -. Minister Schenck pub
lished card in the London papers declaring
the statements about him in regard to the
Emma mine as q tissue of infamous false
hoods, and stated that he had leave of absence
and would leave Immediately for the United
States TO confront his calumniators. Eight
ladies graduated from the Boston medical
school this year. Portugal's contribution
to the Centennial is about ready for shipment.
..... The clerk of the Bingham House, Phila-
delphia, was found guilty under the civil rights
law for refusing room to a colored clergy.
man. -. The February statement from the
Treasury department shows the total debt
to be $2,232, $40, 499.7O less cash in the
treasury, $2,11s, 233, O39.SO; decrease during
the month, SO, 272, 1873.
Mr. Chss oConor has resumed the manage