Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1876-06-10
SUMMARY OF NEWS.


ger0us commercials OF the denomination Of 20 /
are afoAt on thefollowing named banks, and
persons are advised to refuse all bills Of that
denomination. The banks will call in all their
circulation at once and Issue new bills First |
National Bank OF Chicago, ILL.,; Traders Ma |
tional Bank of Chicago, ILL.,; Merchants Ma
tional Bank of Chicago, Ill; First National !
Bank Of Aurora, H.; First National Bank Of |
Paxton, ILL.,; First National Bank Of Peru Ill 4; |
First National Bank Of Galena, Ill. (no such |
bank. The msjority of Mssouri's dele
gates to the Republican national convention
are in favor of Blaine. ... New Hampshire
did not instruct her Republican delegates, but
most of them are Blaine men ...... Illinois
sends Blaine Democrats $685.. Nebraska in
structed her delegates to vote for Blaine. 80.
Minnesota delegates will advocate Blaine. -.
Michigan's Democrats appointed delegates
who favor Tilden. The large Boston cloth
ing house of Beard, Mouton & Daniels has
failed ...... Hayti is still in an unsettled con-
dition ...... Fifty thousand children were in
line on Anniversary day in Brooklyn, N. Y.
...... -Four murderers we're taken from the
sheriff of Abbevile county, S. O. by crowd
Of three hundred persons and shot to death
..... John Calhoun, of Rochester, N. Y, shot
his wife in the back, inaioting dangerous
wound, and then shot himself fatally.
Three men were killed in Philadelphia by
the falling of brick store which had become
undermined. -. President Grant has issued
a proclamation calling attention to the resolu-
ton of Congress recommending that the peo-
pie Of each county or town throughout the
country appoint some person to deliver an
historical sketch OF such town or county on
the fourth OF July, and that such sketch be
preserved in the county records and copy
sent to the librarian of Congress, that true
history of the entire country may be acquired.
$50. Mrs. Jennie Bruce and her daughter
Mamie, with Robert Drinkard, were killed by
the cars on a railroad bridge near Danville, Ill.
......T The second Of the series of mustang
races against time took place on Fleetwood
track near New York city. In the first race
the rider undertook to ride thirty horses 305
miles in fifteen hours and failed from exhaus-
ton when his work Was only half done. In
the second race Francisco Perslto rode 155
miles in six hours, fifty-eight minutes and
forty-three seconds, winning the race by one
minute and seventeen seconds, his time being
seven hours. The race was begun at twelve
o'clock, noon. The rider is only twenty-onC
years Of age, a native OF California. He die
, not appear to be greatly fstigued after the
race. .... Alabamas delegates to the Republi
can convention favor Morton .. CaliforniS
| sends her Democratic delegates uninstructed
) but they favor Tilden. -. The Democrats O.
Kentucky send an uninstructed delegation tt
6 vote as unit. Nine midshipmen of thu
second and third classes at Annapolis hav,
; been elected from the academy for pilferinj
l gentlemen's furnishing goods belonging to
Baltimore drummer.
The Durham Lawn herd Of shorthorns wer
> sold at Chicago. Sixty-ive cattle realizes
over $4,000 the average price for COWS be
ing $1136, and for bulls 1914 Twenty w
young men, sons of wealthy Cincinnatians
who went to the Black Hills for frolic an
d sightseeing, we're attacked by Indians in tn
| neighborhood of Custer City and eleven o
t them killed. 80. Dubutfe's renowned paintin
? OF "The Prodigal Son" while ON exhibition il
s Cincinnati, was destroyed by fire. Loss, $780,
1 00O insured $25 900. .... Gov. Tilden ha
committed the death sentence of Andrea
{ Fuchs, who murdered Simmons in Brooklyn
to Imprisonment for life. -. VIM. Sextor
= the American, won the first prize in the intel
i national billiard match at Philadelphia. -.
: Thomas W. Piper was executed in Boston fc
| of
:, tower. Piper confessed to three murders pre-
=. vious to his death. BE exhibited no trepids
ton under the gallows and died easily. -.
4 Samuel J. Frost who killed his brother.in-lav
t Towne near Worcester Mass, and afterwar
d cut the body in pieces and buried them, wa
1t hanged in the jail at Worcester. The fall {
:, Frost on the scaffold was 80 great as to seve
8 the vetebra in the neck and open a horribl
|, cash in his throat from which the blood spurte
l. at each pulsation Of the heart, to the agony {
. the spectators, who were almost paralyzed
= the sight The head was connected with til
y body only by the ligatures.
= Nine men were hanged by mob in JAG
II county, Texas, and six in Erath, Ga, for hors
g stealing. The London (Eng) Stdnddr
n says that one hundred tons Of gunpowder an
d one million cal 'ges have been dispatche
> from Woolwich to Gibralter, Malta and I'll
n Mediterranean feet, and all available workme
W are to be placed at work on the ships of wa
10 and general preparations for war made.
Long Island, N. Y, and all over the State
New Jersey is being ravaged by the potat
hun nd bn in hos
+ localities is small. ..... A dispatch to the Lol
L don Times announces that the Servian militi
g numbering 10000 men, with three hundre
u pieces of artillery, are ready for action 49,.
!, Official information has been received
Washington that the Turkish government
e engaged in Furnishing persons engaged in IL
~ riot, which took place at Salonica betwee
4 Turks and Christians and in which the FrenC
"a and German consuls were killed, and IL
e sentences are severe, some to capital punisl
3 ment and others to hard labor for life.
y Four entire blocks of buildings in Midlan
B. Mich, were destroyed by fire. Loss, $3.50, O00..
z, Two thousand men changed the entire lengt
et of the Delaware and Lackawana railroad to
narrow gauge in one Sunday. =. Gushing, I'll
- pedestrian, walked 1876 consecutive hours d
u Quoting only five minutes from each hour Il
- rest, at Syracuse ...... G. M. D. Bloss, one
the editors of the Cincinnati Enquirer, was il
stahtly killed while walking on the track
the Little Miami railroad, near Branch Hi
% :. San Quentin, Cal. lis greatly excited over IL
II discovery of rich gold prospects by lahore
-" while excavating for a new workshop in Il
- penitentiary at that place.