Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1876-01-29
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
What is Doing In the Old World and IN
New.

Gloucester, England. has been towed into
Aberdeen, Scotland, disabled. She lad been
sixty-seven days on the passage, aud the crews
were furnishing and otherwise unfit for duty.
The water ration was teacupful each day.
The freights from New York west have been |
advanced slightly ..... The ladies Of Boston /
have presented handsome banners to the /
Washington Light Infantry OF Charleston, the I
Norfolk Light Artillery the Fifth Maryland, |
and the Washington Light Infantry OF Wash |
ington, ID. c., az mementoes of the Bunker
Hill centennial. Masters of vessels are
warned to keep away from the whole Spanish
coast east of Bilbao, as Carlist batteries are
stationed at intervals all along the shore and
FIRE at anything that approaches $500. The
City of Brooklyn, from New York, ran down
an Italian bark off Ireland, and sunk her,
three OF the crew drowning IA bill was in
troduced into the Ohio House to request
President Grant to dismies his selatives from
Office and appoint Union soldiers in their
places. .... The storeship Supply sailed from
Europe to collect articles for the Centennial.
.. There were over three hundred con-
versions at Newburgh, N. Y, during Mrs. Van
Colts revival. .... The Democrats of Texas
nominated full State ticket, headed by Rich
ard Coke for governor ...... Frank Scott
colored, was hanged in the jailyard, at Nom
phis, Tenu., for the murder Of Ransom
Phipps, colored, on Christmas eve., 1874. He
hanged at Jackson, Tenn, and Bill Williams,
cOlored, at Bartlett
The report of the librarian OF Congress
shows there are in the library at present $685.,
5O7 books and 10000 pamphlets. He earnestly
petitions for new building ...... All the shoe
manufactures of Rochester, N. Y, are shut
down, as the Crspips will not accede to a
twenty per cent. reduction Of wages . City
Administrator Brown reports tho city debt
of New Orleans to be over $21, 900, 600. An
effort will soon be made to compromise with
the bondholders at sixty cents on the dollar,
the city issuing new consolidated bonds at
this rate in lieu of the outstanding obligations
......A train filed with military recruits ran
off the track and plunged down an embank-
ment near Odessa, Russia. The wrecked cars
caught fire before all the men could be extri-
Gated, and many were burned to death. The
total number Of persons killed was sixty eight,
and fifty-four wore injured several fatally So.
Late advices from Khodien say it is estimated
that $4,000 insurgent Turcomans are assem-
bled in the neighborhood of Andijan, which is
expected to be the chief theater of the war.
Andijan has been fortified, and is capable Of
off Of rasistSnnn A1n,,e Mo
Iver was hanged at Winnipeg, Canada, for
murder. He maintained to the last that the
night Of the murder was blank to him. .....
At Osborn, Mo-, burglars broke into drug
store and stole a bottle of chlorotorm, with
which they drugged the whole town. They
robbed both hotels, all the stores, and many
private residences. They secured severa
Thousand dollars and escaped. A At Mil
waukee new Geographic invention was tried
and sixteen messages were sent over one wire
at once. An additional horticultural build
ing is to be erected on the Centennial grounds
! to accommodate the applicants for space il
which to exhibit flowers, plants, ETC. -. Gov
Tilden has declined to pardon Stokes, wht
killed Fisk. ..,.. Hugh Murray died in Brook
lyd, N. Y, from hydrophobia, the result of
bite from a cat.
, The direct cable is again in working order
, the break having boon found about 124 mile
from Nova Scotia. ..... John Knight strucl
his wife with his fist, in New York, knocking
her down flight of stairs and through glas
, door. The broken glass cut her throat, an
,I,a i'll, -.ls,.
commanded the raids on the American / order
0 has been released by the Mexican authorities
1 ..... The Pope has handed to the Bavaria
\ ambassador at the vatican protest agsine
the violation by Bavaria of the concordst b
a the enactment of the civil marriage law. Tn
/ Bavarian government does not intend to motto
". the protest. A dispatch from the seat @
y the Herzegovinisn war states that over thre
/ hundred soldiers have been frozen to deaf
. near Douza, and many are in hospital frol
l.. frost bite 80. Haml the oarsman, is deat
J. Austria is calling out her reserve troop
Il and the signs pointing to the occupation {
@ Bosnia by the Austrians multiply, and th
a places where the troops are to cross the Unn
river are already fixed. Serious disturbance
occurred at the place of the miners strike,
Charleroi, Belgium. The military were oblige
to interfere, and several persons were kille
or wounded. A battalion of guards went
4 the scene of the troubles. Burgess, colore,
;, confined in Baton Rouge La.) Jail for killing
white man, was hanged by mob.
" The Prince of Wales arrived at Delhi on h
n tour through India ...... When the Egyptian
= occupied the Zanzibarian town of Bravo, tt
soldiers obstructed the way of Mr.. Kirk, IL
y British consul, and the Egyptian officer
command refused to apologize, whereupc
10 Mr.. Kirk ordered up the English man-of-w
e Thetis, and threatened to lombard the TOW
g If an apology Was not forthcoming before
T. specified time. The Egyptian officer apologize,
e. an honr before the expiration OF the time, b
"a the Thetis was already cleared for action. .
n The German government has determined
~ liberate Cardinal Ledochowski unconditional
at the expiration of his term of Imprisonment
' but he will be closely watched, and aga
20 arraigned if he infringes the ecclesiastic
u laws. 49,. Antoine Martens, a cigar dealer
le New York. became jealous Of a man nam
I'd Rogers, who was somewhat attentive to MI
le Martens, aud returning from the street o.
evening and finding Rogers in their livil
" room, back of the store, drew pistol and fir
~ at him four times, mortally woundRg him.
;, Martens then blew his own brains out IT
:, jury in the trial of Geo. d. Lord for alleg
~ canal frauds at Buffalo, N. Y, reported th
they could not agree, and were according
% discharged ..... Chas. O'Conor, the not
On Iavver who hos baan raneotodIr oi,,or