Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1876-04-01
SUMMARY OF NEWS.
Intere.rins Item. from Home and Abroad.

lOececs ana the hogssinAAu AAhB has eoAOo AoA
peace. .. New Hampshire was carried by the
Republicans by about one thousand majority
both branches Of the legislature are largely
Republican. There was considerable excite
ment, but no disturbances, notwithstanding
the fact that an unusually large vote was
polled o. The Senate voted to restore the
Presidents salary to $4,000 ..... Samuel
Downing's residence at Salmon Falls, N. H.,
was destroyed by fire, and his blind mother
persisted in the flames. -. Michael Mcconnell
was hanged at Hamilton, Ont, for the murder |
OF Nelson Mills. He died asserting his inno- |
cence of purpose to do murder 800. There
is deficit of $1,000 in the accounts Of John |
Il. Magee, treasurer Of Ottawa county, Ohio.
BY the caving in Of drain at Toronto,
Cam, two laborers were suffocated ......
Heavy gales prevailed throughout France.
England and Germany, and an immense
amount OF damage was done, the telegraph
lines suffering especially. Shipping disasters
occurred all along the coast. Commercial
circles Of New York city were considerably
startled by the announcement OF the closing
of the national bank of the State of New York,
with deficit Of 81, OOO, 900. The loss, which
falls on the stockholders, is due to mismansge-
ment Three men we're crushed in board
ing house by snow slide at 0phir, Utah.
Gen. Gideon Pillows residence, near Mem
phis, Tenn, was sold at bankrupt sale for $40,
and Immediately presented to Mrs. Pillow
The place was worth $1,000, but there was no
competition. Peko Paulovich with force
of 1850 insurgents, attacked $500 Turks at
Muratovizza and only 700 survived. VIM.
Ross, Of Otter Greek, Ind, stole two bushels
of wheat to keep his family from starvation
but when he heard the matter bad been laid
before the grand jury, he committed suicide,
, leaving a wife and eight children ..... In the
recent battle between the Abyssinians and
| Egyptians the former numbered about GO, 600
and the latter 10000. AS the king sued for
peace, the khedive sent dispatches, and it is
| generally considered that the war is over. 49,.
G. B. L. Fellows, mayor of Ottawa Canada, is
dead =. In consequence Of excesses by Turkish
troops on the border, the Servian troops have
been sent to the frontier. .....A letter from
Mazatlan, Mexico, says the revolutionists are
gathering in that neighborhood, and securing
arms, horses and recruits e. The Japanese
Corean difficulty has been satisfactorily set
tied -. =. Senior Latorre has assumed the
direction Of the Truguayan government. .....
The rinderpest has attacked the cattle in the
neighborhood of Yeddo, Japan ...., The en-
to this country to travel in their private capa-
city.
Queen Victoria will shortly visit Germany in
her private capacity, travelling inoognita. .....
The English ship Great Britain, Capt, Chill
colt, sailed from Doboy for Liverpool, and
shortly afterward encountered unusually tenn
pestuous weather, during which the vessel be-
came waterlogged. The captain and crew
then took to the boat, in which they suffered 30
terribly from hunger that when three Of the
men died the remainder fed ON their bodies.
The boatload was finally rescued in an ex-
hsusted condition. Four of the crew had died
from exposure and eleven from drowning. =.
The italian minister of public instruction has
ordered tho university styled tho Vatican uni
versity to be closed, it being an illegal estab-
lishment. .... A locomotive and eight cars on
the Atlantic and Pacific railroad went through
bridge over the Merrimack river, destroying
a great deal of property, The engineer was
killed and number Of the train hands injured.
by the capsizing of the British ship
Erimenides, from Port Royal, s. c., for Gre
mock, the captain and twelve Of the crew we're
! drowned. . -. The Cuban yacht Octavis has
been captured by the Spanish gunboat Cortes.
She had on board munitions of war for the
} Cubans. E. Joseph Strauss, president of the
New York Alsace-Lorraine society, committed
suicide by shooting himself through the head
on account of monetary troubles. .Protec'
ton was defeated in the Canadian Parliament
..... Gen. George L. Cooke is the Democratic
nominee for governor of Rhode Island D.. The
Congressional appropriation bill saves 81,
49, 455 in salaries. E. Henry Aston, of POUCH
keepsie, one Of the famous Astor family, wal
sued by father for manning his little girl b!
striking her, and the jury found verdict TO
SIC, 900 against Mr.. Astor.
. The opera house at Springfield, ILL.,, woltl
2 $4,000, was totally destroyed by fire.. ....
Assemblyman Wilcox, who attacked reporte
{ of the Chronicle in tho Senate chambers a
D Sacramento, CAL, was found guilty of assault
r and sentenced to pay fine OF $780, CanAd
has commenced forwarding her goods to tn
1 Centennial. So. The railway bridge over til
Q river Ill, near Lutterbsch, France, was g
1 weakened by the recent floods that it CAV
way while passenger train WAS crossing, pre-
cipitating all the coaches into the stream
i which was deep and rapid with the flood
Nearly all on board were killed by bein
crushed or drowned; although the number O
victims is unknown at present, eiIty bodie
= have already been recovered. -. Three Q
: the most prominent Montenegro officials hav
gone to the insurgent camp to induce thei
. countrymen to stop fighting, and to proven
/ foreigners from joining them by way of tn
{ Montenegrin frontier. The Groboes attacke
. the Liberian (African) town Of Topman, bu
/ we're repulsed with heavy loss. The Unite
1 States frigate Alaska having arrived at Cap
/ Palmas, the captain was asked to arbitrate be
II tween the two powers. A speedy settlemer
Il OF the difficultesis anticipated. st. Patrick
j. day was appropriately celebrated in nearly a
the cities throughout the country 4. E. Ger
It Cooke declined the nomination for governc
}, rendered by the Democrats Of Rhode Island
9 80, Gen. Sherman expressed confidence i
q President Grant and Gen. Babcock in speec
: at st. Louis. 80. Mrs. Ann Hammond, q HARD
working Irish widow, the only support of fiv
children, was brutality murdered in house i
q New York in which she was at work. Thoma
) j. Bartell, boarder in the house, was al
t rested for the crime and bloody wristband
It found in his pocket, which had been cut fror