Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1876-10-07
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
What lie Doing In the Old World and the
New.

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the military stations, and the Indians say
they are tired Of fighting. 49,. The number of
grand lodges of Odd Fellows in the United
States, as shown by the last report, is forty
eight; subordinate lodges, $685. grand en-
campments, thirty-nine; subordinate encamp-
ments, 1,756 lodge limitations, 5O,04S; lodge
members, asa $50; encampment members, ST.
$50; total relief, 81 O9s, s68. 90; total revenue,
s4714.241.7O The report of the grand secre-
tary shows the total amount expended for re-
lief, for the period embracing the years 1880 |
TO December 81, 1875, to bs $22. 27S, 1856 69, |
and the total receipts for the same time, $780, |
035, 926.52. =. The official returns Of the State
election in Maine give a total vote Of 1856, 400
Conner, 7571O; Talbot, 69,25 scattering,
$40. Connor's majority over Talbot is Is, 459.
This is the largest vote ever polled in the
State by about five thousand. One hundred
and twenty Republican representatives and
twenty nine Democrats we're elected .. :. At
the Hot Springs, Virginia, recently, young
married couple arrived from Cincinnati, tho
husband suffering from disease Of the heart.
After remaining two days the husband
died suddenly. His wife became a maniac
on the spot. Neither husband nor wife were
more than twenty-five years Of ago.. Tho
steamer Canadian, from Montreal for Eng
land, grounded on the coast Of Ireland and is
a total loss. No lives were lost. During
the late gale many vessels were wrecked Oh
the Atlantic andagulf coasts.
The schooner Charles p. Sinnickson, while
at anchor near Indian river filed and sunk
during the storm. The captain, mate, one
seaman and boy were drowned. ..... During
the storm which prevailed in the West Indies
the schooner Mary A. D., of Lunenburg, was
lost with all hands on board. 49,. The steamer
Rebecca Clyde, from Wilmington, N. c., for
Baltimore, went to pieces off Pamlico sound.
Capt. Childs, two mates, two engineers, three
seamen, the steward, two coalheavers and one
passenger named Whildon were lost -. E.
Mrs. Levi HEDGE OF Lowell, Mass, COM
mitted suicide by cutting her throat. Lewis
Graves, residing at Norwich, N. Y, committed
suicide by cutting his throat -. Nathaniel
Highbee, of Mamaroneck, N. Y, was found
dead on the railroad track with a long and
deep cut in his back. e. Congressional nomi-
nations In the fourth Maryland district, DR.
James Il. Butler, by the Republicans. First
district of New Jersey, by the Democrats,
Charles II. Zimmerman.
One hundred thousand tons of Pittston coal
sold in New York at prices ranging from 50
to 1915 per ton ..... In the Beaver court, in
the Mountain Meadow massacre case, Judge
in, IN fba i,,ru "A,
The prisoner, J. D. Lee, stands before you
charged with being participant in one of the
most adocious massacIes of human beings-
OF men, women and children-in the Mountain
Meadows in 1857, that ever was known in any
civilized world. The evidence shows that the
persons killed were immigrants. For several
days previous to the massacre combination
of Indians and white men had been making
attacks on their encampment. Indians and
white men We'd with each other in the fendish
work OF destroying over one hundred and
twenty men, women snd children. 1t has
been alleged that Lee shot one woman with 8
gun and cut the throat of another telling an
Indian not to spare the life of a young woman
who the savage asked him to save" The
jury brought in verdict of guilty of murder
in the first degree ..... Gen. Howard expects
trouble with the Indians in the far Northwest
unless arrangements are made to pGcify them
... The case Of Thomas Duffy, another Of
: the 'Moly Mcguire" conspirators, who il
accused Of being accessory before the fact tx
the murder of Policeman Yost, at Tamaqu&
, was given to the jury at Pottsville and yer
dict Of murder in the first degree was re
? turned. This is the ninth conviction for muir
: der Of members Of this organization. -.
, John K. Tarbox was renominated to Congress
by the seventh Massachusetts district Demo
cratic Congressional convention.
New York city is flooded with visitors .....
? The Northfeld bank robbers have at last beer
! hunted down and captured by the citizens c
, Dakota, after desperate fight, in which on
was killed and the other three seriousl
wounded ... At Eatontown, N. j., jealou
Pole murdered bis faithless wife and thel
committed suicide by shooting himself .....
The American and Irish teams competed q
G their return match, at Creedmoor, near Ney
York city, which resulted in victory for tn
: former by eleven points, the score standing
= 1,165 for the Americans to l, 1874 for the Irish
3 At the end of the match at eight hundre
I yards the Americans had lead OF fifteel
| points, which was increased to thirty-two a
l the close Of the shooting at nine hundre
yards distance. Col. Farwell, however, 'wen
to pieces" at one Thousand yards, making 81
misses in his score and bull's-eye on tn
> wrong target, and closed with only total o
, 1875 points The remaining FIVE mon made al
] average Of two hundred points per man, ant
, thus enabled the team to hold it's own. Gen
: Dakin made 20S, followed by Mr.. Rathbon
l with 204, while Millner led the Irish team
: with 2O6 The scores at the close of the rang
3 at eight hundred yards stood Americans, 409
? Irish, 1914 at nine hundred yards, Americans
+ 1856, Irish, 1859, and at the one thousand yard
; range, Irish, SOL; Americans, $40. The Amer
cans have won all three Of the matches-tw
at Creedmoor and one in England.
/, A frightful accident occurred at an earl
hour in the morning, at Black Lick Station, o.
, the Pan Handle railroad, about twelve mile
from Columbus, Ohio. The train was runnin
: at the rate of perhaps forty miles per hour, an
Y from some cause four cars of the train jumpe
1 the track and rolled down an embankment
D which is some twenty-five or thirty feet hig
t at that place. -Four persons were killed and
y large number severely injured. -. Near RAJ
ston, Forest county, Pa, newly opened lum
boring hamlet two cabins, occupied by Georg
: Parks and Daniel Cooper, wood choppers
employed by the Pennsylvania lumber com
- ,anv uaya uaabad domn thu mountain side in