Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1877-06-30
SUMMARY OF NEWS.
Interesting Item. from Home and Abroaa.


being an English army officer and an American
naval officer, who were beaten and maltreated
by them The arrest Of two men in De
eatur, ILL.,, for attempting TO pass counterfeit
money led TO the unearthing Of a large band
a counterfeiters and horse thieves whose
organization extends all through the West and
whose members number fully one hundred and
fifty persons, some of them being men..who have
been hitherto unsupported of criminal affilia-
tions. Before the fishery commission at
Halifax, N. S a British claim amounting to
nearly fifteen million dollars against the United
States has been presented 800. The entire class
of 80 of Princeton College has been suspended
by the faculty for hazing the members of
lOwer.class -. Postmaster General Key and
Public Printer DeFrees have written letters IN
support of the Presidents views of civil service
reform. . Selim Rinker, well-l1nown Texas
politician and treasurer of Galveston county in
that State committed suicide by shooting him
self through the head. -. In Boston the ami
versary of the battle of Bunker Hill was cele-
brated by meetings and addresses. :. General
g ant met number of distinguished literary
men in London at a breakfast entertainment
given in his honor by George W. Smalley, cor
respondent of the New York Tribune.
Much excitement was occasioned among the
Hebrews of New York by the refusal of the
managers of the Grand Union Hotel at Sara
toga-acting under orders from Judge Hilton,
manager of the estate of A. L. Stewart-to
rent rooms to Joseph Seligman, well-known
banker of New York. &c. Secretary Sherman
wrote letter to the syndicate appointed to
place the new loan on the market, declaring the
four per cent. bonds payable in gold. The
letter was written with the approval of the
President and cabinet The French Chamber
of Deputies censured the ministry by vote of
1868 to 1853. .... Nicholas Fish, son of ex-Secre-
tary Fish, has been appointed to the Swiss
to the American legations in Russia and Turkey
to observe the operations of the war. ... VIM.
II. Vanderbilt was reelected president of the
New York Central and Harlem railroads $50.
An outbreak among the Indians of idaho and
Oregon resulted in the killing of a number of
whites and the reported slaughter of Col. Perry
and half his command of one hundred troops,
who had gone to the relief OF the settlers
The engine, baggage and two passenger cars of
a train ten miles west of Washington, Iowa.
plunged through bridge twenty-five feet high
and number of persons were injured though
fortunately not dangerously. -. A number of
business houses in Burlington, Iowa, were
wholly burned or badly damaged by the flames
The pecuniary loss is about $225,000, and there
is an insurance of about $150000 The
commission of investigation appointed to ex-
anime the affairs of the bureau of engraving
and printing at Washington made report ex-
posing number of abuses and making several
recommendations
The city of st. Johns, N. B., was visited with
terrible calamity in the shape of fire
which swept through the place, leaving it a
mass of smoldering ruins. The fire broke out
in a boiler shop, and as a strong wind was
blowing at the time the flames spread with
startling rapidity and soon enveloped the whole
business part of the city, destroying hundreds
of business houses, lumber yards and dwell
inpa Several lost THAR Hyaa and O
great many were reported missing. The area
burned is two hundred acres and includes all
the public buildings, newspaper Offices and
three principal hotels. A number of vessels
and RATS laden with household goods were also
destroyed, and thousands of people were wan
dering through the Streets homeless. The
loss of property will amount to about fifteen
million dollars, on which it is not probable
there will be an insurance of more than six
million dollars. 49,. While five tramps were
asleep in deserted lime-kilns near Bridgeport,
Pa, the walls gave way and fell upon them,
crushing four to death and fatally injuring the
fifth. 49,. AT the twenty-fifth anniversary of
the Shields Guards, held at Auburn, n Y,
Governor Robinson, of New York, Governor
General Shields, we're present and made
S. eeches. When the " statement of William
NJ. Tweed-in which he promised to make i'm
portant disclosures duplicating prominent poll
ticians of both parties in acts of corruption,
provided his release was assured-was returned
to his counsel by the Encouragement of New
| York who declined to make use of it, threats
were made that the important document would
be given to the public notwithstanding the
State officials refusal to have anything to do
with it. Accordingly, John D. Townsend,
Tweeds counsel, has written long letter to
Acknowledgement Fairchild, charging him with
interested motives in not making use of Tweed's
statement, and giving the main portions OF
that paper, though the names. of the parties
against whom the ring prisoner offered to tes-
tfy are omitted, as is all specific information
or data that would tend to criminate any one.
The uprising of Indians in Idaho and Oregon
has resulted in the killing and wounding OF
over fifty white persons. Every man on Salmon
river is reported killed, although the women
and children were spared. go. An event almost
unprecedented in the criminal annals of the
! United States took place in Pennsylvania on
Thursday, June 81 On that day eleven men
were hung for murder Hugh Mcclellan James
Boyle, James Carroll, James Roarity, Thomas
Duffy and Thomas Munley, at Pottsville; Alex
ander Campbell Michael Doyle, Jack Donohue
and Edward Kelly, at Mauch Chunk, and
Andrew Lanahan, at Wllkesbarre. Extensive
preparations had been made to guard against
a rescue by friends of the condemned men, and
the militia was in readiness to quell any dis
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attempt was made to set fire to Pottsville early
in the morning without success. A reprieve
had been sent to Pottsville by the governor, tC
be used in favor of Duffy in case any of his
companions should make confession throwing
strong doubts upon his guilt but as nothing
occurred which gave cause for the interpositioI
of the reprieve, Duffy was hung with the rest
..... "A fiercely fought hand-to-hand battle be-
tween the Russians and Turks took place il
Asia Minor. The Turks were defeated after a
! desperate conflict. There was also battle OF
three days duration in Montenegro, in which
the Turks suffered immense losses without
| gaining any advantage. -. Thirteen lives were
lost at the fire in st. Johns, N. B.. AT fire
in Rondout, N Y, property worth about $780,.
900 was destroyed.
A long and bloody Indian war is feared il
Idaho During the recent outbreak there one
officer and thirty-three men were killed by the
savages and many of the white settlers fed to the
stockade fort at White creek 49,. Russia has
authorized a new loan for $160, 1000, 000....
| At a special performance of the Italian operf
in London, given in honor of General Grant
he appeared for the first time in full uniform
and was received by the entire audience stand
ing, while the performers sang the "Sta
| Spangled Banner" He left the opera early &
| go to the queens ball at Buckingham palace
~. A formidable raid has been made upol
illicit distilleries in Tennessee by revenue off
GERS, and fourteen were broken up in on
week. At one of the seizures fight tool
place and one distiller was killed and two wert
dangerously wounded. -. The Molders' Union
of Troy, N. Y, have ended a strike of eigh
months duration by resolving to allow mem
bers to work in any shop on any terms 80.
Three new cardinals have been created by tn
Pope >. The French Senate voted to dissolv
by $50 to 1870. -. Later reports from 81
John say that the number of lives lost b
the fire is eight, though several people ar
still missing. Relief from all parts of tn
country has been sent to the sufferers.
The passage of the Danube was made by tn
Russians at Galatz, nearly opposite Matchir
They crossed in boats with an army of six thou
| sand men. stormed the fortified heights Q