Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1877-03-03
SUMMARY OF NEWS,
rHieresiinS Item. from Home and Abroad.

Sii WINE on the seshOld, appeared penitent
anu calm and besought the spectators to put
made written offer Of $500 to Secretary Chan
uier i0r his favorable decision in q land con-
tSSS the secretary turned the papers over to
inc proper authorities. who arrested the man
'..... The Lehigh and WillIesbarre coal COM
Pany has been put in the hands of two re-
eelyers. Revenue officers assisted by United
states troops, captured thirty illicit stills
ana eiShty-four men working them in the
mountains IN the northern part of Georgia
FRIENDS OF the captured distillers ambushed
the revenue party at night, and in the ensuing
hght Lieut.. Mcintyre, of the regular army, was
shot and killed. A detachment sent next
morning 70 recover the body had skirmish
with the distillers, in which three of the latter
were Killed IA treasury call has been issued
LOT the redemption of ten millions of $40 bonds
OF the Issue of Msy and November, 1865
SLO0O,OO0 being coupon and r3,00O,0O0 regis
Tered. This makes the thirty-ninth call. 800.
The Importation of cattle aud hides from Ger
many to this country will NJ longer be per-
mitted on account OF rinderpest i'm the former
country -. Deputy United states Marshal
ii. IL. Hughes was shot and killed by two des-
peradoeS whom he attempted to arrest for MUIR
DER near Independence, Mo. -. Eight Prince
EDWARD Island vessels are fifty days overdue,
ana Tears are entertained for their safety.
The festival of Mardi Gras was appropriately
celebrated III New Orleans and Memphis by
street parades aud balls ...A man giving his
u me as 5. ID. GOoding was lodged in Jill at
POughkeepSie, N. T.. charged with swindng
Dutchess county farmers in the sale of corn shell
lerS, Whereby lac obtained their Signatures to
alleged receipts. when in fact they were notes
for various sums. He has also been operating
III Phtntn county. The council of the UNI
verSlty of the City Of New York has decided 10
admit female students 49,. he body of Col.
JOha q IahDlev, the lie Vi Fe liln chief after
tHing IN state for five days in the armOrv of the
New York Sixty *iuth regiment. was taken to
Europe, accompanied 10y ii guard of honor
An LII Il IN runner brought III the intelligence to
III" lied Cloud agency to the effect that few
weeks pre'iout eight hundred lodges of Crazy
Horse ) warrlor1, enclmped On the Tongue
river dlScoyere between three and tour hum
urrd United State, sol liers marching upOn
the Ii whereupon they threw forth few war
rior5 as decoys, while the main body of Indians
formed an ambuSc tde i'll CANYON III order to
annlhil tie the soldiers. The troops did not
follow ~ the decoys and thus saved them
selve' from deadly ambuscade Mrs Nellie
whistler who WIS acting as postinistreSs at
North Liberty, Ohio, eloped with a school
teacher and three days afterward was arrested
for having ab1tracted valuable letters from the
ma. One man was killed and two others
badly injurel by railway collision near Eagle
Bridge N. Y.
arrested in Washington for collision with q
Now York attorney 10y means of which they
sWlntled holders of regi tered bonds out of q
great part of their interest money. -. The de
tectlve force have inst effected the arrest of
James Dunlap. Robert Scott and VIM. Connors,
the robbers, who, in January, 1876 entered the
house of Cashier Whittlesey at Northampton
Mass, and at the nluzzle of pistol compelled
him to go to the bank where he was en-
pioyed and open the vault, from which they
took money and securities to the value of
7500OO, with which they escaped. re at
urbana, N. y destroyed a number of buildiRgs,
and caused a loss of 82S, 600. number of
bodies having been stolen from the graveyards
of Rising Sun, Ind, great excitement prevailed,
and on the burial of little girl, her friends
employed two men to watch the grave at night.
The mayor also detailed two men for the
same duty, neither party knowing of the others
acton. AT night both patrols met at the grave,
and each installing the otherfor "bodysnatch-
ers opened fire, resulting in the serious
wounding of two of the men .Maurace
Hoyt aged eighty-fve years, the oldest Mason
in New York State, died at Warwick A
terrible exploslon'has taken place in one of the
coal mines at Graissessac, in the department of
Herault, France Fifty-fve miners are known
to have persisted ..... Col Gordon, the African
explorer, has been appointed, by the khedive
OF Egypt, governor of the entire province of
Soudan, Africa Sitting Bull and Crazy
Horse have sent two petty chiefs to Gen. Crook,
slgnlfyiDg their anxiety to secure favorable
terms of peace They want the peaceful head
chief of the Sioux, Spotted Tail, sent to them
with proper terms and they will follow him
back. .... Four counterfeiters were arrested at
Dubuque, Iowa, and in their possession was
found all the implements for making five, ten
ana fifty cent silver pieces.
A terrible boiler explosion occurred at the
in
persons were killed or fatally injured, and many
badly injured The Pacific and interior
States of Mexico have all given in their al
legiance to Gen. DiaZ, $50. The British steam
ship J. B. Walker cleared from New Haven,
Conn, for Constantinople with the following
cargo for the Turkish government: Ten mil
lions Snider cartridges, 100000 Winchester
cartridges, 5,8n0,000 Martini shells, 5000 900
bullets $4,000 Martini guns, $500 Martini
scsbbards the whole valued at 41,O4S, COS. 49,.
Gov. Packard of Louisiana, had narrow es-
cape from assassination at the hands of young
man calling himself VIM. H. Weldon, of Phila-
delphia. As the governor was conversng in his
private room, correspondent of the Philade-
phiG Press was announced and admitted. No
sooner was the person allowed in the room
than Mr.. Packard found himself with pistol
pointed at his head. He promptly knocked the
weapon down and it was exploded at his feet,
the ball taking effect in the governors knee,
u
derer was Immediately shot in the arm by a
gentleman present and secured. with an accom-
plice in waiting outside the building. Weldon
claims to have associates in the crime. Re
ports from Dakota Territory are filled with ac-
counts of Indian depredations. -Four schoon-
ers were wrecked in Chesapeake bay, and while
the crew of the Delemay were saved, it is
known that the htnds of the Calhoun were
lost. Extensive smuggling operations be-
tween Canada and this country have been I'M
earthel by the revenue officers, who succeeded
in are|ting two of the men. ..... $75, 900 DAM
age was inflicted on the St. elk of dry goods in
Edward Malley's store in New Haven, Conn, by
fIe. ... The body of young lady was found
in Jefferson, Texas, tn the face so mutilated
a. to defy identification for time, but it is now
definitely settled that the remains are those OF
Mrs. Kirby, of Bal more, Md, who eloped with
her sisters husband, one Ferguson, after be-
ing bride for few months only. 1t is sur
missed that Ferguson was the murderer
Mrs Rose Massimino, of New York, after be-
ing married few months, confessed to hel
husband that previous to marriage her father
Antonio Leon. had treated her with the mos
inhuman gro ,Bness The husband declined t.
have more to do with the father thereafter ant
would not let him enter the house The father
fearful of his daughters confession becoming
known, the result of which would be his incar
ceration in "rison, was furious. A few morn
lh6s later ne went 10 hl8 daughters apart
ment, and announcing 81 have come to xii
you," shot her, beat in her skull with thu
butt of his pistol stabbed her a dozen time
and kicked her brutally, finally leaving he
bloody mass of wounds under tho belief tia
she was dead. .... Winslow, the treasury clell
who stole the S1l, 200 package of greenback
some time since. when put on trial pleaded
guilty and admitted hat the free use of opium
had demoralized his better faculties. He wa
convicted and sentenced to eighteen months
imprisonment. -. Tying & Brothertons grail
elevator at PEORIA ILL.,, was destroyed by fire
Loss, $4,000 insurance, 1872 600 49,. Thos
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