Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1877-04-21

the sale OF a greater amount Of corn in Balti-
more than had ever before been sold in one day
in that market. NJ. Blake created a sensation
in Williamsburgh, L. l., by returning 10 his
family after an absence OF sixteen years, during
which time he had never communicated with
his relatives, who supposed him dead .... One
hundred and twenty immigrants forty Of them
being miners from Pennsylvania, sailed from
New York for Australia ...... At a NEE ing Of
anti-Mormons in Salt Lake City, resolutions
were introduced petitioning Congress TO pro-
hibit polygamists from voting or holding Office
800. John Primatt, a Brooklyn On. " cigar
maker, after a prolonged debauch, attacked
his wife and another woman with a poker,
drove them from his lodgings, locked the door
and cut his throat with razor, bleeding to
death before assistance arrived. No APP
pointment of associate justice TO succeed David
Davis will be made until Congress meets in
June, and possibly not until December The
steamship Leo, from Savannah for Nassau, was
burned at sea, and four passengers and part of
the crew are supposed to have been lost ......
At Geneva, Ohio, a man named Potter shot and
killed his wife and then committed suicide.
James Gordon Bennett has purchased a resi-
dence in Paris and will remain abroad several
years. In Boston James +. Favor was held
in $4,000 bonds, charged with abducting Mary
L. Harrington. $50. Owing to a recent decision
of the New York court of appeals, it is likely
that an extensive war upon the liquor dealers of
New York will be commenced. ....l he President
has pardoned Charles +. Bruce, convicted of for
gerry. This is the first pardon granted by
President Hayes. 1.-The body of the youngest
daughter of P. T. Banum was taken to Bridge
port, Conn, for interment.
One hundred Indians, who claimed that they
had been deceived by Spotted Tail, in repre-
senting that they would be obliged only to give
up the arms taken in the Custer massacre
whereas the government insists on a general
disarmament-have again gone on the warpath.
E. -. Ten vacancies exist in the medical corps
of the United States army but none will be
filled until fall. Meanwhile, q board of
medical examiners will be organized, to meet in
New York, for the purpose of examining appli-
cants ....... 1t turns out that the Rev.
W. II. Scott the colored preacher, who was re-
ported as having been murdered in South
Carolina, is alive and well ...... Two prisoners
in Jail at Manchester, N. H., succeeded in
overpowering the turnkey, and after firing
three shots at the jailors wife, made good
their escape. I'm New York Joseph G. Brady,
a contractor and politician, quaTeled with
James Leahan, laborer in his employ, and
with whom he had been drinking, and was
knocked down, receiving fractured skull.
Counsel for Stirling convicted of the murder
of little girl in Youngstown, Ohio, and who
was reprieved by the governor, claim that the
reprieve was equivalent to q pardon, and have
begun proceedings for illegal detention
George Beatty, waiter in the Grand Central
Hotel, New York, shot and severely wounded
James Larney, fellow waiter ...... N. P. Car
ter, q New York commission merchant was
beaten senseless and robbed by highwaymen in
st. Louis.