The Lamoille news. (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1877-1881, 1877-11-21
SUMMARY OF NEWS.
Eastern and Middle States

A banquet was given in New York 10 Mr..
Juuius & Morgan. an American, who removed
10 London nearly twenty-five years ago 70
become the partner Of George Peabody, me
south. East and West brought Populations OF
the weAlthiest citizens of the country, while
New York city was represented by IT, foremost
men in commerce. finance and politics. Nesriy
eve ono present was q miiliouairc, some rep
rt,senting over $50 000.e COO Among the guests
were Governors Rice and Hartr4nft, OF MAssa-
chusetts and Pennsylvania eX-Goyefnors III
den and Morgan, % New YORK; CYRUS W. Field,
August Belmont, Thomas a. Scott, and Robe
Garrett presidents Of the Pennsylvania rail-
roads; George W. Childr, % the Philadelphia
Le,lFT Peter Cooper and host Of others.
Doth branches OF the New York Legislature
will be slightly Republican.
Charles S. Caffray's carriage factory at Cam
den n j., was entirely destroyed by lire, ana
a loss incurred Of Ss7, 900, ON which there IS
1000 insurance.
During meeting Of the New York Liberal
Club, held in the lecture room OF the College
OF Physicians and Surgeons, number OF medi-
cal udents present showed their disappfoba'
ton Of the subject discussed by Creating dis
..irba &C. and after being elected several
times and always returning, two Of them we're
arrested by the police and locked up.
At York Lynn, Del, the snuif mills Of VIII
lam f. Garrett & Sons were entirely burned
causing loss of over 100000, en- which there
is 500, 900 insurance. The mills we're the laTg-
est Of their kind in the country.
Considerable excitement was caused in Tren-
ton. n. j., by the arrest Of a driver OF city
railroad car for driving on Sunday.
A man was found dead in Central Park, New
York, with two bullet holes in his body and
note bidding goodbye to some unknown fe-
male acquaintance.
Six months ago, Miss Eyeline T. Marks, the
daughter OF retired New York merchant was
married TO Robert Stuart, also CONNECTED with
wealthy Now York family. The young couple
took up tLeir residence in a Fashionable hotel
ON Fifth avenue, where the husband soon
developed taste for strong drink, and fire.
duentlv came home intoxicated. At last his
excuses became so great that the wife, in order
to end her wretchedness, took an overdose of
laudanum and was found dead on her bed. On
her person were two letters that indicated her
intention to commit suicide.
Henry Hausmann. a German porter, resided
with his wife and three children in tenement
house in ChTystie street, New York He had
been married eleven years. and during the past
six years he and his wife INDUCED in frequent
quarrels. the husband claiming that his wife
drank heavily and neglected her domestic
duties, while she asserted that her husband
was Jealous and treated her badly. On recent
Monday night the pair began to quarrel and
Hausmann went to saloon and drank several
glasses of wine. He then returned to his apart
ments and sent for some beer. The two
renewed their angry alteration, when the man
went into tho bedroom where the children were
sleeping and fired three shots at them then
he put two bullets through his own body, NOR
tally wounding himself. Martha, a girl of
six years, was shot through the heart; Adam,
aged four years, received mortal wound, and
John, the eldest child, was dangerously wound
ed in the breast.
The contest of the will Of the late Com
modore Vanderbilt by one of his daughters,
Mrs. Caroline La Bau, was begun in the New
York suTogate's court Strong charges against
the deceased Oommodore's mental fitness to
make will, were made by the counsel for the
contestant,
Miss Bertha Won Hillern, female pedes-
rian, walked 100 miles inside Of twenty eight
hours at Philadelphia.
An agent of the Russian government has
been negotiating with a Philadelphia bridge
company to build a bridge across the Danube.
The price offered was $3,GOO,0OO
While acting as a scorer at shooting match
at Albany n Y, Charles Clapper was acct
dentally shot through the heart by DR.. J. V.
Lansing.