Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1877-09-01
A SUMMARY OF NEWS.
Item. of Interest from Home and Abro,


Items of Interest from Home and Abroad.
Stephen Hall, Wendall Small and Frank
Bouston were drowned BY the upsetting Of a
small boat in Lebago Lake, Maine General
Grant has arrived at Copenhagen, Denmark.
......A disastrous fire occurred in the Black
Hills town OF Gayville, almost completely de-
stroying the place. Over three hundred build
ings were burned, involving loss Of about
S75, 200, on which there is no insurance. 800.
The schooner r. NJ Denham arrived in New
York, having on board four Of the crew Of the
schooner z. j. Van Name, that founded in
a gale. Two passengers and the steward we're
drowned. .... President Hayes held formal
reception at the residence OF Secretary Evarts
in Windsor, Vermont. The President, Attorney
General Deyens and others made addresses. -.
New York carriage manufacturer named
Harding shot his housekeeper. Mrs. Agnes
Woods, in the arm, and then MORALLY wounded
himself. Harding had been recently divorced
from his wife, and his mind is supposed to have
been affected by domestic disagreements. 500.
DIR. Charles W. Chancellor, who had been re-
quested by the governor of Maryland to thor
oughly examine the aims institutions of the
State, reported that many Of the public institu-
tons were in shocking condition and that
there were over 500 insane people for whom no
proper provision existed and who were entirely
neglected.
During quarrel between four tramps at Old
Orchard Beach, Me-, Aleck Patterson plunged
knife into Charles Miler's back, inficting
fatal injury. "A fire in Guelph, Ontario,
destroyed j. Horsman's hardware store and
other property to the amount of $4,000, on
which there is partial insurance 49, 1t has
been resolved to open the Permanent Exhibit
ton in Philadelphia on Sundays. meeting
of the Methodist Episcopal clergymen Of the
city was held and resolution passed de-
nouncing the innovation and characterizing it
as detrimental to the interests of sound
morality. -. Christopher Engle, aged twenty
three, was crushed to death between canal
boat and the canal wall at Canajoharie, N Y.
-. Three members of band of outlaws who
have been entering the United States from
Mexico, committing depredations upon stock
and other property of American citizens,
have been captured. The prisoners are the
| leaders Of the band, and two subordinates.
.... President and Mrs. Hayes, with large
party, left Vermont for the White Mountains.
Large crowds gathered at the railroad stations,
and the President made short addresses
L. Ohphant, prominent citizen of Atchison
county, Kansas, was shot and instantly killed
| by Bill Scroggs, worthless fellow who had
| eloped with his victims daughter three years
before and then so shamefully maltreated her
! that she left him and returned to her father
Scroggs fled, but was overtaken by four men,
when he turned on his pursuers and killed
John Croft, a farmer. The murderer then de-
livered himself up to justice of the peace,
and the next morning party of men went to
the Justices house, took Scroggs out to hill
and hanged him.
The Democrats of New Jersey have fixed
upon September 10 as the day on which to hold
their convention to nominate candidate for
governor. The convention will be held at
Trenton. :. John Hunt was tried in Phila-
delphia on the charge of obstructlng the United
| oil hu a ~
during the recent strike troubles. The jury
found him guilty and he was remanded for
sentence. .....A grain elevator in Montreal,
Canada, belonging to James McDougall & Co.,
was burned and large quantity of wheat
destroyed, involving a loss of over $50, 000.
The National Board of Trade held its tenth
annual session in Milwaukee, Wis. The boards
of trade of the chief cities of the country were
represented by delegates. -. A gentleman
named Hartman came from Providence, r. l.,
to New York, and put up at the Aston House,
where he secured room in the fourth story
for the purpose of testing patent fire escape,
of which he was the manufacturer. While
trying the invention it gave way, and Mr.. Hard
man was precipitatedto the ground and instant
ly killed . The forty-first annual convention
of the Odd Fellows of the State of New York
was held in Newburgh. The Grand Masters
report stated that there are 454 lodges in the
State, having about 10000 members. The
Grand Lodge degree was conferred upon one
hundred members, and officers for the ensuing
year were elected, headed by George W. Dilks
Of New York, as Most Worthy Grand Master
-. The Pennsylvania Grand Lodge Knights
Of Pythias held their fourteenth annual session
in Harrisburg.
The Democrats of Pennsylvania met in con
vention at Harrisburg for the purpose of nomi
mating officers for the ensuing election. Tht
platform adopted declared That the Undue
ton of Rutherford B. Hayes into the Office O.
President, Notwithstanding the election O.
Samuel j. Tilden thereto, was a high crim'
against free government which has not beer
condoned and will not be forgotten that thu
immediate happy effect of the application b,
the Federal ADMINISTRATION of the Democratic
policy of non-intervention in the internal affairs
of the Southern States amply vindicates ou
frequent protests against the previous violation
of the reserved right of the several States t.
exercise all power not delegated to the genera
government by expressed constitutional pro
vision that the purpose to reform the civi
service which had been proclaimed by tn
present Administration is like its adopte'
Southern policy "a confession of the fallur
of Radicalisn and just tribute to the Democ
racy which has long and earnestly demande'
the overthrow and punishment of corrup
officials that capital combined in corporal
organization has been too highly favored b
DOIH OUdl6 anu r6ueTdl anu lIS ue
mands for large returns are inconsistent witt
the depressed condition of the laboring an,
business interests of the country. We oppos
further enactments for its special benefit at tn
expense of other interests; that the increase o
) the Federal army and any attempt to employ
} as a partisan agent of Federal authority, or TO
interference with the sovereign rights of tn
States will receive the continued earnest oppo
) sition of the Democracy of Pennsylvania tina
the deprivation of employment of many thou
sands of industrious citizens and laborers, an
the deep distress of themselves and families
enlist our hearty sympathy and we declare, il
the language of jefferson, the founder of GU
, party, that "a wise and frugal government
2 which shall restrain men from injuring on
another, and shall leave them otherwise free
I follow their own pursuits of industry and i'm
proyement, and shall not take from the mout
of labor the bread it has earned !" is the hope G
the people in adversely and their security j
3 prosperity, and that under such a government
= which it is the duty of the Democracy to mair
! tain and perpetuate, any resort to force, or I
violation of law, or invasion of the rights G
person or of property to redress grievance
is needless and at war with free institutions
under which the only rightful remedy is by FRI
! quently recurring elections of representative
, of the people in State Legislatures and in til
= Federal Congress to accomplish the will of til
!, majority, which should be accepted as ii
voice of all; that the Democracy of Pennsy
!. vania protests against subsidies, land grant
loans of the public credit and appropriations {
the peoples money to any corporation,
legalized plumber of the taxpaying Industries
: the country that we look with alarm and a.
: prehension upon the pretentions of the gre
: transportation companies to be above the flu
: damental laws of this commonwealth, whic
. govern all else within our borders and uni
s they accept the constitution of 1878 in goo
g faith they should remain objects of the utmo
!, vigilance and Jealousy by both the legislatu
= and people; that we hereby reaflirm and ado
the financial resolutions of the National Dem
!; cratic platform adopted at st, Louis in 1877
u The following officers we're nominated f
IL. IL Nam