The Lamoille news. (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1877-1881, 1877-09-12
A SUMMARY OF NEWS.
Item. OF Interest from Home and Abroad,


liens Of Interest from Homs and Abroad.
A FIRE broke ont in a saloon in Paris, No,
and spread rapidly on three sides OF the public
square. until ten blocks Of business houses and
dwellings. including three hotels, were con-
sumed. Many families were rendered home
less. and a nunbtr OF lives are believed 10 have
been lost. The pecuniary loss Will amount TO
about twelve hundred thousand dollars -.
Fx-President Grant arrived in Edinburgh,
Scotland. and was presented with the freedom
OF the city. Hugh Devine was struck by
lightning and instantly killed IN Philadelphia.
-. The superintendent Of the government
printing Office az Washington has Issued
circular 10 senators and representative, re-
auesting them not 10 lend their influence in
behalf OF any person seeking appointment IN
the government printing Office. as he intends
in the future TO run the Office according TO his
own judgment.
The funeral Of Brigham Young took place
in Salt Lake City on the Sunday after his death,
and was attended by large throngs from all
parts Of Utah Territory. The Mormon Iaber-
nacle, where the body had been lying in State,
was filed with over twelve thousand people.
The body reposed in a redwood coffin, and was
carried TO the grave by former employees. A
band preceded the funeral cortege, and after
came his family, members Of the Mormon
priesthood and adherents, all afoot. 80. Ten
thousand cotton operatives are ON strike in
Bolton, England The bank commissioner
Of Massachusetts, having investigated the
affairs OF the Sandwich Savings Bank and
found it insolvent, obtained an injunction
restraining the institution from doing any
further business. ALVIN Adams, founder Of
Adams Express Company, died at his residence
in Watertown, Mass, aged seventy-three years.
... Two cOnvicts confined in the Connecticut
State prison, at Wethersfield, manufactured
yr,,1nola1 thair calls with thp
tention of escaping. They were confronted by
Wells Shipman, night Waterman, whom they
seized, bound and gagged; and then, as Ship
man made an cutlery, one of the convicts shot
the helpless man in the breast, inflicting a
mortal wound. The prison breakers next fled
| to the attic, where they were besieged for tve
hours, but at last gave themselves up......
The celebrated American tragedian, L. L.
Davenport, died in Canton, Pennsylvania, aged
sixty-one years A little boy supposed to
| be Charlie Ross was brought TO Philadelphia
from Ohio, and taken before Mr. and Mrs.
Ross, who failed to identify him as their stolen
child. rH..-.. ...
| A brick building in Cincinnati came to the
ground with a crash, burying about twenty
people beneath the ruins, and instantly killing
woman and two men, while several persons
were severely injured. ..... The governors OF
Tennessee, Kansas, Iowa, Nebraska, New
Mexico, Pennsylvania and New Jersey arrived
in New York, from visit to points Of interest
| in Pennsylvania and New Jerse and were re-
ceived by the mayor and a cos.mittee of the
Chamber of Commerce. Louis Adolphe
Theirs, ex-President Of the French republic
McMahon's predecessor-and the most promi'
nent citizen of France, died in Paris aged
eighty years. As a statesman, historian and
deplomat, NJ. Theirs occupied formost place
among Frenchmen at the time of his death
September Sand had the current of French
politics compelled Marshal Mcmahon to resign
| the Presidency, the deceased statesman would
have been elected to the position by large
majority of the people, who looked upon hin
as the champion of French republicanism -.
| Brigham Young's will divides 81 900, 900 among
his forty-four children and seventeen wives.
A fire that broke out in piano mandatory il
| New York consumed an entire block of ovel
twenty large manufactures and tenement
houses before it was subdued, causing re-
ported heavy loss Of life and the destruction OF
| property valued at about one million dollars
The fire began in the second story OF John r
Hale's piano mandatory, an eight story build
ing on Thirty-ffth street. A strong wind wal
prevailing at the time, and the flames rushed
through the building with lightning-like rapid
| ty, compelling the workmen-of whom there
were about 200 in the place-to run for thei
lives The staisways were blockaded by smoke
and flames, and some of the bewildered anC
frightened employees sought safety down thu
elevator ropes, while others escaped by mean
of the fire escape. When the firemen arrived {
number of men were seen at the windows O
the upper stories, calling for aid, and soon foul
of them jumped to the ground and were carried
off badly hurt, one man dying in the arms O
those who were taking him away. grea
scarcity OF water prevailed and the tiremeI
were compelled to carry 5000 feet Of hos
\ along the street from the North river before
a wi
veering around in every direction, and tn
flames from the piano mandatory soon com
municated to other factories and dwelling
houses. In little while the whole block wa
in mass of seething fire and roaring flames
and hundreds of families were driven iron
their homes. Most of the inmates Of tn
thickly populated tenement hqlses escaped
but one invalid lady who died from fright, an
a little girl was suff0cated. People were com
PEELED to flee from the houses, leaving every
thing behind, and the scenes in the streets wa
indescribably heartrending. Families wer
broken up, and the members were wanderin
about weeping and seeking one another. TIL
streets were filled with household goods, partl
taken from the burning dwellings,, and fireme
rushed about hoarsely shouting, while police
men kept back the crowds of spectators, nun
bering over 100000. The area of property de
strOyed comprises the block between Thirty
fifth and Thirty-sixth streets and Tenth an
Eleventh avenues. Two lives are known
have been lost, and it was thought more bodit
would be found beneath the ruins when the
cooled off sufficiently to allow search TO
made.
On the day after the great fire in New Yoi
the smoldering ruins of the piano manufactol
were still to hot too permit an examination
with a view to the recovery of whatever bodi,
might be underneath but as less than eigl
men were reported missing, it was thought Il
death list would not reach above that humble
80. Robert, James and Sam Goodrich, al
James Simmons, ST., who were in jail at Ne,
castle, KY, charged with the murder of sever
persons, were taken from confinement by
crowd of armed men and hanged AT tl
1. city election in Wilmington, DEL, the Repub
cans carried the city by about two hundrC
majority, electing the president Of council, ci
} treasurer, one assessor and six councilme
, while the Democrats elected one assessor al
seven couDcilmen. -. Tho Eagle Flouril
l Mills, at 0akville, ILL.,, together with $50
; bushels Of wheat, were destroyed by fire. Los
, $55, 600 insurance, $4,000. 80. At a meetil
of the depositors of the suspended Chica,
State Savings Institution, it was announc
: that the banks liabilities were over 80 900, 0
and its assets less thar. 5000, 900 49,. $nation
Q convention of colored Masons was held
n Chicago. Some seventy delegates, representa-
= nearly every State in the Union, were presel
= The Greenback party of Minnesota met
convention at Minneapolis and nominal
Il William Banning for governor. Other Sta
officers were also nominated. The workingm
also joined with the Greenback party and
J. dorsed the ticket. An address by the Bost
i wing of the Workingman's party has be
issued to the workingmen of Massachuset
e urging them to cut themselves loose from
v political parties, and form sections in [
= interests of the worldngman's party, which v
Z hold a convention in Boston during the lat
d part Of September to nominate State tick
~ The Maryland Democratic State conv,
: ton will be held in Baltimore on September
ie A candidate for comptroller Of the State ire
. ury will be nominated :. The Massachuse
Greenback party assembled in convention
70 Boston, and an attempt was made to nomin
BENJAMIN F. Butler for governor, but Wend
Phillips received the nomination. Other c