Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1877-02-10
SUMMARY OF NEWS.
Iutrre.tlnr Item. from Homo and Akron


The cargo consisted Of 10000 Martini Henry
rifles. with bayonets. 1000 Winchester guns,
10000, 900 cartridges 10, 002 400 Martini shells
15,000,000 bullets and 81, 600 900 gun wads, the
entire value being 81, 600 900. An entirely
new vein is reported to have been discovered in
the Newburyport Mass. silver mine. 800. j. n.
farrar, cashier of the Abingdon National bank
OF Boston, had $4,000 belonging to the bank
stolen from him while in an eating saloon. .....
Three Of the Astoria (Long Island) burglars
were brought trial and one of them was sem
tonced to thirty-fve years ON different indict-
ments, the second to twenty years and the
third to eighteen years. The annual report
by the treasurer of the New York Christian as
ISOLATION shows the receipts of the past year to
have been 6,53l.64 and the expenditures
S26,345.22. -. The governor Of Iowa has is
sued a call for the organization Of the State
militia into national guard Three men
were instantly killed and a number of others
injured by boiler explosion in a shingle fac
torv near Little Rock, Arkansas.
Magliore Blanchette, the St. Hyacinthe (Can.) },
ineendiary, has been sentenced to imprison-
ment for seven years in the penitentiary ......
boiler explosion occurred in the lager beer
brewery of David Hass at Buffalo, killing Gus
tavus Hass, and it is feared fatally scalding
Hermann Hass, both sons of the brewer. The
building was damaged about $1,000 Com
mercial intercourse between Russia and China
is at a standstill in consequence of China mis-
trusting the object of Russian exploring ex-
pedition which has been inspecting the Chinese
borders ...... A fire broke out in the Stonehill
colliery, near Bolton, England while the men
were at work, and fifteen miners are known to
have persisted 49,. Advices from Mexico state
that President Diaz is now in possession of the
entire republic excepting Cinaloa and Chihua-
hua. Diaz's administration is conducted with
prudence and wisdom the people complain only
of excessive taxation Ex-President Lerdo
has plra1f for Co, o,,n;so Trla and
cabinet are at Mazatlan awaiting events. There
is much anxiety to know what course the United
States will take in regard to Mexico ..... A re-
port is current at Fort Randall that train of
fifteen wagons and twenty men were captured
recently, about one hundred miles west of the
Missouri river, while on their way out of the
Black Hills, and that not man escaped the
scalping knife. The Indian that brought the
news says that Crazy Horses band committed
the outrage, and that the train belonged to
Violin q Popinau of Yankton.
The secretary of the treasury has issued the
thirty-eighth call for the redemption of 500
bonds of 1865, May and November. The call is
for $40, 200, 900, of which 81 000 900 are coupon
bonds and $4,000, 900 registered bonds 49,.
John X. Mcpherson, Democrat, was elected
United States senator by the New Jersey Legis-
lature to succeed Senator Frelinghuysen -.
Gen. Belknap demands immediate trial under
the indictment found against him last April.
..... Holland has prohibited the importation
of beasts from Germany on account of the rim
derpest.... Seven hundred of New York citys
business men, representing $50 O0O 900, signed
a petition to the legislature praying for the
abolition of the present usury law. and the pas
sage of clear statute prohibiting the taking of
more than seven per cent. Canalboat owne
held meeting in New York city in advocacy of
lower tolls on the canals ...... The January
auction sale of 150, 900 tons of coal realized less
fhon fha OIL ~,
fourth of the Astoria (Long Island) masked
robbers was sentenced to twenty years i'm
prisonment. ..Advices from Genital America
are to the effect that everything is quiet. Costa
RIGA failed to secure an alliance with Guate-
mala for the purpose of making war on Nicara-
qua.
1t will be recollected that short time since
a Sheriff Manning, of Mississippi, killed Capt.
Harvey, of Louisville, for intimacy with Mrs.
Manning, from whom Mr.. Manning subsequent
ly separated The sequel now appears in the
murder of Sheriff Manning by John Fretwell,
relative to Mrs. Manning. Fretwe had Just
been released from prison through the efforts
of Manning. =. The Illinois Legislature has
finally elected the Hon. David Davis as United
Sta es senator in the interests of the Democracy.
Mr.. Davis is at present one of the justices of
the United States supreme court, and in 1872
was prominent candidate before the conven-
ton which nominated Horace Greeley .
Igle3ias, the fugitive would-be president of
Mexico, has arrived in San Francisco with his
S,ttte THE anniversary of the birthday of
Burns was generally celebrated by Scotchmen
throughout the country .... Four prominent
citizens of Austin, Kan, left that town with
wagons of produce for Kiowa in another county,
since which time they have not been heard
from. 1t Is now supposed they were massacred
by. Sioux Indians. ...A diabolical plot to ex-
plOde the boiler of the hosting apparatus of
hat tc Of no tod DO
mlne Nevada, was discovered just in time to
avert terrible loss Of life. The next night an
attempt was made to fire the hosting machinery
of another shaft of the same mine. The at
tempts are supposed to have been in the in
terests of stock brokers in San Francisco .....
While suffering from all alteration of mind
Harrison Twiner killed Anderson Richmond and
then committed suicide at Center, Ohio.
Hon. Benz H. Hill has been elected by the
Georgia Legislature to represent that State in
Senate. MIR. Hill was a member of the last
House. Three men were overwhelmed and
carried down the mountain near Centennial
mine, Wyoming Territory, by snow slide one
of them, Thomas Hodgson of Holland, Mich,
being killed. The avalanche was set in motion
by the discharge of blast in prospecting hole
Senator Henry g. Davis was reelected by the
Legislature of West Virginia for the long term,
and Mr.. Hereford now of the lower House, was
elected for the short term. The Metropolitan
Fire ms. Co. of New York city has been put in
the hands of a receiver-the assets having de-
preciated to such an extent as to necessitate
the action. The officers claim that all liabili-
ties will be settled and the only loss will fall on
the stockholders. The schooner Marie Louise
was cut downby ice and sunk in a faw minutes
one OF the crew was drowned "A fire among
the business houses of Medina, N. Y, destroyed
10000 worth of property. -. Mrs Crouch
residing near Sackett's Harbor, N. Y, while out
n h1p nd L.. L. = 4
and burned it to death. Her husband had de-
serted her few weeks previous, and she had
slhered many privations in consequence. The
rosene oil works of b. & F. Jenny, in Boston
exploded from some unknown cause. and the
entire works were destroyed. Loss, $1,000 !
Several people were injured, and one man issup
posed to have been burned to death W. Kay
Neil was hanged at Albany, Oregon, for murder
SSnor Blitz, familiar to the public for the
past twenty years as magician and bird tanner
died in Philadelphia, aged sixty-six years.
Philip Ames, of Albany, Mo-, was preparing tC
eiope with his wife's sister, leaving his family
destitute, when the neighbors, learning wha
was about to be enacted, took him out at nigh
to tar and feather him. Mrs. Ames persuaded
them not to, however, and they left the premi
ses after warning the man to treat his wife
better or take the consequences. After tn,
mob left Arhes beat his wife to death, and be
ing joined by his sister-in-law, they mounted
horses, took the body to the river and sunk i
under the ice after which they sped on thei
way west. Their movements had been seen
and soon the same mob of men were on thei
trail. When the murderer and his paramou
fell into their hands they promptly hung tn
man and turned the woman over to the sheriff
49,. Lieut.. Young, of the Livingston African
expedition, reports that during 1876 only thirty
eight slaves we're sent to the coast to be sold
where the traffic used to number thousands.
Charles P Wetmore died in Cincinnati o
hydrophoba inoculated into his system by tn
bite of dog last summer Merriman'
block, Hartford, Conn, with the stock in il
stOrea- WAC destrouad hu fire nan Soon nnn