Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1877-10-27
SUMMARY OF NEWS.
Eastern and Middle States

Eastern and Middle States
In circular issued by the commercial agency
Of Dun, Barlow Co., OF New York, il is stated
that the failures in the United States for. the
first nine months Of 1877 were {, 565, with liza
bilities amounting to Sl4l, 952, 256. For the
same time in 1876 the failures were 1850, and
the liabilities S156, 272, 500. The circular says
. For the first time in many months do the
figures IN relation to failures afford any encour-
agement and, taking in connection with the
improved business in merchandise which the
autumn months have thus far witnessed, and
the certainty thAt great crop Of produce is
now being marketed at good prices, the hope
may be entertained that the worst effects Of
the depression have been seem"
The corner stone of a new armory for the
Seventh regiment, N. Y. S. n. g., was laid on
Fourth avenue, near the Central Park, n. y, with
Masonic ceremonies. The orators OF the occa-
sion were Mayor Ely and Hon. William NJ.
Evarts
The business portion of the village OF James
vile, Onondaga county, n. ", was destroyed
by fire. Three hotels, the Episcopal Church.
post-ofice, six stores, the town hall, and fifteen
dwellings were among the buildings burned.
Loss estimated at 100000 insurance, SlS,OOO.
Ten thousand cigar-makers in New York city
began a strike for an increase in wages, basing
their claims upon the better condition OF the
market The manufacturers held meeting
and decided not TO accede to the demands OF
their employees.
Under new law making it penalty for in
torfeling with railway trains, q number Of
tramps we're arrested near Poughkeepsie, n. l.,
while stealing ride and for assaultng brake
man.
The presidents Of the four great railroad
trunk lines held meeting in New York, aud
resolved to advance the rate on treights.
Moses A. Snyder, teller of the Merchants
National bank, of New York, was noticed to be
living extravagantly by the officers of the in
stitution, and an examination of his accounts
revealed the fact that he had embezzled about
&c. 90. He was arrested.
The striking miners of Scranton, Pa, have
unanimously resolved to resume work.
The national convention of the Honey Bee
Keepers of the United States was held in New
YORK, many prominent apiariets from all parts
of the country being pres Mt.
The first annual session of the National
Hide and Leather association Of the United
States was opened in New York by Hon. Mar
shall Jewell, of Connecticut. The tariff on
leather, the difference between American
leather and that manufactured abroad, and
other interesting topics relating to the trade
were to be the subjects of discussion.
A fire in West Eighteenth street, New York,
destroyed ive-story furniture factory, and a
number of other buildings before it could be
checked, causing loss of over 5000 900, on
which there is partial insurance.
William NJ Tweed testified before commit
tee of New York Aldermen that he was bank
rupt that since 1871, he had paid to lawyers
and others 81 AGO, 500 that he had lost 81, =
FOG, 100; that he was never at any time in
his life worth more than from So, 500, 900 to
$3,OOO,000, and that he could not realize 10, 0OC
from the property now owned by him. Tweed
stated further that it had cost him $50 600 to
escape from Ludlow treet Jail that he had
paid the money, not to any official, but tc
those who helped him to flee from the coun.
try.
A monument to Roger Williams was dedicat.
ed at Providence, r. l.
At Philadelphia large financial contract
has been ratified by the sale OF the Empire
Transportation Company's property to the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company for $4,606,.
600
Forty-thousand people gathered at Schuy.
lerville, New York to witness the ceremonies
connected with the laying of the corner stone
of monument to commemorate the centen.
NAL Of General Burgoyne's surrender. All the
houses in the place were gaily decorated, and
the roads were filed with wagons carriages
and other vehicles. number of military
comp MES from Hartford, Conn, Benning.
ton, Vt, and elsewhere participated. Orationf
were delivered by Charles s. Lester-the ora.
tor of the day-Ex-Gove Horatio Seymour
George William Curtis. Hon. LAFAYETTE s.
Foster. and others. A poem by Alfred B
Street was recited, and the corner stone wat
lfajjffk fBtatba Masonic Grand Master of New
George I. Plume, well known New Yorl
broker, appropriated over 100000 of The
estate of Charles A. Lamont, of which he wal
an executor
A boatman rowing on enc of the lakes il
Central Park, New YORK, discovered the bodl
Of handsome and Acknowledgment woman
The corpse proved to be Mrs. Thomas Oti
eroy, aged fOrty-one, residing in Fifti
avenue. She had evidently thrown herself into
the water Intentionally.
Some time ago an advertisement in tn,
personal" column of the New York Herdt
contained the following beware of th,
Matchmaking crowd at Nos. 81 and 50 Yves 4
Twenty-fifth street." Whereupon Mrs. Robert
son, who kept boarding house at the place
indicated, sued the Herald for libel, and tn,
jury awarded her damages in the sum O
$4,000.
By an explosion in the cartridge department
OF the Watervliet arsenal, at ALBANY, n Y.
John McKeever and Cornelius Carmody wer
injured, the latter fatally.
Patrick Williams was shot by boy named
Thomas Owen at Lowell, Mass, and died tn
next day.
BY the fall of an elevator at Elmira, N. Y.
W. NJ. Terwillger was killed and Michael Lana
han had leg broken John Tierney was killet
by an express train at Hackettstown N j
and James Proctor, brakeman, suffered dealt
by falling between the cars at Chatham, N Y
fire at the Oswego Falls Wollen Mills nea
Fulton, N. Y, destroyed large quantity O
costly machinery, wool and finished cloths
Loss, 100000; fully insured.
The suspension of the Sharpsbug Saving
Bank, of Sharpsburg, Pa, has taken place.
temporary injunction was issued in New
Haven, Conn.,, restraining the National Lift
and Trust Company and the American Mutua
Life Insurance Company, of that city, from
doing further business on account of an al
legged impaired condition of the concerns.
Reynolds & Vessel OF Buffalo, wholesal,
druggists, have become bankrupt. Liabilities
about 100000
Thirty thousand pounds of wool in r
Heaton's store-house at Rouses Point, N. Y.
were destroyed by fire and loss of $15. OO
was incu red,
Clintonville, N. Y. was devastated with small
poz, seventy persons having died within
short time
fire over an acre in extent in mine q
Green Fridge, near Scranton, Pa, was cause,
by an accumulation of large quantities of fir
damp. RELAYS OF men were engaged night an,
day in extinguishing the flames.