Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1877-05-05
SUMMARY OF MEMS.


against the action taken at a recent gathering
OF taxpayers, at which il was proposed 10 con-
line voting for financial officers 10 those paying
taxes. .... The Russian c8ar has reviewed his
troops, and the Russian embassy has vacated
Cohstantnople ,ss,.. Secretary Sherman has
dismissed two auditors from the Treasury de-
partment. A fire in the New York Journal
or Commerce building DESTROYED type and other
material to the value Of $40, 0O0 but the paper
was issued as usual the following day. go. The
spanish government has promised to put Gen.
Burrlel connected with the Virginius massacre
on trial Gen. Grant and his wife were ems
tertalned at dinner in Harrisburg, Pa, by
Hoy. Hartranft. President HAYES was visited
by Miss Van Lew, who desired 20 be continued
IN Office as head Of the Richmond (Va.) post
Office .,... Additional charges against Bank
superintendent Ellis, Of New York, have been
made by Gov Robinson. .Lettis b. Steele.
who bad nearly reached his one hundred and
thlrd year, died in Pascack, n. ] IA number
OF cases OF smallpox were found among the pas
sengers of steamer that arrived in San Fran
cisco from China. The disease is raging in
Hong Kong. Large forest fires are burning
IN Michigan, and several towns are threatened
by the flames. -. Pioneer block, in Omaha,
was destroyed by fire, believed to be the work
of an incendiary IA woman named Norman
plunged knife into her husband, during n
quarrel, wonnding him fatally. In Vermont
the trial of Edward Tatro, accused Of the muir
der OF Alice NJ Butler, has been commenced
The United States troops at New Orleans
have left the State house and retired to their
barracks .,.. The czar Of Russia issued war
manifesto, and Prince GortschakOff has formally
announced that Russia is at war with Turkey.
Seventeen thousand Russian troops have en-
tered Roumanla. Judge Spofford Demo-
ccrat, was elected to the United States Senate by
the Legislature of Louisiana by an almost
unanimous vote. the Republicans not having
candidate. A bill has passed the New York
senate prohibiting pool selling at horse races.
-. "A whale forty feet long was caught off
southampton, Long Island. -. Forty young
ministers m were graduated from the Princeton
theological Seminary. .... Gen. Ord, military
commander in Texas, has ordered the concen-
trahon of large force of United States troops
on the Mexican frontier, which is looked upon
as menace against the Mexican authorities,
and likely to lead to various complications e.
Antonio Lox, blacksmith of Brooklyn N. Y,
beat his wife terribly, and when officers at
tempted to arrest him he shot one of them and
was in turn fatally wounded. -. Mrs. Sarah
DAVIS, aged ninety, who has shaken hands with
every President from Washington down, called
on President Hayes at the White House ..
Steps are being taken by the people of Dakota
toward making that Territory a State. .... A
motion favoring Irish home rule was defeated
IN the British House of Commons by vote of
All to CT ,...,. The cotton operatives on strike
at the Wamsutta mills, New Bedford, Mass,
have resumed work at the old prices A
heavy gale on the coast of Texas inflicted con-
siderable damage on buildings and shipping in
Galveston ....A party of claim jumpers in the
Black Hills were attacked, and one man was
Killed and three wounded. DIR. Starkweather,
who sued the Springfield (NIass. Republican for
libel, claiming $4,000 damages was awarded
81 by the jury.
The sessions of the commission appointed by
the President to examine into the alleged frauds
IN the New York custom house will begin soon.
Prominent officials are to be questioned. ....,
The news OF war in Europe caused intense ex
citement in the New York produce exchange
and prices went up ..... A bridge on the New
Haven railroad, over Cos Cob creek was burned
The Turks repulsed the Montenegrins
in slrirmish. Russian troops have entered
Aslalc Turkey, and force of fifty thousand
russians IS in Roumania. The Sioux Indians
are TO be sent to O reservation in the south
eastern part of Dakota Territory An ac-
complete in murder was taken from jail by a
party of seventy men in Dover, Tenn, and
Killed. 500 1t is not believed in France that the
speech of Gen. Won Moltke in the German Par
lament, which created an immense sensation in
Europe, is intended as hostile to the French
......The several independent bureaus in the
patent Office at Washington are to be CONSOLE
dated The 7 .nuisana State huupo was
vacated by Packard, and is in possession of the
Nichols legislature. In an address to the Re-
publicans of Louisiana, Packard advised them
to submit. 80. Many people are dying from
the plague in Persia. -. Two young ladies
from Indianapolis, who registered themselves
IN Cincinnati hotel as Ida and Sarah Maydill,
committed suicide in their room . The
Spanish Cortes has been opened by King AL
phonso. .... One hundred thousand tons of
Scranton coal were sold at increased prices in
New York. The dead body of Samuel Kull
IynG in, ,l,,,11 f,,
and all the evidence pointing to murder
A delegation of laboring men belonging to
the Labor League of the United States, and
consisting of twenty-six white and thirty-fve
colored men, called on President Hayes, and
delivered an address, asking him to insert in
his message to Congress recommendation for
the appropriation of money for internal i'm
provements, so that the unemployed laborers
OF the country would be given chance 49,.
The. commission appointed to inquire into the
affairs of the New York custom house. began
their duties by examining Collector Arthur.
The first engagement of the Eastern war took
place near Batoum, in Asiatic Turkey, the
Turks asserting that the Russians were beaten
back with a loss of 800 men. The sultan ex-
pressed determination to join the army if il
became necessary Turkish troops were re-
ported to have occupied Kalafat, an important
position on the Danube. .... Hon. Edward Nc
Pherson, for sixteen years clerk of the House
OF Representatives, has been appointed chief
clerk OF the bureau of engraving and printing Of
the Treasury department at Washington ......
number of Democratic officials refused to at
tend reception given to William NJ. Evarts al
Albany, n. Y .. 1t is rumored that visit tC
this country in the winter of 1889 will be
made by the Prince of Wales and his wife,.
All the candidates on the Nichols ticket il
Louisiana have taken possession of their offices
without opposition, and the legislature has adj
Journed sine die -. he bark F. J. McClenna1
arrived III New York, having on board the crew
OF the schooner Lewis S. Davis, which hat
been abandoned by them in sinking condition
It has been decided that Brigham Young
wife, Ann Eliza, is not entitled to a divorce.
Fighting has been going on near Batoum, will
unfavorable results to the Russians, as
claimed by the Turks The Russian troop
have taken possession of Giurgevo, on tn
Danube. 1t is said that Austria has called OF
England to uphold the treaty of Paris. Mon
tenegrin troops have entered Albania . =. Nor
Cheyenne Indians have surrendered and Graz
Horse is expected at Red Cloud agency with
large band. go. The liquor dealers of Ne,
York feel depressed by the outlook, and tn
temperance men are more confident Il
man in New York waltzed for five consecutiv
hours without stopping. Two men, woman
and boy were arrested for the murder of a.
aged couple near Orangeburg N. Y, ten year
aSo.' line ulstrlcC attorneys OF western
cities have been instructed topress the whisk
ring suits without delay ...... A post n,Orter
examination of the body of child in Harris
burg, Pa, revealed the fact that death wa
caused by starvation. -. A man seventy-tw
years of age was charged with abandonment ii
anew York police court by his wife, aged fit
four Ia riot broke out in Quebec, and
mob of 1900 persons broke in the windows q
tho city hall and the recorders court Tn
coroner's jury in the inquest on the bodies q
the victims OF the st. Louis fire, have close
their labors, They censured the proprietors O
the Southern Hotel, and made some sugges
SONS looking to the avoidance of similar ca
antilles in the future.