Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1877-03-31
SUMMARY OF NEWS.


As laid down IN the Presidents inaugural adj
dress...,. Hon. Simon Cameron, of Pennsyi-
yRnia, has resigned his Office of senator, de
claring he Is tired Of the care and worry Of the
position. In addition to the rinderpest
sweeping of the cattle q great Britain, the
foot and mouth disease has now made its ap-
pearance .si For violation of the German
press Laws in publishing certain articles, another
OF the Won Arnim family has been sentenced to
three months imprisonment james Kingan,
New York produce dealer, having lost largely
in recent speculaiions, has fled from his credi-
tors, His liabilities are estimated all the way
from S4OO, 600 to 81, 900, 900. 80. The plasterers
of New York city, who have been receiving
- per day, struck work for $3.50 .. Two
hotels and the Giles county national bank
buildings at Pulaski, Tenn. was destroyed by
fire. Loss, $4,000 insurance, $l2 1000. 49,.
While the scholars Of a school in Coal Run,
Ohio, were giving a dramatic representation
Stephen Rundell struck dagger in the heart of
a young man named Mason, by mistake and
killed him instantly in the presence of the
audience. They were bosom friends.
McKinnens biscuit factory in Montreal
Canada, was destroyed by fire. Loss, $50, 900 {;
$22, 500. Two fremen were danger
ously injured by falling wall w When the
surrogate of New York called the case growing
out of the contest of the heirs to the Vanderbilt
Will, considerable excitement was visible among
the lawyers for the contestants, which was ex-
planned when each rose in turn and desired, on
behalf of bis client, to withdraw objection TO
the probation of the will. . "A porter of Ivison,
Brakeman, Taylor d Co., wholesale stationers of
New York city, has been regularly appropriating
quantities of steel pens, which he sup
piled to customers. When arrested he was on
the highway to fortune, having already pur-
chased house for sc, 600 -. An investigation
into the accounts of Cashier VIM s. Rutter, of
the First national bank of Pottstown, Pa. dis
closed defalcation of $4,000 ~ Michael
Merriman, of Rock Greek Center Ind, shot and
fatally wounded his two sons, aged sixteen and
eighteen years. The father then committed
suicide. He had been released from lunatic
asylum few days previously the physicians
pronouncing him thoroughly cured. go. A five
story iron building i'll Franklin street, New
York, occupied by dry goods dealers, chief
among whom were Bacon, Baldwin & Co., was
burned, and loss of nearly S150,000 entailed,
which was partially covered by insurance. 80.
The Monument House and opera house, at
Woonsocket, r. l., were destroyed by fire, with
their contents. Loss, $4,000 insurance, $780,
900. Snow fell for twelve days in the noun
tains in Utah, and travel is consequently i'm
peded. .... Secocoen the native African chief,
who at one time threatened the destruction of
the Dutch Transvaal republic in South Africa,
has at last been defeated and agreed to pay an
of two Thousand head of cattle and
himself subject of the republic.
...... The will by which various charities re-
ceiyed nearly one million dollars from the late
Mary Dancer daughter of the famous New
York gambler, is to be contested by an uncle in
Ohio.
Dispatches from Richibucto, New Brunswick,
state that night express train struck the body
of a man lying on the track but investigation
showed that he must have been dead when the
train struck him, as there were many knife
wounds and the throat was cut. The body was
identified, by papers in the pocket as being
that of James Kingan, the defaulting New York
who disappeared few days previ-
ously. United States bonds to the value of
1910 were found on his person. He was
travelling on a train which stopped a few
at this station, and it is presumed he
stepped outside for fresh air, and was either
or committed suicide. In the latter
case he must have cut his throat and then
walked short distance and laid himself across
the track 49,. The Turkish troops are reported
as committing the most outrageous crimes in
the localities where they are encamped
Two laborers were killed by the caving of earth
i'll the tunnel connected with the waterworks of
Baltimore, Md. .... The commission appointed
in France to investigate the vine blight, report
that twenty-five departments have been ravaged
by the phyllOXera to such an extent as to greatly
diminish traffic. cause much suffering among
the inhabitants, and to reduce the taxes to such
an extent as barely to pay for their collection
The committee recommend the complete isola-
ton of the infected districts from the rest of
the ylne-ErowlnS country 800. The khedive of
Egypt has renewed and confirmed his fathers
gift of "Cleopatra's Needle" to the British
government. Steps are being made for its
speedy removal to London ~ Smallpox pre-
walls to a considerable extent in London
The bark Louisberghaus, from Liverpool for
Baltimore, salt laden, grounded on Lookout
Shoal, North Carolina, and six of the crew were
drowned while attempting to escape in boats.
.......A daring scoundrel cut the telegraph
wires few miles out of Pittsburgh, Pa, and
sent dispatch to the express messenger of an
incoming train, ordering him to turn over his
car to j. H. Brooks, at Templeton, and report
at an office further back The dispatch being
signed by the express superintendent, the mes
senger concluded it was all correct, and when
man appeared at Templeton and showed a
dispatch authorizing him to take the car to
Pittsburgh, the messenger vacated. The thief
took the goods to the depot, where they were
regularly checked off and put ON a wagon to go
to the Office, the bogus messenger going with
them. On the road, however, he got off the
vehicle and disappeared, when it twas discovered
he had opened safe and stolen $4,000 in
money.
The forty-third call for the redemption of
fve-twenty bonds of the issue of MAY and
November, 1865, has been made by the secre-
tary of the treasury. The call is for SO. 500 600
coupon bonds and 100000 registered.
Six inoffensive Cinnamon were attacked by a
crowd of white roughs in Chico California,
who shot and killed five of the number-the
sixth escaping only by feigning death after be-
ing wounded 49,. The 81, 900, 900 suit of the
government against Jacob Rhem, of Chicago,
in connection with the former whisky frauds,
IS to be pushed .... Stephen S. Jones, editor
of the Chicago ReRgio-P Philosophical Journal,
was shot and killed by man named Pike, for
the alleged seduction of Mrs. Pike. Both men
were prominently known as Spiritualsts
Ebenezer Large and his son, who slept in the
store of Fielder Magruder, at Benning' Station,
District of Columbia, were murdered by I'M
known parties, who then robbed the store and
set fire to the building 49,. The late Deacon
A. W. Porter, of Monson, Mass. left, by will
S22, 900 to var Gus Christian institutions
Fifteen female doctors were recently graduated
by the Women's Medical College of Pennsyl
vania. .... he East Indian financial budget
for the past year exhibits deficit of .13 000 O00
he estimates for the present year indicate
deficiency of 80 400, 900, owing to the famine
the aid necessarily afforded by the government
and the reduction of revenue from the same
cause. Steps we're taken for borrowing the
money. 1t is now generally conceded that
James Kingan was murdered on stepping from
the train in New Brunswick ..... Franklin
Hall, an old counterfeiter, was arrested in st
Louis, and in his possession were found mum
Der of dies for silver coins .... A compulsory
education law has passed the Ohio Legislature
..... Fred. Douglas, the we'll known cooreG
man, has received the appointment of marsha
Of the District of Columbia, at the hands Of
President Hayes.
The favorable condition of American securi
ties in European markets is matter of con
graduation 49,. Charges against Assistant
Secretary of the Treasury Conant are now be
ing investigated He is said to be implicated
in the recently discovered frauds, whereby The
government was defrauded out of two million
dollars in interest on bonds .... Fears of tn,
overthrow of the Cabal government in Havt