The Lamoille news. (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1877-1881, 1877-08-08
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.


strike.
The Hawkeye has noticed that
s.eveu the section men have a hand
caring after higher wages.
Princeton college claims the honor
OF having furnished rom her alumni
forty-two presidents Of other colleges.
OF the four ringleaders of the riots
in Philadelphia who have been arrest
ed, not one had ever worked on rail-
way.
The n. Y. Evening Mail reports
that thus far this year no less than 4o
Il c insurance companies have come TO
glicf.
Two Kentucky girls had fight the
other day about a cousin which each
wanted for a beau, and one OF them
was killed.
George W. Peck, editor Of the Au-
burn n. Y. Daily Advertiser, COM
mitted suicide in that city on Satur-
day evening by shooting.
A fire at Elgin, ILL.,, last Friday,
destroyed the block bounded by the
river, Division and Milwaukee streets
and Douglass avenue. Total loss,
s35, 900 insurance, ST., 800.
The Long Branch donkeys are said
10 be overworked and underied. Why
don't they strike? There is no other
animal that can strike so ehoctually as
a donkey, unless it may be a mule.
On California ranch recently wheat
which was standing in the ear at a
quarter before five in the morning was
eaten as biscuit at a quarter before
seven, having been cut, threshed,
ground and baked in two hours.
Richard ii. Shuck was executed at
Owenton, KY, Friday, in the presence
of over 5000 persons. He was con-
victed of the murder of Nelson Par
ish, but died saying: "Don't hang me,
gentlemen; ! am an innocent man."
The examination of Herbert l..
Blanchard, who shot and severely in
iured Albert NJ. Starks and his bro
Their Francis, at Lavoy, Mass, began
before The District Court, Friday,
Aug. 8, in q crowded court room.
sov,,ral witnesses have been examined,
tho oyidono e tending to conviction Ct
murder in the GGyst degree should eth
er of the brothers die, Of which there
is little doubt.
Gustavus Swickhard, Allen Degue,
Jacob Cook and Defame Baughman,
farmers, whose ages range from p to
Al, have been committed on a charge
Of murder in the first degree in con-
sequence Of The fatal result of injuries
alleged to have been received at the +
hands by Louis Schiilie, also a farmer
in fight at a picnic at Rocky Fort,
Ohio, Saturday, July 2S. The fight
grew out of an old feud.
The schooner Grace A. Shannon,
owned by Alexander A. Graham of
Chicago, from Buffalo with 600 tons
of coal, was run INTO and sunk on
Lake Michigan last Friday morning by
the propeller Fayorite, between Mil
waukee and Racine. The Shannon
went down almost instantly. All
hands were saved, with the exception
of Mr.. Graham's son, aged Z years,
The loss to the vessel and cargo was
$22, 900; insured FOR $4,000.
The Springfield Republican shows
that the wages Of railIoad labor are
still 35 per cent. in advance Of 1860,
and shows that the average wholesale
price of over 60 articles which enter
largely into the cost Of living is only
Z per Cen5. higher now chan in 1860
The average railroad freight rate from
Chicago to New York in 1870 was IS
cents per 100 pounds of wheat; the
average for the last year has been only
% cents, and the average receipt PEI
ton per mile of the railroad trunk lines
was 9.5 miles in 1876, against 49,!
miles in 1850.
The loss to Pittsburgh by the de
struction Of property on that fata
Sabbath day when the mob held car
nival in that city, will not fall below
1000, 900, and may reach $4,000,
600. The city had debt OF SIS,
100000 before this additional burden
was placed upon it, and had defaulte'
in the payment of its bonded interes
last April. The tax levy will now b
increased from 100000 to $1,000,
600, and for 20 years the people Q
that city will have to pay for one day
experience with mob. Way up t.
1900 the worliingmen will feel thi
new weight upon their shoulders.
The Charter Oak Life Insuranc
Company has been recognized, wit
new board composed of Govelno
Marshall Jewell, Senator w. w. Ea
ton, Colonel George P. Bissel, Robel
E. Cay and Hon. Elisha johnson
Governor Jewell has been electe
president. The committee Of pnde
writer's, who have been through Il
books, think there is still! left asse
of an undoubted yalCe of 1866 .O9!
and contingent and speculative pro-
erty OF $1,000, 472, much of whit
can Probably be saved by pradel
management. The liabilities are 81;
: 3G2, 577, or 81, 076, AIT more than Il
i good assets, and 1888 900 more thu
L the total of good and bad.