Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1877-10-13
A SUMMARY OF NEWS.
Item. Of Interest from Hon. and Abro

Workingmen's party OF Massachusetts met IN
convention at Boston and nominated ticket
headed by Wendell Phillips for governor. zee.
Hon. Cassius NJ. Clay, formerly United States
minister 10 Russia, shot and instantly killed
a eolored man named Perry White at Richmond,
XIV. Mr.. Clay had discharged Whites mother
from his employ, and her son had threatened
revenge for the act. While out riding MIR.
May met White, who rushed upon him, when
Dc drew a pistol and fired twice. cOroner's
jury JUSTIFIED Mr.. Clay in the shooting 49,.
Tie savings bank at Hannis, Mass, closed its
doors after heavy run had been made upon 1t
for several days William Hartman, leader
of a body of railroad strikers near Circleville,
Kansas was commanded by the chief of a
sheriffs posse to halt. He refused and fired
upon the officers, when the fire was returned
and Hartman was killed. Over 10000
persons have fallen victims to the famine in
India Senior Castillo and his son. who
were permanently connected with the Cuban
nsurrection-the former having been minister
of foreign affairs to the Cuban government
have surrendered to the Spanish authorities.
......A fire at Indianapolis, Ind, destroyed
property valued at S75,000.... The public
debt was reduced So, $50, 900 in September.
1t was accidentally discovered in New York
that William C. Gilman, an insurance broker,
whose reputation for honesty and business
integrity was unexceptonable, had perpetrated
series of astounding frauds by which he had
reaIZeu numerous OF thousands OF COLLARS. Ills
method was to obtain 90 certificates of profits
or insurance script of the Atlantic Mutual
Insurance Company for small sums and 'raise"
them to much higher figure. He would erase
the words {" one hundred" in a certificate for
300 and insert instead ten thousand" max
ing it a certificate for $4,000 and although
the fOrgeries we're clumsily executed, yet Gill
mans standing in the business community was
so high that the certificates were never ex-
amined closely, and the forgeries were COM
mitted with comparative impunity. 1t was
rumored in Wall street that Gilman had also
"raised " some bank stock in similar manner.
..... The American forces under Lieutenant
Bulls that had entered Mexico in pursuit of
Indian horse thieves, returned without accom-
plishing their object. They were not molested
by the Mexican authorities. $50. James r.
Hawkins colored, was sentenced to death in
the Howard county (Maryland) circuit court
for an assault on a thirteen-year-old girl in
April last
Five persons were killed and number were
wounded by the explosion of the boiler ON the
steamer Comfort, bound from Wheeling, W.
Va, to Marietta. "A fire which broke ont Ill
Mckeesport, Pa, at one time endangered the
whole town. Before the flames could be sub
dued large number of business houses and
private residences were burned and loss in
Cured of about $175,C0O partially insured. E.
The Most Reverend James Roosevelt Bayley
archbishop of Baltimore and primate of the
Roman Catholic Church of America, died in
Newark, N. j., aged sixty-three years. Arch
bishop Bayley was born in New York and was
a graduate of Washington (now Trinity Col
lege Hartford, Conn. He was ordained minis
ter of the Protestant Episcopal Church, and
subsequently joined the Roman Catholic Church
preparing himself for the priesthood at st. Sui
pice, Paris. He was the founder of Seton Hall
College as well as of numerous schools acadia
mics, converts and churches, and was one of
the highest dignitaries eof the Roman Catholic
Church in this country. . In New York the car
depot of the Dry Dock Railroad Company was
destroyed by fire. Besides the building about
ninety horse-cafs were burned and loss incur
red of $3.50, 600, which is covered by insurance.
49,. Titiens, the opera singer, died in London
on October 8. The Allegheny Savings Bank,
the Oldest bank in Allegheny City, Pa, and the
Cape Cod Five Cents Savings Bank, of Har-
wich, Mass, have suspended payments. One
square in the business portion of Frankton,
Ind, was destroyed by fire. Loss, about &c.,
900 ; no insurance ...T The National Episcopal
Congress opened at Boston. :. The steamer
Magnolia, running between New York and
Savannah, was lost at sea, owing to leak no
lives were lost.
New York Democratic State Convention
The Democratic convention at ALBANY nomi-
mated the following officers Secretary Of State,
Allen G. Beach, controller, Frederick P.
Olcott treasurer, James Mackin attorney
, general, Augustus Schoonmaker, Jr engineer
Horatio Seymour Jr The platform adopted
! reads; The people having, in the last Presi-
, dental contest, elected by an overwhelming
, popular and clear electoral majority the
| Democratic candidates for President and Vice
President, and the will of the nation, thus con-
4 stitutionally declared having been wickedly
and boldly nullifed by means of the grossest
usurpation and frauds of returning boards,
protected and adopted, if not instigated, by
the party in possession of the government and
rendered practicable by threatening array of
7 military force Resolved, That at this the first
convention of the Democrats of this State held
, since the consummation of this great crime, il
is not only just and fit, but it is the plain duty
5 in the interest of constitutional government
and in the vindication and preservation of the
$ sacred right of the majority to choose theil
L rulers, to denounce with the warmest indigna-
y ton this stupendous wrong, and we do hereby
: denounce, condemn and hold it up to universal
execration. Resolved, That this duty of set
; ting mark of infGmy upon this transaction
l and preventing any quick forgetfulness or easy
| combination of it from raising q tempting pre-.
q cedent for future outrages, rests especially and
peculiarly upon the Democratic party of this
State, one of whose most illustrious leaders was
I the President actually chosen by the nation
Q Resolved. That the late House Of Representa-.
tatives deserve the thanks of all patriots and
g lovers of liberty for their just refusal, in the
exercise of the most ancient and valuable priv.
: lege belonging to representatives of the people
, in all constitutional governments to appropriate
q money for the support of soldiers to be used il
e the Illegal and despotic oppression of citizens
G III any portion of the republic Resolved, Thai
. the present national Administration, by til
withdrawal of the troops from the South, ant
v its cessation from the mischievous, unconstitu
;. tional, and oppressive interference with the in
{ ternat1onal affairs of States has in that re
6 spect. reversed the vicious precedents of the
= Republican party, followed the course marked
1 out by the Federal Constitution, and to which
t the Democrats stand pledged, and it is there
fore entitled, in that particular, to the approva
y of all good citizens. Resolved, That the Demo
:, cratic party of New York reaffirm the following
principles set forth in their platform adopted
e in 1874, now thrice Endorsed by large maioritie
y of the voters of this State Gold and silver thu
q only legal tender no currency inconvertbl
a with coin ; steady steps towards specie pay
ments, no step backward the honest paymen
OF the public debt in coin sacred preserya
. ton of the public faith revenue reform,
d tariff for revenue only f; no government part
d nership with protected monopolies; home rul
to limit and localize most zealously the fey
? powers intrusted to public servants, municipal
. State and Federal no Capitalization equa
n and exact justice to all men no partial legis
h lation no partial taxation official account
4 ability enforced by better civil and crimina
~ remedies no private use of public funds b
e public officers corporations chartered by tn
u State always supervisable by the State in tn
interest Of the people the party in power re
IS sponsible for all legislation while in power
v economy in the public expense, that labor ma
: be lightly burdened. Resolved, That we ar
= opposed to the granting of land subsidies b
y the government to corporations or individual
n for the construction of railroads or other inter
|. nal improvement, as unnecessary, beyond th
, scope of Federal power, and inevitably produC
, ing corruption Resolved, That we congratulate
v the whole people of this State that notwith
|, standing the suffering to which the laborin
l. classes have been for wears subjected ia spit