Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1877-03-17
SUMMARY OF NEWS.
Interesting Item. from Home and Abrou

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interesting Items frsm Home and Abroad.
It is claimed in Nova Scotia that all acts
since 1869, requiring the great seal, are null
and void, owing to the officers having used the
old seal instead Of the one adopted. Special
legislation will have TO be invoked to legalize
the transactions Of all the intermediate years.
sees. Mexican news is to the effect that DiaZ
has been elected president and Ignacio Yallarte
chief justice. An attempt was made to assas-
sinate the archbishop Of the city of Mexico.
The desperate was arrested before any harm
was done, however The deaf and dumb
asylum near Council Bluffs, Iowa, was de-
stroyed by fire. Loss 100000 None Of the
l5S inmates were injured, although many Of
them lost their entire wardrObes. 49,. Five
business houses in Mexia, Texas, were destroyed
by fire. Loss, $50, 600. - Owing to the spread
OF the rinderpest in England, the secretary of
the treasury of this country has prohibited the
importation of cattle and hides from Great
Britain .... Lieut.. Cummins captured small
Indian village near Csadwood, Dakota. That
night the savage attempted to recapture the
live stock, etc., which they had lost, but were
unsuccessful =. E. by the falling of a scaffold
in blast furnace at Bethlehem, Pa, two men
were instantly killed, two fatally injured, and
three Others seriously hurt. They fell a dis
lance of seventy feet. $500. In 1865, VIM. n.
Bertram, defaulting cashier of the Carlisle
(Pa.) bank, was found hanging from a rafter
where he had committed suicide. He was cut
down by j. p. Hassler who succeeded to the
cashiership, and held the position until few
days ago when he was arrested for emhezzling
SIS, 900 from the bank. Released on his own
recognizance in order to secure bail, he hanged
himself to the same rafter from which Bertram
ended his life.
Rev. Chas. Thorpe an Episcopal minister at
Berry, Canada, induced a young lady of his
congregation to elope with him. He deserted
wife and family. .... The large Canadian
lumber firm of Gilmom & Co. has lost $40. 600
by the defalcation of trusted agent, ThOs.
MacDuffy. The whaling steamer Spitzber-
gen, of Dundee, Scotland, was lost near Ber-
gen, with all on board, numbering twenty-five
persons ...... Two hundred and twenty-nine
Sioux Indians have gone into the Cheyen' @
agency and surrendered their arms and three
hundred ponies. They came from the hostile
camp on Tongue river 80. Sixty thousand
dollars were realized by ball held in Paris in
aidof the Lyons silk workmen, who are suffer
ing severely on account of the stagnation of
their industry 49,. Henry Astor, of POUCH
keepsie, of the rich Aston family, who was sued
successfully for damages inflicted on the little
girl of one of his tenants has just paid the full
amount of Judgment, with interests and costs
amounting to $22, 814. 800. Adelina Patti issue;
IL IoVJcI uGHNluS Une SlOIy OF ler 6lOpellel
with the tenor, Nicolini.
The fortieth call for the redemption of 5-2(
bonds of May and November, issue of 1865 has
been circulated from the treasury 1t calls fol-
S7,OOO,O09 coupon and $3,000,000 registered
bonds. -. Jacob Wetzel, Of Tiffiin, Ohio, sho
his two-year-old daughter through the hear
and fired ball into his wife in the endeavor Il
murder her also. Whisky was the cause ...
Counterfeit silver half dollars are being extern
slvely passed. 49,. The discovery has been mad,
that the burning of the court house at Salina
Montery county, CAL, was for the purpose o
destroying the county books, in order to concea
the embezzlement Of $4,000 by the deput,
collector, VIM. NJ Rumsey, who had lost tn
money gambling with other high officials. Their
is great excitement among the citizens, and tn
investigation in progress promises queer de
Velopments .....T The Union schoolhouse at NeI
Philadelphia, Ohio, was destroyed by fire. Loss
$4,000 insured $4,000. 80. The last auction
sale OF coal i'll New York city indicated a Sigh
advance in prices ..... Judge Kelley, Republi
can representative from Pennsylvania, has writ
ten to Gov. Packard to induce that gentlema
to pardon Weldon, the young man who recent
made an attack upon his life. Mr.. Kelley state
that he is well acquainted with Weldons fam
", and is confident the young man was out O
his right mind at the time of the attempted as
sassination.
From November LIST to February 2Sth ther
were $685. $40 hogs packed in Cincinnat-a dc
crease of 1878 from the number packed dun
ing the same period last year go Durin
February the public debt was decreased 50 070
429.06. The total debt now stands at 81, 800
l2,7S8.53. The coin in the treasury amount
to $50, 1868, 771.44.. Joseph Eneas, we
known New York fruiter, has run away from b
Brooklyn home, after contracting debts to til
amount of 100000, and forging his wife's nan
to an IS, 600 MORTGAGE. Col Gordon, whol
the khedive of Egypt has made governor
the Soudan, promises to abolish slavery in TIL
district and open it for exploration Or
hundred and eighteen young men were gradl
ated from the New York College of Physician
and Surgeons $50. The Harding paper mill,
Franklin, Ohio, considered the finest of its kir
In the country, was destroyed by fire, thrown
one hundred hands out of employment. III
loss was over 1900 900. .... John Mccall, wi
murdered "Wild Bill " in the Black Hills. w
hanged at Yankton, Dakota. He died calml
after expressing himself satisfied with the jus
ness OF his sentence. -. The supreme court
the United States decides that State Legisl
lures can fix freight and passenger rates f
railway companies. This will open the do
for vast amount of legislation on the subjet
starving New York beggar woman W
found to have 81 400 in bank ... The sc
ond installment of immigrants for New Sou
Wales, consisting Of $50 men, women and CHI
dren, sailed from New York . One man W
killed and four fatally injured in Huntingto
Ind, by the explosion of the boiler in Koch
Bakers sawmill. The building was COZ
pletely demolished -. United States troo
have been withdrawn from the support of t
Packard government in New Orleans. Only
case the State authorities prove incompetent
protect life and property will the United Stat
troops interfere. -. The coal schooner Jam
A. Crooker has been given up as lost, with t
eight men on board. . Edward Thomas
colored convict in Auburn IN. Y prison, mi
dered fellow prisoner two years ago, and
just paid the dread penalty the law inficts.
was hanged in the prison and died of suffo,
ton, his neck not being broken by the fall
julius Levy shot his wife fatally and then co
mitted suicide in Memphis, Tenn. Aithou
married but few weeks, they had quarrel
almost necessarily, and at the time of t
tragedy divorce proceedings had been co
menced. The horse distemper (cerebro spil
meningitis), which swept off so many animal
year or two ago, has broken out in the vicin
OF New York city. 800. Weldon, who attempt
to assassinate Gov. Packard in New Orlea
has been bailed in the sum Of $4,000 :.
Oregon's crop prospects are unusually good.