Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1877-02-24
SUMMARY OF NEWS.


Inc bIlllsn IRON steamship Ambassador COL
lided with the American ship George +. Man
son, on the East Indian coast and sunk in
consequence, carrying down tive 4ty-two of the
crew, The Manson was dry locked at Bombay
for repairs The steamship George WASH
ington, of the Cromwell line, running from
New York TO St Johns, n. B., touching at Hall
fax, sailed from the latter port January 18th,
and three days afterWard went ashore on Mis-
taken Point. Cape Race The vessel went TO
pieces and it is supposed the entire crew, con-
sisting Of twenty three persons. with two pas
sengers on board, persisted. Fourteen bodies
have already washed ashore. The Washington
was a wooden screw steamer Of one thousand
tons, and her cargo consisted of sundries. The
George Cromwell, of the same line, has been
missing for over month, and fears are enter
tanned for her safety. Midhat Pasha has
been dismissed from the office of grand vizier of
Turkey Thomas r. Agnew, well-known
New York grocer, has been declared bankrupt
on his own petition. The liabilities are put at
SSS4.r00; assets, $4,000 500. Some one of
the patients in the insane asylum at Northamp-
ton, Mass, killed keeper named D. E. Barret.
..... The directors of thegreat bridge between
New York and Brooklyn are buying ground on
the New York side for an approach to the struc-
ture.
Many letters having been stolen while pass
ing through Connecticut, detectives were set to
work to discover the offender and arrested the
postmaster at Southington, B. S. Hicock,
hitherto highly respected citizen who confessed
his crime 80. The general superintendent of
the Lake Shore road testified that evidence
went to show that eighty persons lost their
lives and sixty-nine were rescued from the ruins
of the Ashtabula bridge. He contradicted the
ropcrt of his having forbidden the use of water
on the burning cars. 800. A collision between
freight and a coal train on the St. Louis and
thaao OH I
of Frank Wilson, a brakeman, and severe in
juries to the engineer and several brakemen.
..... The Apache Indians have committed
many depredations of late in southeastern
Arizona, and Gov. Stafford, in message to the
legislature deprecates the inefficient move
ments of the regular troops, and suggests that
the legislature memorabilia Congress to furnish
money to equip and pay band of border scouts
and Indian fighters, who could soon put an end
to the outrages If something is not done
soon, the governor fears that portion of Ari-
iona will have to be abandoned by the sett ers
49,. The smallpox deaths in London are on
the increase-103 occurring in one week .
Three men were instantly killed and one seri-
ously injured in an iron mine at Hensingerville,
Pa, by earth caving in upon them 80. Rear
Admiral James Alden died in San Francisco of
congestion of the brain ~ A mail bag con-
tanning 1876, 900 in checks and drafts was stolen
between Newport, KY, and Cincinnati. No clue
has been obtained as to the robber.
Of the thirty-two students who were arrested
in Russia during the latter part of 1876, for
unfurllng red flag bearing the words "Union
and Liberty" in the cathedral of Kazan, all
but three have been sentenced to penal servi-
tude or transportation. Eleven of them were
young women 500. Ten men were killed by an
explosion in the Fass colliery near Bolton, Eng
land .... Successive rains have severely dam
aged the cotton crop of the presidency of Bonn
bay India. ..... The British steamer Ethel
bound from Bilbao for Newport, Wales, went
ashore on Lundy island and became total
wreck. Nineteen persons were drowned. $3.50.
The report of the superintendent of New York
citys public schools shows there are 157, 1923
scholars enrolled on the books, and that an
average attendance of 102, 1854 issecured. These
are under the tuition of 3,247 teachers ....
An incendiary fire at Nanticoke Pa, destroyed
live buildings belonging to the Susquehanna
Coal Co... The planning mills of Martin e.
Murphy in New York city were destroyed by
fire. Loss, $50, 900. -. The amount taken by
the cashier of the Franklin Gnd) National
bank amounts to $140,0 00-being the entire
capital Of the bank. He had been carrying on
his irregularities for years, covering them up
by false entries in his books.
The case against Gen. Belknap has been nOlle
prosecuted by Acknowledgement Taft, upon
Gen. Grants recommendation =. The Phila-
delphia police made descent upon cockpit
and arrested forty men who were witnessing a
fight In the melee one of the ruffians was
killed Ly pistol ball. but as the police did not
fire shot, the wound must have been inflicted
by one of the prisoners. =. E. Grand Duke Alexis
and his fellow officers of the Russian navy were
rendered brilliant ball by the inhabitants of
Norfolk, VA. Hostile Indians and white
horse thieves are reported as Astounding in
Wyoming Territory. go. The arrest of Nathan
L. Lenheim in New York, for attempting to
negotiate forged note of $4,000. led to an
examination of the books of the Montrose pa J
bank, of which he was cashier, and the dis
covery that he had robbed it of nearly 100000
IN the past few years. William Cook, OF
Beverly township, Canada, shot his daughter
| aged twenty-four years, and afterward blew out
his own brains. ... The 100000 shorthorn
COW, Tenth Duchess of Geneva, which Lord
Beehive bought at the famous New York Mills
| IN. " sale, died in England. . Rear Admira
Charles Wilkes, of the United States navy, died
in Washington, aged seventy-six years. He
was appointed midshipman in 1918, and served
through all the grades. During the recent wal
his principal act was the capture of Mason anC
Slidell, -. In Queen Victoria's opening ad
dress to parliament she expressed the belief il
peaceful solution of the Eastern question.
confagration at Swanton, VT, destroyed
seven of the principal buildings " Mount
Mineral Springs House at Shutesburg Mass
was destroyed by fire. Loss, $40 W insur
ance r7,0 O......R t. Taylor, the defaulter o.
the bank at Franklin, Ind, was found one
morning in the Office of friendly physician il
the town in an insensible and precarious con
dition. 1t is surmised he lost his reason after
decamping from town. and in his delirium wan
dered back under cover of night. .EX-Judgt
Clinton, of Salt Lake City, when on the bencl
in 1870 declared liquor store nuisance anC
ordered the stock destroyed. The owners o
the establishment sued him for the amount
and after many delays jury has just granted
verdict of F22, against him. 80. Becaus
Milton Anderson, of Sorrel, Hill, Pa, ordere,
Harrison Turner to discontinue his attention
to the formers daughter, to whom they wer
Objectionable, Turner shot and killed Anderson
with gun, which he then reloaded and bic,
out his own brains ...... Accounts are pouring
in from all parts of the country of the arrest 0
counterfeiters. ia Miss Hunt, of Centre
point, Ohio, having had quarrel with he
lover, committed suicide, and a few days late
the lover James B. Osborn, followed her
the grave by shooting himself in the head. "
Henry Simpson and artin Henry, both co
ored, were hanged at Port Tobacco, Md, fc
the murder of John W. Everett. The executio
, was public, being witnessed by at least fy
thousand persons of both sexes. The men col
iosseu InelI cTlineb previous 10 dying.
An alteration occurred in WILLIAMSBURG
N. T., between two gangs Of rufians, in whic
I, the leader of one gang, Frederick Hertfelde
was killed by stab in the neck with q knife
the hands of William Abernethy, the chief
the opposing crowd. 49, Egyptian troops ha,
again suffered defeat at the hands of the Ably
sinians.. A dispatch from Calcutta, Ind
, reports that gunpowder explosion occurred
Adhemabed, by which fifty persons were kille
) and one thousand wounded. . Forty va
: mouth and Lowestoft (English) fishing vessel
: having two hundred men and boys on boar
5 are missing. The government has dispatcht
, two vessels in search of them . Rear A,
miral Theodorus Bailey died in Washington
aged seyenty-two, after fifty years. service
4 the navy. At the time of his decease he was
} the retired list. ... Sir VIM. Ferguson, SO