Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1877-06-16

his head. giving evidence Of foul play.
A. d. Hazen has been promoted 10 be third as
sistant acknowledgement. -. Another MEM
Der Of the Tweed ring-Bichard b. Connolly
has been negotiating for q compromise with
the city, million and a half will prOba-
bly be demanded OF him in restitution. ....
Joseph ]. Couch was elected Grand Master OF
the Free MasOns Of the State Of New York.
Gov. Prescott was inaugurated in New Hamp-
SHIRE and reported the State financially sound.
&C.,. Thomas Daley. a Brooklyn On. " black
smith, was killed with an ak during drunken
quarrel ... The wife Of DIR. George Z. Wood
bury, Of Methuen, Mass, gave birth to four
children, three Of them living a few hours
only The Pope received 81, 800, 600 during
the jubilee in Rome, besides numerous valuable
presents.
By a frightful accident which occurred during
a FIRE in East Bridgeport, Conn, eleven men
several of them prominent citizens-lost their
lives. The published accounts say that flames
we're discovered issuing from the third story of
c hat factory, at about eleven o'clock at night,
and soon the whole upper part of the building
was on fire. A number of men were at work in
the Office, removing the furniture, when the
walls of the burning building suddenly toppled
in upon them, burying them out of sight in
mass of hot bricks and burning timbers In
the early morning the ruins were reached and
eleven bodies were taken out, frightfully man
RleQ ana Dufneu dlulOsI D6NOIu recognition.
The Russian official newspaper published de-
cree ordering new levy of the unusually large
number of 5000 men. After an all-day battle.
the Montenegrins defeated the Turks, who lost
5000 men. -. Mr.. Lewis, a colored man, was
appointed naval officer at New Orleans and
John Tyler. Jr., son of the late President Tyler,
was made inspector of customs at Richmond,
va. In Boston Charles Fagerstrom, aged
three years, had his skull fractured by brick
thrown at him by boy named WEIGH, two and
half years old. . "A fire in Galveston, Tex,
destroyed twenty-six business houses, causing
loss of about So, 000. 000. 1t was resolved,
at lengthy cabinet meeting, to follow up the
prosecutions of persons alleged to be implicated
in the Mountain Meadow massacre in Utah,
and to furnish necessary troops to carry out
the DEGREES of the courts in case any attempt
should be made to prevent the punishment of
! Mormon leaders. Fifteen months imprison-
ment and a fine of 1000 francs was the punish
ment inflicted upon NJ Duverdier, president
of the Paris municipal council, for insulting
President MacMahon and melting civil war and
assassination. 1.-Two men were hung Louis
Rousseau, in Louisiana, for the murder of a
! butcher, and Jack Peasants, q colored man, in
! Virginia, for the murder of his sweetheart,
Ann Lundy. ..... The Legislature of South
Carolina adjourned after passing a concurrent
resolution creating commission to inquire
into the expenditures of public funds and the
| election of United States Senator Patterson
Two criminals in the Ohio penitentiary con-
! fessed that they were the authors of the MUIR
der and outrage of young girl at Pontiac,
| ILL.,, in 1869, for which crime young man
named Wiley was arrested, tried, convicted and
hung, although he protested his innocence to
| the last