Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1877-01-20
A SUMMARY OF NEWS.
Items Of Interest from Home and Abroad

The fourth incendiary attempt to burn the
town of Darlington, s. c., resulted in the de-
struction of the SOuthelner Office and one or
two other buildings. ..At the close of 1875
New York city's debt was S116,773, 724.09, and
at the close of 1876 was S119,S1 ,310.39. The
extradition treaty between Spain and the United
States has been signed. 1t applies to all crimi-
nal offenses except those of political nature.
80. The German authorities have issued cir
cular forbiddng their officers on the active list
from entering the Russian army Coles Nor
ris, a well known New York lawyer, moving in
fashionable society, msappropriated funds to
the amount of nearly half a million from es-
tates in his charge. He made such restoration
as was possible, but still is $150,000 short. -.
Louis Guinette met Frank Quay, an old ac-
quaintance, in street in Montreal. Canada,
and discharged two Shots from a revolver at
him, inficting q severe wound. Guinette then
committed suicide by taking oxalic acid. 1t
is supposed that jealousy was the cause.
Mechanics hall at Stanhope, n. j.. valued at
S11 900, was destroyed by fire. The boiler of
portable sawmill exploded near Marietta,
Ohio and severely injured four woodmen, one
of whom will probobly die. :. The Northern
Pacific is to he granted eight years more time.
80. The Maine Democratic committee passed
resolutions declaring Gov Tilden elected Presi-
dent and that all attempts to defeat him by
counting in a minority candidate be opposed by
every legal and constitutional remedy. The
NJ. f.. Church at Antwerp, n. Y, was destroyed
by fire. Loss, $4,000; insurance, $4,000.
The $11, 900 package stolen recently from the
treasury has been sent back the robber was
clerk named +. S. Winslow. .. .Twenty-nine
foreign nations have given to the United States
their exhibits of national resources shown at the,
Centennial, and Prof. Baird has seconded Presi-
dent Grants suggestion for taking steps to
make permanent exhibition of these dona
tiOpa I'm tha Ohio HpnCa a 1agplutiOn w q
adopted calling on the railroad commissioner
for information as to what condition the Ash
tabula bridge was in when last inspected by
him, and when such inspection occurred. -.
The steamship Amerique, of the Transatlan ic
line between Hayre and New York, ran ashore
at Seabright, near Long Branch, n. j., i'll a
thick fog, while in charge of pilot. The pas
sengers and crew were all rescued by the life
saving men, with the exception of three of the
crew, who were lost by the upsettng of boat
III which they endeavored to land. 49,. Com
modore Vanderbilt was buried at New Dorp,
Staten Island, all the funeral arrangements be-
ing simple and unpretending .... In Mexico,
the .Diaz party has ordered a new election for
President and members of Congress. Alex
ander H.. Stevens says he fears nothing more
will ever be got by the swindled depositors OF
the Freedman s bank at Washington ..... The
country is full of theatrical and show people
out of employ. This is the hardest winter this
class of people has known since 1860. An
effort is being made to have Utah admitted as q
State The Mormon church believes it can
carry the project through.
A meeting of South Carolina taxpayers passed
resolutions sustaining Wade Hampton as gov
ernor. .... Gov. Williams was inaugurated gov
ernor of Indiana, and ON the same day both
rival claimants to the executive chair of Louisi-
ana were inaugurated at New Orleans.
A $40 200 tire occurred in Marlboro, Mass,
destroying Smith & Hin's saw1nill and the adj
jacent six buildings. I he steamer Seminole,
of the Boston and Savannah line, during a
| thick fog off Cape May ran into and sunk the
steamer Montgomery, running from Havana to
New York. The second officer, four of the
crew and eight Spanish passengers were drown
ed A broken rail threw q train from the
track near East Wallingford, VT, and the pas
senger cars turned over an embankment twenty
feet in height, injuring severely number OF
passengers. .... The vanguard of the Russian
fleet has arrived in American waters. Grand
Duke Alexis is i'll command of the squadron.
BY his will the late Commodore Wander
bit bequeaths to his wife $500, 900 in United
States bonds. at par, in performance of the
ante nuptial contract made between the two,
bearing date the twentieth day of August,
! 1869 He also gives her the family mansion with
all the household goods, horses, carriages, etc
In codicil he gives his wife two thousand
shares stock New York Central and Hudson
River Railroad Company. To five Of his daugh.
ters, to be equally divided among them, he
! gives 50 SOC, 900 in bonds. including Lake Shore
and Michigan Southern, Union Trust Co. anC
New York and Harlem railroad. To Mrs. Allen
a sixth daughter he gives the interest of ;8400,
( 900 in United States bonds, the principal aftel
| her death, to go to her children To Elizi
! Osgood, the seventh daughter, he gives $500,
900 under the same restrictions. To Mrs
I TaE fn aip To l..
son, Cornelius j., he gives 5000, 900 under th,
same restrictions, no part of the interest of thu
same to be paid to any assignee or creditor o
the son. but the interest to be used solely for thu
son's support To his sister Phebe 81 200 pc
annum. To his brother Jacob $4,000 of frs
mortgage bonds of the Staten Island railroad
I and to other relatives various sums iron
! $4,000 to f20, 900. Rev. Chas L. Deems, of ii,
Church of the Strangers, receives S20, 900, anC
Akw. Granger, wife of Gen. Gordon Granger
] $4,000. All the rest of his property he give
! to his son. VIM. H. Vanderbilt, and appoints hi
son, William II. Vanderbilt, his grandson. Cor
nelius, son of the said William H., and also
when he shall become of age, his grandson vii
/ liam, another son of the said William H.. an(
his nephew, Samuel Barton executors In
codicil to his will, dated Jan. 8, 1875, he give
to his grandson, Cornelius, 20, 1896 shares of New
York and Harlem stock and 81 $50 shares o
New York Central and Hudson River. To hi
/ grandson, VIM. X, he gives 10000 shares of New
York Central and Hudson River stock. To hi
grandson, Frederick W., 10000 shares of New
York Central and Hudson River, and to hi
wife, Frank A., 1000 shares of the sam,
stock. These grandsons are sons of William II
Vanderbilt. 1t is said the will will be con
tested.
At meeting held recently of the indiana
Democrats to consider the political situation
resolutions were adopted setting forth that
conspiracy existed to falsify the votes of til,
people and impose upon them President an(
Vice-President whom they had not elected
declaring that if the vote was justly declared il
Florida and Louisiana it would elect Tilden anC
Hendricks and protesting against the action o
the returning boards of those States declarin;
" it is the duty of a just and efficient govern
ment to prevent the intimidation of its voter
and to restrain and punish all lawless person
who would modest these voters or interfer,
with the freedom of election, but the offender
should only be punished, and those who's
rights have been disturbed should not suffel
disfranchisement for the acts of such offend
ers" The Democrats of Ohio, who met thu
same day to consider the same NATTER adopted
similar resolutions. Some of- these were al
follows That while clear in the conviction
that Samuel j. Tilden and Thomas A
Hendricks have received not only a large
majority of the popular vote but ma
iority of the electoral vote, and are therefore
elected President and ice-President, we yet de
clare that any decision made by the Senate and
Uouse of REPRESENTATIVES will be cheerfully ac.