The Lamoille news. (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1877-1881, 1878-07-03
SUMMARY OF NEWS.
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The ens anndredth anniversary OF the
evacuation Of Valley Forge (pA.) b the Ieyolu-
tionAry army after the winter OF lfIt-T5 vas
celebrated Al that place By a military process
sion. which was reviewed by Governor Hart
sanft and General Hancock. the reading Of an
address, recitation OF appropriate original
poems, music and religious serYices. tetwesn
thirty and forty thousshd people were present.
Tie Dommencements at the various colleges
OF the country were celebrated by the usual
exercises. At Princeton On. j. College Gen.
Sherman delivered an address; at the Madison
On. " University Hon. HOratio Seymour de-
hvered an GRAFTON, and George William curtis
spoke to the graduating class Of the Brooklyn
Collegiate and Polytechnic Institute.
The steamer Eothen left New York on a
voyage TO the arctic regions in search Of relics
OF Sir John Franklin. The expedition expects
30 be gone about two years and half. An
exploring party will 10 into the interior OF the
Esduimaux country several hundred miles and
further than any previous searching party has
ever gone. Captain Barry commands the YES.
sci aud Lieutenant sohwatka, OF the United
States army, is at the head Of the exploring
expedition.
In a boat-race at Pittsburgh, Pa, for the
championship Of America and $4,000, Edward
Hanlon, Of Torento, Canada, defeated Evan
Mortis.
convention at Montpelier and nominated Will
liam H. II. Bingham for governor, Jerome W.
Pierce for Acknowledgements, and George f.
Boyoe for treasurer. The platform favors
"honest payment Of the public debt, home
rule, "one currency for all and the gradual
substitution of greenbacks for national bank
notes y thanks the originators of 8 the present
investigation Of the electoral frauds, and as
serts that while we would sanction no assault
upon the official title OF President Hayes, we
urge the prosecution and punishment OF all
who aided the frauds by which the Presidency
was wrested from the Democracy"
A notable social event at Princeton, N. j..
was the recent marriage Of OK. Governor Swami,
Of MARYLAND, and Mrs. J. II. Thompson. The
bridegroom is seventy-two years old, and this
is his second venture in the matrimonial field.
Fifteen hundred invitations to the wedding
were sent out.
The indictment Of the grand jury against the
New York board OF aldermen for permitting
distractions in the streets has been quashed in
court.
At a meeting Of Plymouth Church Mrs.
Elizabeth II. Tilton was unanimously " excom-
municated from the communion and fellowship
Of the church"
Moses A. Wheelock, who had been chairman
of the New York Stock Exchange for more than
twenty-five years, and had held that position
until recently, committed suicide by shooting
himself. He was given to drinking heavily,
had suffered serious business reverses, and his
defeat at the lest election for chairman of the
Stock Exchange seems to have preyed upon his
mind.
The New York Plough Company's works in
Newark, N. j., were nearly totally destroyed
by fire, causing loss Of over 100000 and
throwing 200 men out Of employment.
The will OF William Cullen Bryant has been
filed in the surrogate's office, at Jamaica
Queens county, N. Y. He bequeaths to his
gardener, George b. Cline, of Roslyn, about
So 600 in land and money and few hundred
dollars to his gardeners son, William Bryant
Cline All the residue Of the estate is to be
divided between his two daughters Fannie
Bryant Goodwin and Julia Sands Bryant. MIR
Bryants share in the Egening Post and his
copyrights are also left to his daughters.
There are numerous complaints along the
line of the newly-opened Elevated railroad il
New York on account Of the noise made by
passing trains. People complain that the noist
is great sleep-destroyer and injurious to per
sons in sickly health.
By an explosion Of gas in a vault in the new
municipal building Brooklyn, N. Y, one maj
was fatally injured, another seriously hurt
and several others slightly injured.
Four large boilers in the puddle mills of the
Chesapeake Nail Works in Harrisburg, Pa.
exploded with terrible effect The mill wa,
almost entirely demolished. Chambers Bower
master, a foreman, was fearfully mutilated ant
| instantly killed. Henry Ness, John Hass
George Frank, and John Hetrick, workmen
we're badly scalded, and injured by the fyinl
debris. One of the boilers was carried over al
adj AGENT mill, sixty-fiye feet in height, an,
landed in field about $50 feet from the seen
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the top of the mill into brick warehouse. !
third was carried into another warehouse
badly damaging the building and the fourtl
boiler was entirely torn to pieces. The loss i
estimated at from $l2, 900 to $15. 900.
The board Of officers forming court of in
quiry in the case of General Fl John Porter
who was removed in 1862 for alleged disc
bedience Of General Pope's orders met q
West Point, N. Y, and began an examination
for the purpose OF ascertaining whether Ger
Por. er had been uniustly treated.
Western and South. N Statos.
The Missouri Greenback party convened a
Sedalia and nominated ticket with A. s
Gilstrap for supreme court judge at the head
The declaration of principles adopted demand
the repeal of the resumption act that greer
backs shall be equal TO gold and silver tha
all United States bonds be taxed that equt
wages be paid to equal work fort both sexei
and that all laws not bearing equally upo
capital and labor be abrogated.
Two men named Pearson and Sadler, accuse
Of committing q criminal assault upon Mr.
Groves, near Mitchellvile, Tenn, on May II
were taken from the Jail at Springfield by IL
armed men and hanged.
Jeremiah Connolly and George Sherry, age
respectively nineteen and twenty-one year
were hanged at Chicago for the unproyoke
murder Of Hugh McConville while they WEI
under the influence of liquor John Burns ws
hanged at Paris, ILL.,, for the murder of Ellzi
beth Burdwell Perry Bowster was hanged
Chillcothe, Ohio, for the murder of an age
toll-keeper and wife /; Edward H. Costley age
twenty, suffereda similar fate at Frederick, Md
for the murder of his cousin, Solomon Costle,
and at Little Rock, Ark, Jacob Levelo coloret
was hanged for the murder Of another colore
man, The six executions took place in one da,
Nine members of gang of counterfeiter
having their headquarters near Baxter
Springs, Kan, have been arrested and officer
are in pursuit of others.
Judge Miller, of the United States Supren
Court, has been seriously i'll and has had dal
gerous operation performed.
Portland, Or, despatch gives the followin
result OF the late Oregon election: Full return
give Whitaker, DEM, for Congress, 16, 554
Hines, Rep. Is, 1884; Campbell, Ind, $50. Fc
govenor-Thayef, DEM, has 16, 063; Beekmal
Rep, 12,009; Wilkins, Ind, 1853. The RI
publicans elect the other State officers.
The other day United States Senator Bruc
of Mississippi, was married in Cleveland, Obi
to Miss Josephine B. Wilson. Both partit
are colored.
The Indian uprising in the West has Gu
minated in battle between advance troops
General Howard and the hostiles, forty-fi,
miles from Fort Harvey. Colonel Robbins ar
several soldiers are reported killed Courie
rode 200 miles to furnish General Howard viii
the news Of the engagement and to ask for n
Inducements.
From Washington.
The wedding of General Russell Hastin,
and Miss Emily Platt, niece of Mrs. Have
took place at the White House the other da
This makes the eighth wedding that has take
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