Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1878-02-15

seAworthy. An investigation into her con-
dihon IL the time Of putting to sea from PhiA-
lphia will be made.
William sturges, prominent in railroad cir
cles, filed voluntary petition in bankruptcy at
Chicago. His liabilities are over 81, 100000.
]. Mad son Wells, OF the Louisiana returning
board, who made his escape recently when the
o'heT members of the board were arrested,
voluntarily surrendered himself at Rgolets
Station, La, and was brought TO New Orleans.
From washington.
Mexico has paid to the United States the
second installment Of S310,00e on account Of
damages awarded by joint commission to
American citizens.
The House committee IN ways and means
have made public the proposed new tariff bill.
IL provides that ON and after January l. 1879
all articles not named in the bill shall be free
Of duty. 1t makes a heavy reduction ON the
number Of articles and some Of the rates Of
duties 1t abolishes the charges and COM
missions in ascertaining dutiable values under
the present law, and adds five per cent. to
make the dutiable value at The last foreign
port of expectation. II discriminates ten per
cent. against the products of all countries dis
eliminating in duties against US This win
add ten per cent. to all importations from
France and several other countries. 1t gives
free raw material to manufacturers for ex-
Iu6 VI ODsCtuo
articles or books protects trade marks; tries
to prevent the importation Of diseased live
animals; limits wearing apparel to 5000 adj
mits steam plows and other steam agricultural
machinery free extends the free importation
Of articles imported by religious, educational.
scientific, and artistic associations encourages
the importation of superior breeding animals
and Of foreign inventions admits hfe-saving
apparatus free, and all foreign materials used
in ip-building makes further provision
for carrying out the treaty OF Washington :;
abolishes all customs districts where it costs
more than half to collect the revenue, and ad-
mits free all articles intended for government
uses.
The public debt was decreased 81, 66S, 076 50
in January and since june 1877, it has been
decreased S15,S7O 857.
Judge Bradley, of the United States supreme
court, denied the petition of the Louisiana re-
turning board members to have their cases
removed to the United States circuit court,
at New Orleans
Fraucis Murphy, the temperance agitator
with his son and daughter, called on the Presi-
dent and Mrs Hayes the other day, and met
with pleasant reception.
A meeting of Republicans in Washington was
held to decide what steps to take to protect the
Louisiana returning board
Foreign News.
The Russian steamer Cons antine blew up a
Turkish steamer in the port of Batoum, on the
Black sea, by means of a torpedo.
Large meetings in favor of peace have been
held all over England.
George Cruikshank, the celebrated English
artist and caricaturist, is dead.
Greece has declared war against Turkey, and
the government has ordered an army OF IL, 900
men to cross the frontier and occupy Thessaly,
Epirus and Macedonia. in order to prevent
massacres of Christians in those provinces.
The war between Russia and Turkey is prac-
tically at an end, the peace preliminarie
having been signed at Adrianople and the
Grand Duke Nicholas having ordered sus-
pension of hostilities. The following are the
conditions of peace the erection of Bulgaria
into principally a war indemnity or terri
tory in compensation the independence of
Roumania, Servia and Montenegro, with an in
crease of territory for each reforms in Bos-
mia and Herzegovina an Interior understand
ing between the sultan and the car regarding
the Dardanelles the evacuation of the Danu-
bian fortresses and Erzeroum.
Nine millions of people are suffering from
famine in Northern China, and England and
America have been appealed to for aid.
"A dispatch from Shanghai, China, announces
that an asylum for women and children in the
city of Tien-Tsin, hes been burned, and that
more than 1000 persons are said to have per.
ished in tie fire.
| Ten persons we're suffocated or trampled tC
death during the excitement caused by false
alarm Of fire at circus in Calais, France.
The Greeks carried the town of Domoco
containing garrison of 1000 Turks, at the
Turkish men-of-war have started for the Greek
! coast