Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1878-11-01
SUMMARY OF NEWS.
Eastern and lziddl. States.


Capt. Peaks, sailed from New Bedford on = re-
cent Saturday, with q crew Of twenty five men,
on whaling voyage. At twelve O'Clock she |
encountered hurricane, and at seven p. NJ the /
vessel capsized. Eight men were in, the FORE
castle at the time, They got on boards, chests, |
and dunnage stuifs, and kept above the water. /
On Sunday 1t Noon two Of them dived down /
and came Up outside through the companion
way. One man who could not swim was left |
in the forecastle. The other ave at length fell |
through into the wEter and were drowned. |
The two ~ho had got out lasbed themselves on |
the weatherside OF the wreck. On Tuesday |
morning New York pilot boat No. s fell in with |
the wreck. took OF the two men who we're on |
the outside and cut through the bluff Of the |
bow and took out the man inside alive. One
man, who had dashed himself in the rigging at
the time the ship capsized, was left. The roll
OF the vessel had nearly cut him In two. Three
men only Of the shipb company OF twenty-five
we're safed-nsmelS, Joseph @. Reig, Henry
Gonsalve and Manuel Alpho.
The Delaware Greenbaok party held State
convention in Wilmington, nominated DR.. K.
J. Stewart for governor and John G.. Jackson
for Congress, and adopted q platform which
demands the payment Of the bonds in green
baeks that greenbacks be made legal tender
for al debts, etc.
Hiram Paulding, rear admiral and senior flag
officer on the retired list Of the United States
navy, ulou ~ his NOME near huntington, Long
Island, the other day, aged eighty one years.
Admiral Paulding was the last surviving officer
OF MacDonough's squadron in the victory over
the British on Lake Champlain, on September
II, 1914.
Patrick Butler, wealthy New York manu-
facturer, was thrown from his carriage while
riding in Central Park and killed, and his wife
was seriously injured.
job W. Green, aged eighty-one, committed
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himself. His mind was affected.
John 0'Neil was sentenced to death at Sum
bury, Pa, by Judge Rockefeller, for the MUIR
der Of Coroner Hesser at Hickory Swamp, near
Shamokin, in December 1874. Peter Nc
Manus, his accomplish in the crime, has al.
ready been sentenced to death.
Captain Anderson, OF tne schooner Moss
Glen, of st. John, N. B., reached Boston, the
other day, and reports the loss of his vessel
during the recent heavy gale off Cape Cod.
The steward and two seamen were washed
overheard. The captain, mate and two sailors
dashed themselves to the miEzen chains and
drifted about for four days without food or
drink, when they were rescued by passing
vessel.
One OF the most violent storms ever OK.
perienced in this country swept over portions
OF the Middle and Eastern States, the other
day, causing some loss of life and doing an
immense amount Of damage to property of
every description. In New York city many
telegraph poles were overturned, trees up
rooted, windows broken and ohimneys blown
Overcome young man being struck on the head
by falling brick and fatally injured. At
Philadelphia over forty churches and several
hundred dwelling houses were rnroofed or
otherwise damaged, while some buildings were
entirely demolished. Along the river front over
fifty storehouses were blown from their fasten-
ings, and great quantities Of goods foated off
with the tide. Six persons were killed by
falling roofs or trees and about seventy
five injured in different degrees Of severity At
Pottstown, Pa, the nail plate mill OF the Potts
town Iron company, bridge across the Schuyl-
kill river, and Fishers steam planning mills were
blown down, causing combined loss CT about
$4,000, while two churches also lost their
spires and many private dwellings we're I'M
rooted. At Chester, Pa, seventy houses were
unroofed, nineteen being blown down altogeth-
or, while three churches were partially destroy
ed, and eleven manufacturing places damaged
to such an extent that work was suspended for
a time. throwing a large number of persons ont
Of employment. At Albany, N. Y. and Trenton,
N. j., the story of unroofed houses, overblown
trees and other damage to property was re-
peated. Vessels along the coast also suffered
heavily, and some lives we're lost The schoon-
er Mary TIE sunk near New Haven, and the
captain and steward we're drowned. A schoon-
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Jersey coast, four miles south of Great Egg
Harbor, and several of her crew were drowned.
Along the line of the West Jersey railroad
many cattle we're killed barns destroyed and
fences blown down. 1t would be impossible to
state with exactness the amount Of damage
done in the various regions which suffered
from the fury OF the storm, but the total sum
will run up into hundreds Of thousands Of dol
lars
Detailed reports from Philadelphia state
that during the recent heavy storm $50 build
ings were unroofed or badly injured OF these
there we're 1884 dwellings and stores, thirty -one
churches, twenty three schools, thirty five
factories and warehouses; five hotels, two ele-
vators and fifty other large buildings, such as
depots, ferry-houses, mills and railroad offices.
Eight vessels were reported sunk and twenty
two damaged in the harbor, and the pecuniary
damage done in and about the city is estimated
at over 81, 900, 900.
General James 8. Whitney, who presided al
the recent Democratic convention in Boston
died suddenly the other day of heart disease
while on his way to his home in Brookline.
Western and Southei States.
Five people were drowned near SANFORD, in
, Orange county, Fla, a few days ago. Two
we're ladies named Hughey, and two were
children of Calvin Martin. The fifth was
man named McIves. They were in q wagon
on Toute ior nome from camp-meeung, anC
, drove into deep hole at the lake side. A sixth
person was rescued after standing up in the
wagon for several hours with the water up Il
his chin.
George 7. Nelson, while climbing fe nct
7 near Kennedyville, Md. was accidentally
/ killed by the discharge of his gun. When the
news Of the accident reached his mother, siy
q hours after, she was go overcome that she dice
of grief.
By the bursting of boiler belonging to
sawmill near McLeansboro. ILL.,, the proprietor
and another man were killed and three othe
3 men were fatally injured.
= Ten persons were poisoned at weddint
Q feast at Azalia, Ind. They partook Of food il
{ which some person supposed to be disap
/ pointed lover Of the bride-had placed strych
: nine. Three OF the persons affected were mad,
dangerously i'll.
A Memphis (Tenn. dispatch SAYS a party O
: white men killed colored man near Glencoe
1 Tenn, shooting him while in bed, in his owl
r house. In retaliation, party Of colored mel
! captured and killed white man supposed I,
= have been the murderer, while asleep on tn
porch Of grocery at Cuba, on the next night
q 1t turned out they killed the wrong man.
Y The failure of Stagle Brothers, of Green
It field, Ohio, is the heaviest that has occurred
q in that section for years. They owned tn
q largest farm in Fayette county. IT comprise,
1900 acres. The liabilities exceed 1920, 900
: the assets will probably reach ten per cent
The appearance of frosts in the districts o
: the South given up to yellow fever was tn
o cause Of great rejoicing among the long suffer
l. ing people. The epidemic Immediately de
q creased in the number of deaths and of ne,
cases to such an extent that the medical an,
charitable associations of the large cities
IS called into existence by the plague, began b
g end their labors, while many persons, who ha
d fed from the fever returned to their homes
l. kilograms received in Omaha, Neb., shoy
,f that prairie fires in Butler, Seward and Saun
= ders counties, are far more destructive an
= sweeping than was at first supposed. The fir
d originated in the Platte river bottom. north