The Lamoille news. (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1877-1881, 1878-05-22
SUMMARY OF NEWS.
Ea.teru and Middle state..

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The Union National Bank, Of Lewisburg,
Pa, has suspended, and the Home Mutual
Insurance Company, at Boston, Mass, has
been enjoined from doing further business,
the liabilities amounting 10 nearly double the
assets.
The National party Of Pennsylvania has re-
considered its platform adopted AZ the PhilA-
delphiA convention, and hiss adopted another,
which is more explicit thai the me repudiated.
Louis Bohmke, aged Eve, shot and killed his
brother John, aged three, with pistol that he
found in a bureau. The unfortunate affair
occurred in Brooklyn, n. Y.
The permanent exhibition at Philadelphia,
which has been closed for some time 10 allow
Of a thorough renovation is again open. sena-
tors Wallace, Blaine, Bsyard and other dis
tinguished visitors took part in the opening
ceremonies.
The executive committee Of the National
party OF the United States held q meeting in
New York for the purpose Of discussing plans
for q solid organization Of the party, and to
prepare for the fall campaign. DIR. ID. b.
Sturgeon, Of Toledo Ohio, presided, and rep
resentatiyes Of about thirty States were
present.
Six men were publicly whipped in Newcastle,
Del, the other day each receiving twenty
lashes.
Jason Scribner, who lives on q small farm
near Augusta Me-, attempted to murder his
whole family with a spade. A girl Of three was
struck aud killed, boy OF five sustained a fatal
fracture Of the skull, and 4 babe of one year
was fatally injured. Scribners wife and son,
Albert boy OF eleven, succeeded in getting
away unhurt. The father attempted to commit
suicide, but was arrested before he could carry
his design into execution.
Catherine f. Beecher, sister OF Henry Ward
Beecher, died in Elmira, n. Y, on the 18th,
aged seyenty-eight years.
Recent defalcations G.. R. Waterman was
arraigned in the police court OF Lawrence,
Mass, charged with embeZZlng $780, 900 from
the Pacific mills corporation he pleaded not
guilty, but was committed for trial. Edwin
w. Hall. ex-president of the Merchants Ma
tional Bank of Whitehall, N. Y, was arrested
on charge Of embezzling 500, 900, funds Of
the institution, and was brought to Troy and
held in $40, 900 bail for examination.
Some damage has been done to the young
crops and vegetation by the recent unusually
cold weather. The northern parts Of Vermont
and New Hampshire were visited with a snow
storm, and heavy frosts prevailed all over the
New England and Middle STATES.
Mathew Mcdonald, a storekeeper Of Pough-
keepsie, n. Y, blew his brains out with a
pistol. Probable cause, financial embarrass-
ment.
ing the second division, national guard Of the
State Of New York, died in Brooklyn on the
18th, aged forty-seven years. General Dakin
was best known as a member Of every team
representing America in the international rife
matches, and last year be was captain of the
American team at CreedmoCr.
Ira B. Wright, town treasurer of South
Hadley, Mass. is discovered to have appro-
priated $4,000 Of the town funds. He has
boay, fad md ~ tba
principal store in the town. He disclosed his
own guilt and has given up all his property,
which will probably cover one-third of the
towns loss. He claims to have sunk the
money in busiress and hoped to repay it all.
The second annual bench show of dogs was
opened at Gilmore's Garden, New York city,
the other day. There we're about one thousand
dogs on exhibition, comprising every variety of
canine.
The convent on of the Pennsylvania Repub-
licans for the nomination OF State ticket was
held in Harrisburg. Mayor Stokely, of Phia-
delphia, was chosen chairman. The ticket
nominated was For governor, General Henry
NJ. Hoyt for supreme judge, James P. ster-
rett; for acknowledgements, Charles W.
Stone for secretary of internal affairs, Aaron
4. Dlnkel. The platform adopted does not
allude to the Administration, but opposes free
trade AID the tariff bill ; declares that labor
anu American commerce snOulu DC lOsteGeu Dy
the national government asserts that the
public lands should be reserved for actual
settlers opposes the payment of Southern
claims" and unjust freight determinations !;
sympathizes with Southern Republicans, and
endorses the State administration.
| The New York Legislature has adjourned.
Western and Son thrt. Statos.
United States Senator ]. D. Cameron, Of
Pennsylvania, was married in Cleveland, Ohio,
| to Miss Elizabeth B. Sherman. The event had
| been long talked of in Washington, and many
prominent persons from the national capital
were present
The schooner Geno capsiEed in a squat on
Lake Pontchartrain, La, and the captain with
all on board excepting small boy were lost.
Isaiah Evans, (colored) aged twenty-three,
was hing at Amite, La, for the murder Of
| Edward Bowers, aged eighteen, at a picnic in
July, 1877. Evans confessed the murder and
said whiskey brought him to the scaffold.
Near Littleton, W. Va. Irana Bartlett, an old
farmer, aged eighty years, cut his throat with
razor. Old age and trouble led to the act.
Asa D. Waldron, treasurer OF the village OF
Hyde Park, near Chicago ILL.,, was discovered
to be a defaulter in his accounts. He owes the
town about $73, 900, and it is thought he will
not be able to pay more than 81, 900 Of this
sum.
The boiler of an engine at Cox's coal mine
Tamaroa, III. exploded instantly killing John
Simpson, member Of the town council
Horace Morrow, miner, and woundIng three
small boys, who were playing near the engine
two of whom died on after. The boiler wa
blown about $50 yards.
The eleventh annual convention of tn,
American Railway Master Mechanics Assocla
ton of the United States was held in Rich
mond, Va, fifty delegates from various sec
tons of the Union being present.
A large number of dispatches received from
various points throughout the West indicat
that the recent heavy frosts have resulted il
considerable damage to some Of the crops
The injury, however, is chiefly confined t
garden plants and small fruits, such as grapes
cherries, peaches, etc. The grain crop ha
suffered little.
Cincinnatis new music hall-a large an
handsome strncture-was dedicated with i'm
i, posing musical ceremonies in the presence @
an audience of over 5000 persons.
The Ohio Legislature has adjourned.
From Warrington.
Professor Joseph Henry, of the Smithsonia
Institute, died in Washington on the 18th. age
g eighty-one years. He was well-known scientii
and had been connected with the Smithsonia
Institute since its organization in 1885,
/ The Senate has confirmed the nomination Q
George F, Gutter to be paymaster-e eneral {
the navy and Of William II. Hunt, to be jude
. of the court of claims. II has also ratified
treaty with France, providing for q conventio
. at Paris next summer, wi h view to the aiop
ton of a metrical system Of weights and mea
8 ures 1t is expected that all the principal Eur
q pean nations will participate in the conyentio
Foreign News.
The steamship Sardiniane, from Liverpool
n Quebec, caught fire while in the harbor
: Londonderry. Several Of the passengers we
killed and a large number more or less seriou
ly injured.
g A Berlin dispatch says the German COVER
a ment has decided todecline the invitation fro
!. the United States to attend the information
% coinage congress-
n As the Emperor William Of Germany W