The Lamoille news. (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1877-1881, 1878-01-23
SUMMARY OF NEWS.
Eastern and Middle States.

sets bank commissioners the ureat harrington
Savings Bank has suspended payment. The
bilities $4,000.
In the New York Legislature resolution
was PASSED protesting against the passage by |
Congress Of the Bland silver bill.
At the annual intercollegiate oratorical con- |
test. held in New York, c. ?. Mills, OF Williams /
College, won the first prize.
Al the annual meeting Of Plymouth Church /
letter was read from Mr.. Beecher, offering TO /
give up one-quartcr Of his salary, aud the oner
was accepted.
Francis b. wynkoop, q retired New York
varnish dealer. went into bankruptcy with Ia
bilities Of S2S20O0.
Eugene A. Shopperdson paying teller OF the
Rochester (N. Y savings bank, proved de.
faulter 10 the extent OF 5000. he was ruined
by fast horses and stock speculation
The stockholders Of the Rockland county
national bank. Of Nyack, n. Y. voted that the
institution should go into voluntary liquidation.
Alarge number OF maritime disasters occurred
along the Atlantic coast during another recent,
heavy storm, and many vessels, large and
small, we're temporarily disabled.
Fires johnson. Davis 4 Forbes shoe fac
tOry AZ BroOkleld Mass, was destroyed by
fire and a loss incurred of $4,000, ON which
/ the insurance is about $4,000 the shoe FAC
/ tory Of A r. Fiske, at Wenham, in the same
State suffered like fate, the loss being $4,000
and the insurance $4,000; McPike's hotel and
/ several stores in Kingston, Pa, were burned,
{ with an estimated loss of S12,000 and an in
| surance Of $1,000. and in Philadelphia the
/ Chatham mill. occupied by manufacturers Of
cotton yarn, fell victim to the flames, the
/ loss being SOS, 600 and the insurance $4,000.
Anumber of heavy failures and defalcations
/ in New York caused considerable excitement
] rI,ntFf tha iul
and commercial circles of that city. The large
wholesale drug houses of Hegeman Co., and
J. f. Henry, Curran 4 Co., became embar-
raised by the heavy failure Of L. ]. Dunning,
Jr., the note broker and were unable to meet
| their obligations. Henry NJ. Cutter, well
known cotton broker, disappeared, owing large
amounts to various people.
Four of the children Of Jason Leighton we're
burned to death near Cherryfeld, Maine.
Captain John p. Britton, aged ninety, while
Temporarily insane, committed suicide at Black
Rock, Conn. by shooting himself through the
head.
The fishing schooner Little Kate, from
Boston, went ashore off Duxbury and her whole
crew Of thirteen men were drowned. Seven
widows and twenty-one fatherless children are
left by the disaster.
The Italian residents of New York held
meeting and passed resolutions OF respect to
the memory OF the late King Emmanuel.
The Inauguration of Governor George b.
Mcclellan at Trenton, n. j., was attended with
unusually imposing ceremonies The hotels
were crowded to overlooking, and delegates
were present from New York, Philadelphia and
other places. At IL 80 A. NJ. the legislative
committee on inauguration proceeded in body
to the residence OF Governor Mcclellan, who
received them formally. Accompanied by ex-
Governor Bedle the party took their places in
H., tv,in nIa1 70 10 thn
capitol. There, after prayer, the oath OF Office
was administered by Chief Justice Peasley, and
Ex-Governor Bedle presented the great seal Of
the State to Governor Mcclellan who then
delivered his inaugural address. He opened
with reference to the necessity for economy
in public expenditures, referred to the country's
finances al d to other national and State TOPICS
and said further that "he who fails to exert
himself to secure the selection of good and
honest men for Office, who abstains from
voting, who does not keep himself informed on
the action Of the authorities and use his influ-
ence to guide them Alright, not only neglects a
paramount duty, put under such institutions
as ours is guilty of grave fault"
By an explosion in mine near Ashland, Pa,
four men were killed and three wounded. The
explosion was caused by quantity of sulphur
gas catching fire.
{ As an excursion train was returning from
Moody and Sankey meeting in Hartford,
Conn, it fell through trestle bridge into the
8 Pennington river, and a number of persons
were killed or injured. Twelve physicians
from Hartford were sent to the scene of disas-
ter in a relief train.
Western and Southern States.
George H. Pendleton was nominated for
9 United States Senator by caucus of the
Democratic members of the legislature of Ohio
: who have majority in that body.
In the national convention of dairymen al
/ Cleveland Ohio a resolution was unanimously
, adopted to hold national dairy fair at New
! York next autumn, and a committee Of ar
1 rangements was appointed.
D Bills have been introduced in the Ohio
n Senate to fix eight hours as a days labor, and
to amend the gambling law 80 as to add i'm
D prisonment to the penalty for pool selling or
& elections.
! Considerable destruction to railroad bridges
= aud other property was done by two days
& heavy rain IN Virginia. The bridge across the
O Stanton river on the Richmohd and Danvillt
road was swept away for the third time in two
S months, and the the iron bridge over the sam,
n stream on the Virginia Midland road between
i Richmond and Lynchburg, was also WASHED
u away for second time in short period. 0the
o railroad bridges in Virginia disappeared befort
the force of the freshets, and travel was greatl
- mpeded.
e Governor Hubbard, of Texas has writer
y long letter to President HAY Ct, review ing tn
10 Mexican outrages on the border for the las
y, twenty years, and asserting that Mexico shout,
u make amends for crimes commit ed by he
II citizens.
d At fire in Terre Haute, Ind, three hundre
cattle, worth forty dollars head, were burne
to death.
Hon. John Buehler, an Illinois State Senator
fatally Stabhn6 Inv Rnban1iap no
Maurice Marso. Senetor Buehler he'd NOR
gage on Marsos house and lot and sold 1t to
re third party, who foreclosed It., and this s
10 enraged he Bohemian that he made an attac
= on his victim, with the result described.
~ Governor Bishop, of Ohio, was inaugurate
m at Columbus.
:, George H. Pendleton, the Democratic cand
fe date, was elected to the United States Sena
from Ohio The Republicans, having no cal
ddate, voted blank.
le The Iowa Legislature met in Des Moines al
q organized. Governor Newbold, in his MESA :
says the STATE finances are in a bad conditio
Il A republican caucus renominated United Stat
st Senator Allison by reclamation.
:; From Washington.
ia A letter has been written by Senator Il
= munds, of Vermont, to the President on u
III proper relations which should exist betwe,
+ the executive and legislative departments
10 the government in regard to appointments.
a., The woman suffragists, in convention
Ill Washington, had personal interviews with
:; number of Senators, and Vice-Preside
10 Wheeler, and pushed their claims to recogl
'is ton.
ne A number of delegates to the natior
th woman's suffrage convention, in session
in Washington, appeared before the Senate co
III mittee on privileges and elections, and argu
he in favor of giving women the right to vote.
er, The House committee on ways and mea
ma will make complete revision of the tariff a
n' internal revenue laws.
iee Over one thousand applications for appoi
IN, ments as assistant commissioners to the Pa
,o exposition have been received.
=, The President has sent large number