Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1878-11-15

Congress Ia several States. South carolina re-
slects Wade Hampton for governor and in
LouisisDa Burkes majority for State treasurer
is about 80 600 In Tennessee and Texas Al
bert s. Marks and 0ran NJ. Roberts are elected
governors. In Georgia Alexander 8. Stephens
was re- elected to Congress- Tbs political con-
tests in the Western States were not so one
sided as in the South = Kansas, Michigan,
Nebraska, Wisconsin. Illinois and Minnesota
going Republican where State tickets were IN
the field, while the Democrats are ahead in
Missouri.
Missouri and South Carolina send solid
Democratic delegations to Congress- gain Of
four members in the former State and of three
in the latter.
The Republicans gain one congressman in
Illinois and one in Michigan.
The boiler In the sawmill OF Joseph Ents at
Savannah, NO., exploded, killing j. Emmons
and W. S. Farrow, and injuring two others.
From washington.
Auditor French, Of the bureau OF railroad
accounts, has reported to the secretary Of the
interior that the president Of the Central
Pacific railroad refuses to submit the books
Of the road to inspection and to render such
accounts as have been called for under the
law passed by the last Congress. Formal
notice Of the refusal will be transmitted to the
attorney general, with request that legal
proceedings be taken under the act. The
penalty for the violation OF the law is fine in
each case of neglect or refusal Of not less than
81, 900 nor more than 80, 900.
Two Washington banking institutions-the
| German-American savings bank and the Ger
man-American national bank, which grew out
Of the former-have suspended.
The secretary of the treasury has written
letter stating that there is on hand, for
resumption purposes, the sum Of $134 231, :
S65.06 in coin. and that at least that amount
will be available to resume specie payments
January /, 1879.
According to the report Just issued of the
operations of the patent Office during the fisca
year ending June 80, the plumber of original
applications received for patents was 1857
and IA, 100 new patents were granted while the
number of reissues is 627. The receipts Of the
Office amounted to 1874, 1888 and the total OK
penses we're 1865 906.
The national debt statement for October
shows Cash in The treasury, $275, 217, 473 80
debt, less cash in the treasury, November l
1878 $2,02I, 200 0S3 IS decrease Of debt dur
ing October 81. 7OS, 402 80 decrease of deb
since June 80, 1873. $11 $50, 74S.64.
During October the total amount of coinsg
at the various minis OF the United States wa
Sc 625, 400, divided thus Double eagles, So,
464 900; eagles, $751;, 500; quarter esq es
$346 300 standard silver dollars, 2070, 900
cents, $4,000. ... ....
Halbert E. Paine OF Wisconsin, has bee
appointed commissioner of patents in place o
Ellis Spear, resigned.
According to estimates made the day afte
election, the Democratic ma ority in the Hous
will be about twelve, exclusive OF the Green
hackers, who have about thirteen members. L
/. the Senate the Democrats will have six majority
ForeiRn News.
The directors and other officials eonnecte
with the broken Glasgow bank have been com
, mitted for trial on charges Of fraud and thief
Several prominent officials connected with th
/ institution have fed.
! The ocean steamship Helvetia, while on he
l way from Liverpool to New York, collidtd wit
ssnd sunk the British coast-guard cruiser Fam!
off Queenstown, at four o'clock in the morI
ing. Seventeen persons on board the Fam
4 lost their lives, while the Helvetia was uniI
8 jured.
: Australia will hold an international expos
ton at Melbourne, in 1880.
IS Gladstone has made speech, adverse
Q criticising the British government for declarir
n war against Afghanistan.
Maynooth college, near Dublin, Irelan
u u prominent Catholic ecclesiastical institutio
has been partially destroyed by fire.
= Recent elections in France have wiped o
y the conservative majority in the senate, whit
y will now be republican.
8. Louis Antoine Garnier-Pages French state
:, man and historian, ex-mayor Of Paris al
III once minister of finance, is dead at the age
seventy-fve.
~ A six days international pedestrian tourn
. ment in London resulted in victory for W
~ liam Corkey, an Englishman, who covered
Il miles in the specified time, winning champi
belt and so, 500. The two American conte
rs ants, Weston and Ennis, were left far benin
~ y, st. Petersburg papers report large numt
~ Of suicides and attempted suicides in the Ri
- sian army in Bulgaria.
10 NJ. Balthazar Jacotin, a French senator
V, cused of cheating at cards, has been compel
b. to resign.
e. Fourteen villages in the district Of Den
1t, tica have been burned by r body Of Bulgaria
70 numbering 1000.
AZ The details of secret treaty have been ma
h public, by which England and Austria agre
ue at Berlin, before the plenipotentiaries left ii
y. city last July, to insist upon the Withdrawal
'st the Russian troops from Turkey in May, IS
We the date stipulated in the treaty OF Berlin.
ne was also arranged that England and Aust
"a, should furnish garrison to replace the R
'Se slams, if necessary.