Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1879-11-21
SUMMARY FNEWS.
Eastern and Middle States.

Rev Matthew Hale Smith, the well-lsnown
writer and lecturer, died at his home in
Brooklyn, n. Y, the other day, aged ntty-
three years.
1t has just come TO light that John F. Haws,
late bookkeeper in the Manufacturers and
Merchants Bank, of New York, who fed 10
Belgium in August last and subsequently went
to Canada, was deiaulter to the extent OF
| S38, 455. The deialcation was concealed by
the bank officers, and only recently became
known TO outsiders.
The Austrian bark Rebus, which arrived at
| New York, the other day, brought six cast
Always taken from the wrecked whaling
schooner Petrol. Captain Ivancich OF the
Rebus reports that ON November 8, when
thirty-tour days out OF Trieste, he sighted the
hull OF a dismantled vessel. He bore down
toward the vessel, and deserted six persons
clinging to the wreck. A fierce northerly gale
was blowing, and the sea was running strong.
| The signals of distress from the wreck were
answered by lowering a boat. With great
| difficulty the rescue was made. The air was
| very cold, and from exposure to it and the
water the survivors were nearly dead. The
saved persons were Portuguese and whalers
who had taken passage in the Petrol to return
| to their homes OF the Azores, MADEIRA and
| Canary Islands. The schooner sailed from
| Newburyport Mass, October rs, for a whal-
ing cruise in the northern Atlantic. She had
on board twenty-one souls. Three days after
she sailed she encountered terrible northerly
gales that took away her masts and rudder.
On the 29th OF October she capsized, and fiji
teen persons, including Captain George Fisher,
her owner and master, were lost. For four days
| the six survivors chung to the wreck, with
but little food and scarcely any water. The
| Petrol was only siXty-one tons burden.
Proposals from various banks and bankers
for selling $l0,000,t 90 six per cent. bonds to
| the government were refused in New FORK by
| Secretary Sherman, who declined to pay more
| than loo. Afterward offers at this price
amounting to Sc, $4,000 were made and ac-
cepted
Richard Schell, well known in New York
financial and social circles, died the other
day, aged sixty years. Mr.. Schell was
an ex-member of Congress, and during the
last presidential campaign was prominent
GreenbacEer.
A number OF lottery dealers in New York
have been arrested tor sending lottery circu-
lars through the mails contrary to law.
Secretary Sherman has succeeded in buying
in New York ten million dollars worth of six
per cent. United States bonds for the govern.
ment at his own price-l06.
Returns from every county in Pennsylvania
give the total vote for State treasurer rs toll
lows. Butler, Rep, $50, 1853; Barr, Dem.
22l, us; Sutton, Greenback, 27,207; Rich
ardson, Prohibition, 3,2l9.
In October l6,O97 emigrants arrived at the
port of New York, an increase of 1882 ovel
October 1878. From January to November
l, 1879, Ill, 800 emigrants have arrived, ar
increase OF 40, 80 over the first ten months O
1878. OF the arrivals in October 1876 were
Germans, 1924 English, 2,204 Irish, 66i
Scotch, All Welsh and ,44S Scandinavian.
Ten thousand dollars will be given in pre-
miums at the second annual Internationa
dairy fair which will be opened in the Ameri
can Institute building, New York, on Monday
December 8. The entries last year were 2, 900
This year they are expected to be over 3, 900
There will be at ;least 300 specimens of cele
brated herds OF cattle now in America ex
hibited. In the displays of butter and cheese
the manufacturing process of to-day will b.
exhibited side by side with that of centur,
ago. For this purpose log cabin will b.
built, around which will be a yard with
small herd of Jersey cattle. An obelisk O
cheese seventy-flve feet high will be exhibits
by one dealer; it will consist OF 1000 cheeses
st. Louis, Cleveland and many other lik
cities will secure a reduction of railroad fare
for their citizens.