Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1879-07-25
NEWS SUMMARY.
Eastern and Middle States.

Some thirty girls employed in a tobacco fac
tory at Je sey City, y. j., have been taken
sick with my steiious malady which puzzles
the physicians. a rumor that the girls who
were taken sick had been working ON some
tobacco that had been stored in New Orleans
during the prevalence OF yellow fever in that
city last summer. and that the disease WAS oc-
casioned by the liberation of the germs OF that
disease, occasioned great excitement among
the families OF those girls who had been
afflicted.
The New York Mercantile Agency of r. G.
! Dan & Co. has issued a circular which states
that for the first six months of 1879 the failures
| in the United States were 4,05S in number, as
against 8, S25 Tor the first six months OF 1878.
| The liabilities in the same periO1 OF this year
are only S65, 900 600, as against $3.50, 900
| for the first six months OF last year. The dill
ference in favor OF 1879 is therefore, that there
have been nearly two thousand q 1863 less
failures, while the extent of liabilities shows
decrease OF over sixty millions-precisely
one hall OF what they were in the first six
months OF 1878.
! Patrick Bowen, who came to America from
Ireland when he was 98, has just died in New
| York at the ripe age of l03 years.
The Greenback Labor party OF Pennsylvania
held its State convention at Altoona and nOmi-
mated Peter Sutton, farmer, for State Treas
urer. The platform adopted iavors payment
OF the national debt strictly in accordance with
the contract under which it was CT Gated; says
that no more Understanding bonds be issued;
that the Federal government only shall issue
money; that such money shall be full legal
tender and that full legal-tender greenbacks
shall be substituted tor national bank notes;
demands the repeal OF all laws fostering inc
quality in condition and opportunity, the en-
actment OF an income tax law, that all debts
for labor done take precedence OF all other
claims, etc.
A fire at Prevost's colliery, Centralia, Pa,
destroyed the breaker, which cost $3.50 000
The flames reached vein OF COAL which
burned fiercely and caused a further heavy
loss. About $50 men were thrown out OF
work.
Charles E. Courtney defeated Joseph H
Riley in q iour-mle boat race on Silver Lake
Perry, N. Y.
! The extremely hot weather prevailing in
portions OF the Middle and New England
States Tin New York city the thermometer
reached l0l degrees in the shade) was followed
by violent storm, which in some sections did
great damage to lite and property. In Boston
the tempest was one OF the severest ever eX-
perienced, and the damage done to property
amounts TO many thousands OF dollars. The
small schooner Myrtle, containing six per-
sons, was capsized. Thomas Durham chung
to the mast and was saved; but his wife, Mar
garet, Mary Ann and Susan Durham, sisters,
Lizzie Durham, his niece, and Arthur Ryan
were drowned. A boy was drowned also by
the capsizing of boat off Hull. AT Pttsficld,
Mass, two persons were killed by lightning
and several more injured, some fatally. In
Quincy bay, Mass, four men were lost by the
capsizing of boats; and in the various towns
and seaside resorts along the Massachusetts
coast the tornado is described as having been
the worst ever felt and as having done great
damage. Twenty lives in all were lost on sea
and land.
Christian a. Zabriskie, an eccentric million
aire visiting in Morrisania, a suburb OF New
York, was run over by n train and instantly
killed. He was seventy years old, and
lett an estate variously estimated at from five
TO ten million dollars in value.
The Pennsylvania Democrats met IN State
convention at Harrisburg and nominated D. o.
Barr Tor State Treasurer by reclamation. The
platform adopted says that the military are
and ought to be in all things subordinate to
the civil authorities, and should be kept from
interfering at the polls; that the claim OF r.
b. Hayes, who has been ''placed in power
against the wel-known and legally expressed
will of the people" of his right to surround
the ballot boxes with troops and deputy mar.
shals, and I" his unprecedented use of the veto
power" to further that end, are Can insult and
a menace to the country" that the party
"tavors a constitutional currency of gold and
silver, and of paper convertible into coin;
opposes suhoidioC, o-rProonoo sympathy viii
the workingmen, etc.
Pitts large agricultural works in Buffalo, N
Y, have been burned to the ground. The
loss is heavy; total insurance, $1,000
The one-hundredth anniversary of the cap
ture of Stony Point by the Continental troops
under General Wayne was celebrated at Stony
Point, n. Y, with exercises that were short
ened somewhat on account OF the excessive
heat. General Hawley was the orator OF the day
Chastine Cox's trial in New York Tor tn,
murder OF Mrs Hull was short, the result be
ing a foregone conclusion. The jury wer
out an hour and their verdict of murder in thu
first degree was received by the prisoner with
out any evidence OF emotion. Cox was sen
fenced to he hung on August 30, but as al
appeal is to be made the execution of the sen
tence will probably be postponed some months
Six cadets OF the Military Academy at Yves
Point on the Hudson have been dismissed 10
hazing.
Western and Southern States.
J Charleston, S. c., has been afflicted by
spell OF intensely hot weather, the thermome
ter reaching Ill degrees in the shade, an
over hundred cases OF sunstroke- sixteen c
, which proved iatal-having been reported in
, side Of forty light hours.
Lucius Weaver, a colored man who had bee
arrested for committing an assault on Mrs
= Howell near Knoxville, Tenn, was take
from his guard by an armed crowd and fatal
! | shot through the head. And the same nigh