Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1879-09-26

OF WHICH ne l9-l litcuAallll+as
About $1,000 have been recovered.
In the MARYLAND Republican Convention, at
Baltimore, J. J. Creswell, ex-Postmaster-
General, after declining nomination for Gov
ernor, named James A. Gary, who was nomi-
mated by acclnmatiOn. Samuel Mollalien was
nominated for Comptroller; Francis NJ. Darby
for Attorney General, and James L. McCul- |
Tough for Clerk OF the Court OF Appeals The
committee on platform adopted resolutions
which are, so far as they refer 10 national /
topics, about word for word the same as the
platform adopted at Saratoga by the New York |
Republicans.
Robert Lancaster was hanged at Batesville |
Ark, for the murder, while drunk, of Thomas |
johnson, in December, 1877. The condemned |
man met his tate without flinching, his last |
words on the gallows being that false testi- |
mony had brought him there.
While dancing party was in progress at
New Orleans the gallery gave way. Peter |
Delaney was fatally, Maggie Eagan seriously |
and four other persons slightly injured
Mrs. Bonestul, residing at Shawnee, Jack
son county, Mo-, killed two OF her children
little girls-by giving them morphine. She
then attempted to commit suicide by taking
the same drug which failing 10 produce death,
she tried to kill herself by hanging but was
discovered before life was extinct. The cause
is supposed to have been mental arrangement,
occasioned by domestic troubles.
A deficiency OF nearly 1924 900 has been dis
covered in the accounts of the treasurer OF
Santa Cruz, Cal.
Henry Corbin's hotel at Westerville, Ohio,
was blown up by gunpowder the other night,
and the proprietor was slightly injured Cor
bin claims the explosion was the act of the
villagers on account OF his refusal to quit SELL
ing liquor in the place; but the citizens OF
Westerville assert that while they favored re-
sorting to stringent measures to prevent the
sale OF liquor in the town, they never were in
favor of going to such extremes as blowing up
a mans house.
In letter written to the editor of Missis-
sippi paper jefferson Davis declines becoming
a candidate for the United States Senate.
Charles Glass was hanged at Carlo, H. for
the murder of Carter Newman, last March.
Both were colored, and the motive of the
crime was jealousy. Glass met his fate coldly
and refused to talk
The Wisconsin Deaf and Dumb Institute at
Delevan has been burned to the ground, caus-
ing a loss OF $1,000 The school year had
just commenced, and there we're l47 children
in attendance, but no one was injured.
President Hayes attended the reunion of the
Twenty-third Ohio, his old regiment at
Youngstown, o., and he and General Sherman
made speeches.
Official returns from Humboldt county, Cali
fornia, show that Berry (Democrat) is elected
to represent the Third Congressional district
Berry Russell. president OF the New Or.
leans Bank of Lafayette, now in iquidaton
has been arrested, charged with embezzling
$4,000 of the banks money, and sent to jail
From Washington.
During the last six months six national
banks have been established-three in the
West and three in New England and New
York.
The report OF the United States Commits
sioner OF Education Tor 1877, just issued, shows
the income tor all the States and Territories
(Wyoming not included) to be 1886, 1866, 1866.
The expenditures wyoming included), $780,
233, 45S The school population for thirty eight
States and nine erritorties is said to aggregate
l4,227,748. The annual expense per capita
Tor public school pupils ranges from $l.39 in
North Carolina to $35.76 in the Cherokee
tribe, Indian Territory. The number of nor
NAL schools reported is 1872 having ,lS9 in
structors 37,0S2 pupils and 2,763 graduates,
of which 1874 are engaged in teaching. Ohio
reports the greatest number of normal schools,
viz: IA. The largest appropriation to a nor.
NAL school was that OF 1896, 900 made to the
New York City Normal College by the city.
The requests made to educational institutions
for the year equaled $4,000, 900, OF which sum
institutions for the superior instruction of
women received $l63,976, The average of
salaries paid to public school teachers in the
District of Columbia is for men, $96.l7; for
women, $7l.2l per month, giving a higher
mean than that reported for any other part OF
the country excepting Nevada.
Foreign News.
Five persons have been killed by an ex-
plosion in a colliery at Leycett, England
King Mtesa, an African king who rules
over a large dominion, has abolished slavery
throughout his territory His act viii free
500, 900 slaves.
1t is said that holy war is being preached
throughout Afghanistan. The responsibility
of the outbreak in Cabul is placed upon the
shoulders of Ameer Yakob Khan's brother.
The British embassy at Mandalay, in Bur-
NAH, have lett, fearing that King rhebaw
would follow the example set at Cabul by
massacreing them.
All the directors OF the West of England
and South Wales District Bank except ong
have been committed for trial for publishing
false balance sheets.
According to present appearances the dis
tress among the working classes OF tbickly
populated towns in the northeastern portion Of
England will be most intense during the COM
ing winter.
Eastern Roumelia is reported to be i'll a state
OF complete anarchy. There has been series
OF massacres. Slav committees multiply daily,
and preach determination OF the Massulmans
and the union Of Eastern Roumelia, Macedonia
and Thrace with Bulgaria, forming q Slav
kingdom.
Thirteen American race horses have just ar
rived in England.
The death of Suleimau Pasha prominent
Turkish general of the Russo Turkish war; is
announced.
foreign dispatch gives the following nc
count OF the massacre OF the British Legation
at Cabul: -Four thousand men attacked the
residency in which the British Embassy was
quartered. The mutineers brought up artil-
lery against it. Major Cavagnari head of the
Embassy, was stabbed in several places, and
all the bodies of the dead were mutilated.
The Afghan loss exceeded 800 The Ameer
had other troops, who remained faithful but
made no efforts to interfere, owing to intimi-
dalton by the priests. A telegram from La
hore reports that the Amer begged Tor the
lives of the members OF the Embassy. Mean
while the revolt throughout Afghan is spread
ing, and General Roberts, commander OF the
British troops advancing against the mutineers,
has telegraphed for four additional regiments.
A Russian paper calls on the Gar to expel the
British from Central Asia by sending 10000
Russians to defend Atghanistan.
Late advices from Hayti report that the
town OF Gonaives, which had protested against
the provisional government established Mt
Port-au-P Prince, was attacked by troops from
the latter place and almost totally destroyed.
A fire which broke out in the town of Jacmel
destroyed all the stores in the most flourishing
business centers, except the fre-proot build
ings, causing an estimated loss of 100000