Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1879-07-18
who fired upon the Senate. Many of the sena
tors were shot and the rest fed.

who fired upon the Senate. Many of the Sena
tors we're shot and the rest fed.
The crops in Europe are reported to be IN an
untavorabe condition, owing to bad weather,
drought and grasshoppers. The Tendon
Times saws: We note that buyers mainly
rely on American supplies, as the reports from
the continent are far from being uniformly
favorable"
A Belgium paper states a placard was posted
on the wall of the royal palace at Laeken, sit
uated about three miles distant from Brussels,
threatening the king ofthe Belgians with death
il he ratified the bill which was recently passed
by the Belgium Parliament depriving the
clergy of the control of elementary education.
In hurricane on the River Doubs, in
France, a steamer with fiity-three passengers
was sunk, and all but i've persons lost their
lives.
Four hundred Nihilists have been arrested
at Kieff, Russia, and great store OF weapons
concealed there has been seized.
The man from whom Solovielf obtained the
pistol with which to shoot the Emperor of
Russia has been sentenced to death as an ac-
complete.
Jose Cordoba, a Mexican, was hanged at
San Antonio, Texas, for the murder and rob-
berry OF Bobert Trimble, a young farmer, in
July, 1877. Cordoba and his brother were
captured with the murdered mans wagon in
their possession, but escaped into Mexico,
where they were finally recaptured and taken
to Texas for trial. The condemned man in
sisted to the last that .he was innocent
Reports from Port au Prince the capital OF
Hayti, say the place is in flames and all bust
ness suspended. Whole blocks are in ashes
and the custom house is closed in consequence
of the revolution.
The hostility of the merchants Of Vera Cruz,
Mexico, against the government on account OF
| the passage of a law forDidding smugglin has
eliminated in a mutiny of the garrison there,
and the seizure OF the war steamer Libertad
| by part OF her crew. Nine insurgents were
killed and several Mexican war steamers went
in pursuit OF the Dibertad, which had put to sea.
Two hundred houses have been destroyed
by fire at Irkutsk, Russia.
At Ottawa, Canada, boy named Vandette
quarreled with his six-year-old sister and shot
her in the temple with a revolver, death re-
sulting from the wound
A London dispatch says that 1900 sheep
from Boston were slaughtered at Liverpool be-
cause it was found they were infected with the
foot and mouth disease. This discovery, the
dispatch says, will cause the United States TO
be scheduled rs an infected country for sheep.
The walls of the fortresses at Widdin, Siis-
tria Rustchuk and Varna Bulgaria, have been
destroyed, and the earthworks are left to the
operation of the weather.
NJ. De Lesseps, engineef OF the projected
canal across the Isthmus of Darien, thinks ii
can be built for $50 900 600, and that the diff.
cultics will not be so formidable as those at
tending the construction of the Suez canal
Ground for this canal is to be broken on the
| first of next january,
The British House of Commons has adopted
a motion to establish department Of agricul
ture and commerce under a special cabine
minister.
A dispatch from St. Petersburg reports tina
disscnters from the orthodox church, hitherto
unrecognized by the state, are to have entirt
liberty OF worship. This affects $4,000, 00(
Russian subjects.
A hre which recently broke out near Prince
Alexander's palace at Tirnova, Bulgaria, de
stroyed forty houses. Five soldiers were killed
The REQUEST of Marshal MacMahon to b.
permitted to attend the funeral of the lat
Prince Imperial was refused by the Frencl
government.
Upon the arrival OF the french Prince I'm
perial's body ut Portsmouth, England, it wa
received by the firing of minute guns.