Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1879-05-23
SUMMARY OFNEWS.
Eastern and Middle States.


Edward p. Livingstone, Of Yale College, was
defeated by Warren n. Goddard, of Harvard
College, in a boat race on Lake Quinsi RmOnd,
Worcester, Mass, to decide the superiority OF
the champion scullers OF the two colleges.
At a meeting OF the National Temperance
Society in New York, addresses were delivered
by the president, William l.. Dodge, Rev. DIR.
Talmage and others.
The managers of the Woodruff Scientific Ex-
petition Around the World, which was to sail
from New York lew days ago, announce
that the enterprise is abandoned for the pres
ent, owing to the failure OF the persons who
expressed their intentions of undertaking the
voyage To pay the necessary deposit OF $500
before the specified time. The ship is ready
and the details OF the expedition have all been
arranged, but only forty persons have complied
with the conditions. Ii is said that $4,000
have already been expended by the managers
in preparing for the voyage.
The failure OF Whittemore, Peet, Post & Co.,
of New York, has caused the suspension of the
Meriden Wooden Company, of Meriden, Conn.
The liabilities are 500, 900, the assets nomi-
nal.
Extensive forest fires have done considerable
damage to timber in the vicinity OF Springfield,
Mass, and of Scranton, Pa.
lut NlllhSt VI u lhNlAllut ~ Jus bOVh pul-
tally destroyed by fire. Nine stores, a bank,
four dwelling houses and three barns were en-
tirely consumed. Loss estimated at about
$4,000.
Andrew Manning, dissipated factory opera
i've at Danielsonville, Conn, quarreled with
his wife and struck her on the head with an
axe, killing her instantly. He then ran to
neighboring pond and drowned himself.
Louis Barron, machinist of Watertown, n.
Y, went home from work sick, fell fainting in
his yard and exclaimed to his wife, " / am
dying" Mrs. Barron was frightened to such
an extent that she died shortly afterward.
Barron recovered.
The weather in Northern New England on
the thirteenth was unprecedentedly hot for the
season, the thermometer in many places in New
Hampshire indicating 100 degrees in the shade
At the one hundred and eleventh anniversary
of the organization ofthe New York Chamber OF
Commerce a large number OF business and pro-
fessional men were present. and speeches were
made by James G. Blaine, Andrew d. White,
the new Minister to Germany, and others.
William Muldoon, New York policeman,
defeated Thiebaud Bauer, champion French
wrestler, in wrestling match at Gilmore s
| Garden, New York.
Northern New England has suffered great
deal recently from forest fires. The destruc-
ton of timber in the pine forests east Of Frye
burg, Me-, has been immense. Great fires
have also been raging in the vicinity of Con-
way, N. H., and Bartlett, n. II.
Henry j. Cross, city treasurer of Salem,
Mass, committed suicide by hanging himself
to his office railing.
Boston has reduced her debt during the past
year 81, 44S, 20624. 1t now amounts to S42, :
359,Sl6, and the sinking fund to $l5, 1874 035.
Western and Southern States.
Dr. Lewis H. Sayre, of New York city, was
elected president Of the American Medical AS,
ISOLATION, in session for several days at Allan
ta Ca The next meeting of the association
will be held in New York, on June l, 1880.
Richard Lee, a colored man, was hanged AT
Fayetteville, N. c., for burglary; and al
Appling Ca, Henry Messed and Tom Jones
both coored, were executed the former fol
killing his son and the latter for the murder o.
a colored woman with whom he was living.
A fire in st. Louis destroyed three large
buildings in the business part OF the city, caus
ing u loss OF $l45,000. In Chicago, on the
same day, Fullerton's great planning mills the
most extensive in the West, were burned
down, entailing loss of 100000. Six mil
lion shingles and four million feet of lumbe
were destroyed.
Wiley and Jacobs, two cattle thieves, Tough
duel in Montague county, Texas. Ten PAGES
were stepped off, and both men began firing
with revolvers. Wiley fell, MORALLY wounded
at the third shot, but raising himself on hi
elbow killed Jacobs.
While in q fit of somnambulism John r. Girls
ALL aged thirty EIGHT, fell forty feet from tn
third story of his dwelling in Baltimore ant
crushed his skull, death soon following
A skif containing six men returning from
hunt upset in the Mississippi river, at st. Louis
and four of the hunters were drowned.
The sixth annual convention of the Nationa
Millers' Association met at the Grand Paciti
Hotel, in Chicago, 600 of the 900 members be
+ ing present. Mr.. Asa Dow, president of tn
Chicago Board of Trade, and the mayor, CaI
ter H. Harrison, made welcoming addresses
The president, Mr., George Balm, responde
and delivered the annual address.
A Confederate monument erected by tn
Ladies' Monumental Association, in Columbia
S. c., was unveiled. Military organization
and old veterans from all the principal point
d, in the State and from Charlotte, N. c., partic
! pated in the ceremonies.
+ 1t is said that there are more than 500
whites in the Indian Territory, despite tn
: trespass.
An interesting and important decision alfec
, ing the right of white and colored persons
: intermarry has just been given in the Unite
States Circuit Court at Richmond, Va. In til
case of the colored man, Edmund Kinney, an
the white woman, Mary Hall, confined in til
penitentiary for violation of the State statut
l prohibiting the intermarrage OF races, Judg
e Hughes refused to grant writ OF habeas co
= pus on the ground that the United States court
have no jurisdiction over questions Of marrag
@ The opinion holds that the laws of marriage al
! at the sovereign control and will of each Stat
4 unaffected by any provision of any article
the Constitution of tle United States; that al
- solute and entire power over these laws
; necessarily lett all over the world and in tn
J Union OF States to the government of local 81
VI ciety; that the law under which the part
e were convicted was with the unrestrained le
e islative power OF Virginia to enact it, and tn
: it is not prohibited by any provision of Il
S national Constitution. AS to making contrac
/, the opinion holds that section 1877 of the r
J. vised Statutes, which secures to all perso
h within the United States the right in eve
State to make and enforce contracts, can on
refer to contracts lawful under the law of I'll
States wherein it is proposed to enforce ther
n Admitting that marriage is contract, Il
II oplHloh HoliS llldI CHe privilege Vi enforcing
n extends only TO lawful marriages, and that il
v citizen of Virginia went to the District OF G
:; lumbia, or to the Territory of Utah, and w
a there married in accordance with the local la
e he could not return 9th his consort or co
= sorts to Virginia and expect to subordinate h
u laws of marriage to the laws of the other jur
5 diction. The osse will probably be taken
l. the Supreme Court OF the United States.
u Louisville, Ky, has been visited by watt
y spout, following an extraordinarily heavy RAJ
q Part OF the city was inundated to the extent
:, three feet, and considerable damage was dor
l. wonderful game of billiards has just be
le played in Chicago, where Jacob Schaefer q
s. feated George F. Slosson in three-ball gan
g l,O00points up, for the championship. Schae
]. ran the game out in three INNINGS. MAXI