The Lamoille news. (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1877-1881, 1879-09-10
NEWS SUMMARY.
Eastern and Middle States

Park Hartford, Conn, the CHIEF attraction was |
the iree-ior-All race tor 5000, in which karus |
and Hopeful were announced 10 appear and |
much disappointment was caused when II was
stated that Rarus had been sold by his owner,
Mr.. Conklin, TO n New York gentleman Tor
$50. 900, and would not start. Mr.. Conklin
and the horse were then expelled from the
track for not fulfilling their engagement.
The New York Board OF Health has caused
warrants 10 be issued against a number OF per-
sons who keep poultry on their premises con-
trary 20 the health regulations. In the base
ment of one house 800 ducks and 30 hens
were found crowded together.
A Boston dispatch says the schooner Stephen
Bennett, OF Camden, Me, was seen bOitomlnp
near Phoenix Island. She sailed nom Boston
in ballast tor Baltimore, and il is supposed was
capsizcd in the recent great gale. She was m
command OF Captain George Bennett, part
owner of the schooner who lived at West
RoNbury, Mass, and there were on board as
passengers Mrs. Bennett, William Richards,
aged eighteen, and Mr.. Bennett, OF Maine,
nephew of the captain. Besides the persons
named above, there were tour seamen and
steward on the lost schooner.
At the State Convention OF the New York
Greenback party, held at Utica, Harris Lewis
and John NJ. Wieting were nominated for
Governor and Acknowledgement respec-
lively by reclamation. The other nominations
were; Secretary OF State, z. Mccain; Comp
troller, John a. Shannon; Treasurer, Julian
Whine; Attorney General, George Wright.
The platform adopted demands that the ma
iional bank currency shall be withdrawn and
that all the money that is used by the people,
whether gold, silver or paper, shall ne issued
by the general government, and be made a full
| legal tender for all debts and dues, public and
private, the volume of such money to be about
$50 per capita, or sufficient to meet all the re-
Guirements of trade; that the established vol
ume OF the currency shall be increased from
time to time in direct ratio with the increase
in the business and population of the country,
so as to maintain for the dollar as nearly as
possible a uniform purchasing poweri that all
new issues OF paper money shall be used 10
cancel the interest bearing debt OF the nation,
to promote needed public improvements and
| to pay current expenses; that the surplus
be used to cancel Understanding debts; that
| the national government shall issue no more
| interest bearing obligations, and that all out
standing bonds shall be paid and cancelled at
once; that postal savings banks shall be estab-
lished; that taxation OF property shall be
equal; that salaries of public officers be rol
duced; that reliable statistics be collected %
1 the end that labor may be fully and Justly
compensated; that equitable rates OF railroad
fares and transportation be established; that
the Legislature pass a law giving to mortgagors
of real estate the right OF redemption for five
years after sale; that laws be enacted to pre-
vent land monopolies; that the State prison
contract system be abolished; that no political
assessments be permitted in the party on can
didatcs for office or office holders; that the
legal rate OF interest be reduced; that debts
due for labor done take the precedence of all
nf nnfs ole hat M nDhlI
voted to corporations; that tariff be estab'
lished which shall protect American industry
aNa mNnuiactures, and that the government
lulthully perform its pledges made to the
Union soldiers by giving them l60 acres o.
land on being discharged, in fee simple, ant
an equitable payment per month OF each soldier
according TO the value of the full legal-tendel
dollar. Resolutions were also passed express
ing sympathy with and extending the hand o.
fellowship to the workingmen's party OF SAL
Francisco and praising Denis Kearney
The centennial of the revolutionary battle
| of Newtown was celebrated at ElmiN, n. Y
with great enthusiasm. The governors o
New York, Pennsylvania and New Hamp.
shire, and number OF prominent army OIL
GERS, were present. A monument was un
yelled and an address delivered by Genera
Sherman. The days proceedings terminated
George w. Hardie, employed in the New
York county clerks office, was drowned il
presence of his wife and sister while celebrat
ing his ioIty-second birthday at Long Branch
N. j,
A monument to the memory Of Genera
Custer was unveiled at West Point. Genera
N. p. Banks delivered the Grafton and JOIN
Mccullough, the actor, recited Clusters Las
Charge"
During the first eight months of this yea
76,S09 emigrants arrived at the port OF New
York-an excess OF 22,654 over the CORES
ponding months last year.
A wild Texan steer escaped from slaughte
house in New York and created panic OF
Fifth avenue by charging right and left, scat
tering pedestrians and vehicles in every direc
ton. Before he was shot the brute tossed fiv
men and one woman, and in ured a child am
two policemen.
A wonderful feat OF craftsmanship has bee
performed at the Columbia Ride Range, Yves
End, n. j. Mr.. A. G. Holcomb scored thirty
seven consecutive bulPs-eyes at 500 yards, an
made 1879 points out OF n possible 200.
Charles Drews, oldest OF the four men unde
sentence OF death at Lebanon, Pa, for murder
ing an old man named Raber in order to g.
the insurance on his life, has made n full cor
tession, telling how the crime was committe
by his coniedeIates.
Lena and Frederick William Susick, one an
three years old, children OF painter living
Linden N. j., died few days ago from til
effects OF eating toadstools that had been gail
cred and cooked under the impression thu
they were mushrooms. Other members of IL
family were also made very sick by partakr
9 of the poisonous food.
Rev. W. II. II. Murray has communic
q ton in the Boston papers denying that
went TO San Francisco clandeslinely in ord
to escape his creditors, but that he went the
/ on business; that his debts are small. and ]
, should have been able 10 meet his obligation
had not his property been attached by imp
tent creditors; that his estate is valuab
!. enough to pay I'LL creditors and leave IL su
plus, and if not he will go to work aud pay {
p he owes, and that he retires from public lii
! declining to remain in a service in which h
e motives ARE traduced and views misrepI
f scented.
e Western and Southern States.
y Hen y Stuart and William Elliott VIC
s hanged Mt Fort Smith, Ark, for murders COZ
f mitted in the Indian Teriitorv Smart va