The Lamoille news. (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1877-1881, 1879-05-28
SUMMARY OF NEWS
E,s,ern and Middle States,

yt,;ll;.n Nuldoon, a New York policeman
| ,.t.s,od Ibiei,aud Bauer, champion French
,,re-tIer. In a wrestling match nj eilmofes
/ Garden, New York.
=, : said that there are more than 5000
,,l,;te- IN the Indian Territory, despite the
Presidents recent proclamation iorbidding
trespass.
Northern New England has suffered great
deal recently from forest fires. The destrue-
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, y. H., and Bartlett, n. IL,
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 s., AS, 2O6.24. Ii now amounts TO ST.
9,Sl6, and the sinking fund 90 1874, O35.
James Hall, William Adams and Rosa
Stengelin, agvd forty, eight and fifteen years,
respectively, were drowned by the upsetting OF
a steam launch in Little Hell Gate, New York.
The steamer Ashland, from Fall River,
Mass, ct ashore at Point Judith, r. l., and
was totally wrecked.
Judge Asa Packer died at Philadelphia aged
seventy-two years, Mr. Packer was born in
Mystic, Conn, from where when about sixteen
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earthly possessions done up in a knapsack on
his back, to Susquehanna county, Pa, where
he apprenticed himself to his uncle, cupen-
ter. In two or three years he had mastered
his trade, and came TO New York 10 work at
il; but the city was not TO his taste, and he
returned to Susquehanna county. At the age
Of twentysthree he married Sarah NJ. Blakelee,
the pretty daughter OF farmer living in the
| neighborhood. For four years the pair earned
only scanty subsistence, young Packer work.
| ing small harm and doing odd jobs at hin
trade. At the time Of the opening of the Le-
high canal, in the spring of 1888, he became a
canal-boat driver. With his earnings he grad
ually WIS enabled to buy interests in a number
of boats, and retaining these he gave up driv-
| ing and opened q store and boat yard. After
ward he contracted for the building of locks in
the upper Lehigh, and soon his tame rs con.
| tractor became great throughout the region
| In 1888 he built boats at Pottsville for the
transportation of coal to New York direct. In
| 1910, leaving his bodybuilding business to his
| brother, Mr.. Packer removed to Mauch Chunk
| and for many years engaged in the shipment
OF coal. In 1852 he alone began the building
of the Lehigh Valley railroad In 1855, wher
it was completed, he was all but ruined, but
aided by Commodore Stockton, he survived
| his temporary embarrassments, and his roa(
rewarded him to that extent that for many
years he has been accounted the richest mar
in Pennsylvania. Mr.. Packer was twic,
elected to Congress, and served under the ad
ministration of Mr.. Pierce. He built for him
self beautiful residence at Mauch Chunk
| which was his home.
At the baby show in New York 100 infants
Of various degrees Of beauty and size of lungs
competed Tor cash prizes.
i In eli Ggtba Rnco;o,
Revolutionary Committee, )" the Russian consu
in New York has been threatened with dir
consequences for uttering "certain slanderou
insinuHGons and base talsehoods in New Yorl
society against one OF our most honored an,
trusted friends" If this communication i
,,eu.i;l-, i no,ll indicate that the Nihilist
have an organization in this country.