The Lamoille news. (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1877-1881, 1879-07-23


which proved faiAl-haying been reported In
side OF foriy-eight hours.
Isucius Weaver, oolored man who had been
arrested for committing an assault on NIT
Howell near Knoxville, Tenn, was ukSh
from his guard by an armed crowd ana lAl,uly
shot through the head. And the same night
John breckenridge, also colored, for commit
ting similar crime on young white woman
near Carlisle, Ky, was taken from lail Oy
crowd and hanged.
A lew days after the appearance Of yellow
fever in Memphis the secretary OF the, Board
Of Health and president Of the Howard Asso-
citation, OF that city, sent out dispatch an
nouncing that there were no new cases OF
fever and that people who had fed lfoin the
city were returning.
From Washington.
A statement has been issued by the War
Department giving the number OF men fur
nished the Union army by each State from
April Is, 1861. 10 the close of the war. IL
shows that the total number OF volunteers was
2,67s, 967, divided rs follows: Maine, ~, ia,
New Hampshiie, 5000; Vermont, 35,262i
Massachusetts. l42.0lS; Rhode Island, 23,699i
Connecticut, $3.50; New York, 46IOlI;
New Jersey, 81 ,OIO; Pennsylvania, BUG, 1915
Delaware, 1860; Maryland, 5O,3l6i Mes'
Virginia, 80 ,06S; District OF Columbia, 1851
Ohio, 3l9, $50; Indiana, l9hlfI; limos
259, l47; Michigan, 1914 Wisconsin, 9o,4Z4i
Minnesota, 25,052; Iowa, f0,5O5i missouri
l09,ll Kentucky, 1909; Kansas, ~ loli
Tennessee, 81 ,092; Arkansas, S,2S9; North
Carolina, 3, 1856; California, Is, 725; Nevada,
1850; Oregon, $40; Washington Territory,
964; Nebraska Territory, 3,l57; Colombo
Territory, 4, 903; Dakota Territory, 2O6i New
Mexico Territory, 6,56l; Alabama, 1896
Florida, 1890; Louisiana, 1924; Mississippi
545; Texas, l,965, and the Indian Nation,
IS. O30 The troops furnished by the Southern
States were, with the exception of those OF
Louisiana, nearly all white. Florida furnished
two regiments OF cavalry; Alabama one white
regiments Mississippi one battalion, and North
Carolina two regiments OF cavalry.
A tabular statement has been prepared at
the Postofiice Department making comparl-
son between the issue OF stamps, stamped
envelopes and postal cards for 1873 and 1919.
The total value OF this years issue is $29 ,o39,-
$50, I'm increase of 1911 1866 over the value OF
that OF last year. The increase in the number
of ordinary postage stamps issued is 4.29 per
cent. There is decrease in the value and
number of newspaper and periodical stamps
and stamped envelopes and wrappers. There
were 22l ,807, 900 postal cards issued, an IN
crease OF more than 10 per cent. The increase
in the value OF total sales is 81 ,003,2lS.
The returns to the Department OF Agricul-
ture OF the cotton crop show that the condition
of June, which was SO, has not been main
tanned, and is, for July /, 49, The area
planted in corn in the whole country exceeds
that planted last year, North Carolina, Mis-
sissippi, Arkansas and Tennessee being the
States that show the largest gnins in the South.
The acreage OF tobacco Tor the whole country
shows decrease. The returns for July give
the average condition OF spring wheat ut 81,
against LOG on July |, 1878. The average con-
dtion of winter wheat is 81, as against lOl on
July l,'lS7S.
Foreign News.
Upon the arrival of the French Prince I'm
perials body at Portsmouth, England, it was
received by the firing OF minute guns.
The funeral OF the late French Prince I'M
peral at Chiselhurst, England, was an inn
pressive display of respect for the young SOL
der and of coincidence for his bereaved
mother" Queen Victoria, the Princess Bea-
trice, Prince and Princess of Wales, the Dukes
of Connaught, Edinburgh and Cambridge, with
other distinguished persons, were present. The
rNll-bearers were the Prince of Wales, the
Dukes OF Edinburgh, Connaught and Cam
bridge, the Prince OF Monaco and the Crown
Prince OF Sweden. The chief mourners were
Prince jerome Napoleon and his two sons,
Princes Victor and Louis. Then came the
dead princes horse, Stag," and three faithful
servants. On arriving at the Roman Catholic
chapel, the Bishop oil Southwark received tho
coffin, which was borne by officers ofartillery
to the catafalque prepared. The funeral SER
vice was then begun. The Bishop of South
wark intoned the solemn preface; Madame
Lablache sang the Ave Maria of Saint-Saens,
gave the nbsolution. The rite ended, the
cadets fired three volleys OF musketry, each of
which was followed by the roll OF muflled
drums. The assemblage now filed past the
coffin, and rs they left the chapel the building
was occupied by the students, workmen and
Populations from France, who walked rever-
emily around the coffin, strewing flowers and
whispering prayers. Al night the coffin was
transferred to a place beside the tomb of
Napoleon I'LL
An Alexandra egypt dispatch reports
that the Egyptian steamer Samanoot has been
lost mt sea- Twenty-three natives and two
Europeans persisted
Rev. DR.. Talmage, of the Brooklyn Tnber-
nacle, has been drawing great crowds to his
sermons and lectures in London and vicinity.
From twenty to thirty thousand persons went
to hear him lecture at the Crystal Palace, Sy-
denham the trains from London thither TAX
ing down immense throngs.
In Germany a new ministry has been formed
in harmony with Prince Bismarck's policy.
A dispatch from Bombay says that plague
OF rats is causing widespread distress in Dec
can, India.
The late French Prince Imperial is to have
II marble statue erected to his memory il
Westminster Abbey.
In consequence OF the depression in Lanca
shire, England, large numbers of cotton opera
~. ;nrr.,tnr "a 4 marian