Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1879-09-12
SUMMARY OFNEWS.
Eastern and Middle States.

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Greenback party, held at Utica, Harris Lewis
and John NJ. Wieting were nominated for
Governor and Lieutenant-Gover respec-
lively by reclamation. The other nominations
were: Secretary of State, p. Mccain; Comp
troller, John A. Shannon; Treasurer, Julian
Winnie; Attorney General, George Wright.
The platform adopted demands that the ma
tional bank currency shall be withdrawn and
that all the money that is used by the people, /
whether gold, silver or paper, shall be issued |
by the general government, and be made 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-
quirements 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 rs to maintain for the dollar as nearly as |
possible uniform purchasing power; that all |
new issues OF paper money shall be used to
cancel the Understanding debt OF the nation, |
TO promote needed public Improvements and
to pay current expenses; that the surplus
money now in the treasury OF the nation shall
be used to cancel interest-beaTing debts; that
the national government shall issue no more
Understanding obligations, and that all out
standing bonds shall be paid and Cancelled at
once; that postal savings banks shall be estaD-
lished; that taxation OF property shall be
equal; that salaries of public officers be re-
duced; that reliable statistics be collected to
the end thai labor may be fully and Justly
compensated; that equitable rates OF railroad
fares and transportation be established; that
the Legislature pass law giving to mortgagoTs
OF real estate tic 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 on political
assessments be permitted in the party on can
dhdates for office or Office holders; that the
legal rates OF interest be reduced; that debts
due for labor done take the precedence OF all
other claims; that no more public lands be
voted to corporations; that a tariff be estab-
lished which shall protect American industry
and manufactures, and that the government
faithfully perform its pledges made to the
Union soldiers by giving them l60 acres OF
land on being discharged, in fee simple, and an
equitable payment per month OF each soldier,
according to the value OF the full legal.tender
dollar, Resolutions were also passed express
ing sympathy with and extending the hand OF
| fellowship to the workingmens party OF San
Francisco and praising Denis Keamey.
The centennial OF the revolutionary battle
OF Newtown was celebrated at Elmira, N. Y,
with great enthusiasm. The governors OF
! New York, Pennsylvania and New Hamp-
shire, and a number of prominent army Off
GERS, were present. monument was un-
yelled and an address delivered by General
| Sherman The days proceedings terminated
with display of fireworks and reception.
George W. Hardie, employed in the New
York county clerks office, was drowned in
presence OF his vile and sister while celebrat-
ing his torty-second birthday at Long Branch,
N. j.
A monument to the memory OF General
Custer was unveiled at West Point. General
N. p. Banks delivered the Grafton and John
Mccullough, the actor, recited " Custer Last
Charge"
During the first eight months of this year
5000 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 a slaughter
house in New York and created panic on
Fifth avenue by charging right and lett, scat.
tering pedestrians and vehicles in every direc.
ton. Before he was shot the brute tossed five
men and one woman, and injured a child ant
two policeman.
a wonderful feat in craftsmanship has beer
performed at the Columbia Rifle Range, Yves
End, N. j. Mr.. A. j. Holcombe scored thirty
seven consecutive bulPs-eyes at 500 yards, ant
made 1879 points out of possible 200.
Charles Drews, Oldest of the four men unde
ing an old man named Raber in order TO ge
the insurance on his life, has made full con
tession, telling how the crime was commit et
by his coniederates.
Lena and Frederick William Susick, one an,
three years old, children Of painter living a
, Linden, n. j., died few days ago from tn
effects OF eating toadstools that had been gath
, cred and cooked under the impression tina
; they were mushrooms. Other members OF tn
family were also made very sick by partakin
of the poisonous food.
Rev. w. II. II. Murray has communication
in the Boston papers denying that he went t
} San Francisco Clandestinely in order to escap
, his creditors, but that he went there on bust
| ness that his debts are small, and he shout
t. have been able to meet his obligations had NO
+ his property been attached by impatient cred
tors; that his estate is valuable enough to pa
: all creditors and leave surplus, and if not
:. will go to work and pay all he owes, and this
q he retires from public lite, declining to renal
in a service in which his motives are traduce
. and views misrepresented.
Baltimore paper publishes a report OF tn
i, burning of the liie-saving station at Cobb
. Island, with all its contents, causing a loss
y about $4,000. The station is one of the mo-
important to commerce on the coast and il
' charged that the ire was the work of wrecl
e ers, whose business in that vicinity had bee
c broken up.
" Senator Conkling was temporary presidel
II and Vice-President Wheeler permanent pres
e dent Of the Republican State Convention
l, Saratoga. Alonzo B. Cornell was nominate
e for Governor upon the first ballot, receivin
e 234 votes to l06 Tor Robertson, 40 for Start
a 50 Tor Pomeroy, "a Tor Escock and l fl
Is Sloan. The remainder OF the State ticket
70 rs follows: For Lieutenant Governor Geors
~ G. Hoskins; Comptroller, j. w. Wadswortl
Secretary OF State, General j. B. Carr; Urea
- urer, Nathan d. Wendell; Attorney Genera
le Hamilton Ward; State Engineer, Howal
81 Soule. The platform adopted pledges tt
~ party to national supremacy, equal right
III free elections and honest money!" arraigl
e. the Democratic Representatives in Congre
lie as guilty both OF revolutionary attempts al
ut multiplying schemes; declares an unconpr
is missing opposition to any attempt to repeal u
a national election laws; asserts that the r
ct publican party "neither justi1es nor tolerat
military interference with elections" b
"seeks only to protect the ballot-box from Il
interference OF force and fraud" charges tn
the Democratic party "forced the extra sc
sion OF Congress without warrant or excus
10 prosecuting its partisan purposes by revol
tionary methods and persistently obsiructi
b., resumption" and that 'its Southern eleme
II answers Cancellation only with violence;"
firms that "the successful resumption of spec
. payments, despite Democratic prediction Al
-, hostility, is the browning element of the X
~ publican financial policy" and that 40
whole currency should be kept at par with t
en- monetary standard OF the commercial wor
r. and any attempt to debase the standard,
Nv deprecate the paper or deteriorate the co
should be firmly resisted" protests "agair
or the partisan and unpatriotic greed which G
eI pels old Union soldiers from their well {
10 served rewards and advances Coniedert
nd soldiers to their Places" maintains that t
economical administration of Stats affairs
I'D been achieved through Republican measure
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