Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1879-03-07

telegraph bill, with Recommendation that the
whole matter be referred 10 4 commission con-
sisting OF two Senators, three members Of the
House, ana four persons TO be appointed by
the President. This commission is instructed
10 examine into the question ~ the alleged dis
elimination by the Western Union Telegraph
company the relations and rights OF the As
ISOLATED Press and National Associated Press,
and the subject Of postal telegraph. The com
mission is to give the whole subject thorough
and exhaustive examination.
The Senate has confirmed the nomination Of
Representative Horatio @. Burchsrd, Of Hi
nois, to be director Of the mint.
An alteration in the Senate lobby between
Dom Piatt, editor Of the Washington Capital,
and William McGarrahan, who has been promi-
nently before the country in connection with
large silver mine claim, led 10 blows. PiGtt
was knocked down and badly beaten in the
face. The parties TO the row we're opponents
in the claim referred to, snd just before the
trouble bill in McGarrahans interest had
been laid over in the Senate, upon Senator Nc
Donald's objection.
Foreign News.
A report from Mandalay asserts that the
king Of Burmah has murdered all the roy al
princes and their families, ard removed the
new ministers and replaced them by the MIN
letters who were formerly in Office thus restor-
lug the former despotic government.
Late advices from Cape Town, Africa, state
that the British have repulsed numerous at
tacks Of the Zulus.
Reports from Hayti state there is a revolt
ton In that place, and that it has been invaded
by fillibusters from Jamaica. night attack
was repulsed by the government troops who
| lost thlrty-fve in killed and ninety odd wound
ed aud missing. There are three pretenders
to the presidency Of the island.
After being forty-two days out, and no It'd
| ings having been received from her, the Brit
ish steamship Zanzibar, from New York. bound
for GlStgow, was gwen up as lost The Fan
zibar carried complement of thirty. six officers
and crew, but no passengers, and with her
| cargo was valued at about &400 600.
During a violent storm on Prince Edward
| island Presbyterian church at Souris Ca
thoho church at Cardigan Road, and several
other buildings we're blown down.
rise in the river Loire is causing disas-
trous inundations.
Many of the striking dock laborers at Liver.
pool have resumed work at reduced prices. Al
a meeting of the striking weavers at Ashton
under Lyme, to the number OF 5000, it was de.
cided with only four dissentient voices, tc
continue the strike until they are reduced Il
starvation.
The work of burning infected houses in thu
Russian plague districts has commenced.
G. r. Urinary, cashier OF the Exchange bank
OF Montreal, stole $40, 900 OF the institution
funds and fed.
At Sienna, Italy, an earthquake shock over
threw two churches and killed number O.
persons, including two priests.
Tremendous storms are reported in tn,
south of France, where hundreds Of peopl
have been thrown on public charity by the de
struction and inundation OF their houses Ii
Spain the tempest lasted four days, with mucl
damage and loss OF life. Various villages an
farms in the Navarro and Asturiss were dc
stroyed. A bark was wrecked at Oorunna, an
thirty persons we're drowned.
Senior Cirilo Antonio Rivarola, expression
Of Paraguay, was set upon by five assassins i
the streets of Asuncion - the capital of tn
country-and stabbed to death.
Charles Peace, the notorious English burgla
and murderer, was hanged at Leeds England
His many crimes and escapes from the clutche
of the law would fill volume, and he was cor
sidered one Of the most remarkable criminal
of the age. Just before his execution he COZ
fessed that he had murdered Mancheste
policemen in 1876, for which crime anotht
man is undergoing imprisonment for life.
A Vienna dispatch says twenty-one person
were killed and nine houses destroyed by a
avalanche, near Marburg.
r The British ship Adristic stranded near Dul
kirk, Scotland, and out Of forty-nine person
on board only seven were saved.
1 The disastrous storm which visited Franc
and Spain burst over Italy also, doing inca
8 culable damage The whole coast, from Gen
D va to the south of Naples, was strewn vii
wrecks Of small craft, and many large vesse
: were seriously damaged. At Leghorn tW
English steamers broke from their moorinl
a and caused much injury. At Follonisa six We
: sells were wrecked-four Italian and two EN-
= lish. At Puagginolo the campanile Of chur;
was blown down while the people were at ma
q killing two priests officiating at the altar al
. three other persons, and wounding twenty-fo
others. A similar catastrophe occurred
q Aontauro, where the vault of church yield'
I to the force Of the storm and killed prize
I who was celebrating mass and injured a nun
Der OF the congregation. At Rome the for
Of the wind was unparalleled.