Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1879-05-30
Western and Southern States.

Samuel Durrtll and Josiah Manning, two
young men, who had taken refuge under
large sycamore tree duriHg o thunderstorm,
Ut Fredericksburg, Ind, were struck by light
ming and instantly killed.
L. Longbehm, German, living on vege-
table rancho, about five miles from Antioch.
Cal, took his little boy and girl, aged respec-
lively six and Jour years, into the fields, beat
them to death with club, cut their threats
and then went back to the house and blew his
own brains out witt a shotgun. The family
had always lived happily together, and it is
supposed that Longbehm was suffering from
an attack Of insanity.
Reports from the Northwest state that the
prospects for large crops in that. region are
very f1attering.
William Morgan, cashier OF the St. Nicholas
Hotel, Cincinnati, and his brother, John Nor
gan, while rowing skiff on Licking river
were upset and drowned in endeavoring to
avoid passing steamer.
William Nelson, q colored man, was fined
$4,000 at Terre Haute, Ind, and sentenced to
the penitentiary for one year for marrying
white woman.
Orlando Cassler, who, in July last, muir
dered and robbed George L. Monroe, was
hanged at Seward, Neb. About half an hour
before the execution, which took place at 80
P. NJ, mob suddenly tore down the inclosure
around the scaffold, and quietly witnessed the
| proceedings to the end Cassler asserted on
the scaffold that he was innocent, and that his
| life had been sworn away. He was cool and
resigned throughout.
| At the Iowa Democratic State Convention
held in Council Bluffs, a ticket headed by II
| IL. Trimble, TOR Governor, was nominated.
Resolutions were adopted calling upon Con-
gross to stand firm for the freedom OF the bal
lot; declaring that both the government and
the States should be sternly restricted to their
respective spheres in the exercise of power;
favoring the substitution of treasury notes for
national bank notes, etc.
About 10000 persons in Richmond visited
Hollywood Cemetery on Memorial day, listen.
ed to an address, and strewed the graves OF
Confederate soldiers with flowers.
At Severn, Md, John Stinchcomb quarreled
with his brother ABOUT some property, became
exasperated, drew q revolver and fired, almost
instantly killing him. Leaving his brother
dead in the road, John returned home anc
killed himself by second discharge of the
weapon. John was fifty and his brother Louir
torty-five years old, and neither was married
The chairman Of the Ohio Republican State
Central Committee makes public letter by
Secretary Sherman, emphatically declining &c
become the party's candidate tor Governor.
The Broadway Savings Bank of St. Louis
has suspended. Its liabilities are 100000.
A colored baseball nine from Tallahassee
visited Madison, Fla, to play with another
colored nine. The game not going right figh
arose, in which one man was fatally shot anC
another was so badly cut that he may die
Several others were severely wounded. Six
teen OF the party were arrested and put in Jail
| cut.
three houses and several million feet OF lum
Der, causing loss of about 100000 On tn,
same day the town of Dalles, Oregon, was con
sumed by the flames, and near Detroit, Mich.
a fire destroyed j. M. French's menagerie
The elephant Sultan, five lions, a zebra, leop
ard, stag and many other valuable animal
were "cremated." The whole establishment