Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1879-06-13
Western and Southern States.

Major-General James Shields, late United
States Senator from Missouri, died suddenly
and unexpectedly at Ottumwa, Ia, where he
had been lecturing. General Shields was born
in ireland in 1910, and came to this country in
1926. He was elected to the Illinois Legisla-
ture in 1880, became State Auditor in 1889
was appointed a judge Of the Supreme Court
of the State in 1843, and in 1916 was made
General Land Commissioner He came out
OF the Mexican war a brevet-major general
in lS4S was appointed Governor of Oregon
Territory and the next year was elected to the
United States Senate from Illinois,. Moving
to Minnesota he was sent to the United States
Senate from that State in 1857 During the
war he served as a general in the Union
army, and afterward taking up his residence in
Wisconsin he was president OF the Democratic
State Convention in 1868. Moving to Missouri
General Shields again came prominently into
notice during the last Congress as a candidate
for the position OF doorkeeper of the House OF
Representatives and for pension. When
United States Senator Bogy died General
Shields was elected to serve out the small re-
manning part of his term, so that he had the
distinction OF having represented three States
in the Senate.
Seventeen Chinese lepers were shipped to
China from San Francisco, by order of the
BOARD OF supervisors.
The Ohio Democrats, at their State Conven
ton in Columbus nominated General Thomas
Ewing Tor Governor and General Americas
V. Rice for Lieutenant Gov ernor. Previous
to the convention General Rice was promi-
nent candidate for the first place on the ticket
and ON the first ballot he received 262 votes tc
205 for Governor Bishop and 100 tor General
Ewing; necessary to choice, 317. On the
second ballot General Ewing was nominated
The platform indorses the action Of the Demo
cratic members of Congress on the appropria.
| ton and other bills, denounces the PRESIDENT
vetoes, the demonstration of silver, the in
crease of the bonded debt and the nationa
banking system, and demands a repeal of the
national election and jury laws.
The Ohio Greenback- Labor party held it.
State Convention in Columbus on the same
day that the Democrats held theirs, and nomi
mated General A Saunders Piatt Tor Governor
and Hugh Dreyer for Lieutenant Governor
Inc pIitioIIh aa-oeotoo no taroritisrn on ac
count OF birth, color creed or financial con
dition, tavors an ample volume of full legal
tender currency, says the hard times are thu
result of legislation in favor of the moneyet
aristocracy and corrupt corporations, de
nounces the funding of the national debt int
| longtime bonds, and the national banking sys
TEN, and demands the payment of bonds il
greenbacks and equalization OF bounties.
While workmen were tearing down tn,
ruins of a flve-story building in Cincinnati tina
had been destroyed by fire, one of the interior
walls suddenly fell, carrying with it portions
OF the secoud, third, fourth and fifth floors anc
twelve of the fifteen men, four Of whom wer,
killed and the rest injured
Nine colored men and women were arrested
in Portsmouth, Va, for disorderly conduct
and upon the mayors order the whole part,
were whipped receiving thirty mine lashes eacl
at the whipping post.
The planters of Washington county, Miss.
have issued a memorial addressed to TIL
business men and benevolent societies of tn,
North" saying that if single boat SHOULD
make its appearance, Offering free passage {,
Kansas to the colored people, it would GREAT
such stampede that every plantation aecossi
Bile to the Mississippi would be depopulate,
and their owners financially ruined. Tn
memorial says further that the colored maj
has no real cause for dissatisfaction, and tn
people OF the North are invoked to "interpos
their condemnation and power to prevent tn
destruction OF tho industrial interests of tn
white and black alike of the Mississippi valley.
The Workingmen's State Convention, he'll
in San Francisco, nominated f. White,
farmer, for Governor. Dennis Kearney wa
reelected permanent president of the party
After a session lasting several days the Nj
tional Convention OF Brewers adjourned nj ST
Louis to meet in Buffalo, N. Y, the frs
Wednesday in June, 1880.
From Washington.
The last public debt statement issued show