Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1880-01-16

The public debt was decreased 1881, 2l7.96
during December. On January /, 1880, there
was cash in the Treasury, S207, 9S3 9O3.92,
and the national debt, less cash in the
Treasury, was 81, oil, 79s, 504.S7.
The United States consul-general at Mon
treal reports to the State department That
Canadian trade with Great Britain hos de-
creased, while with the United states II has
increased nearly $1,000, 700 during the last
year. The effect OF the new tariff, in The
opinion OF the Canadian authorities, will DO to
reverse the above results.
Secretary Schufz has recommended 10 the
House an appropriation OF $500 TO purchase
the first patent ever issued in this country.
Accompanying il was "A letter from e. L.
Hall, OF Columbus, Ohio, the present possessor
Of the document, in which he saws 1t was rs
sued at New York, July 81, 1870, 10 Samuel
Hopkins, OF Philadelphia for an improvement
in making potash and pearl ash. 1t is written
on q sheet OF parchment in a round, old-hsh-
Toned hand, signed by George Washington,
and certified by Ed. Randolph, attorney
general, as being comfortable to the act oil
Congress 10 promote the useful alts, and its
delivery to the grantee is certified by Thomas
Jefferson, with the seal OF the United States,
Foreign News -.-s
Eleven persons have been drowned at
Lobau, Austria, by the overlooking OF the
| river Danube.
Immense damage has been done to p operty
in the vicinity OF Paris by the rise in the river
Seine.
DISPATCHES from Connemara, ireland, state
that while a number of bailiffs were proceed
ing with the work of serving ejectment pa
pers upon several tenants of the district, under
the protection of detachment OF constabu-
larry, q large company OF tenantry assembled
and finally attacked the baifls, alter giving
them notice OF their purpose to do so unless
they ceased attempting to serve the papers.
The bailiffs called for help upon the constabu-
larry, who at first fired upon the people and
then charged upon them with fixed bayonets,
woundiug large number, some of them, it is
believed, fatally. The crowd retreated, but
continued throwing missiles and firing scat
tering shots at the constabulary from behind
casual defenses by the hedges. Great excite
ment prevailed throughout the district, and
further disturbances were feared.
The survey for I've Lesseps' canal across the
Isthmus OF Panama has been commenced
Only one American engineer will be en-
ployed on it. The press OF Panama is quite
defiant in tone toward the United States
The Panama Star and Herald, in an article
on the action OF the United States Congress
concerning the canal, says that there are only
two things to be considered in connection
with the enteIprise-the money to build the
canal and the local consent of the government
OF New Grenada, and that the assumption o
any control over the matter by the United
States is arrogant and outrageous. Mean
while it is said that General Grant has ex
pressed his warmest sympathies with thu
movement looking toward the building OF E
canal across Nicaragua--the route favored by
Americans.
Advices from Southern Russia report al
epidemic of diphtheria in several provinces
In the province OF Pultava about Il 900 per
| sons have died OF the disease in the last tire
years.
President Daza, OF Bolivia, has been de
posed and has fed.
Russia is reported to be making great mill
tary preparations on the German frontier, ant
her movements in that direction are regarde,
as significant OF a coming war with Germany
The health OF the Queen OF Spain has re
ceived severe shock through the attempte'
assassinati.n OF King Alfonso. The newly
made royal bride has been attacked wit
epieptic fits, to which she was not pre-
viously subject.
Forty thousand dollars have been sub
, scrbed in France for the purpose of raising
memorial to Eugenies son, the late prime
imDeriaI,