Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1880-03-12
Foreign News.

The New York Herald Irish relief fund
committee consisting of E. r. King Hartman,
M. P, W. Shaw, NJ. p, Prof. Baldwin, Rev.
George II. Hepworth and the archbishop of
Dublin, has begun the distribution of the
money, amounting to over $3.50, 600, entrusted
to it.
The woman, Vera Sassulitch, the famous
Nihiist agent who in February, 1878, at
tempted the assassination OF General Trepoh,
the project OF st. Petersburg, has been ar
rested at the residence of one Of her friends in
that city.
The work of piercing Mount St. Gothard
tunnel has been completed amid great re-
oicing. The tunnel runs through the Alps,
connecting Italy and Switzerland, and is the
largest in the world, being 1880 feet or ola
miles long. Its cost OF construction has been
$57, 100000
General Melikof has been appointed virtual
dictator of st. Petersburg, and has named
commission OF supreme control"
The steamer Vingoria, from Bombay, India,
for Kur1achee, has foundered. SIX Europeans
and sixty-two natives were lost
she twenty anniversary of the access
sion of the Gar of Russia to the throne was
celebrated in st. Petersburg by military
parades, priestly professions and a general
turnout of the people in honor OF their
on a balcony of the Winter palace, saluting the
multitude, and then drove in an open carriage
through the crowded streets,
Experiments are being made in Paris with
the polyscope, new apparatus for lllumin-
ating the interior of animal organisms, which
is claimed to render bodies transparent, SO as
to make an examination OF every portion of
the body feasible.
General Melikolf, the new military ruler at
st. Petersburg, while alightng from carr iage
il front OF his residence was fired upon but
not hit by young man. The would-be as
sassin was seized as he was trying TO fire
q second shot, and claimed to be student.
AT Ashton-under- Lyme, England, 10000
cotton weavers struck work in consequence
OF the refusal of their employers to grant an
| advance of five per cent. in their wages,
which advance the spinners recently obtained
A leading Paris newspaper asserts that
France has entered into negotiations with the
| United States and England with view oil
terminating the war between Chill and Peru
A dispatch from Castlebar, Ireland, state:
that large number of the populaoe neal
| Balla, Mayo county, entered the house OF 6
man who was about taking possession of the
farm of an evi.ted widow, and compelled hin
to enter coffin which they brought with then
and swear to abandon his intention. Being
seriously frightened the would-be tenant tool
the required oath and the people departed
without doing him any further violence.
A Mr. Grieso1 was brOugut To uiIe Uar OF the
British house OF commons, when he read
most humble apology for alleging that h,
could bride parliamentary committee. Si
Staffard Northcote, chancellor OF the ex
chequer, amidst cheers, moved his committa
to Newgate prison, and the motion wa.
adopted without debate or division. He is t
be imprisoned during the pleasure OF the hous,
OF commons.
At Geneva, Switzerland, during May an
June, an international exhibition OF clock
and watches, and of all machines implement
and utensils relating to clock. making will b
held
rush OF emigrants for America has set il
at Queenstown, Ireland.