Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1880-01-02

perial at Chiselhurst, England. Eight lives
lost by wreck OF steamer State OF Virginia
of tho coast OF Nova Scotia. Is. Many
lives lost in New England during a ter
rifle storm. :. Is. Eight persons drowned by
capsizing of yacht in st. Lawrence river,
Canada. News received OF great Zulu de.
ieat in South Africa by Lord Chelmsford,
and virtual end OF the Zulu war. .26.
Destructive storm in western Pennsyl-
vania. .2S. A congressional committee
begins at Chicago an examination into the
causes Oithe labor depression :. 81. Five
persons drowned by the capsizing of an
excursion yacht at Clayton, N. Y.
AUGUSTA. Disastrous storm in England
.,..4. Kentucky State election. Fifty per-
sons killed during storm in Denmark. Town
OF Volcano, W. Va, destroyed by fire..
Z. Election on question of debt compromise
in Tennessee. Financial panic in Montreal
Serajevo, capital OF Bosnia, almost totally
burned down....9. Yellow fever declared
an epidemic in Memphis =. II. Austrian
ministry fesign -. ,l5. British parliament
prorogued. James AlcHenry, Hnglish finan-
cial agent, fails in London for SIS, 1000, 900.
Fatal riot of ship laborers in Quebec. Sew
eral persons killed at the destruction by fire
ota summer hotel at Locust Grove, near
Coney Island 80. Is. Tremendous storm
along the Atlantic cost . %. Great excite
ment created in San Francisco by shooting
OF |. S. Kalioch, workingmen's candidate TOR
mayor, by Charles De Young, ST., proprietor
Chronicle newspaper. 30. A monument
to General Custer unveiled at West Point.
SEPrEMBER.-3. California State election.
Massacre of British embassy at Cabul. 5.
Several persons killed or injured by bof er
explosion on steamer Alaska Lake Erie
....8. State election in Maine. IL. Tam
many bolts from Democratic State Conven-
ton at Syracuse. -. Is. News received OF
the capture OF Cetewayo, Zulu king, by the
British .... 20. General Grant arrives in
San Francisco after two years absence
abroad. international walking match for
Ashley belt begun in New York %. Par
ticluars received of great fire at Kiev, Rus
sia. %. Alliance formed between Ger
many and Austria. =. 26. Partial destruction
OF Deadwood, Dakota, 10y Are 81. Rowell
wins the walking match in New York..
%. Prof. Wise and companion ascend in
balloon Pathfinder, at st. Louis and never
heard from again -. 28. Bloody battle be-
tween United States troops and Ute Indians
in Colorado.
OCTOBER.-2. Monument to Andre erected
on the spot where he was hanged, at Tap
pan, N. Y. About fifteen persons killed
and many more wounded by hall OF a grand
stand at a fair in Adrian Mich IA. Be-
ginning OF pedestrian match for O'Leary
belt in New York. General Merritt's force
relieves Captain Paynes troops, beleaguered
by Utes, in Colorado. ...S. Capture of ia
nous Peruvian ironclad Huascar by Chill
ian vessels after a desperate naval fight.
10. Fifteen persons killed and many
wounded by railroad collision at jackson,
Mich go. IL. Murphy wins the walking
match for the O'Leary belt. l2 British
troops enter Cabul. IA. State elections in
Ohio and Iowa =. Is. Disastrous floods in
Spain ... l6. Dr. lie Moyne cremated at
Washington, Pa. Hanlan and Courtney
make o fizzle of their boat race on Chautau-
qua Lake .l8. Loss OF Spanish steamer
kuevo Paaro del Oceano in Bahama Straits,
West Indies, by fire, and forty OF her passen-
gers and crew perish l9. Formation Of
new Turkish ministry 20. Twenty seven
British troops and many Al ghans killed by
blowing up OF magazine in Cabul. ...2l.
Terrible distress in Hungary on account OF
bad crops reported .25. Yellow fever cpl
demic in Memphis declared at an end
NOVEMBER.-2. Five men killed by explo-
sion OF fire camp in colliery near Scranton,
Pa....4. Elections in number OF States.
....5. Obsequies of General Hooker in New
York, and OF Senator Chandler in Detroit
....7. Steamer Champion sunk by the ship
Lady Octavia, near Cape Henlopen, and
thirty lives lost 8, Three lives lost and
damage exceeding 100000 done by break
ing OF q train through the iron bridge over
the Missouri at st. Charles, Mo. Several
persons killed by the fall OF cracker fac
tory in Kansas City, Mo....l0. A party Of
fifty white men from New Mexico, attacked
by Indians in Mexico and thirty-two killed
III. Fatal cyclone in Crawford county,
Arkansas II. Reception to General Grant
in Chicago. Five persons killed at New
York tenement-house fire 80. II. About
thirty Chipamen killed by an explosion in q
California railroad tunnel .... Is. Nine lives
lost by the sinking OF portion OF a town on
Lake Ontario .l9. General Thomas statue
unveiled in Washington. Great excitement
in Ireland on account OF the arrest OF sew
eral persons for seditious utterances. .26.
Great sale of 250,000 shares New York Cen
trail railroad stock by W. H. Vanderbilt 10
syndicate of bankers for So 900, 600.
II. Thanksgiving day. 2S Marriage nj
Madrid OF King Alfonso to Marie Christine,
Austrian archduchess.
DECEMBER.-l. Opening OF the regular ses
sion OF Forty sixth Congress. -. Attempt
to kill the Gar OF Russia while on his way
to Moscow -. 3. Banquet to Oliver Wendell
Holmes in Boston in honor OF his SEVENTEEN
birthday. ...S. Opening OF the international
dairy tail in New York ....9. United States
Senate confirms Secretary of War McCrary
to be United States circuit judge. 81. 10.
Ex-senator Ramsey's appointment as sue
cessor to Secretary of War McCrary con-
firmed by the Senate National agricultural
society formed in Now York. -. IL. News
received of great floods in Transylvanis
and hungary. Destruction by fire Of Red
Rock, Pa. l5. Twelve miners killed and
eight injured by an explosion in a salt mine
in Wurtemburg, Germany lie. Great
welcome to General Grant in Philadelphia
....l9. Details received OF heavy battle
between Ohilians and allied forces of Peru
and Bolivia.