The Lamoille news. (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1877-1881, 1880-09-15
NEWS EPITOME.
Eastern .ad laiddl. States

Rsx. Dr. wuI;.u Adams, ID. D., L-L-D.'
- ~ re ,,ra,-.es-, "a American ministers,
fled At Orange, n. j., tie other oASl -
,eyenty-three wears. DR.. Adams wS
graduate OF Yale college, passed ,ni $50,
dover Theological seminary ana ~ - H p-a.-
ioTty years was identified with lei,uiI ieis ho
byterian church ia New YORK VI t9'o
became president OF the Union lheo 1- -
seminary, New York. DIR. Adams WIS N1''
author OF several tgNeoloa'cal works.
Mr.. J. p. benjamin, a New YORK ousihes ,'
man, arrived Ia that city lew days 60 run i'I
Fort Worth, Texas. distance oil Z'411 ,iilies,
all OF which he made ON horseback. ne oosa.
the long equestrian ] iurney on INC tcu. .ao =,
May last, and was on the road about iou''ee"
The Massachusetts State Democratic CON on,
yention, held a. Worcester, nominated lun
| State ticket headed by Charles Z. lhothpson
| Tor governor. General d. II. Butler, VINO Wa
/ in attendance as a delegate deehheu W w
candidate for the N nlinaiion' Cate
The New Jersey Democrats at thelr otan
convention in Trenton nominaied luli
ticket with George c. Ludlow Tor goV"rnoi
| at the head. -,
The New Jersey PTohibitionists nave noiii'-
GATED S. b. Ransom for governor;
8. Gutmann q Co, New York shirt manu-
laotureys, have suspended, owing nearly SdoV'-
William Crever. a Young convict who had
been naroled ont Of the ElmiIa, IN. Yp) re-
tormatory on condition that he would 20 "
sea, WAS about to be eiresied at the ollcs VI
the agent of the Prison association IN me
Bible House, New York City, for o'eaSllg MS MS
parole, when he plunged'head first through
the third story and was dashed TO deaih Oh
'n lie SsPFyi ttsburg, pa exposition and iair
was opened IN The pres euoe OF 5000 persons
The area of these grounds is 10 acres .,.,-.,
Cadet whitaker OF the West Point military
academy, addressed a meeting oil coloreo
Republicans in New York.
A fire at Harris Falls, N. y, destroyed the
Schaghticoko Home, Bakers block, lnolndlnt
Bakers opera house, and ten other buildings
Loss. $3.50 600; insurance about SI6,0UO'
A company has been organized in New forf
tity for the purpose OF constructing an unue'
ground railroad under Broadway.
The burial oil a Chinaman in EVergreel
cemetery, Brooklyn, was accompanied Y.
curious ceremonies, such rs setting n,e
farots OF slow matches placed in basin d
the foot Of the grave, burning richly decorate
red candles, cremating the dead mans clotne
NEAR the grave, the Dirt king OF tea by IN
mourners as n sign o. farewell TO the deRo' an
2 pl cling three paus OF rice, btohed chloko
aud plato OF mutton before the grave tna
| lnO cUfllSo mig u haNo AO4'S'A
3 long journey. ,..orr
A lille boy named Sweeney had his lett arr
; caught in wheel OF machinery at kouse
Point, n. Y, and it was torn from his oouy
the boys inther, seeing the accident rnsne
10 the cscue, and he, too, was caught IN IN
e machinery, which cut his lett leg oil below III
e knee. -
A fro which broke cut in the Dudley mouse
large no Of in Salamanca, N. Y, sprea
n rapiily up and down the street on DO h SIDE
and before the flames could be sub luoi twenty
= two buildings were consumed. I toal los
e is estimated at Sl57, 900 ana the insurance
$50 900. Lo,
The Freethinkers Of the United states nay
i had 1--WE days national convention at horl
n ellsville N. Y. The principal speakers we
Robert q. lngersoll, Elizur Wright, Geor
: Cheney, Parker Plllsbury, Amelia Colby
IL. Durham, Thaddeus B. Fakeman'
:. Fanny Allen and Lucy n. Coleman,
~ A national telephone convention represoni
e ing about fifty companies has been III sessl'
1t at Niagara Falls, n. Y.
Hudson river steamers the other day e
coun,ered heavy storm OF flies, which leac
ed from shore TO shore aud looked Ike
~ "great DRIFT of black snow" There were IN
lions upon millions of the flies AMI they iu
4 lied northward as thick US snow-1akes drive
Sc by strong wind.