Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1880-08-27
GEN ERAL NEWS.

John Murphy, one OF the census enumera-
tors in New York city, has been arrested for
making false returns.
The plan of reaching the bodies in the Hud-
son river tunnel at Jersey city by a crib has
been abandoned and caisson will be built so
bodies are reached.
The secret service detectives have got hold
of new counterfeit 81 legal-tender note from
Maine. The counterfeit is on the series of
1875, letter D, and with the signature of A. U.
Wyman, treasurer. 1t is an exceedingly poor
counterfeit and is supposed to have had its
origin in Canada.
John Donaldson of Cleveland and James
Taylor of Chicago had a prize fight by torch
light in the woods near Mount Clemens,
Mich, recently, and Taylor was whipped.
The steamer Flavin from Liverpool to
Baltimore, went ashore near st. John recent
ly. No lives were lost.
Rose Waterman, aged 10, killed herself re-
Gently in New York by leaping from roof,
being enamored ola young man, and commit
ted suicide because her parents were to take
her to Boston.
A girl named Moore, IL years old, living at
Logansport, Armstrong county, Pa, has fast
ed for four weeks, and has been reduced to
about fifteen pounds weight.
The total loss of the British in the battle of
July 9th with the Afghans, is officially placed
! at ll16. Many British officers favor evacua-
ton of Atghanistan.
The gathering of the Knight Templars at
Chicggo, recently, brought together 1858 COM
manderies
The authorities at Detroit, Mich, revoked
| the licenses of the captains of the yacht
Mamie and steamboat Garland, for failing to
prevent the recent collision by which so many
| lives were lost,
Michael Riley, IL years old, was stealing
apples in farmer James Murphy's orchard
near Flatbush, n Y, when the latter came
up behind him and fired load of shot into
the boys back.
Thirteen thousand emigrants left Liverpool
during July, to settle in the United States.
The measure of dissatisfaction felt in high
quarters in England al the marriage of Lady
! Burdett- Coutts and Mr. Bartlett is indicated
in the refusal of the use of the chapel royal at
Savoy for the ceremony.
Colored Cadet Whitaker has been indefinite
ly furloughed
| Eureka, Cal, was nearly wiped out by fire
again recently; the confiagration being larger
even than the one which swept through the
place about a year ago. The loss will be about
100000, and many families who are left
destitute second time are discouraged
About 1000 colored people held picnic near
Baltimore recently, during which a riot &C.
Cured. Two score of people were shot, cut
and beaten before the row was stopped.
A new Atlantic cable company has been
formed with u Portuguese concession for q
cable from England to the Azores, and thence
to America.
The pleuro-pneumonia has made its appear
ance on seventeen farms in Lancashire, Eng.
Robert L. Lincoln, son of the great presi-
dent, was a passenger on the train of the
Pttsburg, Fort Wayne and Chicago railway
recently wrecked by a collision, and sustained
bruises which rendered him unconscious for
half an hour.
Joseph p. Morris, chief engineer of the
Auburn N. Y, fire department, committed
suicide recently by severing his head from his
shoulders with razor His mind seems to
have been unbalanced by the strain OF the re-
ception to the state firemen holding conven-
ton there.
Irwin Lustres, John Martin, Joseph Balch,
Herbert Gould, Henry Reinchio and Thomas
and John Merriman were arrested few days
ago charged with the murder of an unknown
man, who was driven into the river and stoned
to death for stealing bunch of grapes from
the yard of Mrs. Rivers, near Agnew Station.
Pa.
The Afghans recently attacked the British
garrison at Kuch. They were defeated losing
200 men, while the British lost but Is.
AT q meeting ofthe board of trade and trans
portation held in New York recently, it was
decided to hold a convention Oct. 6, in the
rooms of the board of trade in Boston, to con-
slider means of furthering the shipping interests
of the country and procure national legislation
thereon.
A woman named Thompson, accompanied
by two daughters put up at the st. Nicholas
hotel, New York recently, and shortly after
their arrival it was discovered they we've all
three insane.
The latest dispatches from Ireland report
several riots. in some OF which, the police were
roughly handled.
Agnes G. Riddle aged IA, servant in the
employ of John G. Macy of Philadelphia, was
arrested few days since upon charge of
attempting to poison the family by placing
oxalc acid in their coffee The girl denies the
crime, but admits having bought oxalc acid.
England Italy and other European states
have recently rendered to Chill and Peru their
good offices as mediators, with view to
speedily terminating the contest between
them.
Among President Hayes's mail recently, were
four invitations requesting his attendance at
the opening of agricultural fairs on the Pa
ciic coast, for which section he leaves shortly.