Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1880-05-21
GENERAL NEWS,

Gov. Cornell of N. Y. has decided to
give the counsel of the murders Cox and
Balbo, condemned to be hung on the 28th,
a hearing on the 25th.
The first grain fleet over the Erie canal.
comprising "a boats with 1914, 900 bushels
of grain, has reached New York.
The rigorous winter in Paris did much
damage to the Jardin DIES Plantes, whose
menagerie has lost a hippopotamus that
cost $4,000, a bear, two lions, five ga
zells, a panther and two swans, not to
mention many kangaroos, antellopes and
deer.
The latest plan for crossing the Eng
fish channel is embodied in a model now
before the British admiralty for a mon
ster floating Railway station, which is to
carry trains holding 1900 passengers
across at the rate of IA knots an hour.
The reports that the white settlers are
invading Indian territory are confirmed,
and the secretary of war has ordered the
troops to drive out the intruders. Secre-
tary Ramsay anticipates no trouble.
however, believing That once removed.
from the territory the trespassers will
not attempt re-enter it.
Secretary Sherman has issued a circu-
lar informing treasury officers that the
appropriation for fuel, light and water
in all public buildings is exhausted and
that the government officers are forbid
den by statute from running in debt in
excess of the appropriation. Unless
Congress specially votes the money to
pay for lights and fires, these must be
extinguished in the public buildings i'm
mediately.
The South Carolina law making i'm
prisonment penalty for the non-pay-
ment of poll tax has been adjudged
by the state courts in contravention of
the constitutional provision forbidding
Imprisonment for debt. The constitution
provides further that the penalty for
non-payment of taxes shall be equal, and
under the act in question the poor man
who failed to pay his poll taxes was i'm
prisoned, while the delinquent rich man
was only liable to have his property
Sold
A colored man and his wife of clarks-
vile, KY, who imagined themselves
Jesus Christ and the Virgin Mary, are
under arrest for numbering their two
children and disturbing religious con-
gregations.
A boiler explosion at Rome, N. Y,
killed four men, fatally wounded one,
and seriously injured many others.
Five boxes of giant pc vder, nearly 100
pounds, exploded at the blacksmith
of the High Lode mine at Central CITY.
OAK, recently, instantly killing Samuel
Klmble, the foreman of the mine, L.
Trudell and Joseph Gilmore. Their
bodies were fearfully torn to pieces, and
the country for mile square, was strewn
with small fragments of flesh and the
ruins of the shops.
A new rupee loan is probable in India
as the best mode of meeting the Afghan
war deficit.
The United States consul at Buenos
Ayres, in a despatch, represents that the
excitement over the approaching presi-
DENTAL election was so great as to almost |
paralyze business and presage civil war.
The New York Senate has passed a
resolution amending the state
so as to extend the electoral
franchise to women.
An unknown man made q desperate 1
attempt to kill himselfin Johnston, RI.
Thursday, and was taken to the Rhode
Island Hospital with his throat cut and
his head battered. He is probably fu-
gitive lunatic.