Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1880-02-13
Generl II V. Boynton. Washington CORE.


SANDER" The trouble originated some years
ago, when General Sherman's book of memoirs
was sharply criticised by Boynton. There
was a sharp newspaper fight at the time, but
the matter eventually died out. Recently il
was revived again, General Sherman asserting
in an interview that Boynton would SANDER
his own mother. In a letter written TO Boyn-
ton General Sherman charged that the CORE
spondent wOuld do anything for pay; that he
had falsihed about him (Sherman), and that
ne was CAPABLE Of slandering his own mother
for pay. Hence Boynton's complaint to the
The House COMMITTEES has agreedupon the
Indian appropriation bill. 1t appropriates in
the agpreeate "a 493, 645. Sc, which Is S2l9, 533
less than the appropriation of last year.
During last mGnth l04 postmasters were
commissioned, which is the greatest number
ever commissioned during like period.
The payments made from the treasury by
warrants during the month OF january, 1881,
were as iollows On account OF civil and mis-
cellaneous, So, 1872, 374 60; navy, 81, $50, 055,-
70; interior Indian and pensions Sl,O3I JUL
u. Total, Sill, 1879, 1871
Mr.. Parnell, the Irish agitator, spoke in the
House OF Representatives few nights ago on
the Irish land question. The galleries were
crowded, and most of the members seats were
occupied by ladies.
The coinage executed at the various United
States mints during January comprised 992, 900
gold pieces worth 81 ,G67 500; 2,450,t 90 silver
dollars and 5,S36,OG0 minor coins worth
$50, 900.
During January the national debt was de-
creased Sll ola, 263.05. On February l the
total debt, less cash in the treasury, was
50, 600, 7S4, 24l92.
The House select committee on the state OF
fha 10 ino a rfafn dQOlQra.
ton of result of election OF President and
Vice-President has accepted the report OF the
subcommittee in favor OF Representative
Bicknells joint resolution proposing con-
stitntional amendment to provide for the cleo
ton of President and Vice-President by the
people," The committee has stricken ont
that portion OF the resolution providing "that
a contest in any State shall be passed upon by
its highest judicial Tribunal" and with this one
change has instructed Representative Bicknell
to report the resolution iavorably to the
House.
The House committee on agriculture, with
one dissenting vote, Chat of Representative
Covert) accepted the Aiken bill making the
department Of agriculture an executive de-
partment
A report made or the information of Con-
gress by Secretary of War Ramsey shows that
the organized strength OF the militia force oil
the different States consists OF l45 general of.
icers Cos regimental. field and staff officers
and 6, 1913 company officers, making total Of
1859 commissioned officers. OF non-commis,
stoned officers, musicians and privates there
are ll7,037. The unorganized force or men
available for military duty in the United
States is put down at 6,5l6,75S.
The Senate has rejected the Presidents
nomination of the late Senator Morton's son
to bo of inf al in
Francisco, the vote standing AZ to 10.
FoEeun News.
Professor James De Mile, the we'll known
novelist, died at Halifax, N. s., a few days
since, aged about torty-eight years.
About a dozen persons were killed OF
wounded by an explosion in a colliery al
Nielsen, Saxony.
The lake OF Zurich in Switzerland is frozen
over for the fourth time in the present century
Three deaths from starvation have occurred
in one week in the neighborhood OF Parsons
town, county OF Louth, Ireland.
The first locomotive crossed the other da!
on rails laid on an ice bridge over the st
Lawrence 1T Montreal
Terrible accounts have reached Canadian
from without the British lines in Afghanistan
1t is reported that nearly two thousand tami
lies have been exterminated by the Ghilzias
and that seven of the villages OF the latte
we're atlerward captured by the Hazaras ant
every soul in them slain.
terrible epidemic prevails in the Maple:
district, Italy. The population of seventeen
communes especially affected numbers 81, 49,
persons, OF whom 81 $40 had been attacked b,
fever and 5028 had died up to the middle OF
last December.
A rich landowner near Barcelona, Spain
his wife, three daughters, son, and TIVE
female servants have all been found murdere,
in their beds. A swineherd and his two son
have been arrested charged with the crime.
The steamer Bengore laden with coal, iron
Penarth for Gibrulter, toundered at sea, ant
of the nineteen persons on board thirteen wer,
drowned.
Four hundred bandits attacked Januaria, il
Brazil, expelled the authorities, burned twenty
two houses and sacked the town
Russia has decided to increase her peace
and war forces-the latter by 900 men.
Intelligence from St. Petersburg announce
that a new revolutionary proclamation is cir
culated by the students OF the high schools
The students draw a terrible picture OF thei
condition, and declare that they will fight tn
great Moloch called tho Russian government
to the end, even though the best of them per
ish. The proclamation is considered to be i'm
| portant, as showing the formation OF a new
party against the government. The Russian
police having proved so very inefficient in tn
prolonged struggle with the Nihilists, a larg
number of German police have been sum
moned from the, Baltic provinces OF the EN-
pire.
Princess Louise, wife OF the MARQUIS {
Lorne, governor general OF Canada, arrived q
Halifax, N. s., few days ago, from a Ion
visit in England to her mother, Queen Vic
toria.
DIR. Siemens, an emin 1nt German telegrap
engineer, claims to have discovered and util
lied the electric light long before Edison.
A Dublin special TO the New York Herald
says "the daily, hourly cry OF distress in IRELAND
becomes more and more urgent and wide.
SIP. cad. No language is possible to over.
draw the situation, so rapidly do matters be-
come worse. What might have been an exag
geration yesterday will tomorrow be al
underestimate. Three hundred Thousand
people are slowly starving, and can only b.
kept alive by superhuman efforts on the par
of their fellow creatures. Some OF them ar,
living on one meal day, of turnips or O
meal. Thousands more are consuming theil
last potatoes. Local efforts are becoming
feeble. The people are looking to the worlC
tor succor." The special gives returns by
countless, showing that more than 310,G0(
persons are Suffering for the common neces
saries OF life.
| A few mornings ago one of the best-knowl
rag pickers of Paris was found dead in he
bed in noisome house at Montmartre, Paris
] Her body was halt devoured by rats when
was discovered Although in appearance sh'
was an object of misery, yet a large sum o
| gold and silver was found in stocking nea
the bed. A still more singular circumstanc
connected with this tragedy was that tn,
| h,.Dt har ~ hoJ Ii
her for several days to announce to her tina
she had inherited fortune of 100000.
| Reports have been received that during {
hurricane at the Philippine islands sevora
merchant vessels were wrecked and Spanish
gunboat with all her crew was lost.
The pope is reported to be in failing health
AT Lucan, Ontario, twenty or more dis