Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1880-08-06
GEN ERAL NEWS.

At Wimbledon, recently, the English rifle
team won the international match, scoring
l647 points against 1869 made by the American
team.
The relief committees in Ireland are about to
disband, as all the crops are maturing so rap
idly and abundantly.
Africans of the Transvaal not being power
ful enough to throw off British rule, have
formed a company with capital of $3.50 900,
and in future will purchase goods of America
or any other country except England.
james 0taIn, of New York, attempted to
desert his wife; but, just as he was about to
board train, she seized his coat tails, and held
him until an officer arrived.
By the collision recently of the excursion
steamer Garland and the steam yacht Mamie,
on the river, near Detroit, Mich, about doz-
en- persons were drowned. The Mamie had on
board "a persons, consisting mainly of Father
Bleyenbergh, pastor Of Trinity Roman Catholic
church, of Detroit, and number of acolytes,
boys officiating in various capacities in the SER
vice of the church.
The grand jury committee on The Seawan-
haEa disaster have discovered through an ex-
animation by experts that one of her boilers
burst, causing a fracture in the furnace and the
subsequent fire.
Yellow fever has appeared at Mobile, Ala.
The German government has expelled all of
the Mormon missionaries who have been seek
ing converts.
Joseph Pedrahita, an American citizen of
Cuban birth, has begun suit against the Spanish
government for Illegal arrest in the harbor of
Havana and subsequent imprisonment.
A swindler has been selling to residents of
the lower Pennsylvania counties boxes of what
he called electric light. They contained simply
colored borax, which he declared was extract
of electricity and would last hundred years
The secret of how to use it was to be impaired
when ten purchasers, at $40 each had been OBJ
tanned.
Gustave Koehler of New York was recently
arrested for selling little girl liquor The
mother of the child was sent to prison for fore
ing the child to drink the liquor
Two brothers named Schmidt were arrested
in New York a few days ago for beating George
Wilson a shoemaker The two brothers kept
saloon, and on Wilson entering the place,
they assaulted him. All three had been fellow
convicts in state prison.
There are 70 cases of smallpox in Camden,
N. j., and it is feared the disease will become
epidemic.
Twelve of Boyd & Peters circus men involved
in the abduction and outraging of Salome Bur-
kett near Greensburg, Pa, have been held for
trial and the others discharged.
Mrs Lumsden, living on Masonboro sound
seven miles from Wilmington N. c., was
struck by lightning and killed recently while ly-
ing in bed sick.
The volcano Fuego in Guatemala, after
many years of silence is exceedingly active.
The whole heavens for miles around are filled
with smoke.
In response to q request from the state de-
partment, Capt, Rand and Mate Barr have for
| warded affidavits that their schooner, the K. A.
Merritt, was more than six miles from the
Cuban coast when fired upon by the Spanish
gunboat
Judge Cooke of the supreme court has de-
cided that a plot of property in Brooklyn,
N. Y. valued at $250,000, belongs to two
brothers named Bolerman, one of whom is a
scissors grinder and the other day laborer.
Over 800, 900 of back rent is collectible.
The dory Little Western from Gloucester
Mass, arrived at Cowes recently. The weather
during the voyage was rough, and on June Is
the crew had fears of capsizing. On coming
ashore, the two occupants, Capt George p.
Thomas and Fred Norman, could scarcely
stand, but the stiffness soon wore off.
The total losses chraged off by national banks
during the six months ending March | were
81, 563 1856. The losses for the corresponding
period in 1879 were $40, 1885, l4, and in 1878
$40, 903, las.
G.. M. Branscom of Jacksonville, Fla, is
under arrest at New York for forging $l37 600
worth of sanitary improvement bonds" OF
Jacksonville. He hired boy to sign the name
of ex-mayor A. j. Baldwin to the bonds
Branscom confessed the forgery and states that
about S25, 900 worth of the bonds are in the
hands of merchants
An election riot occurred in Pernambuco,
Brazil, June 81, and the soldiers and police fir
ed upon the people, killing 90 including Baron
Da Bscsda, and wounding many