Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1880-06-25
GEN ERAL NEWS.

Steamer Dessouk has sailed from Alex
andria for New York with the obelisk,
under charge of Commander Goddinge.
II. B. NJ. steamer Flamingo, which
left st. Johns, N. F., early the other
morning, two hours later came in coils
ion with an immense iceberg. She was
fortunately not at full speed, and only
lost her bowsprit.
Mary Dean, a young colored woman
living in a tenement house in New York,
who had deserted her husband, has been
bIutally murdered by her paramour, who
cut her throat from ear to ear.
The American rifle team have arrived
at Queenstown,
Complications may grow out of the
action of the Spanish man-of-war Nun
clio in firing into the American schooner
Ethel A. Merritt. The action of the
Spanish commander, it is said, was
wholly uniustifiable, and an apology
and reparation for damages will have to
be offered by Spain.
The board of aldermen of Paterson, n.
j., took action recently looking to pro-
hibitory license fee of $1,000 day to cir
cuses. At the last visit of one of these
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if they had gone mad, and the whole
town seemed to have turned out. Work
ing girls jumped from the windows of
the mills when refused permission to go
to the circus, and the mill owners COM
planned of the show as nuisance.
The census bureau has information
that one of the AstOrs at Newport has
declined to answer the questions put as
to the ages of the female members of his
family, and that the census supervisor
has ordered the bringing of a suit for the
penalty prescribed by the act.
The Knights Templar of the Pacific
coast will attend the triennial grand en-
campment at Chicago, August next, to
the number of about 500.
Twenty thousand dollars damage was
done by the fearful thunder gust that
swept along the Long Branch beach re-
Gently.
The Calcutta correspondent of the
Times says the president of the Calcutta
Chamber of Commerce, in addressing a
meeting of that body. took a desponding
view of the future of the India export
trade. He feared that India could not
compete with America in the production
Of wheat.
A duel with swords took place lately
on the Spanish frontier between Lanauve,
new Bonapartist member for Riberac,
and his opponent at the election, Achille
Simon, republican, in which the former
was wounded.
The family and two friendsso of Mr.
Rock at Williamsport, Pa, ten persons,
were poisoned this week by eating let
tuce, on which Paris green had been
sprinkled while growing. Mrs. Rock, it
is expected, will die.
F. C. Fadner, editor of the WdtchWord,
a temperance paper, was shot while leav-
ing his office in Rome, n. Y. He is I'M
der indictment for bigamy on complaint
of an Ohio wife, and some suspect him
of shooting himself.
Farrow, of the American team now in
Ireland, who won the Albert prize ut
Wimbledon in 1859, made record while
practising recently at the three ranges,
hitherto unprecedented.
1t is stated that John H. Shoenberger,
of Pittsburg, Pa, who has been married
second time, gave his bride, who was
Miss Alice Taylor of New York, as a
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Three thousand GOLFERS have struck in
Leicester, Eng, against a l0-per-cent re-
duction of wages.
The Secretary of the Navy has direct
ed another inspection of the Howgate
vessel Gulnare, with view to determin-
ing If she is suitable vessel to under
takea voyage to Lady Franklin bay.
The brick store-house and the west
wing of the Osborne house at Auburn,
n. Y, were burned recently; loss $4,000,
insured. A falling wall killed a fireman
and injured five others.
The government of Canada will short
ly appoint commissioner to confer with
the New York and Ontario governments
in reference to the proposed improve
ments at Niagara.
1t is stated that the deficit in accounts
OF the First National bank of Newark
will exceed its capital of 100000.
The Bell and Edison telephone compa-
MES in London, have been consolidated.
The father of the missing Charley Ross
has received information which makes
him believe that the boy was seen in
Northern Indiana a few months ago, in
comp any with an Italian music teacher.
James Oliver of divers Grove, Ill.,, is
SO years old. He gave his wife farm
for consenting to divorce, as he desired
to get young wife in her place; but the
new wife asked and got $4,000 in
money.
A press despatch announcing the sur
render of 585 hostile Sioux at Fort Keogh
is officially confirmed.
Secretary Ramsey will leave shortly
for Fort Leavenworth, to inspect the
military prison there.
At the distribution of prizes at the in
| ternational fishery exhibition in Berlin,
Prof. Baird of the Smithsonian Institute
spoke, eulogizing Emperor William,
who, he said, was to be found in every
place where there is an opportunity fol
promoting goodness and truth.
A despatch to the Liverpool Post says
Several French firms having large orders
from the Chinese government for rifles
have been instructed to finish them as
quickly as possible.
Forty persons are sick at Princeton
college, in consequence of defective drain.
age, and five have died.
A leading hotel in Dundee, Scotland
is furnished throughout with furniture
made in Grand Rapids, Mich.
An Indian Game.
! When not on the war path, or engaged