Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1880-12-31

The London Times attacks the gov
eminent for not taking energetic meas
urfs iu ireland. and says that. i'm the
presence Of such growing disOrganiza-
tiUn. silence and inaction are hard 10 be
excused. aud cannot be justified.
Dprvisch Pasha has arrested the prince
Of the Miridites, the principal Catholic
tribe Of northern Albania, and HodO
Bgy, chief Of the Albanian league, and
sent them aboard a man-Of- war to Con-
stantinople.
The Turkish military preparations are
Increasing. The Albanian league has
entirely disappeared.
The Clyde master ship-builders and
master engineers have unanimously re-
fused to grant an advance in the wages
OF wUrkmen. The movement for an adj
vance has spread to the large works
throughout Glasgow.
The Ohio state grange adopted reso-
luton that hereafter all candidates for
public office, asking the support of the
grangers, shall be requested TO public
ly express their sentiments upon tie
railway corporations, and their relation
to the people.
The Mexican government has paid
subsidy Of Sl2, 900 per mile for the first
accepted section of the Tehauntepec In
terocean railroad.
The Pope has issued an encyclical let
ter eXhorting the pGtriarchs, archbish-
ops and bishops of the Catholic world
to stimulate their flocks to pray, work
and contribute in aid of apostolic foreign
missions. as represented by the work of
the societies for the propagation of the
faith, and schools in the East.
The late Mrs. Maggie Embry, of Elk
ton, KY, left S2OO,OOO in Louisville and
and Nashville stock to the Vanderbilt
university at Nashville, Tenn.
Edison has sent an agent to Brazil to
hunt up the right sort of vegetable fiber
for the electric light. Ban boo will not
work, as the pith adheres to the little
slips and leads to the speedy destruction
of the lamps.
/ The Peruvians have 10000 troops
/ armed with the Peabody rifle, and 5000
citizen soldiers armed with Remington
rifles, in Lima, besides ITO field and 100
| siege cannon.
Leo Hartman, the expelled Russian
.
Judge Dugas of Montreal agrees with
Henry Bergh that the whipping post is
the thing for the minor criminals, and
informed the grand jury the other day
that if castigation were applied in GER
tain cases, criminals would no more be
/ seen receiving their sentence jeeringlv,
and starting for jail with the same cheer
fitness as the college boy who rejoins
his comrades after vacation.
| The Porte complains to the Powers
that Greece is one great camp.
The 4nools at Maspeth, L. l., are
closeG AAs atal diphtheria.
III medical students
- - university had a
s s 4 a s. IS Il ecently, at which
E S. zsEre badly hurt and
md iTr1s belonging to Sitting Bulls
camp, according to Gen. Terry's infor-
nation, are in an almost starving con-
dition, and appear to have but a small
supply OF ammunition.
Capt. Carey, who became widely
known in connection with the death of
the French prince imperial in South
Africa, has determined to- join the trans
port service, leaving his regiment, the
98th, and thus ceasing to be combatant
officer.
The steamer Belgic sailed from San
Francisco a few days ago for Hong Kong,
via Yokohama. Fourteen Chinese lep-
ers were shipped on the Belgic by the
supervisors. Secrecy was observed in
preparing for their departure, for fear of
Wr!ts of habeaS corpus being obtained
by their friends. Chinese Consul Bee
has telegraphed the Chinese authorities,
and, On reaching Hong Kong, they will
be taken direct to the leper hospital.
Canton. 1t is believed that al the
lepers in San Francisco were included
in this shipment.