Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1880-10-08
GENERAL NEWS.

During fight between boys at Reading, Pa,
originating from a game at marbles, Robert
Driver, aged II years, was instantly killed by |
q stone thrown by boy unknown.
Because Benjamin Terchner, of Powhattan,
O., so years old, talked Of marrying again, hi
son killed him.
Lord Mountmorris, small landowner, who
was on bad terms with his tenants, has been
found murdered near Ballinrobe, Ireland
Vennor, the Canadian weather prophet, pre-
diets cold and stormy weather for the remain
der of September and part of October.
Mayor Greene, of St. Augustine, Fla, is
| charged with being among those who made all
they could out of the City of Vera Cruz wreck
age washed ashore near there.
| A royal order provides that all merchant ves-
| sells shall hereafter be allowed to enter the
port OF Havana at night Steamers coming
after nght-fall will be obliged to blow their
steam whistles continually in order to avoid
disasters to small craft.
The annual report OF Gen. Burton, super
vising inspector-general of steam-vessels,
shows that the number of lives lost during the
fiscal year of 1880 from the different classes of
accidents to which steamboats, are liable will
not exceed the following: From explosions,
! %; fire. 50; collisions, 66; suags, wrecks and
sinking IA; accidental drowning, %; miscel-
laneous causes, 6-total, 1855. In 1877 the
number was III.
John c. Cahill, late postmaster at Bucka-
taina, Miss, has been arrested for opening reg
istered letters, and paying his debts in postage
stamps.
No South Cfrolina industry has thrved more
since the war than market gardening about
| Charleston; and this year the shipments OF
strawberries have reached over 100000
quarts, and those of early potatoes about AZ, 900
barrels.
Judge Wheeler recently awarded the CON-
plainant $64,S7l in the suit of Christopher c.
Campbell, assignee in trust, against Postmaster
James of New York, and others, for infringe
ment upon the letters patent granted Marcus
P. Norton Of Troy, n. Y, for improvements
in post-marking and postage cancelng in the
postal service of the United States, and the
final decree was made and filed in the United
States circuit court.
The natives recently revolted against the
French in the island of Dominica of the Mar
quesas group. Several whites and natives
were killed. The white inhabitants fortified
themselves us we'll as possible, but were on
the point of surrender when relieved by the
French gunboat from Nallahiva. The insur-
rection has been suppressed.
A boiler in Loose & Sons fruit-drying house
at Monroe Mich, exploded recently, killing
Henry O'Brien, engineer, Leonard Martin,
Cutter, and boy named Chabenam, and
wounding others. The building was demol-
ished.
Several United States vessels will take part
n Baltimore's l50th anniversary.
Diphtheria Of fatal type IS prevalent at
Ainprior, Ont, and many deaths have occur
red among children.
Several bodies have been recovered from
the Hudson-river tunnel some Of which could
! not be identified.
A negro man was murdered near Tyler
Tex, recently, by two negro women, who
beat him to death with clubs and rails horribly
mutilating his body.
, 1t is said, that in consequence OF the failure
of the fisheries off the coast Of Gaspe, p. O.,
, the inhabitants are likely to be reduced this
year to the verge of starvation.
| The first annual fair over held in the Black
Hills closed Mt Deadwood a few days since after
J a weeks very successful run.
The Swedish and Norwegian press are
heatedly discussing the agitation of a section
f of Norwegans for the repeal of the act of
Uniou and the establishment of Norwegian
republic.
J The strike among the worllmen in Berlin,
, which began recently with the carpenters, has
, now extended to the turner's, weavers and
: other workmen, and is assuming serious
phase.
Recently the prisoners confined in the jail at
Grenada, Miss, set fire to the building, which
was entirely consumed. All the prisoners
, were released and made their escape.
{ John Flood, an ex-postman, who was par
doned by the president recently from term
of Imprisonment in the Albany IN. Y y peni-
Tertiary for robbing the mail, put on his old
I uniform on Sunday afternoon, and, sneaking
f into the post-oflicc at New York, crammed his
| pockets full of letters. lie was caught in the
act and locked up
The Austrian military budget shows an in
, crease of 5000, 900 forms
t Col Pedeville member of the Swiss appellate
! count and president of the court of assizes in
9 the canton of Tiscino, has been murdered by
peasants near Lugano.
Ex-Empress Eugene has purchased the
Peterborough Hill estate in Hampshire, Eng,
q paying therefor ESQ 900.
D A man named Singleton, employed as driver
OF a bread wagon at Ottawa, has fallen heir to
an extensive estate in County Glare, Ireland,
through the death of Gen. Singleton, his broth.
er.
The epizootic has appeared in the stables of
Y the Twenty-third street and Third avenue stage
line, New York city, in mild form.
John Roach, the steamship builder, Nathan
O g. Miller of Bridgeport, Ct, President j. b.
Houston Of the Pacific mail company, Samuel
Carpenter, eastern passenger agent of the
Pennsylvania road, Rufus Hatch and other
q capitalists have formed a company with CAPT.
tai stock of $l0 900, 900 to build iron excursion
steamers greatly superior to those now in use.
Thirty steamers are to be built before 1883,
Q available both for local traffic and southern
k trade in winter. Each of them will be divided
into not less than IL water-tight compart-
L ments, and provided with improved compound
n engines, steel boilers, and all appliances con-
n ducive to comfort, safety and speed.
b The White Star steamer Baltic sailed from
New York to Liverpool recently with 800
! barrels of apples, the largest quantity ever
d shipped in one steamer
: Great excitement prevails in Bayville, vii
|, lage on Long Island, over the appearance of q
mysterious disease which has resulted fatally
in a number OF cases. The symptoms resem-
BILE both typhoid and yellow fever. =
f An explosion of fre-damp occurred in a
: mine near Herme, in the Essex district, Ger
a many. Eleven worlfmen we're killed and the
same number seriously wounded.