Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1880-10-22
CEN ERAL NEWS.

Col Bachelor of Boston has arrived at Get
tysburg, Pa, with a corps of engineers, to
complete the survey of the battlefield.
Commissioner lie Due is manufacturing
sugar from sorghum in his mill in the rear OF
the agricultural department at Washington at
the rate Of several thousand pounds day.
Gladstone recently said that, within u year,
the banner of the Christian state must be
hoisted over ST. Sophia.
Benjamin Pierce. professor of mathematics
and astronomy at Harvard college, died re-
Gently at his home in Cambridge, of Brights
disease, aged Il years.
White butterflies have appeared in Lacka-
wanna, Pa, in such numbers as to give the
appearance of a snow-storm. The farmers
fear 1t is another pest.
John Lozer has been arrested IN New York,
for killing Henry Schon the other day by
striking him with cart rung.
News has been received from the Solomon
islands that the captain and crew of the Esper-
anza have been massacred, the mate and
seamen of the wrecked vessel Oriat poisoned,
and the second mate and government agent
murdered at Apii by the natives.
The New York historical society has directed
its executive committee to make arrangements
| for the erection of n suitable memorial to
| Capt Nathan Hale upon the spot where he
was executed by the British, September %,
1776.
Disastrous floods in Rohicund Bengal
! Qndia), have destroyed many lives and greatly
injured the crops.
Three conductors and a baggage-master o.
the Kansas Pacific railroad have been arrested
at Denver, Col, for selling bogus tickets.
The river Nile is rising satisfactorily and the
weather. Egypt is favorable for cotton plants
The residence of Rev. H. r. Harrison o
Morrisville, N. j., was entered by burglars, il
the absence of the family recently, when $70(
worth of silverwnre and clothing and $780,
in money were carried off The house-do!
was poisoned.
The strength of the Greek army now
10000 men, of whom 10000 are quartered il
Athens.
One of the murdercrs of DR.. Parsons, tn
American missionary, at Constantinople, ha
been condemned to death, and two others sen
fenced to 10 years penal servitude.
November 8 is appointed as a day of ''na
tional thanksgiving in Canada for the bounti
full harvest.
Plans for mammoth family hotel eigh
stories in hight, to be built on Eighth avenue
} filed recently.
Capt. Reynolds of the ship Highland Ligh
of Boston, at New York from Manila, report
that he was 1853 days in making the passage
owing to frequent storms.
P. T. Barnum has brought suit against tn
Texas Central railroad fol 100000 damage
for forfeiture Of contract to put his compan
through on time.
Large orders for Austrian rifles are receive
at Vienna from France, the Argentine Reput
lie, Roumania, Chill, China, Montenegro an
Greece.
!, The Mormons have elected John Taylor t
fill the place of president left vacant by Brig
ham Young. Congressional Delegate Georg
Q. Cannon and Joseph F. Smith, nephew {
the original Joe Smith, are first ana secon
: counselors.
l The Chicago academy of music was bulne
recently and over dozen tiremen were killeC
Chill and Peru have accepted the offer
mediation by the United States.
The Irish constablery have put forward
requisition for $1,000 additional rounds
buckshot
Henry Picket, a dissolute youth of Hampto
Station, n j., angered ut his stepmother's T.
tusal to give him money to attend parade
: New York, fractured her skull with brea
IS pin and fled,
i Robert F. Cochran, farmer from Cannon
II VILE, Pa, was rescued by the police from
: coach in New York, while being, as he claim
{ torcibly abducted and garroted He says fo
: men enticed him into hack on Baxter sire
: and robbed him of S75
Five carloads of ice were shipped for Ne
York from Ottawa recently,
The steamer Labrador, at New York, broug
h s., ZOO, 900 i'll gold trel-l Europe.
. The value of exports from Ottawa to Il
d United States for the quarter ending Septer
Il Der 30 amounted TO $79l, 900, an increase
y 5000, 600 over the corresponding quarter
II 1879.
The bay of st. Lawrence mackerel fishe
has been a failure this season, so far as
American feet is concerned. Only SO Anne,
u can mackerel catchers visited the bay, some
which remained only one. doy, and. did n
l. take fish. Ten vessels remain, and the
n that have returned home hauled 6657 barre
d of mackerel. About 81 American vesst
d have been cod-fishing in the bay, making
total catch Of about 10000 quintals.