Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1880-01-30
NEWS SUMMARY.
Eastern mt M.adIs STATES.

Dennis Kearney, the California agirAtor,
addressed a large audience ia the Cooper In
stitute, New York, the other day. u. a. u q
A FIRE in Broadway, New York, few nights
ago, destroyed property valued at $4,000.
On the 10th the Maine supreme court de-
cided in favor OF the Republican members Of
the legislature the questions submitted TO il
by those members regarding the legality OF the
rival legislatures. On the same day tho Flu
sionist legislature elected Joseph l.. Smith
tGreenbacker) as governor, but General
Chamberlain refused TO recognize his author
ity. On the following day the Republican leg
islahIre elected Daniel P. Davis as governor,
and his authority was recognized by Geue,al
Chamberlain. --ae--... a. 49, - r
Twenty-Five children, inmates OF the
"Shepht rd's Fold" OF New York, were taken
into the supreme court the other day the SO.
ciety for the Prevention of Cruelty to Chill.
dren having charged that the little ones were
not properly cared tor, we're insufiiciently ted,
were worked beyond their strength, and Their
education was neglected. The emaciated
and diseased condition of the children and the
testimony unfolded in court, tended to show
that the charge was not unfounded.
A Saturday night raid by the New York
police upon one of the many notorious dance
houses which infest the metropolis resulted in
women. Next morning they were taken 70
court under guard of 100 officers and the ma.
ority fined from one TO ten dollars.
Richard q. ALEXANDER, of Delaware City,
Del, was bitten by dog last September,
and a few days ago he was taken with symp-
toms OF hydrophoba. His case rapidly grew
worse, and after being sick five days death
terminated his sufferings.
The long trial at New Haven, Conn, Of
Rev. Herbert H. Hayden for the murder Of
Mary Stannard, resulted in disagreement Of
the jury, who stood eleven for acquittal to
one for murder in the second degree. The
case is one of the most remarkable in the
criminal annals of the country, and its trial
occupied many weeks, during which an inn
mense amount of testimony was taken.
Margaret Anderson stabbed and killed her
sister Lizzie with pocket-knite in the streets
OF Boston, a few days ago. Both women
were disreputable characters.
On the Goth the Republican members
of the Maine legislature, in session at the
capitol in Augusta, passed motion offered by
Eugene Hale declaring the State government
to be fully established. Several Fusionist
members took their seats, When the safe in
the secretary's Office was opened by machinists
it was found that the State seal and election
returns had been distracted. The Fusionist
tees appointed to recommend a future course
OF action reported in favor OF submitting
another series of questions to the supreme
court.
A syndicate OF New York bankers and rail-
road men have made a heavy purchase OF
Central Pacific railroad stock, buying $4,000
shares at seventy two ($3 600, 000), with the
option of taking $4,000 more shares within
six months at eighty ($4,000,000).
At the annual meeting of the New York
State Agricultural Society, held in Albany
the president, Horatio Seymour, delivered an
address upon "The conflict between Ameri-
can and European agriculture"
Daniel Searles, negro, was hanged few
days ago at Owego, N. Y, for the murder,
last June, OF Eldridge Rewey, an old bachelor
farmer, the object of the crime being robbery.
Twelve countereiters we're captured at
Oswego, N. Y, in the act of coming money