Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1880-01-30

There have been 6ity-sir cases Of smallpox
in Washington during the last few weeks.
Nine OF the cases proved fatal.
The National Woman Suffrage Convention
met At Washington a few days ago. Among
the resolutions offered was one by Mrs. sara
J. Spencer maintaining that General Grant
won his FIRST victory through the military
plan and genius OF Anna Ella Carroll, OF
Maryland.
The House committee on the Yorktown
centennial celebration has instructed a sub
committee 10 draft a billappropiiating $780,,
900 for monument at Yorktown.
.r..-r Foreign News r
A letter from Lieutenant Baylor, COM
handing detachment OF United States troops
on the Texas frontier, states that Chief VIC
toria's band OF Apache Indians waylaid a
force of fifteen Mexicans-the best citizens OF
Carisal-who were in pursuit OF the ssvaRes,
and killed every man. 1hirty-hve more citi-
zens of Carisal, who went out TO look for their
kiudred, were also waylaid by the Apaches
and eleven of their number killed.
James Mactear, the Scotchman who recently
announced that he had discovered the pro-
cess for making genuine diamonds, now states
that he was mistaken. Diamond owners
doubtless feel intensely relieved TO learn that
their possessions are not yet to become as
plentiful as pebbles. @
The American freight ship Formosa, last re-
ported at Cebu, Philippine Islands, Tor Boston,
has been lost at sea- The vessel, with cargo,
was valued at $780, 900.
Five thousand Mohmunds who crossed the
Cabul river, near Dakka, Afghanistan, have
been completely defeated by the British.
In railroad disaster at Southport, on the
southern coast OF England, three persons were
killed and twenty injured.
Authentic reports lately rece we'd from the
districts in Bosnia, where famine has pre-
vailed Tor the past month, describe the situa-
ton as heartrendering. Besides many other
sufferers, over 5000 people are actually
starving The number OF highway robberies
has increased alarmingly in consequence OF
''' a. IL meeting IN Ilondon OF the council oil
the home rule league, a resolution was passed
thanking the people OF America for their
prompt aid to the distressed in Ireland.
The Duke Antoine de GIamont, the French
diplomatist, is dead in his sixty-second year.
Five organizers OF the late bread riots in
Cork, Ireland, have been sentenced to SIX
weeks Imprisonment.
News has been received of disastrous con-
hagration in Toxic, the capital OF Japan, the
third in seven years-the first in 1872 and the
second in 1876. Nearly $4,000 homes have
been destroyed and $4,000 persons rendered
destitute. The actual pecuniary loss is still
undetermined, but it is not so great as 1t
would be in Western countries, owing to the
cheap construction of majority of the houses.
The loss Of lie put down at about one hun
dred. The number, however, is quite uncer-
tain, many in the rapid progress OF the flames
having been overtaken and destroyed, and of
whom no vestige remains. In several in
i1oh and
| fragments thereof were found among the
ruins, and many died from exposure to the
cold, the night succeeding the fire being ex-
| ceptionally severe. A considerable portion OF
| the district inhabited by foreigners was de-
| stroyed, including several missionary estab-
| lishments, one church and the office of the
| foreign newspaper-the Toxic Times. The
| United States legation escaped the flames.
The Dublin Mansion House committee have
| issued numerously and strongly signed
appeal TO America for the relief OF the increas-
ing distress in Ireland. The appeal says that
| the distress is daily increasing in area and in
| intensity, and that it seems almost impossible
! to avert until the next harvest an absolute
famine in many places. AIS. z
| A Mr.. Foster, of Belfast, has published 6
letter addressed to Mr.. Parnell, the Irish
agitator now in the United States, offering tC
| give $75, 900 to assist Irish emigration to
| Canada and the Western States. .E
Jules Favre, the eminent French Statesman
| and republican member of the senate, anC
also member Of the French academy, is deat
in his seventy-second year.
| About seventy lives have been lost by 6
colEery explosion at Observation-Disclosures
| England. The explosion is attributed to the
gaseous nature OF the coal seam. Shortly
| after it occurred thirty corpses were brought
out, a majority of them being SO disfgured as
to be unrecognizable After the explosion {
fire ragged in the pit with great violence, hin
deIiug the efforts of explorers and precludins
all hopes OF any OF the victims being rescued
alive
Rio Janeiro, Brazil has been the scene o
| a bloody riot, brought about by public opposi
ton to the imposition of tax, per passenger
on the street car traffic. A mob which
destroyed the cars and tracks of the compan!
was charged upon by bo'ly OF troops. Thre,
persons were killed and thirty wounded, in
GLIDING some policemen and soldiers, befor,
order was restored and tho cors permitted K
| run. ~. -
Advices from Panama state that successiv,
| shocks of earthquake are reported from Saliva
dor, and that it is generally supposed that th,
capital, San Salvador, has been leveled to tn,
ground. .....s.'
BY a vote of 23O to 10 the Spanish senate
has passed bill providing Tor the abolishmen
of slavery in Cuba. ....
Serious inrndationsand damage to property
are reported IN Holland and Poland. -.-c