Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1884-05-30
GENERAL NOTES.
Gen. Butler declares free trade in
practicable in the United States.

Gen. Butler declares free trade im.
practicable in the United States.
Umbrellas are regarded as personal
property in Delaware. A man has
just been sentenced in Wilmington to
pay the costs of prosecution, So fine,
one hour in the pillory, twenty lashes
and three years in Newcastle jail, all
for stea ling All umbrella.
The Committee on the Judiciary
haze reported to the Senate resalu-
ton proposing an amendment to the
Constitution making the term of office
Of the President and Vice President
six years, and prohibiting the re-elec-
ton of the President.
ANorwalk Conn., paper published
last Friday an alleged funny para
graph about a run on a bank in that
town-a sand bank-and thoughtless
people who did not read the paragraph
carefully made run on bank and
incurred heavy loss of interest.
BrattlebCro', VT, May 20. West
Dummerston, a little hamlet six miles
from here, is considerably excited over
a shooting affair last night. A French
man named Peter Angey, about 80
years old, recently married, went to
the hotel intoxicated, and called for
something to drink, which was refused
him. He threatened the landlord, F
&. Sampson, and pursued him to his
bedroom, where, it is said, Mrs. Samp-
son gave her husband'a revolver for
his protection. During the fracas the
Frenchman was shot through the leg.
1t is believed he will recover. No ar
rests have been made.
A movement is now on foot for the
purpose of enlarging the scope of the
eXtradition treaty between this coun-
try and Great Britain. The present
treaty, which was made some forty
years ago, is very incomplete and de-
fective, covering only sevenescrimes:
murder, assault with intent to commit
murder, piracy, arson, robbery, forg-
cry aud Utterance of forged papers.
The Secretary of State in commune
cation to Congress suggests that man
slaughter, counterfeiting, embezzlc-
ment, larceny, perjury, rape, abduc.
ton, child stealing, kidnapping, bur-
glary, criminal destruction of a vessel,
and mutiny and revolt on shipboard
should he added to the list of crimes
for which eXtradition should be grant
ed. These crimes are embraced in all
the recent eXtradition treaties which
have been made between Great Brit
ain and other powers, and their alb
sence from the treaty with this coun-
try is an omission which should have
been rectjfied long ago, the need for u
comprehensive treaty between these
two countries being greater than be-
tween any others. AT present the
criminals of both countries, whose
crimes'are not covered by the existing
treaty, find q convenient refuge in the
territory of the neighboring Power,
and cannot be touched by any criIni-
nal process. There are men living in
Canada who have robbed some of our
banking institutions of large sums of
money, but who are able, owing to the
defects in the treaty, to walk about
unframed and to live on the fruits of
their crime. This is q condition of af-
fairs that ought not to be allowed to
exist and there is little doubt that be-
fore long the two governments inter
ested will come to an understanding
on the subject. The history of crime
in this country and Canada is largely
made up of a record of races for the
frontier between justice and the crimi-
nal, justice as rule being heavily
handicapped.