Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1888-08-10
NEWS IN GENERAL.
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The big timber raft from Joggins for New
York, In tow of the steam tugs Ocean King
and Underwater, is making fine progress.
p B. Van Valkenburg, associate justice Of
the Florida supreme court died very sud-
denly. He was a native of New York, and
wa minister to Japan under Lincoln.
w. II. Handley, aged g years, who shot
and killed J. b. Warman, deputy sheriff of
Smith county, Tenn, was taken from the
Jail at Carthage by mob and hanged.
The First Presbyterian church on Fifth
avenue, b tween Eleventh and Twelfth
streets, New York, was recently entered by
thieves, who drank the communion wine,
threw prayer books all over the floor and de-
csmped with much pr zed chalice.
The ste mship Arabic. which arrived at
San Francisco from Hong Kong and Japan,
brings advices til It band Of pirates i'll the
province of Caipboug, China, which has
held its fastnesses ines 1888, in an engage
ment in June, lost 10 killed and a considera-
bic rumber wounded.
Emancip tion day was observed by the
colored citizens of Canada. Parades. games
and speeclllmaking wereA ldulged in, and at
Hamilton monster procession, which pa
raded the prii cipal streets was formed by
visitors from many places in Ontario.
A special from K nsas City says: T. J.
OOl h"Lnt COuilly bIGdSuEpE VI ndWIlILS
County, Kqn., for two terms, has disap-
peared. His accounts with the county show
a shortage of about 100000. 1t is reported
that the county will lose the entire amount
of the shortage.
A freight train on the Cincinnati Southern
raj road broke a truck of the second car
from the engine, and all the cars tumbled
down an embankment of $50 feet and were
completely wrecked. The conductor and two
tramps were killed
Great interest is felt in Wall street, New
York, about the suit begun in the supreme
court by William L. Breese against William
K. Vanderbilt, for the recovery of damages
for breach of contract in transactions in
Lake Shore stock in 1884. The amount in
volved is something over 81 200, 900, and
there IS no doubt that the suit will be prose-
cuted unless the claim is paid.
Rev. Stephen &. Hopkins, pastor of the
Presbyterian church at Deposit, n. Y, has
become involved in an acrimonious contro-
versy with the members of the Masonic
brotherhood of his parish having refused to
officiate at a fune al conducted according to
Masonic rites, and assigning reasons for the
refusal which gave olfense to the members Of
the order
William Woods tcolored) of Crittenden
county, Ark, reports that monster
plot is Matching among the friends of the ne
groes banished two weeks ago, to wreak
summary vengeance upon the whites.
Largely attended meetings have been held
and resolutions adopted fixing Aug. II as the
day on which the crusade against the whites
is to be inaugurated
A hail storm from the Minnesota north
west passed over the SisSeton reservation re-
Gently and ruined all the crops in it's
path. She swath it cut was over mile
wide and ten miles long. Great loss Of prop
erty is reported. Near Rosemont, Mimi, @
young man named Cummings was killed by
lightning.
The supreme chancellor Of the knights of
Pythias, General William Ward of New
Jersey, has issued an important circular to
the order, reciting the fact that at the late
session of the supreme lodge it was resolved
''that the institution of the so-called loyal
grand lodge in the jurisdiction of Pennsyl-
vania be not approved, and is declared void
and of no effect.n
The aliigators in the lower portion of South
Carolina attain an immense size. A party
of boys were bathing in tho river near
Georgetown recently, and only short dis
tance from the shore, when an alligator
about IL feet long appeared in the midst of
the bathers, and, seizing 12-year-old boy,
disappeared with its prey. Nothing has since
been seen of the boy.
Michael Murray, aged q years of 27 Car
roll street, Brooklyn, having fortified binl-
self with several drinks, and put on swim
ming tights under his trousers, jumped from
the maintopsail yardarm of bark, 80 feet
above the deck, and was drowned. He was
good smimmer, and had frequently jumped
into the water from dizzy heights and it is
supposed he would have accomplished his
last feat in safety if he had been sober.
At q typewrifing contest for money prizes
ct the rooms of the New York Metropolitan
Stenographers' association, f. e. McGurrin
carried off the first prize of $25 with 479
words, corrected copy, in five minutes. Miss
Orr flashed after hirn with 416 words, and
Miss Grant with 400 words in the same time
Miss Orr wrote the greatest total number Of
words, but lost through errors. They took
the second prizes OF $40 and IS respectively.