Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1888-06-08
NEWS IN GENERAL
DOMESTIC.

DOMESTIC.
Senator Frye made an able speech in open
session of the senate on Tuesday in opposition
to the fishery treaty.
Senator Hawley has accepted the official
invitation of the city Of Philadelphia to de.
liver the oration in Independence square on
the Fourth of July.
Two steamships arrived in New York
Tuesday with smallpox on board. One case
among the steerage passengers was discovered
on the ElbA and several among the passen-
gers of the Ethiopia.
Judge Thurman denies the report that he
has consented to the use of his name for vice.
president He has not been consulted and is
a candidate for no Office.
Mr.. John Gilbert. the veteran actor, after
twenty-six years Of service at Wallack's,
proposes to take his time - the future and
appear only occasionally. he will pass the
summer at Manchester.
Hon. Edward L. Pierce will deliver an
address before the Roslindale Local Improve
ment society next Monday evening.
Frederick N. Toye, township clerk, his
wife and three children, aged 5, b and II
years, were burned to death in their house
at Ellington, Ont, on Tuesday. A girl of
IS was the only one Of the family that was
saved.
Some startling facts relative to tho defunct
Maritime bank Of st. John, n. B., have
leaked out Mr.. MacLellen the manager,
evidently kept two sets of certain books. One
of the liquidator's clerks swears that the de,
fciency of the bank, after deducting the
value of the assets, was over $l,300,000.
Mr.. Blaine has written another letter de-
clining Internationally to be candidate
before the republican convention. Mr..
Blaine supposed that his first letter would
be regarded as conclusive that he was out Of
the presidential race but he makes his second
ceclination in even more emphatic terms.
| Pill Armour, the richest man in Chicago
t4tmated at $25, ,00O,0OU lives in very
modest house on Prairie avenue. Every
night, winter and summer, he goes to bed
promptly at 9 o'clock. 1t doesn't make any
| difference what is going on in the house. II
| there is company, he excuses himself. IL his
wife is giving reception, she has to receive
alone after o'clock. Every morning, win
! ter and summer, he is taking his breakfast
at O'Clock, and at Z o'clock, before any Of
his clerks appear he is at his desk hard at
work He is very charitable, and gives away
about 100000 year.
At meeting of the central branch of the
Irish National league at Montreal on Sun
day, report submitted showed that this
year $4,000 had been sent by the branch to
aid the Irish national cause.
Professor Anderson, principal of the Spen-
Ger high school at Spencer, Ind, and Misses
Lille and Clara Hornaday were drowned In
! White river, near Spencer, while on boat.
ing excursion.
Potts and Hazlett, the Niagara river whirl-
! pool swimmers, were at the falls on Sunday,
and stated that one or the other would go
over the Horseshoe fall next Sunday in a
barrel They tested currents by sending over
the barrel ballasted with sand bag and
freighted with live gauecock. The barrel
quickly shot through the rapids and went
tumbling over the falls. 1t was picked up in
the eddy below Table rock in good condition.
The chicken was dead and buried in the sand.
The Frelinghuysen estate of Newark, N.
j., has sold the country residence of the late
Secretary Frelinghuysen at Raritan, Somer-
set county. 1t is situated on the banks of
the Raritan river and includes 300 acres. The
older part of the house was built before the
revolution and during part of the war was
occupied as a hospital. Even as long ago as
that time it belonged to the Frelinghuys