Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1888-06-15
NEWSY GLEANINGS.
THE army worm has invaded Kentucky.

THE army worm has invaded Kentucky.
MOUNT ETNA is now in a state of activity,
but the eruption has not assumed a serious
aspect.
A PARLIAMENTARY return shows that
thirty-two people starved to death in London,
England, in 1887.
THE forests were on fire recently in the
mountains of Oaxaca, Mexico, and untold
damage was DONE
ERAsTUs Snow, one Of the twelve apostles
of the Mormon Church, died at Salt Lake
City, Utah, aged ~,
THOMAS CAREY, who shot and killed
Chicago Chinaman, was sentenced to fifty
years imprisonment
ALL Jews except merchants of the first
guild, have been ordered to quit Moscow,
Russia, within fortnight.
1T is announced that, after all, the Prince
Of Wales will be unable to make his contem-
plated visit to this country.
JUDGE NASH, of Washington Territory,
has decided the Woman Suffrage Act of that
Territory unconstitutional
Two men have started on a trip of 5000
miles through the Grand Canyon of the
Colorado IN o torpedo boat.
HARRISON HAMILTON, a prominent mer-
chant of Chatham, Mass, blew out his brains
because he was suspected of arson
THE German Corps of the Guards and the
Cuirassiers will discard the cuirass and car
bine, which will be replaced by revolvers.
THE Greek Catholics Of Chicago are about
| to build church of their own. The Russian
| Government will be requested to send a
priest there
| CHARLES CLENDENNING, near Bakerstown,
Penn. has just celebrated his Tooth birthday
in the midst of his five children and all their
| descendants.
ACCORDING to the Hungarian Minister of
| Agriculture, the loss of Hungary from pleu-
ropneumonia has of late years amounted to
Sc, 10000 yearly.
THE Massachusetts, House has passed, to be
engrossed the measure providing for the
! Australian system of voting, which was
recently passed by the Senate.
THE hessian fly has appeared in the wheat
| fields of New Zealand, and instructions for
coping with the invader have been transmit
ted them from England by wire.
SAN Francisco is to have crematory. A
company has been formed, which owns a
valuable lot, and this month work will be be-
gun upon the furnace and chapel.
A WHITE man who disguised himself by
backing his face, and swindled colored
people in Greene County, Ga, was captured
by his victims and beaten to death.
DR. LAWRENCE and his son, who were on
trial for selling alleged spirit-painted pict-
ures to Lawyer Marsh, have sued eight New
York papers for total of $500, 900 damages
for libel.
IsHMAEL WEAVER, colored man, who
died at GAINESVILLE, Ga, recently, was the
father of seventy-two children, of whom
ffty-two sons were able-bodied farm hands
| when he died
| SEVERAL OF the wealthiest merchants of
Moscow, Russia have been convicted by the
Government of aduterating tea, which they
had for sale. One of the merchants has been
deprived of all civil rights and further. SEN
fenced to Siberia for life.
ST, LOUIS minister says that the greatest
feat OF baptism in the history of the Baptist
| Church in modern times was that performed
in July, 1873, by j. c. Clough, missionary,
who with the assistance of five native preach
ers, immersed 1929 converted brethren with
in six hours
THE United States Treasurer paid out $12,-
100000 during May on account of pensions
alone, notwithstanding which fact the ex-
cess OF receipts over expenditures during the
month was nearly IS, 600, 600 The Treasury
surplus, which fell to sos, 900, 900 at one time
during the month. has again risen to $l0l,-
600, 000
THE bodies of Edward Whitehouse and
Lizzie Webb were found in the river Lea, in
England tied together with a handkerchief,
and locked in each others arms. letter
| VN' ~ uuo JOuuS POShOO du-
dressed to her mother, desiring her not to
fret" and asking that she and her lover be
buried in the same grave.
Rev. Philip Moses, of Victoria, Australia,
is carrying on a most successful work under
the auspices of the w. G. I. u. From
January % to the middle of March he held
forty-hve meetings founded three new
societies and secured 450 new pledges.
The Rhode Island state authorities recent
ly poured out on the ground beer, wine, and
whisky valued at $4,000, which had been
contiscated under the prohibitory law.
Leading business men and pastors of Chi
ccago presented to the City Council a petit
ton asking that the saloons be closed on
! Sunday. 1t was received with derision and
ridicule,