Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1888-10-12
NEWS IN GENERAL.

speak EngllSn. hutSu hlmSelr Is a highly
cultured man, has Travelled extensively, and
has vein of originality which adds
piquancy to his conversation. He is quite a
linguist, and can speak our language with
tolerable fiuency. He and his wife have
Z made good impression in Washington and
are rapidly becoming popular in society.
! The St. Louis roads are doing some ex-
/ tensive cutting in first-ciass rates to New
York. A number of people arrived in New
York over the Ohio & Mississippi on $3.50
! tickets Several passengers over the Ohio &
| Mississippi had tickets for IS from author
/ iZed agents of that road. The regular ticket
! TO New York costs over $50. The continu-
ance of the cutting shows that the late pro-
test of the trunk line passenger agents went
| for nothing. The Erie people wink at the
course Of the Ohio g. Mississippi nnl the New
| York Central people at that of the Bee line.
1t was said that the Baltimore & Ohio Of
| fered an excursion rate OF 81 from st. Louis
! to Washington, and Inducements to Phila-
I delpha.
A special from Bradford Ky. says: "The
tobacco crop in this end of the county was
badly damaged by frost September 80. From
one-third to one-half Of the crop was in the
field, and all growing along creeks and hol-
lows was badly damaged Reports from all
over the country are to the effect that from
one-third to one-half of the crop was caught
by the frost"
Pickaway county, Ohio, was visitel last
week by the heaviest and most destructive
hail storm in its history. The standing corn
was stripped of its blades and tho apple crop,
which promised to he abundant, was almost
wholly destroyed. The downfall of hail was
frightful, far exceeding anything of the kind
within the memory Of the oldest iDhabitant.
Anna Dickinson claims the right not to be
considered entirely out of date, even if she
has kept aloof from the public for some time
Anna Elizabeth Dickinson was born in Phil
adelphia Oct 2e, 1S42 and will celebrate
her 10th year this month When a little more
than ID years of age, Miss Anna taught a
district school in her native city, and sur
rendered that position to accept a situation
In the United States mint there.
Three regiments dedicated monuments on
Gettysburg battlefield last week; the 93i
Pennsylvania and the 125th and 10th New
York.
Mr. G. P. Gather, New England agent of
the Virginia, Tennessee & Georgia air line,
reports that quarantine restrictions are now
raised to all points in the south save De-
catur and Trinity, Ala, and uninterrupted
transportation is resumed.
The following formal notice was issued
recently by Collector of Customs Hager of
San Francisco: ''Nc Chinese return certih-
Gates will hereafter be issued, and the Chi
nese bureau will remain closed to the public
from this date"
Base ball tickets for the round trip from
Chicago to Sydney, including meals and
stateroom from San Francisco to Sydney
and return will cost 1920. Sleeping car rates.
Chicago to San Francisco and return will
cost S34 and meals On route will cost
S2l-a total Of $475. 1t is estimated that the
entire expenses during the Australian trip
will amount to $500.
Labouchere reports that Mr.. Gladstone
has been chiefly employed during the last Two
months in arranging his public and private
correspondence, and says that having de-
stroyed several thousands of letters he is now
putting those which be has decided to keep in
chronological order.
The Brooklyn Eagle states that Mrs. Eliza
beth Tilton is becoming blind. She is living
with her mother, Mrs. Morse, in Brooklyn.
Her son Carroll will soon marry Miss Miriam
Blauvelt of Brooklyn. Mrs w. H. Pclton,
formerly Miss Florence Tllton, who has for
several years lived with her father Theo-
dore Titon, in Paris, sails for New York in
few days, and will live with her mother.
The steamer Finance, which arrived at
New York from Brazil, reports that she left
at Barbados canoe called the Liberdale,
which is en- route to this city from Parana-
qu', Brazil. The canoe is thirty-five feet
long, has three teet draught of water and is
in charge Of a Capt. Slocum, who has his
wife and son on board.
Jacob Bergmann of Switzerland, 25 years
old, is detained at Castle Garden as pauper.
He arrived from Rotterdam on the steamer
Leerdam, and in an Gffilavit states that he
is brickmakeT by trade. He has no money
and says that the town of Zurich subscribed
his passage money and furnished him with n
railroad ticket to Chicago. He will be sent
back.
The recelvership Of the Chesapeake and
Ohio begun about year ago, and it has ter
minated inside a twevemontb. At the same
time there was q talk Of a receivershIp for
the Missouri, Kansas and Texas, and no re-
ceiver has been appointed yet. When one
Is appointed one of his first duties in order of
the court will be to prosecute the suits for an
accounting against the Missouri Pacific, and
meanwhile the trust company is enjoined
against disposing of any Of the stocks aud
bonds sold by the Missouri P4cific to reim-
burse itself for advantage
On September 9th, in latitude 1880
north, longitude 625 " est, Edward G. Ken
| nedy, the chief on gineer of the ste1mer ALI
ance, was buried at sea On September IA
he was landed at Para from the Alliance
! very i'll. He had to be carried on board, and
on September 26, off st. Pierre, Island of
Martinique he died. The burial service was
read by Bishop Cranberry and the Rev. G.
A. Knox, passengers on board.
Stockholders of the Sutro Tunnel COM
! pany will have one more chance to protect
themselves, by subscribing to the new bonds
| on the basis of So cents share from now
until November g. and thereafter at so cents
ashare. For this amount they receive 81 in
| new bonds for each assessment and an equal
number Of shares in the new company. A
majority of the stockholders have already
subscribed for their pro-rata of bonds, but
there are still large number of stockholders
! La,r fa,la - a,nf h.
! circular.
! The choice of Gen. Devens to fill the va
cancy on the board of trustees of the Pea
| body educational fund, caused by the resig
nation of Col. Theodore Lyman, is we'll
! made. The New England members of this
board are all residents of Boston, being now
Hon. Robert G. Winthrop, ex-Mayor Green
and Judge Devens The board includes some
! of the most distinguished men in the coun-
try, the ex-presidents of the United States
being members by virtue of having held that
office
/ Capt Porter Of the government secret
service in Chicago, found number of clever
/ limitations of the customs stamps used on i'm
! ported cigars. The general appearance of
| the counterfeit Is excellent, A difference is
that on the original are the words 'manu-
facturcrs of imported tobacco" and on the
counterfeit are he words manufactured of
imported tobacco The hoQus stamps are
made by Schumacher & Ettlinger, OF New
! York, and are not used to evade payment of
duty, but are pasted upon boxes containing
inferior domestic goods in order to delude
the purchaser into the belief that he is Luy-
ing genuine Havana weed. The firm will
be prosecuted.
The 5000 employees OF the North Chicago
Horse Railroad company have not been able
to come to any agreement with President
Yorkes and they viii probably strike.
The collector at Port Townsend Ore, re.