Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1889-02-08
NEWS IN GENERAL.

During January the public debt was re-
duced about S12, 100000.
About 80 White Caps visited a man named
Ostrander in Coeymans, Albany county, N;
| Y. He fired several shots at the crowd, and
succeeded in wounding one of the party The
mob then left
Willie Hughes, Hamilton Acken and
Joseph Taylor broke through the ice, while
skating ON pond at Paterson, N j., and
were drowned.
The senate committee on military affairs
have made favorable report on the bill to
| retire Gen. W. S. Rosecrans, with the rank
Of brig ldier-general.
The Reading pa Coal & Iron company
will S ut down all but 20 Of its so collieri $.
The colieries will not be started again uutil
the market shall require it.
AS agreed upon by the house committee,
the agricultural appropriation will amount
to s., 100000.
A. c. ]. Kauffmann, music dealer, Of
| Brockville, Ont, is forger, and has issued
fraudulent paper to the extent of about $780,
600. The business Of issuing fraudulent paper
has been carried on for eight years. Kauf-
mann has been Jailed.
Senator Hampton proposed as an amend
ment to the sundry civil appropriation bill,
measure making appropriations of various
amounts on account of numerous French
spoliation claims. The claims aggregate sew
eral million dollars.
There has been lively exchange Of notes
on the Samoa question between the govern
ments of Germany, England and the United
States, but as this takes time and trouble, a
conference Of plenipotentiaries will probably
be arranged to settle the question.
Thomas Norfolk, a colored democrat, was
convicted in Baltimore Of inducing John
Jackson (colored to attempt to cast an il
legal vote at the November election. Judge
Phelps gave him the outside penalty, five
years imprisonment and a fine of $1,000
Business failures occurring throughout the
country during the last seven days, as re-
ported to R. G. Dun & Co, and E. Russell &
Co. of the Mercantile Agency, number for
the United States 293, and for Canada 80, or
total of 332, as againt 342 last week and
B30 the week previous to the last. Fer the
corresponding week of last year the figures
were 279, made up of 47 in the United States
and 81 in Canada.
The agricultural department BILL as it
passed the house this morning. makes the bu-
| reau of agriculture an executive department;
n axes It's head cabinet officer with the same
salary as other cabinet officers receive, and
provides for an assistant secretary of agri-
culture, who shall receive t7e same pay as
the first assistant secretary Of the interior.
Commissioner Colman of the agricultural
department has addressed to the president of
each of the agricultural experimental sta
lions of the United st ties q communication,
recommending that special attention bel given
TO the theory and practice Of the production
Of sugar. He shows that the time is fast
coming when young men will be needed for
this work, and they ought to be trained to
meet the demand.
Representative Burnett escorted Mrs
Cleveland to the reception at Secretary
Whitney's on Friday evening. Representa-
tive and Mrs Lodge were also present. 1t
was one of the most brilliant evening par
ties of the season.
Representative Gallinger, from the COM
mittee on invalid PENSIONS reported favor
ably the senate bill granting a pension
Of $25 per month to female nurses in the
war who served six months.
On the strength of the North German Ga
sette's article on S moa, it is argued in Ber-
lin that the German commander is not
justified in searching foreign vessels for con-
Taband of war.
Mai David E. Porter formerly of the
United States army and eldest son of Admi-
raj Porter, has signed a contract with Min
ster Preston to take charge Of the entire
Haytian forces.
The Massachusetts delegation will vote
Solidly to fix day to consider the inter-
national copyright bill. Mr.. Burnett will
be absent, but he has secured pair.
The latest advices from Samoa say that
Tamaseses supporters were reduced to 800
men, The British and American consuls de-
.lined to recognize the right of the Germans
10 establish martial law. The German au-
thorites were willing to recognize Mataafa
provided he ruled under German control.
The house committee will recommend an
appropriation of $66, 595, 444 for postoff1ces
and post roads, an increase over the current
appropriation of IS, 735, 210.
The commissioner Of pensions has advised
the secretary of the interior that there will
be deficiency in the amount necessary for
the payment Of pensions for the current fiscal
year over and above existing appropriations
Of about SS, 000 000 and asks that the neces-
sary steps be taken to secure the immediate
consideration OF the matter by congress to
prevent the stoppage of the payment of pen
sions.
The life size oil painting of Abraham Lin
coln, which the owner offers to the United
States for SIS, 900 was on Saturday taken uI
stairs and placed alongside Of Moran's paint
ing ''The Chasm Of the Colorado" on the
gallery floor of the nate 1t was too heavy
for the force handling it, and was accident
ally torn at point about Is inches above the
head OF the portrait.
A dispatch from Paris says: Changes In
the ministry are imminent but they are not
due to the new bills proposed by Premier
Floquet, the present cabinet being unani
mously in favor of those measures
1t is understood that Sir Julian Paunce
forte permanent under secretary Of state fol
the foreign office, has been appointed British
minister to the United States.
Among the bills reported favorably to tht
house on SATURDAY was the senate bill appro
, priating S75 900 for public building at Paw
tucket, K. |.
, Fourteen persons were killed and abou
, fifty injured by railway accident in Bel
gium on Sunday
r The steel yacht Alva with VIM. K Wander
bilt and his party on board, sailed on Satur
day for Bemuda, Funchal, Madeira, anC
thence to the Mediterranean The trip vii
last about seven months. Mr. Vanderbilt
has his wife and children with him.
5 Deputies Laguerre and Lacroix fought
D duel in Paris with pistols. Neither of tn,
$ combatants was injured. The challenger wa
a M. Laguerre, who claimed that he had beel
! Interrupted in an offensive manner by M
Lacroix while speaking in the chamber o
1 deputies.
The French Chamber of Commerce o
Montreal has adopted resolutions urging tn
! Importance OF steps Delng taken TO lncreaS
the export of Canadian butter to Europ
and requesting the Dominion governmen
to put into execution q project to establis
direct trade and mail relations with the Eas
Indies.
5 Out of 30, 600 mine laborers in the Luzerne
Pa district only 5000 obtained steady worl
, during January. The falling off wages a
: compared with the same month last year
s97, 235 The outlook for February is still
) worse. Business of all kinds is greatly dc
4 pressed.