Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1889-03-15

1OTK OlJJ uhh Deeu OIBdnlleu, Cdpltdl NOUO,-
600, among the incorporatOrs being Sub Trea-
surer Charles J. Canda, Assistant Treasurer
McCue H. A. Rogers, Phineas @. Lonsbury
and G. F. Clark.
The sight-seers attracted to Washington by
the inaugural have nearly all left the city;
but there is a swarm of office seekers here
who fill the hotels and departments. Every
section of the country Is represented. The
office-seekers are keeping the senators and
members of congress from their states busy,
and some of them scarcely get time to eat
their meals In quiet.
The boycott placed against the Chicago &c
Alton r. R. by the Eastern trunk lines in
1887, because it refused to join he movement
TO stop the payment Of commissions on the
sale OF through tickets, was lifted today.
Mrs. Frances Hunter, who claims that she
is the agent Of the Douglas Manufacturing
company of Boston has been held for trial in
New Nork jefferson Market police court,
charged with swindling working girls out Of
deposit money paid by them to secure situa-
tions.
Congressman Pownshend of Illinois is i'll
at Washington with pneumonia, and is not
expected to recover.
The secretary Of the treasury has awarded
the contract for the interior finish of the
puDlC DullulUR at MHnCn0SUeT, IN. H., W
Head & Dowst of Manchester at $50, 1856.
Time to finish, March l, 1890.
The secretary of the treasury has appointed
Augustus Riese keeper of the fog bell station,
Fort Adams, Newport Harbor, r. |. This
station has just been established.
Senator Greer, inspector Cf the Soldiers
Orphans schools at Butler, Penn, has COM
pleted his report regarding the crazy boys at
the McAllisterville school. He says the boys
were shamming They have all confessed,
much to the confusion of wise and snowy
haired doctors, who diagnosed the cases.
The empress of Japan has worn European
dress every day since the removal to the new
palace, so that her ladies-in-w waiting have had
to follow her example.
There is much bitterness felt by the ne
groes in North Carolina over the passage of
bill in the legislature providing for an
el 4 'ew, which provides that all boxes
shall be laDelel, and that voters shall ap-
proach the poll one at time. and place their
several ballots in the proper boxes. The bill
will seriously affect the illiterate negro ele-
ment in the state.
The Chicago, Burlington Il Quincy road
in a communication to Chairman Faithorn
of the Western Freight association, demands
a read justment of the rates from Nebraska
to Chicago to conform with the lower rates
that are being made to Duluth.
At Augusta, Ga, Judge Snead's 10-year-
old son p aged po iceman with two colo ed
boys, he representing the officer, while The
boys were his prisoners. The prisoners made
break for liberty when young Snead ran
In the house and seized gun, which he did
not know was loaded and aimed 1t at them
and pulled the trigger. The shot entered
the head of one Of the boys killing him in
stantly while the other was wounded.
Ex-President Charles Phillips Of the Co
lumbian bank Of Philadelphia, which failed
for hundreds of thousands of dollars in 1887,
has been living in France the last year,
afraid to come home, but is on his way back
TO become witness in the Ivers-Stayner
trial.
A resident Of Montreal city has patented
in the United States and Canada a process
for making ice by which he claims yeai s
supply can be manufactured at cost of 70
cents.
A sensation has been caused at Calcutta by
the discovery of a plot in Cashmere on the
part of the maharajah to poison the Britt h
resident.
A passenger train on the Transcaspian
railway near st. Petersburg was thrown
from the track in tunnel owing to the re-
moval of rails by train wreckers, The result
of the derailment was frightful, the killed
and injured numbering 30. The band of
robbers who tore up the track have been
captured.
The coal miners in the Pennsylvania min
ing regions, who got hopelessly into debt
during the strike last year, are in distress,
because they cannot longer buy on credit.
There is trouble In the salvation army at
Montreal The captain rece tly took fare
well of the corps and a new captain was al
pointed 1t has just been discovered that the
army is $500 short.
A man named Michael Donaghy and his
wife have been arrested at Queenstown,
Eng, for having revolvers and ammunition
among their baggage.
The steamship Belgic which recently ar
rived at San Francisco, Cal, brings a report
that the steamer Remus was sunk on O reef
near Point Beliran Jan. 30, and AZ persons
were drowned.
The following details of the death of Ad-
mirable Chandler, U. s. N, are reported: /:
He arrived at Hong Kong, Feb. 8, with the
Marion, accompanied by his wife and daugh-
Ter. Feb. IL he called on the governor, and
on the way was seized with fit of apoplexy.
He gradually lost consciousness during the
afternoon and expired at 9. Is p. IN.
j pan has suffered severely from disas-
trous fires. Feb. fire broke out In Shid-
suoka and destroyed 1000 bui ,dings. On the
same day fire at Yokosuka gutted 800 houses
Floods prevail in the west of England
Railway traffic has been stopped, and pas
sengers on some of the trains were compelled
to sleep in the coaches at night The floods
now prevailing are the greatest that have
occurred during the present generation.
The Mexican National Construction COM
pany has made preparations for building a
narrow gauge line which will run from the
port Of Manzanillo on the Pacific ocean to
some point on the main line of the National
railway.
News comes from Rome that King Menelek
of Shoa has formally declared war against
King John of Abyssinia.
A party of 1O7 American pilgrims are re-
ported as having arrived at Genoa from Mar
seilles.