Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1889-10-18

SihhihoiS az oilB ollls plASOn.
The Catskills are White with snow.
Simon Walker of Chesterfield county, Vir
guia, the negro boy condemned to be hang.
cd on the iast of this month for an assault
upon white girl, has been respited foi
thirty days.
Laborers digging a sewer in one of the
principal streets of Iiconderoga, n. Y,
have unearthed the tombstone aud coffin oi
Lord George Augustus Howe, who wa
killed in leading his forces against tn,
Fronch in battle at Ticonderoga July
l1jS. The skull of the body was intact bu
the rest of the bones were disiointed ant
considerably decayel The oak coffin wa
in fair state of pres rvation. The remain
will be remterred in the village cemetery.
The Davis Land company of Jackson
Miss, has perfected plans for the issuance o
stock. The object Ct the company is to s,l
about 5000 acres of land owned by jefferson
Davis on White river, Arkansas Thi
land Is said to be verK slu 'ble, there being
anti an stimate nat al. ALREADY 10 of the value Q
b8h Rg.l$ $"0i9a 100000 nee 'ssary to buy tn
land frtm the expresident of the con
federacy.
A New York lineman, Erdman, met hi
death at the top Of telegraph pole by com
ing in contact with wire He fell to the
ground with his hand charred, and lay there
dead and mangled half an hour.
For some time past passengers upon the
boats of the Savannah Steamship company
have been robbed of satchels and other port.
able property left in staterooms just before
sailing. Edward Palmer, a negro waiter on
the Stonington line steamer Connecticut
has been arrested and held for examination
on charge of taking the goods. Palmer
had over hundred pawn. tickets in his pos
session, and at his lodging in New York was
found property belonging to DR.. Morton of
Savannah, Ga.
The Boston steamer Herman Winter ran
into and sunk the lighter Manhattan near
Bcdoe's island. Fifteen men on the lighter
escaped safely. The captain of the Herman
Winter says that the pilot of the lighter dis
regarded his signals and attempted to cross
his bows He was between two long tows,
and unable to avoid striking the lighter,
The Rev. f. Duckworth pastor of the
Methodist church at Union Grove, Wis, has
been sued by DR.. Clarke of Chicago. He sold
the doctor horse for S225, and alleged that
the horse was sound and only eight years
old, On the strength of this DR.. Clarke
bought the horse and sent after it, When
the animal arrived at Chicago it was lame,
and showed symptoms of being plug A
y
was IA years old, his teeth had been filed,
and he was very lame, and gave as his
opinion that the animal had been dosed. Mr..
Duckworth, however, asserts that the horse
had been driven too fast, and had been left
out in the cold
John Schneser, Jersey City, N. j., left
bis house on recent evening TO shoot cat.
He placed the stock of his gun against
fence, and let his arm rest on the muZzle
The gun was accidentally discharged, and
Schnesler was shot in the arm. He died,
The training school for nurse, an nstu-
ton of the Johns Hopkins hospital at Balti-
moe, Md, has be II formally open d. 1t
begins with IS students, who have complied
with the necessary requirements, which con-
sist of aphysician' certiiica OF good health
and Il clergymans certificate testifying to
their good character They have also passed
an easy examination in elementarv arith-
mat1c and dictatlon. Tney Will be required
to wear a uniform of rale blue gingham,
with apron and linen collars and cuffs. The
students, who will be comfortably lodged in
a finely equipped building and boarded, will
receive in addition IS a month during the first
year and $12 during the second year The
course extends over two years
Horace Weaver of Trenton N. j., rail
road conductor, was struck and instantly
killed by an engine on the New York di-
vision of the Pennsylvania railroad near
Nicetown
One of the biggest mining deals yet made
in st. Louis, involving 81, 100000 cash. has
just been clostd by Judge U. F. Cleary.
The property is in Mexico and includes all
of the mines on the Vegonia vein, and q
gold, silver, and copper lodges of untold
riches. The buyers are New York and Lon
don men.
At meeting of the New York board of
electrical control, Mayor Grant declared
that he would at once take steps to compel
the electric light companies to properly
nsuate their wires so as to make death oil
injury by contact with them impossible anG
if the companies failed TO Immediately take
such action he would order the wires cut
even if the city had to go without electric
lights until the wires could be put under
ground.
The cornerstone of what is to be known al
''the Pulitzer building corner of Frankfor
street and Park row, New York, has beer
laid.
A United States marshal was murdered
| in Tennessee for enforcing the revenue law
| Every building but one in the village ol
Norwood Ohio, has been destroyed by fire.
Electric wires are keeping New Yorker
| on the jump.
A woman jumped from the bridge int
the Mississippi river at st. Louis, Mo, bu
her clothes acted as a parachute and sh'
was uninjured.
A young colored man Of Baltimore Nd.
was refused admittance to two medical uni
versities on account of his color.
1t has been discovered that tie bottoms o
Al y.
rotting away.
The rapid spread of forest fires in Mime
sofa is alarming residents along the Mani
toba road.
A negro ravisher was iynched at Her
nando, Miss.
The international congress will go south.
The City of New York was foated OF
Romer shoal after being stuck three days.
Edison says that putting wires in subway
will not make them SAFE
Horation n Waldo and wife of Arcade
N. Y, have celebrated their Goth weddin
anniversary, Mr.. Waldo is 81 years old, wa
an ardent abolitionist, and his house was
station in the famous underground raj
way" He has never used liquors, tobacco
nor patent medicines.
Mrs. Mary A. Barnett, agel 30, and DAM,
Murphy, a9eu o., painter, was suflocate
by gas in hotel in New York city. I'll
womans husband left her three years ag
for unfathfulness. She had bean intmai
with Murphy, and on the night of thei
deaths the couple were on a drunken dt
bauch at the hotel
A great deal of excitement was caused il
New York by a hornless Texan steer whic
trampled number OF people under foo
Forty-five shots were fired at the animal b
policemen, to say nothing Of a fusilade d
rected at him by other green marksmel
who shot from windows along his rout
with entire disregard to possible consequel
ces to people on the street