Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1889-02-08
NEWSY GLEANINGS.
In 1888 there were 1884 murders,


TRUSTS are increasing in England.
THERE are in this country 100000
swine.
TWENTY-FIVE State Legislatures are in
session.
THERE are 1000 registered dentists in Mas
sachusetts.
ANOTHER sale of French crown jewels is to
take place in March.
A ST. LOUIS newsboy has justdied, leaving
an estate worth $4,000,
THE Hungarian maize ring has been broken
up after losing $4,000, 900.
THE French artillery numbers $40 more
field guns than the German,
ATLANTA. Ga, has 74,624 inhabitants
one-third of whom are colored.
The Salvation Army of America is en-
gagged in bitter internal strife
CALIFORNIA supplies more than half Of the
quicksilver consumed in the world.
THE new class in journalism at Cornell
University numbers nineteen men.
OVER 100000 worth of libel suits are
pending against the Chicago Times.
THE remains Of the Confederate ram Mer-
rimac have just been sold for old iron.
NEW YORK city expended more than Sl5,-
500, 900 on her public schools last year.
AS many as seventy-fve persons die in the
city Of New York during single day.
WOMEN gamblers at Monte Carlo are more
numerous this season than ever before.
A CALIFORNIA grower has received large
order for apples to be shipped to Japan.
ON January /, 1889, there were $685., $780,
900 of interest bearing United States bonds
AN immensely rich vein of silver has been
found only few miles from Duluth, MINI.
FR1GHTFUL mortality from diphtheria is
reported from Berks and Lehigh Counties,
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THERE are fifteen army retirements and
five naval retirements this year on account
of age
RENTS have declined fifty per cent. in LoA
Angeles, CAL, owing to collapse of the
"boom,"
A TRUST has been formed to control the
sale Of all common or prison brushes in
America.
THE winter in Central Kansas has been 50
open that most Of the spring blowing Is
already done.
THE United States vessel Thetis is to go as
far north as the ice will permit to search for
distressed whalers.
EMPEROR WILLIAM has dismissed the
French cooks from his palace and replaced
them with Germans
WILMINGTON, DEL, has two United States
Senators. No other city in the Union can
boast Of such honor
The prospects OF the cotton crop for the
season of 1889 point to the magnificent
yield Of $4,000 bales.
THE remains of Madame Di Murska, the
opera singer, and her daughter were Gre
mated at Gotha, Germany.
The cost of each fifteen inch shell to be
| TO- h. HnI;r L.. ia
States cruiser Vesuvius is $780,
IT is just reported that 5000 of the
Mahdis followers left Khartoum in Deem
Der for final attack upon Egypt.
EDISON, the inventor, claims that he has
been victimized of S250,00O through sharp
practice by his lawyer, John C. Tomlinson.
THERE are now more prisoners in the Mis-
souri, Penitentiary than in any other State
prison in the United States. The number is
1881.
THE Jews Free School at Spitalfeld, Eng.
land, is the largest school in the world. ii
numbers $500 pupils-225O boys and 1885,
girls.
AT Bath, Me-, was recently launched the
largest four maSted schooner ahoat. The
vessels name is Tecumseh, and her tonnage
Is 1868.
In Matamoras, Texas, wild geese sell at six
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dressed, and ducks sell at from three to four
for ten cents.
BERT ADAMS, a deaf mute, sixteen years
old, rowed out in the middle of the Musk
lngum River at GAINESVILLE, Ohio jumped il
and was drowned.
A BASEBALL enthusiast has calculated that
1t will require $3.3l0,S00 to pay the salaries
ground rent, and expenses for one year oil
the different clubs in the country.
GOVERNOR BEAVER, as Chief Marshal oil
the inaugural parade has appointed as hi,
Chief Of Staff, Brigadler General Daniel H.
Hastings, Adjutant- of Pennsyl
vania.
iowa, Maine, Kansas ana Rhode Island are
among the leading States having constitu
tional prohibition against the sale of liquor
The ancient proverb says: "You canno
get more out of bottle than you put in.
That's an error. Besides what he puts in, h'
can get headache, a sick stomach, deiriun
tremens and perhaps ten DAYS in the lookup
A society was formed In New York city
years ago for the suppression Of cruelty t.
animals. Why not support society for th,
suppression OF business which takes tn
health, coat, vest, shoes and watch from
man, and sends him home q pauper and Otter
maniact