Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1895-10-11
rIEWSY CLEkNINCS.

Missouri has $50 coal mines,
We have 203, 9tG acres of peanuts.
stockton, Cal. has an Arab colony.
Typhoid fever is epidemic in Chicago.
There is a short sugar crop in Europe.
Texas has 77js pensioners OF the Civil
War
The epidemic Of diphtheria is sprea ling
rapidly in st. Louis, No.
The Kentucky mule market is reported to
be extremely duh this fall.
Japanese convert has come over to try
to evangelize st. Louis, Mo.
1t is now said that the output Of bicycles
for 1896 will not be far from 800, 900
contract has been signed for cable be-
tween Brest, France, and New York.
American securities and enterprises are
said to be growing in favor in London.
The robbing, numbering and toriuring Of
Armenians goes on without interruption.
The Philadelphia mint is coming gold $40
pieces at the rate Of S2O, 900, 900 month.
A host Of caterpillars is devouring every
thing green around Berlin and in Silesia.
The horse meat packing-house at Ham
mond, lnd., has been declared nuisance.
The Yale senior class will wear caps an /
gowns every Sunday throughout the college
year.
Onions are in unusually heavy supply this
season, especially in New England and New
York.
In Terrell, Texas, boys who smoke cigar
cites are not allowed to attend the public
schools.
William Norris ninety-tive years OF age.
has been convicted at Birmingham, Ala, of
counterfeiting.
The Belgians at Uganda Africa, shot 100
OF the followers of Stokes, the slave trader
after hanging him.
The apple crop in the South this year Is
very large and Virginia will lead ia the num-
Der Of barrels shipped.
Pingree's potato patches In Detroit yield
this year $4,000 bushels of "spuds" and So
900 worth of other truck.
The Mexican bull fighters, who fought
bulls in Colorado. have been fined SIS
apiece for cruelty TO animals.
Charles Marshal, a California con vict,
under sentence to be hanged, owns gold
mine which pays $4,000 month.
The Russian thistle, which is giving so
much trouble in the Dakotas, seems to be
gaining foothold in Wisconsin.
Work has begun on heavy batteries and
modern fortiticatiens al Wilets Point and
Davids Island for the defence Of New York
City.
Over seven thousand children have been
crowded out Of the New York City schools
by lack of room. The night schools will
have 10000 pupils.
New York City has an epidemic Of dIph-
liberia, and the health authorities have at
tempted to handle the matter without giving
publicity to the facts.
1t was announced at meeting of the Milk
Dealers Association that, owing to the
drought, New York's milk supply had fallen
of nearly forty per cent.
The heat record in London for September
was twenty degrees above the record. The
outburst of the murder mania in England
was attributed to the abnormal heat.
At Rheims. France, young eroto-maniac
coolly gave himself up'atter cutting a little
boy to pieces, and explained that he had
been impelled to the shocking act by the de-
sire to kill.
Judge Amy, of the District Court, Cam
bridge, Mass, has commenced campaign
against the practical joking of Harvard stu
dents by heavily filming freshman for steal
ing business sign.
Some time ago the Greek Government gave
the town of Ypsilani, Mich. portrait of the
Greek General Hpsilanti. 1t disappeared and
was supposed TO have been stolen until the
clerk found it m a closet the other day.
The United States Commission has effected
treaty with the Piegan Indians whereby a
strip OF land eighteen miles wide and sixteen
miles long, extending from Birch Creek to
boundary line, in Montana, is ceded to the
Government for 81, 500, 900. The land is rich
in gold. silver and copper