Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1895-03-01
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PARIS theatres took in s5, SOC, 900 In 1894.
VIRGINIA had seven snow-storms in two
weeks.
Berlin.
OLIVE crops have failed both in France and
Spain.
London.
in San Francisco.
BICYCLING is becoming very popular in
Mexico, Brazil and Argentina.
WASHINGTON CRY has soup kitchen which
is feeding some 200O poor day.
FIVE BILLION June bugs were destroyed in
5l9 Austrian communities last year.
THE idea of a tunnel under the English
Channel has been finally abandoned.
Texas live stock men say that the loss of
cattle by the cold spell was twenty-five per
cent.
THE bill for refunding the State debt of
Alabama IN gold bonds has been signed by the
Governor.
The Argentine Republic has /, 500 900 tons
of wheat ready for export to the markets of
the world.
SAMUEL D. LANE. OF Northampton, Mass,
has been for flfty-six consecutive years JUS
tice Of the peace.
HoPKINsvILLE. KY, is trying to raise
money by subscription to buy bloodhounds
for detective work.
The net gain for 1894. in Catholic populs-
ton. according to Hoffmann's Catholic Di-
reetory, was 49, 1892.
ATTEMPTS are being made to stimulate anti
European feeling among the Mohammedan
population in Egypt.
The total output of Florida phosphate for
1894 is estimated at 500, 900 tons, an increase
for the year Of about 200, 900 tons.
STANDARD On agents are drilling oil wells
in Kentucky experimentally, with view to
extending the field Of operations.
A. B. NEwsoN, member Of the Tennessee
Senate, has resigned, assigning the extrava-
gance of the Legislature as a reason.
GREAT damage was done to light houses
and other Government property along the
Atlantic coast during the late blizzard.
SAM MoY, the Chinese millionaire of Chi
cago, has offered a reward of $1,000 for the
arrest of the murderer of Moy Tung Hal at
Macon, Ga.
THE reserve at the Bank of England now
stands at S1S5, 00O against 500, 800, 900
last year. The amount of notes in circula-
ton is s125,O77,75O.
The board convened by Secretary Herbert
to consider substitute for wood In the con-
struction of naval vessels has failed to reach
a definite conclusion.
WHEN Mrs. Millison Presher. one of the
few remaining pensioners of 1912, was buried
in Janesville, Wis, recently, five generations
of descendants were present.
THE Grow, Greek and Santee Indians on the
Big Sioux reservation who were In want be-
cause OF crop failures have had cas-, 900
divided among them by the Government.
A NEW diamond-bearing district has been
| discovered on the west coast Of Tasmania
| The geological features of the ground resem-
| BILE those of the Kimberley fields In South
| Africa.
The fishermen belonging to Hull and
| Grimsby, In England, who perished In the
| recent gales, numbered about two hundred.
| The disaster has created ninety widows in
Hull alone.
WILLIAM A. HINES, of the New York Post
office, and John E. Cooney, of the Railway
Postal Service, have been appointed as postal
| clerks at sea to succeed the postal clerks who
went down with the Elbe.
In Wisner, Neb., Mrs MoDermott carried
her child four miles to be baptized. Asit was
blizzard weather, she wrapped it up 80 closely
against the cold that 1t was smothered before
reaching the church.
THE Coroner's office, New York City, shows
that since January l thirty-nine men and
| seven women have committed suicide. For
the same period during 1894 forty-three sui
cides were reported three of which were
women. 1t Is an average OF one suicide
day.
DURING the year 1894 there were 442 per-
sons killed in railroad accidents in the United
States. of which $50 were employees, fifty
eight passengers and 104 trespassers. The
number injured was 1943, and Of these 646