The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1873-12-15
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THE CROPS ~ INDIA.
A heavy rain prevailed over Bengal on
Friday, giving great relief to the crops.
The fears of famine are now considerably
moderated.
CUBAN CUSTOMS Du1IEs.
1t is officially denied at the Treasury De-
partment that payment of custom duties
will be required in gold after January I,
1874.
SWITZERLAND AND TnE rOrE.
The Swiss Government has decided to
hand the Papal Nuncio his passport on ac-
count of the Pops's last encyclical letter
THE civil WAR 1N SPAIN.
General Moriones Friday rc-occuped
Tolosa, the capital of Guipuzcoa, after an
engagement in which the Carlsts lost $50
men.
RELIGIOUS TROUBLES N CUBA.
Archbishop Llorcnte has returned to
Santiago. The Tos de CVbu fears religious
troubles will be added TO our foreign and
internal complications, but the mass of the
people manifest but little interest in these
ecclesiastical disputes.
TIE WAR IN ACnEEN.
The Government has received Intelligence
that 5000 troops belonging to the eXpcdi-
ton which lately left Batavia for Achccn
have effected landing on the coast OF that
country without opposition.
REUTER- AND THE SHAH.
Contrary 10 current reports Baron Reuter-
declares that he fulfilled the strict letter of
thc i'cis,An G, ncession. lie SIMPLY refused
TO agree. to certain notifications which
were demanded by the Persian Government
and the contract was then revoked
UNION LEAGUE
The annual session Of tic National
Council Of the Union League of America
will be held at Union League Hail. Wash
ington, on Wednesday. December Il, at
noon The National Executive Committee
will meet at Wizards Hotel at II am. of
the same day.
NEWMAN HALLS Ml@-iON.
The Rev Newman Hall has preached
twenty times in Boston and vicinity since
his arrival, and had collected about - 200
for his Lincoln memorial. though there had
been no individual subscriptions larger than
$50 Arrangements have been made by
which the Hon +. 5. Tobcy will receive all
additional sums which persons may desire
to give, and forward them to Mr.. w. i.
Dodge in New York, who is the treasurer
of the fund.
FATAL EFFECTS or TIE LONDON roe.
The fog which hung over London has
lifted and the weather on Friday morning.
as elsewhere throughout England, was fair.
Fourteen persons have been found drowned
in The docks since the late for, Many
other fatal accidents are reported.
THE WILLIE DU HAvRE DISASTER.
England has asked France to facilitate
the inquiry into the Vile du lIayrc disas-
ter, and has offered to defray the expenses
of the British witnesses. France / as ac-
cepted the Offer and promises that the in
vestigation shall he searching and COM
plctc,
\ COLOIED consul.
1t appears by Information received from,
Stuttgart, Wurtemburg that the sensation
there last month was the arrival of a young
mulatto, of a gray-brown complexion, Il
little over twenty years of age, in the per
son of Egbert c. Sammis, of Florida, as
United States consul at Stuttgart, who, ON
Thursday last, was confirmed by the senate
in the place of Emil Kiauprech!.
THE BANKRUPTCY LAW.
At the meeting OF the House judiciary
Committee the subcommittee on the sub.
ject reported a bill providing for the tota
repeal of the bankrupt law, which was
agreed to, and will be reported ut an carly
day for the favorable action of the House.
They also agreed 10 report favorably tho
supplementary civil rights bill. The vote
on the proposition to repeal the bankrupt
law was 6 to 4, as follows In the ailirma-
tive-Messrs. Tremain, Cessna. Ward FL
bridge Potter and .Jewett. In the mega.
tiye-Messrs. Poland, Wilson Gnd.), Frye
and White General Butler did not vote
Tuesday morning son OF J. ID. Stewart
formerly Of Cambridge, n. y, was acct
dcntally shot and killed at Armenia, Dntchcs,
county. He was one of party Of patro
who were watching for a gang Of thieves
when.an alarm being given, young Stewart
and an associate by the name of Emmerick
started to run to the place together. WhlC
on the way Emmerick in pulling his pisto
from his pocket accidentally discharged it,
the bullet passing into the right lung Of
Stewart who died in about twenty minutes
THE yIRGINIUs
The Nirginus has gone to the port OF
Balyia Honda, sixty miles west of Havana
where she will lte delivered by Spanish
man-of-war to a vessel of the United States
navy. Capt. Gen, Jovellar has given the
necessary orders for the transportation OF
the Nirgnius prisoners at Santiago dc Cuba
to an American man-of-war Friday. The
Captain-General is certain that his orders
will be carried out and the men delivered
at the appointed time
CHEAP TRANSPORTATION.
The following call is signed by over a
| hundred members of the House
"Wc the undersigned members of the
House of Representatives, representing the
constituencies inhabiting the valley of tn,
Mississippi, who are deeply interested in {
wise and speedy solution Of the question OF
cheap transportation, agree to meet in the
hall of the House of Representatives, Sat
| urday evening. Dec, -, at u o'clock, t(