The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1873-11-13
Current Notes.

Carrie Schurz denes that he is going 10
Chicago to live.
Denver (Col.) people get their coal for
1915 per ton.
Queen Victoria is having her portrait
painted for the car
lndiana's proposed new state house will
cost about S2,000,000.
The ubiquity of Old Scratch at the
polls is what the st. Louis Republican
calls it,
The 12O0th anniversary of Ely cathedral,
England, was celebrated in the venerable
editice, few days since.
George Dolby, who was Charles Dick
enss business agent, is to put Mark Twain
through lecture tour in England.
''Saucy Stradivarius," an ancient Crcmo-
ma fiddle, made in ~l713. was sold to an
Edinburgh amateur musician, the other day
for 81 100.
George Williams (colorcd) and John Fee
have been sentenced to be hung for the
murder of William Madison ut Pnkney-
vile, Illinois, on the 23rd of September
last.
The expense of running ralroacs in
Italy is enormous. Every ton of coal is
bought in England, costing $40 (gold) per
ton, and transported at an enormous cost
to Italy.
The sheriff of Pensacola, Fla. writes TO
Quebec papers that all stevcdorcs coming
from Quebec will be protected. A large
number of steyedores and laborcrs from
there are bound south.
An American gentleman of "collegate
and professional education" "hirhly re-
commended adyertises in the Washington
CHroaicle that lie will give 81 900 to OBJ
tain any government position at a salary of
81 $50 or over
The international bridge across the Ma
CARA, from Buffalo, n. Y, to Fort Erie in
Canada, which was completed recently,
after three years work, is 1851 feet. or
about thrcc-quarters of mile long. and
has cost about 81 100000. Near the east
tern shore there is a swing bridge. the larg-
est of the kind in the world, which il
moved by steam engines and can open two
spaces, each $50 feet wide, for the passage
OF vessels, in one minute The bridge has
been leased to the Grand Trunk, the Great
Western, the Canada Southern, the New
York Central, the Erie and the New York,
West Shore and Chicago, for 90 years.
The GSth anniversary of the battle Of
Trafalgar was celebrated at London, the
other day. Sailor life in the British navy
must he very favorable to longevity, for
there are now some twenty survivors who
acted as officers in that remarkable fight.
a company has been formed to supply
st. Louis with sandstone from the great
quarries in St Gencvieve county, No. and
in connection with it the question of the
proposed railroad from st. LOUIS to Cairo.
ILL.,, is agitatcd. 1t is estimated that this
road would carry POO tons of the stone per
day to st. Louis
Sir Robert John Mcclure. an English
naval officer, distinguished as an Arctic
navigator, died at London, recently. lie
was attached to the expedition of 1850 that
went in search of Franklin, and the ship
which he commanded had the honor of dis
covering and sailing through the famous
northwest passage.
The people throughout Mexico. Tues
day, celebrated the adoption of the addi-
tional articles to the national constitution.
among which are the abolition of espion-
age and the separation of church and state.
a military parade took place at NIatamoras.
and addresses were delivered and the city
illuminated at night amidst great rejoicing.
The people of st. Louis county. Mo. have
great deal of pardonablc curiosity to
know how the county finances are man
aged. The bonded debt is 81, 600, 600. but
how much the floating debt is and how
great tie running expenses, nobody can
ma out. The officers transact their bust
ness in secret sessions, and will give no ac-
count of themselves.
Or sr oSnu1eru az y,', cuIgrgu
Texas, on the 9th inst, CARRYING away
large amount of money and goods. No at
tempt was made to arrest the band. who
are supposed to have fled to Mexico. Sev-
eral of the band were recognized among
whom were Leonardo Flores and Abram
Garcia, the noted desperadoes.
The scientific fraternity of San Diero.
Cal, are IN great quandary over a queer
fish recently seen by a hunting party off
the city. He was 30 feet long. shaped like
snake, had a tail like an cells, which he
wlggled curlously, and his fins were each
from three to five feet long. The academy
of sciences held meeting and adjourned
to the great deep to investigate the mon
stcr, but he failed to appear before them.
Frederick Rollowagon. of New York.
uled TO very little purpose, q few months |
ago, his three sons think, for he left his |
one or two million dollars in such a way
that the low servant girl he married can |
use pretty much all the income on the pio-
perty, while not Il dollars worth of the |
real estate can be sold until the Youngest
grandson is dead. The boys have asked |
the surrogate court to say that the old man
was crazy when he made the will.
1t is an interesting incident of the Ba- |
zaine trial that an application made to the |
German government to permit due d. |
Aumale to visit Metz and the neirhbor-
hood. in order to verify certain questions |
raised at the trial, was positively refused. |
The due promised, if the permission was |
granted, to preserve the strictest incornito.
but the answer of the German authorities |
was that they preferred that this Journey
should not take place"
Louisville, Ky, proposes to be the great
oil depot of the South and the Southwest
The " Great Southern oil works" received |
a large quantity of oil from PENNSYLVANIA.
n lew days ago, in the first train of tank
cars that ever entered the city. Large ship
ments will be received from PENNSYLVANIA,
and the rich wells of Barren county. XIV.
VIII be developed. The tank cars sent
SCUM VIII return laden with turpentine
Whlcn, IL IS thought, can be more easily
distributed through the Northwest from
Louisville than from Baltimore, which is
now great market for it.
inc Nc" / ork u|ulhc dcpreCatcs the
cruel Joke that, if the Spragues fail, that
other Rhode Islanders will be admitted to
the firm of Brown Il Ives. Unpreiudced
people, it says, who have attended Il com
mencement at Brown University in Provi-
dence, and have seen a procession of up
ward of fifty men formed stretching quite
across the state from Massachusetts to Con
necticut, and subsequently marching. with
locked steps, in circle, in order to keep
within the limits of the state, know that
these slurs on ailourshing, if not positively
oyergrown, state are wholly without foun-
lation.
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