The Rutland weekly globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1873-05-23
itcst News Items.

Columbus Ga, has built six cotton fac.
tories since the war. and has three moro
under way.
The kickapoo and Lipon Indians of
Mexico continue their raids on the ranches
on the frontier.
a colony of Friends, some thousands in
number, propose to settle in Western Tex
as
Fulton county, ILL.,, has paid $500 for
wolf scalps in the last four weeks.
The sugar crop in Jamaca is reported as
heavier than during any former season.
The buildings of the Tere Hante car
works cover three acres, and the ground
eight acres
New coal discoveries are reported in In
diana, and also in several parts OF Kansas
II is quite certain that the writ of habeas
corpus sued out by George Francis Trains
counsel, will be dismissed, and then Train
VIII be sent to the Insane Asylum.
Mr. Justice Clifford, az senior justice of
the supreme Court of the United States,
will act as Chief Justice until a successor
OF Chief Justice Chase is appointed.
Gen; Howard is much concerned about
the probable failure of the Government TO
feed the sixteen thousand Indians now
peaceably collected in reservations in Ari-
zOna.
Some little, curly-hcaded New Haven
children played barber shop. the other
day. They oiled the locks of the young
Detroit has organized Il stock board with
10 members, and opened its rooms Mon
day.
est. a boy of four, with kerosene, and now
the little fellows mother takes the miscro-
scope, every day to seeif there are any
signs OF second crop. "
\ Williamstownclerk put up spirits of
turpentine for kerosene. last week. and
when Mrs. Barberi lightcd her lamp. there
was an explosion, md her two children
narrowly escaped being burned to death
\ fedral soldier is to be tried by the
civil court at Canandaigua, n. Y, for the
murder of his sergeant, both being MEM
bers of the 1st artillery. two years ago.
Several witnesses have been summoned
from Florida by the government
Russia proposes to indulge in little
modest annexation to her circumscribed
limits.
y petrifed pike, which when alive.
must have weighed thirty pounds. has
been dug up at Newton, Ia, from depth
Of forty feet.
The funds of Smith College, for women.
founded by the late Miss Smith Of Hatfield,
Mass, and located at Northampton, amount
to S3GS, 600
Costa Rica is disturbed by another petty
revolution. The present outbreak seems
rather more severe than many of its prcde-
cessors have been.
During the past six weeks, a number of
the most daring attempts ut forgery have
been perpetrated by some Unknown parties
ON several respectable firms in New York.
In Baltimore there are 17S Evangelical
Sunday schools, comprising 3340 teachers
and 3G, 9JS scholars. These schools belong
to fifteen different denominations of Christ |
ians.
\ German printer i'm the Office Of the |
Burlington, Ia, Hawk Eye, who came to |
America when two years old, has recently |
been drafted into the army at Wurtcm- |
burg and ordered to report there for duty. |
We are giad to see that the government
has resolved to employ fronticrsmen and
old hunters in fighting the Modocs. These
men know the Indian tricks too well to be
drawn into ambushes or any other traps.
Later details of the great fire at Port au
Prince confirm the report of the destruc-
ton of Notre Dame cathedral and several
other large buildings. In all, one women.
three children and 25O buildings were des-
troycd, Loss 81 .000. 900.
The ''alumni" " of j. f. Littlefield. who
Tor 40 year' taught a girls school nj Ban
gor, Me-, lold "A reunion last week. and
made up llrse of 81 900 for their old
teacher.