The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1873-12-18
current Notes.

W. ID. Bickham of Dayton, Ohio. is an
awful lover of cock fights
The Ottawa Times thinks that an at
tempt to build the Canadian Pacific swamp
Canadian finances.
Kentucky wants TO have Constitutional
Convention. but Frankfort thinks 1t is only
n trick to secure the removal of the state
capital to Louisville.
A California newspaper says thut Con
gressman Luttrell announces his intention
10 urge thorough investigation of the Con
tract and Finance Company. Good
Madame Van Schaick, formerly Miss
Scott, colorcd lady musician, is attract
ing large audiences in Portland, Me Snc
plays the piano and banio-not both NJ
once.
Fifteen vessels of the Pacific whaling
fleet have put in an appearance at pan
Francisco, bringing total oil ,3oo par
rcls of oil, $4,000 pounds OF bone, anu
10000 pounds oil ivory
Brother Harlan has nothing TO say in ap-
proyal of the rcarrest of cx-Trcasrcr Ran
lin of Iowa, for cmbcazling $26,OO0 OF the
public funds
London has no institutions for the safe
deposit of valuablcs, such as arc common
IN all the large cities of the United States.
Docs this prove that London has fewer
thieves or fewer valuablcs:
Peoria has been dreaming Of magnificent
structures TO be erected by Nilsson, ON tho
land which she bought in that city. PEG
las dream is now made nightmare by the
erection of COW sheds on that land
This is u Kaleidoscope year in religion.
The shaking up of crceds is forming tho
most astonishing combinations. Now, 4
Jewish rabbi, of Chicago, has requested tt
he admitted to the Unitarian Union there
John Day, who killed Benton Brodc OF
Plum Bayou. in jefferson county, Ark
Was tried and sentenced to be hanged OF
Dec -. 1872, and escaped from jail, la
been captured in Texas. Day * only Il
years old.
Nud,or Wilder of Kansas makes scriou
charges in his annual report against Urea
~urcr Hays and other officials. He show
that the State funds have been used in VIC
ition Of law to make money for Hays an'
ms friends.
The rollers and heaters OF the Lawrence
Iron Works, at lronton, Ohio. refused t
,cceIc 10 Il reduction Of wages, and tn
mill shut down on Saturday. No furnace
in that region has blown out on account o
the hard times. though sales of iron ar
very light. Differences about wages ar
,rcping several mills idle.
The ownership Of onc-fUuith of Eng
nd'S land by score or SO of families ha
a likeness in California, where there ccvcl
hundred owners of fifteen million acres
over thirteen thousand acres each. Thi
land is now used only for grazing, and
rated at a comparatively low valuation
hut its appreciation is liable to make fc,
thousand Astois out there within fc,
years.
Among the questions raised before In
supreme Court in the case Of Perfect, tn
Chicago murderer, was the curious one tina
the States Attorney, Mr.. Reed, had wrong
fully quoted certain passages Of Scrptur
in his closing speech. The passages i
question were from the several statcmcn,
"iycn 10y the four cvangelists of the il
scrption on the cross. The Appcllai
Court took no notice of the point.
II was time for Judge Dclahay of Kan
sas to resign. One of his unfortunat
habits seems to have got complete contrt
Of him. A dispatch says that he was s
drunk on the bench on the first Thursday {
this month that Judge Dillon turned Ii
back on him. and told Thomas, the clcr
If the cOnrt, that if he ever allowed Dell
hay to 80 on the bench again in that cond
lion. he (Thomas) would be dismissed.