The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1873-11-18
Che 8utland daily Globs.
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 1s, 1878.


tently waiting Tor the pork-packers to put
them into winter quarters.
Augustus Sayles, engineer Of propeller
at Chicago, flung John Lee overheard and
drowned him on Monday of last week, for
tampering with his engine
The Wisconsin Central railroad has been
consolidated with the Milwaukee and
Northern, making continuous line from
Milwaukee to Ashland on Lake Superior.
Capt. Albert de Groot, the friend of
Commodore Vanderbilt, has made an allie
gorical design of the " floating palaces of
the Hudson which he proposes to cast in
bronze.
A San Francisco man fell into his well,
recently, where he stood with the water up
to his vast from Monday afternoon till
Wednesday morning, but was taken out
alive.
The Shreveport Times, which was obliged
to suspend during the yellow fever season,
will soon appear with complete list of
the victims and Of the contributions to the
Howard association.
There is hope for the South, yet. The
last duel Cat Shelbyvillc, KY was fought
with shot-guns loaded with nothing but
powder and wads, distance 70 yards, and
the result was perfectly satisfactory.
The receipts at the Chicago exposition
during its six weeks life just closed, were
800, 900, and the running expenses $685.
900, which would leuve a profit of SG2,
0O0 if the building hadn't cost S267 900.
Mai. Gen. Torbet, who has taken Con-
sui General Reads place at Paris, was once
in command of the army of the Shenan-
doah, but has recently been peach-grower
in Delaware. He is very wealthy.
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San Francisco has been on trial. three
months, for yielding 'too much to his nat
ural love for the technical, the abstrusc
and the accurate and the end is not yet.
There is four-year-od boy in San
Francisco who beats the heather Chinese
in his love for rats He catches them and
makes a hole almost anywhere in the body,
and then sucks the blood with the utmost
relish
Judge Thatcher of Washington, assis-
tant commissioner of patents and chairman
of the United States committee of the IN
ternational patent congress. is about to
! issue call fer convention to form
| branch of the congress in this country.
Tacoma, the terminus of the Northern
Pacific railroad situated ON Puget sound,
in Washington territory, is laying its plans
to be the great metropolis of the Pacific
coast. Its population has swollen from
100 to 1000 souls in the past six weeks.
Larkin A. Bcall, whose child was killed,
and whose wife was seriously injured by
an engine on the Baltimore and Ohio rail
road in July, when Mrs. Beall, in jumping
from stree; car, fell in front of a train,
now sues the road, claiming 100000 DANA
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There is band of negroes at Little Neck,
| l.. who worship around the body of Il
kid, which they sacrifice as "A burnt-oifcr-
ing, meanwhile appealing to God to send
them down the souls of Abraham. Isaiah
and others. The souls had not been sent,
at last accounts.
s. McKinlay, who was forcibly excluded,
not long ago, from Chicago and North
western car reserved for ladies, and gentle
men with ladies', and received severe in
! juries, has been awarded $4,000 damages
by the Linn county Qa.) court, but the case
will he appealed.
Miss Caroline Talmon of New York has
built on the corner of Madison avenue and
Eightyninth street, at Il cost of 100000, a
beautiful little church as amemorial to her
parents, and presented 1t to the Episcopal
denomination. The staincd-glass windows
are dedicated to relatives of the donor
About 60 feet of plank walk at Nash
Vile, Tenn, on which crowd of people
were standing looking at fire. Il few days
ago, suddenly gave way. throwing men,
women and children down an embankmcnt
90 feet high. They were badly mixed up,
and some Of them seriously hurt but no
one was killed.
George Clark Of Newark, n. j., wanted
his old friends of the laboring class in
Paisley, Scotland. to have reading-room,
where they could read the newspapers and
take their evening smoke any time be
tween 6 p. III. and midnight ; so he died.
not long ago, and left 600 to build IA
town hall containing such room.
Two young men were drowned in the bay
of San Francisco last September, and re-
ward of 800 was offered for the recovery
of either of the bodies, in addition to which
the finder was to have all the jewelry on
the body. A woman found one OF the
bodies. last month, and the jewelry on it
was worth 81 900, but she has been obliged
to sue for her reward.
A witness in the case of the Houghs at
Chicago charged with giving and canccling
receipts for grain they never had, has open
" admitted that he has loaned receipts for
grain from 100 600 to 10000 bushels in eX-
cess of the quantity actually received, and
intmatcd that Il ajority of the grain deal
ers of the city are in the habit of defying
the law against this offence.
One Of those Dogs in Ireland which are
full of pent-up streams broke loose, last
month, and, advancing down the valley of
the Dunmorc, overspread nearly POO acres
of land and buried three farm houses. Sew
eral people saved their lives only by good
speed The land now has the appearance
of a crater half mile in diameter, The
L., xrar in Ipn
land
Philadelphia is very hopeful respecting
her prospects us Il ship-bullding town.
Steamships with an aggregate capacity of
200. 600 tons have been built on the Della
ware during the past year, and one firm,
William Cramp IL Sons, now gives EN-
ployment 10 200 men in various branches
of the craft. The firm is now building
eight iron steamers, the kind almost eXclu-
siyely made at Philadelphia.
LYMAN Arnold, after doing $500 worth
of forging at Avoca, \. v, some time
since, ran off, and, the following night.
Mrs. Arnold walked up with bullet IN her
head--no place for bulet-which was
fired by Emclne Tower after she had
auieted the children with chloroform Miss
Tower at once Joined Mr.. Arnold at De
troit, Mich, but both have brought back ia
hear what the courts have to say about
them.
The Mexican congress is also crowded
with railroad projects, the only road fully
completed, at present, being the line from
Vera Cruz to the city of Mexico. Three
companies are now trying To obtain subsl-
dies, one of which is headed by Gen Rose
cranz, who represents Tom Scott in Next
co. The leading schemes contemplate
lines from the city of Mexico to the other
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