The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1874-04-16
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Asy Telegraph ana Nlaii.


The stove mounters aud pattern workers,
employed at the Clinton foundry, in Troy,
have struck for the ten percent. which is
now deducted from their wages. The pro-
pretors advertise for men to take the
places OF the strikers
LOCAL OPTION.
The Trenton Gazette remarks, what is
not generally understood, that the local
option bill that passed the New Jersey sem
ate the other day Is what is called state
bill. 1t provides for the taking of the vote
of the whole people on the question
whether any licenses shall be granted in the
State at all. But one election is provided
for The want of time will probably pre-
vent the consideration of the bill in the
house al the present session.
GAS FIGHT.
Rochester people are fairly enlisted in
fighting the gas company. About one
thousand houses or stores have abandoned
the use of gas and are fitted with kerosene
lamps. The appearances indicate that the
company or the remaining gas consumers
will suffer considerably at the next quarter
WAGES.
The Sturgeon Bay (Wconsin) Adcocate
says that wages for men in the pincrics an
the cast shore of Green Bay will be from
$11 to S25 per month"; and on the YVES,
shore from sig TO SlS.
SINGULAR CASE or SUICIDE.
The $3.50 i. M. train this morning from
Pough>oepsie to Albany, met with a
strange c"se rear Schodack. a man under
took to back the train off the track with
his head He was walking on the track
The engineer blew his whistle. The man
heard the whistle, looked up, pulled his hat
over his eyes, braced himself and awaited
the approach of the locomotive running at
the rate of thirty miles an hour. The man
kept his place. while the locomotive CON
tinued to fly. Man and locomotive colld-
ed. The mans head was dashed to pieces
and his body, horribly mangled. lie was
killed instantly. .iNany Post Yesterdag.
roronlNG CASE.
Says Tuesday mornings Albany h'aicl'-
erb0cher.
One Of the most heart-rending sights we
have bchcld in long while, was presented
at the first district station house, when a
man named John Gleason, leading his
blind wife, applied for rest and lodging.
The woman Is only about thrty-fve years
old, and was deprived of her sight about
six months since. They came last frcm a
village near Chicago, and were in search OF
an institution where they could he treated
for their eyes The mans eycsight is also
nearly gone, and the unfortunate couple
are in sorry plight. They went to New
York and returned from that city yestcr-
day morning. At the station house they
were necessarily separated. The idea OF
heng apart from her husband almost broke
the poor creatures heart. She wept bitter
ly. 1t was very feeling to see her husband
cndcavor to console his wife, and beg OF
Sergeant Dunnigan the favor Of being
placed near her, that he could talk with
her. He said they had not been separated
before in thirteen years.
WILD GEESE on LAKE CHAMPLAIN.
a shift Of wind, several days since, drift
ted large fields of ice into the harbor OF
Lake Champlain at Port Kent one OF
which was made black by the multitude OF
who continued to enjoy this unusual mod,
of locomotion until they had nearly ap
| preached the wharf. Somewhat suspi
cious of their voyage, they then arose into
the air and, after performing their noisy
| gyrations for short time flew to the nortl
and lighted in hundreds on another cak,
OF ice and went through the same process
no doubt delighted with the pleasant sail
ROUGH on TIE ENGINEERS.
The generosity of the officers Of the Bos
ton Il Albany Railroad in theirtransaction!
with employees has been matter of mucl
favorable comment Tor years past, and thu
engineers especially have Jared well, bu
at last n change has been made in the mat
ter of extra pay of engineers on the lIud
son IL Boston branch. Heretofore thu
knights of the throttle received days pay
for a trip TO Chatham and back, and wher,
they have made this trip and then run t,
| Pittsfeld with freight train they have re
ceived pay for a day and a half, which il
| hereafter TO be considered but days work
| On the main line engineers have had to run
one hundred miles and onlyrecciyed a day
| pay for the same, and they Justly complain
ed that it was not fair treatment to Civ,
members of the brotherhood on the llud
son 4 Boston branch day and "A half fol
running the extra trip to Pittsiield and til,
order has been issued at headquarters t.
have one hundred miles considered day.
work for all engineers, which makes thu
engineers on that branch look sour and fee
ugly, but the situation will lave to be &C
cepted with rs good grace as possible.
WHAT IMITATION MEANS.
g. b. Haskell of the.Boslon HeyaM de
liyercd the ablest clcarest and bricfest
speech made at the great Faneuil Hall anti
initiation meeting in Boston. He com
menced his effort as follows:
When Jack Cade at the head of mol
held the streets Of London i II terror anC
proclaimed himself king, he decreed thai
henceforth every quart pot in the kingdom
should hold three pints. But the congress
of the United States in this more enlight-
ened age has improved upon Jack Cade's
political economy. 1t has decrecd by law
that piece Of paper for which at various
times the holder could obtain 80 cents, or
10 cents, or 80 cents, or at one time only
30 cents, shall be and is a dollar. Thus
while Jack Cade's decree provided that q
quart pot should contain three pints, ne
more, no less, the congress of the United
States provided by law that a dollar should
contain anywhere from 3S to 100 cents.
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The WOncn's Temperance Move
rncuf.
If the friends of temperance reform
needed an adequate portrayal of one of the
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