The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1874-04-28
'AIIfATION.
CHINESE As RAILROAD MRN.

Thirteen hundred Cinnamon have been
set at work on narrow gauge railroad in
California. Their bosses say that they do
more work and less fighting in given
period that the average railroad laborers.
LICENSE.
The Mississippi Legislature has passed an
act requiring liquor dealers to obtain the
written consent of majority of the men
and women who are of age in the town
where they propose to sell, before licenses
can be granted.
THROUGH ICE FOR GOLD.
TO get TO the Stickeen gold mines in
Alaska one must travel fifteen days on the
ice. The diggings are described as very
rich, but before the ground can be worked
1t has to be thawed out by building large
fires upon 1t. In spite of these drawbacks
miners are making from $40 to $50 per
day.
LOUISIANA.
1t is Il sad commentary on the rule in
Louisiana that in New Orleans there are
more than G,00O houses and stores standing
idle, the population having decreased at
least 10000 within four years. Shipping
has sought other ports. and business at
this season of the year is less than one-half
what it was fifteen years ago
rATTooING.
y petition has been sent To- the French
National Assembly asking for the passage
OF a law providing that every child shall
have its name and the date of its birth tat
looed ON its arm. The object Is TO facili-
tate identification. Parents neglectng to
have their children thus tattooed are to be
punished by heavy fine
UNDERWRITERS
The National Board OF Underwriters re-
elected the old officers, except Ezra White
and c. j. Martin of New York, and Henry
kellogg, of Hartford, members of the ex-
ecutive committee, for whom Alfred Pel
and ID. A. Head of New York, and NJ.
Bennett, Jr, of Hartford are substituted.
The maximum commissions to local agents
are fixed at fifteen per cent.
THE NEW YORK oENTRAL's DOUBLE TRACKS.
1t will require All $40 ties to Law the adj
ditional tracks between Schenectady and
Utica; distance, seyenty-eight miles. A
large number of ties are already on the
ground, mostly pine, cut in Virginia and
shipped via Athens. A great many oak
ties are to he used also, cut in Canada. The
pines are cut from the hearts of trees only
and are OF n very superior quality costing
the company about forty-ive cents each.
CRUSHED TO DEATH.
AT Browns steam mill, Potter's Corners.
Saratoga county, Tuesday morning last,
Engineer John Buncn was using heavy
wrench turning the large burr over the box
which holds the main Journal when he
slipped or by some means was precipitated
upon the fly wheel, which revolves about
100 times per minute. At the second revo-
luton OF the wheel he was thrown out
upon the floor, terribly crushed, neck and
legs broken and one shoulder nearly sever.
ed from the body.
BRAZILIAN GENTLEMEN.
Brazilian gentlemen are remarkable for
temperance and rugallty, and also for nat
ural talent, though they cannot complete
with the natives of most countries In in
dustry, They enjoy works on literature
md science, but the upper classes spend a
most monotonous existence, taking several
maps day, and In fact frtter away their
lives in endless frivolity. The climate Is
delicious, but enervating. They have no
out-of-door games, no debating clubs, lee
.ures or appliances which Europeans or
Northerners delight In. Fer this reason
'oung Englishmen sent out as clerks have