The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1874-09-25

first one exploded and tore his hand to
pieces. Rightly served.
VIM. d. Adamssan old citizen of Hop
kins, Mo-, and descendant OF the Brad
fords of Plymouth Colony, committed sui
eide by hanging on the 18th inst Ten
years ago he became insane through con
slant reading an study of the sixth chap.
ter Of Hebrews, and never recovered his
reason.
Andrew johnson has close friend named
Graham, like himself a tailor, and born in
| North Carolina. Graham went to Middle
Tennessee many years ago, carrying his
worldly goods in q pack. He made money
as u tailor, strove for wealth while Andy
strove for office, and is now the richest
man in Middle Tennessee.
The latest ghost story comes from Car
rington, Galway county, Mo. The people
of that village have been treated to several
exhibitions of his ghostship, who shows his
face at the window of respectable gentle
mans house only in the daytime. The win
dow and the face seem to belong together,
for to whatever point the former is removed
there the face goes also.
Senator Brownow of Tennessee has a
very eccentric brother. At the late cleo
ton the brother was candidate for County
Register and urged his claims in a peculiar
speech. His opponent, he said, was man
of property, and owned two farms. while
he had lost his wife and had five orphan
children to take care of. The citizens
elected the man of property, and allowed
Brownlow to stay at home and take care of
his five orphan children.
Recent statistics show that of ass 200
households of Switzerland, 4G5, 200 possess
| landed property, and of the entire popula-
ton of $4,000 about 100000 only have
no landed possessions. About one person
in twenty lives by aims, while in England
there is one to every eight, and in France
one to every nine. The great majority of
the people live by agriculture, but the ex-
! ports nevertheless amount to 1858 900, 900
annually above home consumption. The
three Protestant cantons are richer than
the ten or twelve Roman Catholic cantons.
The meanest man has been found. His
name is Charles Ford, late of Chicago.
Ten days ago his poor wife became moth
or. Ford drew all his money from bank
and went to st. Paul. Thither, as soon as
she was able, Mrs. Ford went also, in or
der to bring him back to his home and FAM
lily. She met him in the street. and put in
to his arms the body of her babe. 1t had
died on the cars. lie took it and went with
her to his fathers house, where the sor-
rowing wife and mother told the story of
her troubles. She turned to speak to him,
but he was gone, and has not since been
seen. Mrs. Ford will not follow him, but
is on her way to join her relatives in New
York
A German tailor named lIammelmame
has been sentenced to three years impris-
onment in Hanover, Germany, for obtain
ing money under false pretences. lie had
been residing in Spain. where he assumed
the name of Don Alfredo de los Santos,
and correspondent with certain Germans,
pretending that Queen Isabella had before
her downfall confded to him about $780,
OUO with which to purchase breech leaders.
Before he could execute the commission
she had been driven from Spain, and he hid
the money in various places in Europe,
which places he marked with black cross
and the word "Mistero" three times re-
peated. The thin swindle deceived num-
Der of spectators, and the spurious no.
bleman got large remittances to aid him in
the recovery of the fictitious treasure.