The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1874-12-12

The number of tramps IN Trenton, ~
j., amounts to over 5000 year.
The pace of New Orleans funerals aver
ages twelve miles per hour.
If men will but work like beavers, The
resul, of their efforts will soon be felt. =.
The 1000 odd Utah polygamists average
three wives and nine children apiece.
Journeymen tuilors in China receive two
cents per day.
An Iowa man has flock of 1880 geese,
besides his wife.
A Baltimore saloouist has hit on "conso-
lation cocktails.
That 'big schooner" building at Toledo,
is 245 feet long, 40 beam and 10 hold, and
is to have double decks.
The total steamboat tonnage for the en-
tire civilized world amounts to 5,2i4, 1888
tons, of which sum England owns 3,0l5,-
773.
The Little Rock aud Fort Smith railroad
will be sold Thursday by the commission
crs Of the United States court.
1t is stated that motion will DO made
by the first mortgage bDndholders to place
the Selma and Memphis railroad in bank
ruptcy.
In the United States circuit couit at Sal
vannah on Wednesday, Judge Erskinc ap-
pointed j. p. Fisher of New York receiver
of the Richmond and Air Line railroad.
a Niagara county man asked TO be ex-
cused from serving "a a juror the other
day, because ''his mother-in-law was sick.
OF the twcnty-onc senators and repre-
sentativcs in congress from Illinois, four
were born in the state and seventeen out
side.
Davis, the colored governor pro. tenn,
of Miss, took advantage of the absence of
Ames to pardon fourteen conyicts in one
week.
A little Rome rascal sets fire to the
dresses of passing ladies with matches.
The Sentinel ''sees no reason for letting
such boy grow up"
| Senator Stewart rode last week on horse
back from San Bernandino 10 Panamint
| CAL, distance OF 10 miles. ia !uijy-
eight hours.
Major Thomas Taylor of louisiana pass
ed through all the perils Of the war of 1919
only to die of whoopng cough at the age
of 80, last week.
Chicago has thir,y-nine public schools,
attended by 1880 children. The teachers
number $40, all of whom, with tue excep-
ton of 80, are ladies.
AT Rochester. n Y, is the only institu-
ton in our country where Baptist theolo-
gical instruction is given in the German
language. This is department of the Ro-
chester theological seminary.
The Pittsburg strike is by far the most
serious yet reported. With thirty or forty
thousand unemployed in a population OF
not over ninety thousand, it Is not surpris.
| ing that serious disorders are apprehended
there at an early day.
The chandelier for the new Academy OF
Music in Baltimore, made by q Philadcl-
pha firm, is said to be the largest in the
country. It's total height is twenty seven
| feet, and greatest diameter sixteen feet. II
has 240 burners, and weighs about 3,50(
pounds.
1 A large force of insurgents attacked the
village of San Augus.in, in the Holegium
district, Cuba, on the night of the 23d ult
After a fight which lasted for an hour, the
attacking party was repulsed by the firing
from the forts. Several huts we've sacked
by the insurgents.
About the first of December, every year
a man has called at the office of Burden &
Sons, the great iron manufacturers OF
Troy, and demanded onc-tifth of the pro.
fits of the preceding twelve months. liz
brings account books, ETC., and believes ht
is q member of the firm. This year ht
was earlier than usual with his demands
and was so bolsterous that the police re
moved him to the insane asylum.
1t is stated that of the $50, 900, 900 tom
Of coal annually dug from the bowels o
the earth, Great Britain produces onc-half
Germany and the United States onc-sixtl
each
They sayed burning building at Ira, N
Y, the other day, with whey from neigh
boring cheese factory.
A petrined butterfly was found recent,
IN Dubuque Qowa) quarry, with all til
delicate outlines as perfect as in life.
Policeman Ruth of Cincinnati committc,
suicide, the other day, because he had BEEF
discharged from the force for drunkenness
A foreigner who couldn't speak Englisl
was shipped from Norfolk, duly labee,
and consigned to somebody at Dardenclle
Ark, and paid for as freight.
Gen. Butler grew quite familiar in hi
cross-cxaminaton of Miss Proctor, Wed
nesday, saying at one point Zone word
J my darling. Here must confinc YOU"
To AVOID notifying her lovers family
Who are very poor, Montreal heiress wa
} married, the other day, in plain Sws
J muslin dress, costing $50, while her under
clothing WAS valued at $4,000.
"Col" Sam Pike, veteran western cd
itor, has just retired from the profession
which he has followed for A years, durin
which he has started "a weekly papers i
I various pats of Ohio and Kentucky.
: Francis Ferry Fairfield is about to pub
) lish book called "Ten Years Anon
Splrtualists,' that Celebrates his theory O
7 unconscious cerebration and personal a,
mosphere, as recently propounded in
letter to the Springfield Republican.
; A full blooded Florida negress, 40 year
old, recently fell desperately in love with
young white carpenter, and, knowing this
her passion was hopeless, she turned he
property into cash ($7, 250), left 1t to hir
by will, and drowned herself.
. William Kupp, who died auDouglasvillt
Pa. last week, was probably the heavies
| man in the United States, weighing 45
mounds and measuring 90 inches arOun