The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1874-01-27

aggregating $25, 374 900. In 1878 there
were but 300 failures in that state, repre-
senting liabilities OF Sl1 ,224, 900.
HossUTH.
Mr.. Louis Ruttkay, who says he Is a
cousin OF Louis kossuth. writes to the
Chicago I17buhe, from Des Moines. iowa.
correcting the statements published by a
Frankfort paper respecting the poverty of
the illustrious Hungarian.
\ woMAN's pircK
Mrs. II. |. lIoichkiss, of Island Pond.
VT, defended herself with a revolver, the
other night, when some ruiiians attempted
to break into the house during the absence
Of her husband. a ball through one fell
lows coat slcevean one along the knucklcs
of another induced them to dccamp.
PAYING FOR FUN
Patrick Naughton, the engineer on the
Little Miami railroad, who threw live dog
into the burning furnace of his engine for
fun, has been sentenced TO pay Il fine of
800 and costs and serve sixty days in the
workhouse but it appears that the judge
imposed fine and penalty not authorized
by statute, and his action in the premises
is, therefore, without color of law.
MURDERED AND CUT IL TWO.
A man named Bradley, of Forestville,
Penn, was shot Friday night by one Farrell
while eating his supper. Farrell afterward
cut the body in two and threw the remains
down an air hole of a deep mine near the
spot. Mrs. Bradley gave an alarm, and the
murderer was arrested at Mnersvile The
cause of the murder is unknown Public
feeling is much excited by the event.
A BABY SHOOTING ITSELF THROUGH THE
HEART.
A child of Jas. Sweeny, living two miles
from Emmetsburgh, Maryland, aged two
years, went up stairs on Sunday where a
pistol had been left lying in box. On
hearing report The mother, who was too
much alarmed to go herself, sent her little
daughter to ascertain the cause. The girl
iN'NihNN' Noi NibS tiiN bdDN Ill ucT arms. III
was dead, having been shot through the
heart.
SHOOTING HIS FATHERS MURDERER.
In the Criminal Court, Galveston, Fri
day morning, the case of J. b. Helm,
charged with the murder of John Fergu-
son, was called for trial, but owing to the
non-arrlyal of witnesses the proceedings
were delayed. The prisoner remained in
court, and John Ferguson, son of the
murdered man, approached him between
the railing and table, unobserved, and pre-
senting pistol at his head, fired killing
him almost instantly, Young Ferguson
was arrested, and his case is now being in
yestigated
coNNEcrIoN CT TWO LIVING HUMAN BODIES.
At llarlleur, in Normandy, twins were
united at the hip, the left hip of one being
in contact with the right hip of the other,
and the two contiguous legs merging into
one at the knee. There, too, as in the case
of the Siamese twins, no severance was
attempted, and the boys lived to the age of
sixteen, dying at almost the same moment
AS in the Siamese twins, SO in the Norman
Their blood Was common property, but their |
VIII, voices, and tastes were Independent.
MYsTEEOUsLY DRUNK.
Within the past two months scores of
men and women in Mount Vernon, N. Y,
have become mysterionsly drunk. They |
were never seen TO enter a saloon or to hold |
communication with any one going there.
and yet day after day they were intoxi-
Gated. 1t was also a matter of comment
that milk bills increased in these families,
and that the inebriates seemed to get
drunken just after John Walters, the milk
man, had been there, Officers, on search
ing the barn of his employer found about
n hogshead of liquors of various kinds, but
no cows.
MYSTERIOUS ASSASSINATION.
Friday afternoon, between and 8
o'clock, "a miner was walking along the main
street of Pittston Pa, on his way home
from work, when a man who was standing
on the sidewalk, and who from his manner
was evidently waiting for some one, APP
preached the miner and without saying
word drew revolver and shot him dead.
Some persons who were standing near and
witnessed the murder attempted to arrest
the murderer but with revolver in his