The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1874-06-22
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Drafts Of cunvics from Sing Sing to
Auburn and Clinton prisons have been or
dcrcd by the authorities On Saturday
last Sing Sing, with 200 cells, had l,30j
male convic,s and T.; females
Cass Matlock, the Rock creek murderer.
was hanged at Little Rock Friday in the
presence of large crowd, mostly colorod
lie protested his innocence to the list.
At Oneida Wednesday morning little
child of James Doyle, while sitting in the
road. was run over by wagon driven by
James Bean, The wheel CRUSHING it, skull
and killing i instantly
From the vicinity of BurtonvilIc. Mont
gomery county, New York, there comes
report that applc-trec worms are stripping
the leaves from off the trees. and in many
orchards the apple crop, which promised
so well two weeks ago, is totally DESTROYED.
The amount of water accumulated in
lake Tahoe, Nevada. is more than n thou
sand times that which devastated the Mas
sachusctls valley, and this inland sea is
held back by an artificial dam. Jones, the
God-made- money maniac, may some
day be left without n constituency
Somebody has been summing up the fate
of kings and cmpcrors, as follows: Out of
1910 cmpcrors and kings, over ca nations.
200 were dcthroncd, 81 abdicated. 90 COM
mittcd suicide. | went mad, 100 died ON
the battlefield, 1913 were made prisoners,
% were pronounced martyrs and saints, l5l
were assassinatcd, CT were poisoned. and
los Were sentenced to death. Total 9G3.
The real estate marke, is rcpottcd dull
and declining IN New York, San Francis
co, Boston. Baltimore, and indeed, in
most of the principal cities Of the Union;
n fact which indicates that throughout the
country real estate is passing through one
OF those stages of depression that have oc-
cured periodically III our history. The
movement Of real estate prices has always
been in undulation.
The Kingston Fireman disposcs of the
dog question summarly by avowing its
conviction that the world would be better
off if there wasn't dog in it, and adds:
What little good they do is offset by so
much damage inflicted in countless WAYS
that we should hear of the utter abolition
of their race with a smile of perfect salts
faction. The Lord made dogs, doubtless.
and so He did snakes, just to see how long
it would take to abate the nuisance they
create among their beliers.
AZ Households, Chcmung county. n.
y. last Thursday, Il young man named
William Lee attacked Washington Graves
at whose house he had been boarding, and
cut him severely with razor Graves life
is desparcd OF, and the officers are in search
OF Lee The latter is n very bad fellow,
and has Just ended a term in the state prs-
on al Auburn. He has been ut liberty less
than two months.
The Massachusetts, senate got into very
bad middle on the tunnel question on
Fridao and saturday A bill to incorporate
the Atlantic e Ontario railway transit
company was offered and substituted Tor
Senator Bacons bill, merely to kill the lat
Ter. Nobody wanted the Crane bill, and
Saturday forenoon that was refused en-
grossmcnt. Senator Carpenter introduced
n bill TO incorporate a state board of trus-
tees Of the lIooslc Tunnel railroad. and
Senator Learned offered the majority bill
modified for the third time, These were
ordered TO be printed, and thus the whole
matter goes over until this week
A melancholy suicide occurred in Pitts
burg last Tuesday. Emma Lee, house
keeper for Alccstcr Kerr, brought pros
ecution against her employer for assault
and battery, and the case, on hearing be-
fore an alderman. was decided against her.
Immediately upon hearing the result the
woman procured Il glass of water and
drank ii. On going home she became very
i'll and physician was sent for to whom
she confessed that she had taken poison.
She died in short time, leaving II letter
in which she stated that she loved her EN-
ployer and cOnd not live without him
that he had given her 800 to leave him
after running and promising to marry her,
and that the money would bury her decent
". The deceased was twenty-five years
of age, and stated just before her death
that her mother lived in Rroomc street,
New York.
In quarrel about yacht race, in n ga
loon in Murray street, New York, yester-
day morning, Mortimer Sullivan was shot
and instantly killed by Marx Gill. The
two had been quarreling for some time,
but finally stopped and began to throw dice
for drinks and friendship. Sullivan threw
an unusually large number and SAID
"Mark, you cannot beat that" upon which
Gill drew revolver and shot Sullivan in
the eye. The latter fell, and instantly
expired. Gill ran out Of the door, cock
ing his revolver, but when he had run
about half the length of the block the
weapon went off, shooting him through
the left hand. lie was soon afterwards
arrested Both men were carriers around
Washington market, and were about half
drunk. There does not appear, however,
to have been the slightest proyocation for
the shooting, the evidence showing that
Sullivan tried to avoid quarrel
fire Friday niUht Jan,aroJ tho Rnoin an