The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1874-12-14
News Ttoms.

Gen. Longstreet is said TO be In very
poor state of health.
The noble ladies Of Westphalia who were
recently fined for signing seditlous ad-
dress to the Bishop of Paderborn, have ap-
pealed from their sentence.
The strike of operatives In the jute mills
of Dundee, Scotland, has ended In victory,
the proprietors having renowned their in
tention of reducing wages.
pestitution In Fall River Is unusually
great this winter. Hundreds of men and
women have been unsuccessfully seeking
work, and have no means of support.
John McCabe, of Russell. Mass., lied on
Thursday night OF Injuries received from
the accidental discharge of gun with
which. he was beating Owen Sullivan dur
Ing O drunken fracas on Wednesday night.
A London dispatch reports the Spanish
press considerably excited over President
Grants message, portions of which only
have reached them, provoking much wrath
full comment.
Ex-Governor Arney of New Mexico, in
charge of the educational interests of the
Nav0joc Indians, was received by the Presi-
dent Friday, accompanied by IA delegation
| of the tribe, dressed deliberately IN Indian
! costume.
From newly collected statistics it appears
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railways is by no means hopeful owing to
their large and constantly increasing IT.
debtedness to the government. on which
many of the companies are unable to pay
over the interest.
Senator Buckingham of Connecticut is so
seriously i'll at his homo that it is thought
he will not be able to be at Washington at
all during the winter.
Emerson Wight, the newly elected mayor
of Springfield, Mass, has two wooden legs,
having lost his two natural ones ny n rail-
road accident several years ago.
Patrick J. Mullaney, chief steward of the
Albany steamer Dean Richmond, was on
Thursday arrested at New York ON charge
of frauds practiced upon the company, ex-
tending over several Years and amounting
to over $4,000.
1t is now proposed to change by legisla-
tive enactment the time of the Ohio cleo.
,iuns from The second Tuesday of October
to the first Tuesday after the first Monday
of November. The change was made in the
new constitution for the state, which was
rejected by the people at the special cleo
ton in August last.
special to the Chicago Times iron,
Sioux City. Iowa, says adviccs direct from
the Black Hills mining district confirms
the reports that quite large body of min
ers are working in the hills, and that they
were well fortified and have found gold ir
paying quantities.
Blondin las achieved great deal. but
he still has an ambition, which is 10 ws'k
from the Pyramid of Cheops TO HAT ot
Kephorn. He would hav" gr,tilled ii or
his outward voyage. bat he made the pas
sage at the wrong time and had he done
so, he would had but few tribes of wan
dering Arabs to witness the feat. He has
however, the plans and an estimate of til,
cost of stretching the rope, etc., which
will be about el,Sc0, and on his return Ii,
, will essay the task.
Samuel Hunter, the colored man WHIT
shot at and slightly wounded his father-in
!, law, Horace Rowland. in front of the lat
on Wednesday afternoon, was arraigneC
, before Judge Riley Thursday morning
charged with murder. The prisoner wa
J suffering badly from wounds in the bacl
and head, which he had received during tn
desperate encounter. and was committed t.
Jail pending an examination.
The president has appointed Benjamin
, Moran of Pennsylvania to be Minister Res
ident in Portugal. This gentleman Ina
been for many years secretary of Legation
at London, and at the last session of Con
, gress was confirmed as one of the assstan
, secretaries of state, which offer he dcclin
ed. Tho president has also appointe
Wickham Hoffman to be secretary of lega
ton at London, and Robert II. Hit OF Hi
, nois, secretary of legation at Paris.
l A Milwaukee correspondent of the 81
Louis Republican gives the following "a til
best attainable estimate of the strength O
the various candidates for United State
: Senator in Wisconsin "Thc number O
votes pledged to Carpenter does not e1
coed So, while Washburn Is known to hav
SO, Fairchild 8, and ex-Chief Justic
s Dixon 5 add TO these solitary vote fo
t Phletus Sawyer, ex-member of Congress:
q and another for Horace Rublce, preser
American minister in Switzerland, and tn
4 personal preference of the eighty republ
c cans (and one independent who is expecte
t to cooperate with them) is made man
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