The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1874-02-16

MORE DISCLOSURES EXPECTED
Mike Norton is said to have been in this
city Tuesday last and drank with some
friends in the evening, in a saloon. on Mas
sau street, and said he is on the eve of
making disclosures Of q more startling
character.
THE HOwARD RELIEF.
The Howard relief reports from Jan
uary IS to February 10 shows; meals fur
nished, 29,5s4 lodgings, oOs7; families
relieved outside, $40.
CHINESE CELEBRATION.
The Chinese residents of New York cele-
bratcd New Years last night by a banquet
and opium smoke, at tenement house in
Baxter avenue.
ARRIVED.
The steamer Weiser has arrived from
Bremen.
The steamship Tybee from san Do
mngo.
The steamship City of Antwerp from
Liverpool
UNDER BONDS.
James Mastcrson, clerk of the superior
court, is under $4,000 bonds
THOSE BONDS.
The bonds found in the Brooklyn post
office few days since were stolen from
Charles Dayis
STREET oLEAING.
The assembly committee on cities begins
to-day the investigation into the manage
ment of the street cleaning bureau. A
lively time is anticipated.
BANK STATEMENT.
Loans, increase, S779,GOO; specie, de-
crease 50, ,09O legal tenders, increase,
$4,000; deposits, decrease, $2Ss,10
circulation, decrease So, 200.
FINE SPECIMEN.
Annie O'Brien of Yorkvilc arrests her
husband on the charge of trying to sever
her windpipe. While the investigation is
pending woman No. comes forward with
certificate of marriage to him. The man
is locked up on the double charge of at
tempted murder and bigamy, and both wo-
man held in the house of detention.
THE BROOKLYN TAX THEFTs.
The destruction or stealing of the books
containing the only record of taxes as
sessed and collected for important street
Improvements in Brooklyn, together with
a defalcaton of over $4,000 in the ac-
counts of Street Commissioner Furry, are
fully confirmed
BROOKLYN WOMEN TO BEGIN \ TEMPERANCE
CRUSADE.
The womans temperance movement is
under Roadway in Brooklyn, and a commi-
ttce was appointed yesterday to importune
the legislature for amendments to the ex-
else law. The superintendent Of the South
Side Long Island road has been requested
to issue orders refusing to receive as freight
any intoxicating liquors.
THE SIMMONS TRIAL.
The court room was again crowded this
morning at the trial of Simmons the MUIR
derer of Duryea. In the opening for the
defense, his counsel said they would show
that the deed was juslliablc. He would
show that the dead man actually penctra-
ted to the office Of the prisoner and then
forced quarrel upon him, telling him that
he was well prepared for it. lie left the
office of Simmons because it was not de
srable to have the quarrel there, but lay
in wait, instead Of pursuing his way, as he
should have done, at the door until the
prisoner came down stairs and emerged into
the street, when he at once attacked him
and fclled him to the earth He would
show that for months Duryea had filled the
air of New York, Brooklyn and Staten
Island with threats to take the life of the
prisoner; that Simmons had endcavored TO
AVOID the rencontre by stunning the de
ceased, and that on one occasion, upon en-
tering a saloon where Duryea was, and see
ing him, he Immediately turned and left the
place.
STEAMER RATES REDUCED.
The reduced rate OF steamer passage to
California greatly stimulates travel by the
ocean route. The steamer Colon sailed
Saturday with two hundred passengers,
twenty-five of these are for the Isthmus
ports and Kington, Jamaica, with which
port the Colon reopens direct and regular
communication.
FIRE.
The Jersey City abattalr on Ilackensack
meadows was damaged by fire to-day to
the amount of $4,000.
FATAL SHOOTING.
During an affray in Hobokcn this after
noon David Bowie was shot and danger
ously wounded by Constable johnson. Git
liens who saw the shooting set upon John
son, kicked him about the head and fatally
! injured him No arrests