The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1874-08-10

roLAND's CHANCES.
A Vermont dispatch states that major
ity of the delegates elected to the congress
sional convention are pledged to vote for
the denomination of Judge Poland.
AIMING AGAINST TIE INDIANS.
A dispatch from Fort Dodge, Tex, states
that the expcditionary column of a regi-
ment of cavalry and a battalion of infantry
under Col. Miles is about to take the field
against the Indians.
NOT CHowCHOw.
The deaths from eating chowchow have
been ascertained to have been caused by
Paris green, which was carelessly and pro-
fuscly scattered by an ignorant servant
about the premises.
A GRANGER GRAIN MOVEMENT.
The farmers show disposition to hold
back grain for better prices The grangers
are strong in the movement, and the con-
sequence is, but little wheat is loading here
for foreign markets at the present time
ARRESTED on SUSPICION.
w. G. Brandon and Walter Molfatt, both
known as operators in stolen bonds, are
under arrest on allegations that they are
interested in $25, 900 worth of bonds stolen
recently from John Edsall of New Jersey.
SENIOR DE LA PoRTILLA,
the head of one of the oldest and wealth.
lest untitled families in Mexico. died in
the Fifth Avenue hotel on Wednesday
He arrived five days ago from Europe. He
was seized with typhoid fever, which ended
his life
TIE STEAMBOAT MARY POWELL,
from this port, arrived at Poughkeepsic
yesterday afternoon in three hours and
thirtynine minutes, including six landings.
The actual running time was three hours
and nineteen minutes distance seventy
five miles. 1t is the fastest time on record
MURDER AND ROBBERY.
A Westminster, Del, dispatch says that
the body of a wealthy drover named Rob
ert A. Mackey was found in n creek near
Odessa. He had been robbed and muir
dcred. The police are in pursuit of Jo-
seph Taylor, who was last seen with
Mackey.
THE LATE STORM.
| 1t is reported that the rain storm of the
last AZ hours has been very heavy on the
Connecticut and Long Island shores. The
storm in New York city, brooklyn and
vicinity has been accompanied by Il heavy
northerly gale, stripping trees of their
foliage and doing other slight damage.
TIE MISSING ACCOUNTED FOR.
1t has been ascertained that John II.
Vanderburgh who has been missing from
his home in Columbia county, this state,
since the summer of 1871, Was drowned in
Spuytcn Duyvil creek in October of the
same year, his body taken to the morguc,
and subsequently burieed in potters field.
TIE RuMoRED TLToN-BEECmER CoMPRo-
| MISE DENIED.
In relation to the reports that compro-
mise was being patched up between the
friends of Tilton and Bccchcr, the chair
man and another member of the committee
state they have no knowledge of such a
proceeding and the committee will perse-
we're in its investigations until the end is
reached.
TIE LATEST ELECTION RETURNS
received here from North Carolina and
Tennessee show rather larger democratic
gains than were at first reported. They
have carried Tennessee, and claim 10000
majority in the popular vote in North
Carolina, with seven of the eight members
of congress, and an increased majority in
the legislature.
GOLDSMITH MAID,
on the Buffalo track yesterday, in trotting
mile in two minutes and fifteen and one
half seconds, fully established her claim tc
the title of "queen of the turf" This /,
probably the fastest time ever made by any
trotter, as it certainly is the fastest tint
ever recorded. The splendid feat wa!
witnessed by about 10000 spectators,
TWENTY THOUSAND wATERMELoNs
arrived in this city yesterday from Nir
gina A large quantity of green apples
hard as bullets, were also brought to thi
market and sold at one dollar per barrel
The fruit was raised in New Jersey. Sew
eral barrels of sweet potatoes arrived iron
North Carolina, and were at once sold t,
the city hotels at very high prices.
A SHOCKING MURDER.
The details of shocking murder, grow
ing out of the outrageous conduct of tn
society men of masons and plasterers, las
evening, show that James Kilduff, Thoma
Mclaughlin and John Kingston, three SO
ciety men of the masons, went to row o
houses being built at North Sixth stree,
and commenced quarrelling with the me
there, who continued working until ST.
o'clock, which is an hour later than tn
society rules allow. Kilduff struck two
named Burke and Keenan,, who retalate
| NV throwing Killuff IN thn sidowoll. III