The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1874-12-08

Russell Sage has resigned the presidency
of the Pacific Mail steamship company.
The schooner Sanderson is a wreck in
Lake Michigan all hands lost.
A terrible epidemic has broken out in
Alexandria, a small town in Tennessee.
The chief of the bureau of ordinance
wants the navy to be rcarmed with brecch-
loading rifle cannon.
1t is expected that the Shanleys will have
completed their portion of the work at
Hoosac Tunnel by Christmas.
According to the report of the Secretary
of War the expenses of the army for 1874
were nearly $4,000, 900 less than for 1878.
Smuggling from the provinces through
the mails has assumed such large proper
tions that the proper authorities are devising
means to check the frauds.
President Grant has pardoned w. ii.
Wadleigh, the defauting teller of Boston
bank. He had served only two of his five
years sentence.
The recent murder and riot in the Indian
territory grew from the intense hatred be-
tween the Ross and Downing factions, aid
ed by fre-watcr.
Lewis Jarvis, indicted for the murder of
Samuel j. Jones at Oyster bay, l.. l., in
June, 1878, has been found guilty of MUIR
der in the first degreet. Albert Jackson,
jointly indicted with Jarvis, Is now on
trial.
Cook, arrested for the Wellsboro (Pa. }
bank robbery, on being arraigned, Dec. LIST,
pleaded guilty. Geo Fralick, arrested for
completely, was discharged. Cosgrove,
alias Ike Marsh, the third of the arrested
trio was convicted Wednesday.
Yet another reverend gentleman has got
into trouble. This time it is Rev. Thomas
Cooper, who has been preaching as an in
dependent Congregational preacher in the
Twenty-third ward of Philadelphia. and
who was arrested Thursday, and held in
$4,000 bonds, for alleged attempted out
rage upon the daughter of one of his par
ishoners while the pastor of the Herman
Presbyterian church.
The hotel keepers of Sacramento are bit
ter rivals in their efforts to get patronage.
Their runners get on the incoming trains
several miles from the city, and annoy the
passengers by their clamorous solicitations
Two of them finally fought in crowded
car, firing pistols and badly woundng each
ether, and this climax of opposition may
cause reform.
Madame Meurice, wife of the editor Of
the Paris Rappel, was buried at the GENE
terry OF Pere Ia Chaisc, a fortnight ago
with only civil ceremonial. Victor Hugo
acted as chief mourner. He placed bou
quet Of white cameias on the coffin, ant
made speech over the grave, saying tina
the night of death was not the end but tn,
opening to new light and life.
Of the III Presbyterian churches erected
on Manhattan Island since its first settle
mcnt, only AZ are now used as places O.
worship. In many instances the congrega
lions have disbanded. There are now OF
the island 15,404 Presbyterian communi
CAMS, showing Presbyterian population
of from so, 900 to 10000.
Water sells for S1.50 per barrel IN som
parts of Niagara county.
Gold placer diggings are reported discoy
cred near Salt Lake City.
Liverpool, Onondaga county, manufat
lures more willow baskets than any othe
place in the United States.
The steamer Tenio struck a sunken roc
on Thursday last at Devils Bend, nea
Umatilia, Oregon, and sunk. The passer
gers and crew were saved. The vessel is
wreck, but the cargo will be saved.
The board of cOuncilmcn of Cincinnati o
Friday adopted a resolution instructing tl
mayor to communicate with the family G
the late Chief Justice Chase and reques
from them his remains for interment there
A deputation has arrived at Ottawa froI
New Brunswick to interview the Federi
government in relation to the unsettle
claims of that province.
Three negroes were strung up on tire
near Pascagonia, Miss, for the murder of
white man, few days ago, and some
the people on train of cars that chance
to be passing cut two of them down, bl
they couldn't stop to save the other one,
the cars were at the station but few mil
utes.