The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1875-01-25

Ten inches Of snow at Concord, N. II.
The Sandwich Islands quaked Dec. %.
The German rechstag has passed the
land-sturm bill.
The Chinese are smuggling large guam
titles OF opium into this country.
European capitalists are negotiating for
gold and silver mines 10 Japan.
Fears still exist that the collision between
Turkey and Montenegro cannot be averted.
Dublin university has elected Mr.. Glib
son, conservative, to the British house of
commons.
Turkey has withdrawn its demand for
the surrender OF the Montenegrns implica-
ted in the Padoritza outrage.
Fifteen or twenty men crossed the East
river on the ice, near Fulton ferry, New
York, Saturday morning.
Fifty houses were destroyed and num-
Der of lives lost by conflagration at Ma
gasaki, Japan, Dec. 10.
The Souhegan river in New Hampshire
is lower than for forty years, and manu-
featuring is interfered with.
The Carlists threaten violence against the
crew of the Gustav, who are in Zarang,
Spain, il the town is 5ombarded by the
Germans.
So far as known but one life was lost in
Maysvile, Cal flood. The loss of per-
sonal property is estimated at $1,000, 900,
and many persons are destitute in conse-
quence.
The republicans of the 9th district of
New Hampshire have nominated Isaac w
Springfield for senator.
The report that Ellen A George, the vic
tim of the Canterbury, N. FL, outrage, had
died from her injuries is unfoun led though
she is yet in very precarious condition.
Mayor Jewett of Lowell has been re-
quested by the overseers of the poor to
appoint committee of three citizens from
each ward, to make arrangements for free
entertainments for the benefit of the poor
and unemployed of the city
The iron masters and collery inspectors
of South Wales threaten general lockout
unless all their employees resume work
within a week. This will throw 100000
persons out of employment.
The most severe storm ever known at
Chefoo since the occupation of that place
by foreigners occurred in November Sew
eral foreign and native ships were driven
ashore.
A new gas company is threatened in
Lowell, the present company refusing to
invest $4,000 in royalty forpetroleum gas,
as the citizens committee request
John Weymouth, an agent for gas burn
ers, was frozen to death near North Shap-
leigh, Me-, last Friday morning. He was
on his way to Great Falls.
In match game of billiards, 100 points
up. at Worcester, Friday, 4. G.. Kendall
| of Boston won in ten innings, leaving VIM.
Sexton of New York, his competitor, at
1876. Kendalls average was 100 2.5 and
| his best run 245; SeXtop's average was
| % 1-3, and his best run 279. Another
game (three-ball(, 300 points up, was won
by Sexton in fifteen innings, leaving Ken
dali at 1GG.
The supreme judicial court have rem
dered decision in the exceptions fled by
counsellor Harris in the case of VIM. Z.
Sturtevant, convicted last July at Ply
mouth, of numbering three of his relatives
at Halifax. The exceptions have all been
overruled, and the decisions of the presd-
ing justices sustained, and the rescript GER
| tifying to that effect transmitted TO Ply
mouth. Nothing now remains but for the
court to pronounce Sturtevant's doom,
which Is the highest penalty known to the
law, and that will probably soon be done.
Mrs. Geo. Rankin of Rockport, a married
woman about thirty-four years old, shot
herself through the heart while lying in her
bed Friday afternoon, and was found dead
by her children when they returned from
school. Her little babe, only a month old,
lay in her arms uninJured. Temporary in
sanity was probably the cause of the sui
| eide,