The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1875-07-29
Che 8utlamd daily Glabe,
THURSDAY, JULY 20. 1876
Current Notes.

A New York publisher gets his wife tt
read the manuscripts of juvenile books of
fered to him to his little girl, and, if sh
likes story he accepts it.
Rev. Thomas X, Beeeher's new church
dwelling, theater and lecture-room in one
at Elmra, N. T., which is to cost Sl35. 900
VIII be finished by the LIST of October.
Froude, the historian, has sustained ,
great afilicton in the loss of his daughter
Rose, young lady of distinguished love
Illness, which occurred while he was eon,
to Africa. e
A negro highwayman near Lexington
Mo-, bought revolver of man for SO
the other day, and then used the weapon tt
rob MIN OF all his money, including the
purchase money.
Among the remarkable productions Of
California is the Hogan family of Msndo.
cino county. The father stands G feet
inches in his stockings, one son G feet
inches, second feet 81 inches, and q
third feet inches
man in Medina, o., while riding in
procession behind his wfe's remains, the
other day, overwhelmed with grief had
sufficient strength 10 stop the procession
and jump out of the carriage to pick up a
knife which he detected in the road.
Senator Schurz will return in October.
He has spent most of his time abroad in
Berlin, at the foreign office, studying the
correspondence between p ussia and our
government a century ago, to get material
for the political history of America which
he is going to write.
The famous French surgeon Ricord re-
Gently had corn extracted by an operator
in the neighborhood. After the operation
the great surgeon drew from his pocket a
20-franc piece. sob, SIR cried the CHR
opodist with emotion, while declining the
money, ''there is no charge between pro-
fessional brothers"
Prince Bismarck is as worried by his two
sons rs even the most inveterate French
man could wish. The Count John is n
particularly disreputable person, and a
writer eliminates a description of his re-
pulsive appearance and low tastes by say
ing that he is about the sort of person 10
bring on a Brooklyn witncss-stand.
The province of Manitob,, in the De-
minion Of Canada, northwest of Lake Su-
peror, which contains only 1000 people
in all, has among other majestic appurten-
ances of government. House of Lords,
and bill to abolish this ridiculous bit of
mimicry has created furere, especially
among the hereditary nobility, whose leg
lslative existence is menaced.
Lady Flora Hastings, the elder of the
doun and cousin Of the marquis Of Butte,
has been received into the Roman Catholic
church by Mgr Capel. She has just reach
ed her 2lst year. Lady Anne Sherson,
daughter of the late marquis of Towns.
bend, has also recently npostatized under
the instruction of the same preacher
C. B. Lewis, the humorist of the Detroit
Free Press. has tins dedication to his forth
coming book "To the Pawnee tribe of
Indians, whose enterprise, talent and states
manship, coupled with the fact that they
rise early, 20 to bel late and are always
around when wanted, and who chez rfuly
roasted one of my ance stors at the stake,
without reward or hope of reward, is this
volume respectfully dedicated by the au-
thor"
Mrs. sibyl Luddingtou, one of three
noted triplets of Wayne county, n. Y,
died at Bethany, few days ago, at the
age of 81. Her sisters, Mrs. Bushnell and
Mrs. Grennell, survive her, and are in good
health. 1t was the intention of their friends
that the remarkable trio should be one of
the features of the centennial exhibition at
Philadelphia, next year, and New YORK
gentleman had offered to defray the ex-
penses of their attendance.
The editor of the Welsh paper Y. Wase
recently printed an editorial co graduating
Mr.. Beecher on The result of his trial, to
which Mr.. Beecher sent this reply:-
HIGHLAND REST, PEEKsKILL, n. Y, July
IA, lS75.-My Dear Sir: All the Welsh
blood in my veins thanks you, and all my
English blood joins. To have the affection
and confidence of coed men is more than
enough compensation for the enmity of all
bad men. Cordially ours, HENRY WARP
BEECHER
1t was at Birmingham. "Dr. Kenealy adj
dressed the nice ing. He referred to his
audience as the lon-like men of Birming-
ham, and spoke Of himself as the middle
aged lion whom they had invited to see
shake dew drops from his name. He re-
viewed ut great length the conduct of the
prose cution in the Tichborne trial, and said
Mr.. Gladstone dissolved the Parliament OF
which he was the head because he was
afraid Of the tempest which it was feared
would follow the passing of the verdict
Simeon BoufIard, the famous rag -pickers'
banker Of Paris, is dead. lie was over so
and for more than 40 years had pursued his
callir g of lending money to rag-pickers at
10 per cent interest, taking whatever rags
they might possess as security, in which
way he had amassed fortune Of several
thousand pounds. His only companions
were cat and a monkey, and when found
dead the cat was playing with his head and
the monkey had on his cap and spectacles.
Having no relatives, Simeon's fortune goes
to the state.
A gentleman AID his daughter who were
coming East over the Pacific railroad en-
tered the hotel car for lunch Just after
leaving Ogden, Utah, the other day. While
at table the daughter removed several
handsome rings from her fingers and hand
ed them to her father to take care Of until
the lunch had been disposed OF, The gen.
tleman took up some chicken bones with
the hand containing the rings, and, in a
moment of absent mindedness, threw bones
and rings together out of the open window
of the car. The rings were valued at
$l700
Several young ladies were sitting to
gether on the balcony of the Clifton house
at Niagara, the other night, when the moon
although 'full," was not demonstrative
A natty little fellow approached the group
and softly said, "Pussie, darling" where
upon all the young ladies jumped up and
came toward him eagerly. lie selected
one and walked away with her. The other
brides sat down, and told their respective
Romeos afterward that it was 'too ridicu-
lous for anything" and that they "never
were so embarrassed in the whole couise of